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3671: An Analysis of South Africa's Value Added Tax

Delfin Go, Marna Kearney, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

3670: Will a global subsidy of artemisinin-based combination treatment (ACT) for malaria delay the emergence of resistance and save lives?

Ramanan Laxminarayan, A. Over and David L. Smith

3669: Money for nothing: the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India

Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer

3668: Economic impacts of professional training in the informal sector: the case of the labor force training program in Cote d'Ivoire

Dorte Verner and Mette Verner

3667: Does health insurance impede trade inhealth care services?

Aaditya Mattoo and Randeep Rathindran

3666: Bank privatization and productivity: evidence for Brazil

Marcio Nakane and Daniela B. Weintraub

3665: Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor: lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery

Xavier Gine and Stefan Klonner

3664: The impact of business environment and economic geography on plant-level productivity: an analysis of Indian industry

Somik Lall and Taye Mengistae

3663: Services policy reform and economic growth in transition economies, 1990-2004

Felix Eschenbach and Bernard Hoekman

3662: Micro-level estimation of child malnutrition indicators and its application in Cambodia

Tomoki Fujii

3661: Public infrastructure and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Mustapha K. Nabli and Tarik M. Yousef

3660: Do incumbents manipulate access to finance during banking crises?

Erik Feijen

3659: Banking sector crises and inequality

Patrick Honohan

3658: Antidumping mechanisms and safeguards in Peru

Richard Webb, Josefina Camminati and Raul Leon Thorne

3657: Institution building and growth in transition economies

Thorsten Beck and Luc Laeven

3656: World Bank lending and financial sector development

Robert Cull and Laurie Effron

3655: Fiscal federalism in Switzerland: relevant issues for transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe

Bernard Dafflon and Krisztina Toth

3654: Crop insurance in Karnataka

Vijay Kalavakonda and Olivier Mahul

3653: Regime-switching in exchange rate policy and balance sheet effects

Norbert Fiess and Rashmi Shankar

3652: Growth spillover effects and regional development patterns: the case of Chinese provinces

Xubei Luo

3651: Visible success and invisible failure in post-crisis reform in the Republic of Korea: interplay of the global standards, agents, and local specificity

Keun Lee, Byung-Kook Kim, Chung H. Lee and Jaeyeol Yee

3650: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Alto-Tiete river basin, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson and Karin Kemper

3649: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Jaguaribe river basin, Ceara, Brazil

Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson and Karin Kemper

3648: Insurance and liquidity: panel evidence

Rashmi Shankar

3647: Improving child nutrition outcomes in India: can the integrated child development services be more effective?

Monica Das Gupta, Michael Lokshin, Michele Gragnolati and Oleksiy Ivaschenko

3646: Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

Priya Basu and Pradeep Srivastava

3645: Efficiency of public spending in developing countries: an efficiency frontier approach

Santiago Herrera and Gaobo Pang

3644: The economic consequences of health shocks

Adam Wagstaff

3643: A"research"database on infrastructure economic performance

Antonio Estache and Ana Goicoechea

3642: Advances in negotiation theory: bargaining, coalitions, and fairness

Carlo Carraro, Carmen Marchiori and Alessandra Sgobbi

3641: Applications of negotiation theory to water issues

Carlo Carraro, Carmen Marchiori and Alessandra Sgobbi

3640: Is a guaranteed living wage a good anti-poverty policy?

Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion

3639: Finances of Egyptian listed firms

Inessa Love

3638: Workers'remittances to developing countries: a survey with central banks on selected public policy issues

Jose de Luna Martinez

3637: Decentralization of river basin management: a global analysis

Ariel Dinar, Karin Kemper, William Blomquist, Michele Diez, Gisele Sine and William Fru

3636: Comparison of institutional arrangements for river basin management in eight basins

William Blomquist, Ariel Dinar and Karin Kemper

3635: The role of tropical forests in supporting biodiversity and hydrological integrity: a synoptic overview

Ellen M. Douglas, Kate Sebastian, Charles J. Vorosmarty, Stanley Wood and Kenneth M. Chomitz

3634: Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean

Kenneth M. Chomitz, Piet Buys and Timothy Thomas

3633: Investment and saving in China

Louis Kuijs

3632: Corporate governance and bank performance: a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership

Allen Berger, George Clarke, Robert Cull, Leora Klapper and Gregory Udell

3631: Poverty traps, aid, and growth

Aart Kraay and Claudio Raddatz

3630: Governance matters IV: governance indicators for 1996-2004

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

3629: Fiscal space for investment in infrastructure in Colombia

Rodrigo Suescun

3628: Deposit insurance around the world: a comprehensive database

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Baybars Karacaovali and Luc Laeven

3627: Reforming the posts: abandoning the monopoly-supported postal universal service obligation in developing countries

Charles Kenny

3626: Global monetary conditions versus country-specific factors in the determination of emerging market debt spreads

Mansoor Dailami, Paul Masson and Jean Jose Padou

3625: Evaluating anti-poverty programs

Martin Ravallion

3624: Pesticide poisoning of farm workers: implications of blood test results from Vietnam

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, David Wheeler, Nhan Thi Lam and Khuc Xuyen

3623: The impact of regulation on growth and informality - cross-country evidence

Norman Loayza, Ana Maria Oviedo and Luis Servén

3622: Trade policy, income risk, and welfare

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

3621: Assessing the impact of the investment climate on productivity using firm-level data: methodology and the cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

Alvaro Escribano and J. Luis Guasch

3620: Leadership and the independent regulator

Mark Jamison

3619: State bank transformation in Brazil - choices and consequences

Thorsten Beck, Juan Miguel Crivelli and William Summerhill

3618: Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in middle and low-income countries: a global review and analysis

Sarah Bott, Andrew Morrison and Mary Ellsberg

3617: Beyond tariffs and quotas: why don't African manufacturers export more?

George Clarke

3616: Would multilateral trade reform benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

3615: Keeping animal spirits asleep: the case of Chile

Sebastian Saez

3614: WTO safeguards and trade liberalization: lessons from the Argentine footwear case

Elias Baracat and Julio Nogues

3613: Scrutinizing public expenditures: assessing the performance of public accounts committees

Rick Stapenhurst, Vinod Sahgal, William Woodley and Riccardo Pelizzo

3612: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the tarcoles river basin, Costa Rica

William Blomquist, Maureen Ballestero, Anjali Bhat and Karin Kemper

3611: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Brantas river basin, East Java, Indonesia

Anjali Bhat, Kikkeri Ramu and Karin Kemper

3610: Effects of primary, secondary, and tertiary education on economic growth: evidence from Guatemala

Josef Loening

3609: Why governments should stopnon-social subsidies: measuring their consequences for rural Latin America

Ramon Lopez

3608: Application of safeguards and anti-dumping duties in Colombia

Mauricio Reina and Sandra Zuluaga

3607: Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda

Kym Anderson and Will Martin

3606: Measuring microfinance access: building on existing cross-country data

Patrick Honohan

3605: Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador: the roles of wealth, health and parenting

Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady

3604: The effect of school type on academic achievement: evidence from Indonesia

David Newhouse and Kathleen Beegle

3603: Decentralization and service delivery

Junaid Ahmad, Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Shekhar Shah

3602: Teacher shocks and student learning: evidence from Zambia

Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana and Pramila Krishnan

3601: Migration, trade, and foreign investment in Mexico

Patricio Aroca and William Maloney

3600: What drives corporate governance? Firm-level evidence from Eastern Europe

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Inessa Love

3599: Core indicators for determinants and performance of the electricity sector in developing countries

Tooraj Jamasb, David M Newbery and Michael Pollitt

3598: Quantitative analysis of crisis: crisis identification and causality

Yoichiro Ishihara

3597: Gifted kids or pushy parents? Foreign acquisitions and plant performance in Indonesia

Jens Arnold and Beata Javorcik

3596: Household savings and residential mobility in informal settlements

Somik Lall, Ajay Suri and Uwe Deichmann

3595: How widespread were private investment and regulatory reform in infrastructure utilities during the 1990s?

Antonio Estache and Ana Goicoechea

3594: Democratization and clientelism: why are young democracies badly governed?

Philip Keefer

3593: The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises

Leora Klapper

3592: Which inequality matters? Growth evidence based on small area welfare estimates in Uganda

Johannes G. Hoogeveen and Youdi Schipper

3591: Anti-dumping policies and safeguard measures in the context of Costa Rica's economic liberalization

Ricardo Monge-Gonzalez and Francisco Monge-Arino

3590: The cost of compliance with product standards for firms in developing countries: an econometric study

Keith Maskus, Tsunehiro Otsuki and John Wilson

3589: Access to financial services: a review of the issues and public policy objectives

Stijn Claessens

3588: The contribution of skilled immigration and international graduate students to U.S. innovation

Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Keith Maskus and Aaditya Mattoo

3587: Political economy of antidumping and safeguards in Argentina

Julio Nogues and Elias Baracat

3586: Capital markets and e-fraud: policy note and concept paper for future study

Tom Kellermann and Valerie McNevin

3585: Comparative review of microfinance regulatory framework issues in Benin, Ghana, and Tanzania

Joselito Gallardo, Korotoumou Ouattara, Bikki Randhawa and William F. Steel

3584: Business cycle synchronization and regional integration: a case study for Central America

Norbert Fiess

3583: Labor market dynamics in developing countries: comparative analysis using continuous time Markov processes

Mariano Bosch and William Maloney

3582: Does temporary migration have to be permanent?

Mohammad Amin and Aaditya Mattoo

3581: Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the U.S. labor market

Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Neagu Constantinescu and Caglar Ozden

3580: On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

Martin Ravallion

3579: A poverty-inequality trade-off?

Martin Ravallion

3578: International migration, human capital, and entrepreneurship: evidence from Philippine migrants'exchange rate shocks

Dean Yang

3577: Testing genuine saving

Kirk Hamilton

3576: Poverty in rural and semi-urban Mexico during 1992-2002

Dorte Verner

3575: The kin system as a poverty trap?

Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen

3574: Wage differentials between the public and private sector in India

Elena Glinskaya and Michael Lokshin

3573: The effects of migration on child health in Mexico

Nicole Hildebrandt and David McKenzie

3572: Evaluation of National School for Professional Technology Education in Mexico

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo