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3407: State ownership - a residual role?

Enrico Perotti

3406: Special issues relating to corporate governance and family control

Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

3405: A survey of securities laws and enforcement

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

3404: The Corporate Governance of Banks - a concise discussion of concepts and evidence

Ross Levine

3403: What happens when a country does not adjust to terms of trade shocks? the case of oil-rich Gabon

Ali Zafar

3402: Phasing out polluting motorcycles in Bangkok: policy design by using contingent valuation surveys

Jian Xie, Jitendra J. Shah, Elisabetta Capannelli and Hua Wang

3401: Trends in infrastructure in Latin America, 1980-2001

Cesar Calderon and Luis Serven

3400: The effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution

Cesar Calderon and Luis Serven

3399: Analyzing urban poverty: a summary of methods and approached

Judy Baker and Nina Schuler

3398: The scaling-up of microfinance in Bangladesh: determinants, impact, and lessons

Hassan Zaman

3397: A unified framework for pro-poor growth analysis

B. Essama-Nssah

3396: Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries

Kym Anderson

3395: Trade, standards, and the political economy of genetically modified food

Kym Anderson, Richard Damania and Lee Ann Jackson

3394: Teachers'salaries and professional profile in Mexico

Lopez-Acevedo and Gladys

3393: Indoor air quality for poor families: new evidence from Bangladesh

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

3392: Risk modeling concepts relating to the design and rating of agricultural insurance contracts

Barry Goodwin and Olivier Mahul

3391: The impact of liberalizing barriers to foreign direct investment in services - the case of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization

Jesper Jensen, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

3390: Investment climate reform - going the last mile: the bulldozer initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Benjamin Herzberg

3389: Why do emerging economies borrow short term?

Fernando Broner, Guido Lorenzoni and Sergio Schmukler

3388: Tools for legislative oversight: an empirical investigation

Riccardo Pelizzo and Rick Stapenhurst

3387: Basel II and developing countries: Sailing through the sea of standards

Andrew Powell

3386: An evaluation of the performance of regression discontinuity design on PROGRESA

Hielke Buddelmeyer and Emmanuel Skoufias

3385: Loss aversion and trade policy

Caroline Freund and Caglar Ozden

3384: Local conflict in Indonesia: Measuring incidence and identifying patterns

Patrick Barron, Kai Kaiser and Menno Pradhan

3383: Air pollution during growth: accounting for governance and vulnerability

Kirk Hamilton, Susmita Dasgupta, Kiran Pandey and David R. Wheeler

3382: Skilled migration: the perspective of developing countries

Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

3381: Measuring the international mobility of skilled workers (1990-2000): release 1.0

Frédéric Docquier and Abdeslam Marfouk

3380: Genetically modified rice adoption: implications for welfare and poverty alleviation

Kym Anderson, Lee Ann Jackson and Chantal Pohl Nielsen

3379: A taxonomy of financial crisis resolution mechanisms: cross-country experience

Charles Calomiris, Daniela Klingebiel and Luc Laeven

3378: Pro-growth, pro-poor: is there a tradeoff?

Humberto Lopez

3377: Resolving systemic financial crisis: policies and institutions

Stijn Claessens, Daniela Klingebiel and Luc Laeven

3376: What triggers inflation in emerging market economics?

Ilker Domac and Mustafa Yücel

3375: Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data

François Bourguignon, Chor-Ching Goh and Dae Il Kim

3374: Is debt replacing equity in regulated privatized infrastructure in developing countries?

Luis Correia da Silva, Antonio Estache and Sakari Jarvela

3373: Are returns to private infrastructure in developing countries consistent with risks since the Asian crisis?

Antonio Estache and Maria Elena Pinglo

3372: Two case studies on electronic distribution of government securities: the U.S. Treasury Direct System and the Philippine Expanded Small Investors Program

Thomas G. Glaesnner and Zeynep Kantur

3371: On the measurement of market-oriented reforms

Norman Loayza and Raimundo Soto

3370: Mortgage securities in emerging markets

Loic Chiquier, Olivier Hassler and Michael Lea

3369: Using rapid city surveys to inform municipal social policy: an application in Cali, Colombia

Jesko Hentschel

3368: Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco

Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin

3367: Estimating willingness-to-pay with random valuation models: an application to Lake Sevan, Armenia

Hua Wang, Benoit Laplante, Xun Wu and Craig Meisner

3366: Knowledge and development: a cross-section approach

Derek H. C. Chen and Carl J. Dahlman

3365: Private provision of rural infrastructure services: competing for subsidies

Bjorn Wellenius, Vivien Foster and Christina Malmberg-Calvo

3364: Can the unsophisticated market provide discipline?

Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

3363: Structural issues in the Kenyan financial system: improving competition and access

Thorsten Beck and Michael Fuchs

3362: Education, information, and smoking decisions: evidence from smoking histories, 1940-2000

Damien de Walque

3361: Trade, environmental regulations and the World Trade Organization: new empirical evidence

Matthias Busse

3360: On the inefficiency of inequality

Maurice Schiff

3359: A flexible modeling framework to estimate interregional trade patterns and input-output accounts

Patrick Canning and Zhi Wang

3358: The impact of coffee market reforms on producer prices and price transmission

Ekaterina Krivonos

3357: Poverty in the Brazilian Amazon: an assessment of poverty focused on the State of Para

Dorte Verner

3356: Where do we stand on transport infrastructure deregulation and public-private partnership?

Antonio Estache and Tomas Serebrisky

3355: Infrastructure, competition regimes, and air transport costs: cross-country evidence

Alejandro Micco and Tomas Serebrisky

3354: Informal export barriers and poverty

Guido Porto

3353: Implementing decentralized local governance: a treacherous road with potholes, detours, and road closures

Anwar Shah and Theresa Thompson

3352: The transition from communism: a diagrammatic exposition of obstacles to the demand for the rule of law

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

3351: Belief systems and durable inequalities: an experimental investigation of Indian caste

Karla Hoff and Priyanka Pandey

3350: Cross-sectional analyses of climate change impacts

Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, Alan Basist, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Felix Kogan and Claude Williams

3349: Kenyan exports of Nile perch: the impact of food safety standards on an export-oriented supply chain

Spencer Henson and Mitullah Winnie

3348: Standards and agro-food exports from developing countries: rebalancing the debate

Steven Jaffee and Spencer Henson

3347: Trade and financial development

Quy-Toan Do and Andrei Levchenko

3346: Achieving accountability through decentralization: lessons for integrated river basin management

Jyothsna Mody

3345: The role of infrastructure investment location in China's western development

Xubei Luo

3344: Disclosure of environmental violations and the stock market in the Republic of Korea

Susmita Dasgupta, Jong Ho Hong, Benoit Laplante and Nlandu Mamingi

3343: Linking representative household models with household surveys for poverty analysis: a comparison of alternative methodologies

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Derek H.C. Chen and Michael Grimm

3342: Financing small and medium-size enterprises with factoring: global growth and its potential in eastern Europe

Marie-Renee Bakker, Leora Klapper and Gregory Udell

3341: How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

3340: If you build it, will they come? School availability and school enrollment in 21 poor countries

Deon Filmer

3339: A policy note on telecommunications reform in Algeria

Paul Noumba Um

3338: Finance, inequality, and poverty: cross-country evidence

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

3337: Do households gain from community-based natural resource management? An evaluation of community conservancies in Namibia

Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, Michael N. Humavindu, Priya Shyamsundar and Limin Wang

3336: Dynamics of income inequality and welfare in Latvia in the late 1990s

Hippolyte Fofack and Celestin Monga

3335: Productivity and the investment climate: what matters most?

Fabiano Bastos and John Nasir

3334: Compensatory education for disadvantaged Mexican students: an impact evaluation using propensity score matching

Joseph Shapiro and Jorge Moreno

3333: Globalization, poverty, and inequality since 1980

David Dollar

3332: Transfer of technology to developing countries: unilateral and multilateral policy options

Bernard Hoekman, Keith Maskus and Kamal Saggi

3331: Fuelwood consumption and participation in community forestry in India

Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Priya Shyamsundar

3330: The dynamics of school and work in rural Bangladesh

Jose Canals-Cerda and Cristobal Ridao-Cano

3329: Sometimes more equal than others: how health inequalities depend on the choice of welfare indicator

Magnus Lindelow

3328: Labor market reforms, growth, and unemployment in labor-exporting countries in the Middle East and North Africa

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

3327: A duration analysis of CONALEP (Mexico's National Technical Professional School)

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

3326: Toward an understanding of household vulnerability in rural Kenya

Luc Christiaensen and Kalanidhi Subbarao

3325: The quality of foreign aid: country selectivity or donors incentives?

Waly Wane

3324: Health care decisions as a family matter - intra-household education externalities and the utilization of health services

Magnus Lindelow

3323: Investment climate and international integration

David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Taye Mengistae

3322: Tango with the Gringo: the hard peg and real misalignment in Argentina

Enrique Alberola, Humberto Lopez and Luis Serven

3321: Education and its poverty-reducing effects: The case of Paraiba, Brazil

Dorte Verner

3320: Country Portfolios

Aart Kraay, Norman Loayza, Luis Serven and Jaume Ventura

3319: Financial development and growth in the short and long run

Raymond Fisman and Inessa Love

3318: Location and welfare in cities: impacts of policy interventions on the urban poor

Mudit Kapoor, Somik Lall, Mattias Lundberg and Zmarak Shalizi

3317: Business Environment and the Incorporation Decision

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Inessa Love and Vojislav Maksimovic

3316: Homeownership, community interactions, and segregation

Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen

3315: A review of the political economy of governance: from property rights to voice

Philip Keefer

3314: The case for tradable remedies in WTO dispute settlement

Kyle Bagwell, Petros C. Mavroidis and Robert W. Staiger

3313: On the unequal inequality of poor communities

Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, Berk Özler and Ken Simler

3312: Trade policy analysis in the presence of duty drawbacks

Elena Ianchovichina

3311: Property rights institutions and investment

Jahangir Saleh

3310: Bundling services and household welfare in developing countries - the case of Peru

Alberto Chong, Jesko Hentschel and Jaime Saavedra

3309: Fiscal responsibility laws for subnational discipline: the Latin American experience

Steven B. Webb

3308: The regulatory and supervisory framework for fixed income markets in Europe

Hubert Grignon Dumoulin and Mogens Kruse