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3507: Innovative Tokyo

Kumiko Fujita and Richard Child Hill

3506: A macroeconomic framework for quantifying growth and poverty reduction strategies in Niger

Emmanuel Pinto Moreira and Nihal Bayraktar

3505: Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China

Judith Dean, Mary Lovely and Hua Wang

3504: Unemployment and the earnings structure in Latvia

Mihails Hazans

3503: Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis

Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin

3502: Access to capital in rural Thailand: an estimated model of formal versus informal credit

Xavier Gine

3501: Telecommunications reform within Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization

Jesper Jensen, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

3500: Revenue and the fiscal impact of liberalization: the case of Niger

Ali Zafar

3499: Agriculture and national welfare around the world: causality and international heterogeneity since 1960

Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Daniel Lederman

3498: Duty drawbacks, competitiveness, and growth - are duty drawbacks worth the hassle?

Elena Ianchovichina

3497: What does regional trade in South Asia reveal about future trade integration? Some empirical evidence

Nihal Pitigala

3496: What factors influence world literacy? is Africa different?

Dorte Verner

3495: Does asymmetric information cause the home equity bias?

Claudio Bravo-Ortega

3494: Small-scale irrigation dams, agricultural production, and health - theory and evidence from Ethiopia

Lire Ersado

3493: The clash of liberalizations: preferential versus multilateral trade liberalization in the European Union

Baybars Karacaovali and Nuno Limão

3492: How fair is workfare? gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia

Agnes Quisumbing and Yisehac Yohannes

3491: Use of the formal and informal financial sectors: does gender matter? empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh

Signe-Mary McKernan, Mark Pitt and David Moskowitz

3490: Roads out of poverty? assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Nihal Bayraktar and Karim El Aynaoui

3489: Environmental factors and children's malnutrition in Ethiopia

Patricia Silva

3488: Well-being during a time of change: Timor-Leste on the path to independence

Kaspar Richter

3487: Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households: evidence from Mexico

Rosangela Bando, Luis Lopez-Calva and Harry Patrinos

3486: Localization and corruption: panacea or pandora's box?

Tugrul Gurgur and Anwar Shah

3485: Finance, firm size, and growth

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

3484: The relative richness of the poor? natural resources, human capital, and economic growth

Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Jose De Gregorio

3483: Parental education and children's schooling outcomes: is the effect nature, nurture, or both? evidence from recomposed families in Rwanda

Damien de Walque

3482: Outgrowing resource dependence theory and some recent developments

Will Martin

3481: Financial dependence, banking sector competition, and economic growth

Stijn Claessens and Luc Laeven

3480: Capital accumulation and resources depletion - a Hartwick rule counterfactual

Kirk Hamilton, Giovanni Ruta and Liaila Tajibaeva

3479: Why should we care about child labor? The education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia and Roberta Gatti

3478: Do services and transfers reach Morocco's poor? Evidence from poverty and spending maps

Dominique van de Walle

3477: Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia

Uwe Deichmann, Kai Kaiser, Somik Lall and Zmarak Shalizi

3476: Firm financing in India: recent trends and patterns

Inessa Love and Maria Martinez Peria

3475: Using an asset-based approach to identify drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America: a conceptual framework

Paul B. Siegel

3474: Choosing formulas for market access negotiation: efficiency and market access considerations

Vlad Manole, Will Martin and Joseph Francois

3473: Poverty effects of Russia's WTO accession: modeling"real"households and endogenous productivity effects

Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Oleksandr Shepotylo

3472: Democracy, credibility and clientelism

Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

3471: Do government policies that promote competition encourage or discourage new product and process development in low and middle-income countries?

George Clarke

3470: PPI partnerships versus PPI divorces in developing countries (or are we switching from PPPI to PPDI?)

Antonio Estache

3469: Regulation and macroeconomic performance

Norman Loayza, Ana Maria Oviedo and Luis Serven

3468: Infrastructure services in developing countries: access, quality, costs and policy reform

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, Antonio Estache and Nemat Shafik

3467: Economic growth, income distribution, and poverty in Poland during transition

Pierella Paci, Martin J. Sasin and Jos Verbeek

3466: Building a clean machine: anti-corruption coalitions and sustainable reform

Michael Johnston and Sahr J. Kpundeh

3465: Economic geography: real or hype?

Jun Koo and Somik Lall

3464: Microeconomic evidence of creative destruction in industrial and developing countries

Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta1

3463: Employment regulations through the eyes of employers - do they matter and how do firms respond to them?

Gaelle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta

3462: The returns to participation in the non-farm sector in rural Rwanda

Andrew Dabalen, Stefano Paternostro and Gaelle Pierre

3461: Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate

Martin Ravallion

3460: Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment

Harry Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou

3459: Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela: 1992-2002

Harry Patrinos and Chris Sakellariou

3458: Regionalism in standards - good or bad for trade?

Maggie Chen and Aaditya Mattoo

3457: Creating a 21st Century national innovation system for a 21st Century Latvian economy

Alfred Watkins and Natalia Agapitova

3456: Macroeconomic stability in developing countries - How much is enough?

Peter Montiel and Luis Serven

3455: Labor market distortions, rural-urban inequality, and the opening of China's economy

Thomas Hertel and Fan Zhai

3454: Will the Kyoto Protocol affect growth in Russia?

Franck Lecocq and Zmarak Shalizi

3453: Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America

Emmanuela Di Gropello

3452: Import demand elasticities and trade distortions

Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

3451: Romania's integration into European markets: implications for sustainability of the current export boom

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng

3450: Discovery and development: an empricial exploration of"new"products

Bailey Klinger and Daniel Lederman

3449: Does it matter where you come from? vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the nationality of investors

Beata Javorcik, Kamal Saggi and Mariana Spatareanu

3448: What are the right institutions in a globalizing world? and... can we keep them if we have found them?

Roumeen Islam

3447: India's public health system - how well does it function at the National level?

Monica Das Gupta and Manju Rani

3446: The long-term legacy of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia

Damien de Walque

3445: Has private participation in water and sewerage improved coverage? - empirical evidence from Latin America

George Clarke, Katrina Kosec and Scott Wallsten

3444: Predicting the poverty impacts of trade reform

Thomas W. Hertel and Jeffrey Reimer

3443: Improving credit information, bank regulation, and supervision: on the role and design of public credit registries

Andrew Powell, Nataliya Mylenko, Margaret Miller and Giovanni Majnoni

3442: Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature

Antonio Estache

3441: Policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization

Bernard Hoekman and Beata Javorcik

3440: Market discipline under systemic risk - evidence from bank runs in emerging economies

Eduardo Levy-Yeyati, Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler

3439: Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis

Philip Keefer

3438: Addressing gender-based violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A critical review of interventions

Andrew Morrison, Mary Ellsberg and Sarah Bott

3437: Bank capital and loan loss reserves under Basel II - implications for emerging countries

Giovanni Majnoni, Margaret Miller and Andrew Powell

3436: Approaches to results-based funding in tertiary education: identifying finance reform options for Chile

Kristian Thorn, Lauritz Holm-Nielsen and Jette Samuel Jeppesen

3435: Population Age structure and the budget deficit

Derek H. C. Chen

3434: North-South technology diffusion, regional integration, and the dynamics of the natural trading partners hypothesis

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

3433: Measuring the risk on housing investment in the informal sector: theory and evidence from Pune, India

Mudit Kapoor and David Le Blanc

3432: Growth, inequality, and simulated poverty paths for Tanzania, 1992-2002

Gabriel Demombynes and Johannes G. Hoogeveen

3431: Financial development, financial fragility, and growth

Norman Loayza and Romain Ranciere

3430: The forest-hydrology-poverty nexus in Central America: An heuristic analysis

Andrew Nelson and Kenneth M. Chomitz

3429: Creating markets for habitat conservation when habitats are heterogeneous

Kenneth M. Chomitz, Timothy Thomas and Antonio Salazar Brandao

3428: Who suffers from indoor air pollution? evidence from Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupt, Mainul Huq, M. Khaliquzzaman, Kiran Pandey and David Wheeler

3427: Shelter strategies for the urban poor: idiosyncratic and successful, but hardly mysterious

Robert Buckley and Jerry Kalarickal

3426: International economic activities and the demand for skilled labor: evidence from Brazil and China

Pablo Fajnzylber and Ana Fernandes

3425: Can student loans improve accessibility to higher education and student performance? An impact study of the case of SOFES, Mexico

Erik Canton and Andreas Blom

3424: The transactions costs of primary market issuance: the case of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

Sara Zervos

3423: Designing performance: the semi-autonomous revenue authority model in Africa and Latin America

Robert Taliercio

3422: Toward a social policy for Argentina's infrastructure sectors - evaluating the past and exploring the future

Vivien Foster

3421: Universal service obligations in developing countries

Antonio Estache, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Xinzhu Zhang

3420: Have consumers benefited from the reforms in the electricity distribution sector in Latin America?

Antonio Estache and Martín Rossi

3419: Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting: how much does disaggregation help?

Chris Elbers, Tomoki Fujii, Peter Lanjouw, Berk Özler and Wesley Yin

3418: Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

Richard Adams

3417: Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers ? evidence on integrated pest management in Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner and David Wheeler

3416: Foreign bank entry, performance of domestic banks, and sequence of financial liberalization

Nihal Bayraktar and Yan Wang

3415: The challenge of reducing subsidies and trade barriers

Kym Anderson

3414: Greco-Roman lessons for public debt management and debt market development

Alessandra Campanaro and Dimitri Vittas

3413: Stamp duties in Indian states - a case for reform

James Alm, Patricia Annez and Arbind Modi

3412: Export variety and country productivity

Robert Feenstra and Hiau Looi Kee

3411: Implications of genetically modified food technology policies for Sub-Saharan Africa

Kym Anderson and Lee Ann Jackson

3410: Pension funds and national saving

Pablo Lopez Murphy and Alberto R. Musalem

3409: Enforcement and Corporate Governance

Erik Berglof and Stijn Claessens

3408: China's (uneven) progress against poverty

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen