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3536: Regulatory effectiveness: the impact of regulation and regulatory governance arrangements on electricity industry outcomes Downloads
Jon Stern and John Cubbin
3535: Regulatory effectiveness and the empirical impact of variations in regulatory governance - electricity industry capacity and efficiency in developing countries Downloads
John Cubbin and Jon Stern
3534: The co-movement between cotton and polyester prices Downloads
John Baffes and Gaston Gohou
3533: Disciplining agricultural support through decoupling Downloads
John Baffes and Harry de Gorter
3532: Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala Downloads
Richard Adams
3531: Geopolitical interests and preferential access to U.S. markets Downloads
Daniel Lederman and Caglar Ozden
3530: Legal effectiveness and external capital: the role of foreign debt Downloads
George Allayannis, Gregory W. Brown, Leora Klapper, George Allayannis, Gregory W. Brown and Leora F. Klapper
3529: Economic evaluation of housing subsidy systems: a methodology with application to Morocco Downloads
David Le Blanc
3528: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Warta River Basin, Poland Downloads
William Blomquist, Andrzej Tonderski and Ariel Dinar
3527: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Murray Darling River Basin, Austrialia Downloads
William Blomquist, Brian Haisman, Ariel Dinar and Anjali Bhat
3526: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Gudalquivir River Basin, Spain Downloads
William Blomquist, Consuelo Giansante, Anjali Bhat and Karin Kemper
3525: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Fraser River Basin, Canada Downloads
William Blomquist, Ken S. Calbick and Ariel Dinar
3524: Sowing and reaping: institutional quality and project outcomes in developing countries Downloads
David Dollar and Victoria Levin
3523: Schools meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation Downloads
Christel Vermeersch and Michael Kremer
3522: China's employment challenges and strategies after the WTO accession Downloads
Douglas Zhihua Zeng
3521: Religious school enrollment in Pakistan: a look at the data Downloads
Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc
3520: Environment as cultural heritage: the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan Downloads
Benoit Laplante, Craig Meisner and Hua Wang
3519: How do differing standards increase trade costs? The case of pallets Downloads
Enrique Aldaz-Carroll and Gaël Raballand
3518: The role of importers and exporters in the determination of the U.S. tariff preferenes granted to Latin America Downloads
Peri Silva
3517: Trade liberalization and the politics of financial development Downloads
Matias Braun and Claudio Raddatz
3516: Sustainability of microfinance self help groups in India: would federating help? Downloads
Ajai Nair
3515: Reforms and infrastructure efficiency in Spain's container ports Downloads
Maria Manuela Gonzalez and Lourdes Trujillo
3514: Infrastructure performance and reform in developing and transition economies: evidence from a survey of productivity measures Downloads
Antonio Estache, Sergio Perelman and Lourdes Trujillo
3513: How concentrated are global infrastructure markets? Downloads
Daniel Benitez and Antonio Estache
3512: Policy mix, public debt management, and fiscal rules - lessons from the 2002 Brazilian crisis Downloads
Santiago Herrera
3511: Bank privatization and performance - emprical evidence from Nigeria Downloads
Thorsten Beck, Robert Cull and Afeikhena Jerome
3510: Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators Downloads
Ruth Alsop and Nina Heinsohn
3509: Dynamic cities and creative clusters Downloads
Weiping Wu
3508: The political economy of health services provision and access in Brazil Downloads
Ahmed Mobarak, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Maureen Cropper
3507: Innovative Tokyo Downloads
Kumiko Fujita and Richard Child Hill
3506: A macroeconomic framework for quantifying growth and poverty reduction strategies in Niger Downloads
Emmanuel Pinto Moreira and Nihal Bayraktar
3505: Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China Downloads
Judith Dean, Mary Lovely and Hua Wang
3504: Unemployment and the earnings structure in Latvia Downloads
Mihails Hazans
3503: Lasting local impacts of an economywide crisis Downloads
Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin
3502: Access to capital in rural Thailand: an estimated model of formal versus informal credit Downloads
Xavier Gine
3501: Telecommunications reform within Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization Downloads
Jesper Jensen, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr
3500: Revenue and the fiscal impact of liberalization: the case of Niger Downloads
Ali Zafar
3499: Agriculture and national welfare around the world: causality and international heterogeneity since 1960 Downloads
Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Daniel Lederman
3498: Duty drawbacks, competitiveness, and growth - are duty drawbacks worth the hassle? Downloads
Elena Ianchovichina
3497: What does regional trade in South Asia reveal about future trade integration? Some empirical evidence Downloads
Nihal Pitigala
3496: What factors influence world literacy? is Africa different? Downloads
Dorte Verner
3495: Does asymmetric information cause the home equity bias? Downloads
Claudio Bravo-Ortega
3494: Small-scale irrigation dams, agricultural production, and health - theory and evidence from Ethiopia Downloads
Lire Ersado
3493: The clash of liberalizations: preferential versus multilateral trade liberalization in the European Union Downloads
Baybars Karacaovali and Nuno Limão
3492: How fair is workfare? gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia Downloads
Agnes Quisumbing and Yisehac Yohannes
3491: Use of the formal and informal financial sectors: does gender matter? empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh Downloads
Signe-Mary McKernan, Mark Pitt and David Moskowitz
3490: Roads out of poverty? assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction Downloads
Pierre-Richard Agénor, Nihal Bayraktar and Karim El Aynaoui
3489: Environmental factors and children's malnutrition in Ethiopia Downloads
Patricia Silva
3488: Well-being during a time of change: Timor-Leste on the path to independence Downloads
Kaspar Richter
3487: Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households: evidence from Mexico Downloads
Rosangela Bando, Luis Lopez-Calva and Harry Patrinos
3486: Localization and corruption: panacea or pandora's box? Downloads
Tugrul Gurgur and Anwar Shah
3485: Finance, firm size, and growth Downloads
Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine
3484: The relative richness of the poor? natural resources, human capital, and economic growth Downloads
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 Downloads
Damien de Walque
3482: Outgrowing resource dependence theory and some recent developments Downloads
Will Martin
3481: Financial dependence, banking sector competition, and economic growth Downloads
Stijn Claessens and Luc Laeven
3480: Capital accumulation and resources depletion - a Hartwick rule counterfactual Downloads
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 Downloads
Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia and Roberta Gatti
3478: Do services and transfers reach Morocco's poor? Evidence from poverty and spending maps Downloads
Dominique van de Walle
3477: Agglomeration, transport, and regional development in Indonesia Downloads
Uwe Deichmann, Kai Kaiser, Somik Lall and Zmarak Shalizi
3476: Firm financing in India: recent trends and patterns Downloads
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 Downloads
Paul B. Siegel
3474: Choosing formulas for market access negotiation: efficiency and market access considerations Downloads
Vlad Manole, Will Martin and Joseph Francois
3473: Poverty effects of Russia's WTO accession: modeling"real"households and endogenous productivity effects Downloads
Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Oleksandr Shepotylo
3472: Democracy, credibility and clientelism Downloads
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? Downloads
George Clarke
3470: PPI partnerships versus PPI divorces in developing countries (or are we switching from PPPI to PPDI?) Downloads
Antonio Estache
3469: Regulation and macroeconomic performance Downloads
Norman Loayza, Ana Maria Oviedo and Luis Servén
3468: Infrastructure services in developing countries: access, quality, costs and policy reform Downloads
Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, Antonio Estache and Nemat Shafik
3467: Economic growth, income distribution, and poverty in Poland during transition Downloads
Pierella Paci, Martin J. Sasin and Jos Verbeek
3466: Building a clean machine: anti-corruption coalitions and sustainable reform Downloads
Michael Johnston and Sahr J. Kpundeh
3465: Economic geography: real or hype? Downloads
Jun Koo and Somik Lall
3464: Microeconomic evidence of creative destruction in industrial and developing countries Downloads
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? Downloads
Gaelle Pierre and Stefano Scarpetta
3462: The returns to participation in the non-farm sector in rural Rwanda Downloads
Andrew Dabalen, Stefano Paternostro and Gaelle Pierre
3461: Looking beyond averages in the trade and poverty debate Downloads
Martin Ravallion
3460: Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment Downloads
Harry Patrinos and Christos Sakellariou
3459: Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela: 1992-2002 Downloads
Harry Patrinos and Christos Sakellariou
3458: Regionalism in standards - good or bad for trade? Downloads
Maggie Chen and Aaditya Mattoo
3457: Creating a 21st Century national innovation system for a 21st Century Latvian economy Downloads
Alfred Watkins and Natalia Agapitova
3456: Macroeconomic stability in developing countries - How much is enough? Downloads
Peter Montiel and Luis Servén
3455: Labor market distortions, rural-urban inequality, and the opening of China's economy Downloads
Thomas Hertel and Fan Zhai
3454: Will the Kyoto Protocol affect growth in Russia? Downloads
Franck Lecocq and Zmarak Shalizi
3453: Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America Downloads
Emmanuela Di Gropello
3452: Import demand elasticities and trade distortions Downloads
Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga
3451: Romania's integration into European markets: implications for sustainability of the current export boom Downloads
Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng
3450: Discovery and development: an empricial exploration of"new"products Downloads
Bailey Klinger and Daniel Lederman
3449: Does it matter where you come from? vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the nationality of investors Downloads
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? Downloads
Roumeen Islam
3447: India's public health system - how well does it function at the National level? Downloads
Monica Das Gupta and Manju Rani
3446: The long-term legacy of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia Downloads
Damien de Walque
3445: Has private participation in water and sewerage improved coverage? - empirical evidence from Latin America Downloads
George Clarke, Katrina Kosec and Scott Wallsten
3444: Predicting the poverty impacts of trade reform Downloads
Thomas Hertel and Jeffrey Reimer
3443: Improving credit information, bank regulation, and supervision: on the role and design of public credit registries Downloads
Andrew Powell, Nataliya Mylenko, Margaret Miller and Giovanni Majnoni
3442: Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries - a survey of the recent economic literature Downloads
Antonio Estache
3441: Policies facilitating firm adjustment to globalization Downloads
Bernard Hoekman and Beata Javorcik
3440: Market discipline under systemic risk - evidence from bank runs in emerging economies Downloads
Eduardo Levy-Yeyati, Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler
3439: Elections, special interests, and the fiscal costs of financial crisis Downloads
Philip Keefer
3438: Addressing gender-based violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A critical review of interventions Downloads
Andrew Morrison, Mary Ellsberg and Sarah Bott
3437: Bank capital and loan loss reserves under Basel II - implications for emerging countries Downloads
Giovanni Majnoni, Margaret Miller and Andrew Powell
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