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- 3536: Regulatory effectiveness: the impact of regulation and regulatory governance arrangements on electricity industry outcomes

- 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

- John Cubbin and Jon Stern
- 3534: The co-movement between cotton and polyester prices

- John Baffes and Gaston Gohou
- 3533: Disciplining agricultural support through decoupling

- John Baffes and Harry de Gorter
- 3532: Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala

- Richard Adams
- 3531: Geopolitical interests and preferential access to U.S. markets

- Daniel Lederman and Caglar Ozden
- 3530: Legal effectiveness and external capital: the role of foreign debt

- 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

- David Le Blanc
- 3528: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Warta River Basin, Poland

- William Blomquist, Andrzej Tonderski and Ariel Dinar
- 3527: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Murray Darling River Basin, Austrialia

- William Blomquist, Brian Haisman, Ariel Dinar and Anjali Bhat
- 3526: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Gudalquivir River Basin, Spain

- William Blomquist, Consuelo Giansante, Anjali Bhat and Karin Kemper
- 3525: Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Fraser River Basin, Canada

- William Blomquist, Ken S. Calbick and Ariel Dinar
- 3524: Sowing and reaping: institutional quality and project outcomes in developing countries

- David Dollar and Victoria Levin
- 3523: Schools meals, educational achievement and school competition: evidence from a randomized evaluation

- Christel Vermeersch and Michael Kremer
- 3522: China's employment challenges and strategies after the WTO accession

- Douglas Zhihua Zeng
- 3521: Religious school enrollment in Pakistan: a look at the data

- 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

- Benoit Laplante, Craig Meisner and Hua Wang
- 3519: How do differing standards increase trade costs? The case of pallets

- 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

- Peri Silva
- 3517: Trade liberalization and the politics of financial development

- Matias Braun and Claudio Raddatz
- 3516: Sustainability of microfinance self help groups in India: would federating help?

- Ajai Nair
- 3515: Reforms and infrastructure efficiency in Spain's container ports

- Maria Manuela Gonzalez and Lourdes Trujillo
- 3514: Infrastructure performance and reform in developing and transition economies: evidence from a survey of productivity measures

- Antonio Estache, Sergio Perelman and Lourdes Trujillo
- 3513: How concentrated are global infrastructure markets?

- Daniel Benitez and Antonio Estache
- 3512: Policy mix, public debt management, and fiscal rules - lessons from the 2002 Brazilian crisis

- Santiago Herrera
- 3511: Bank privatization and performance - emprical evidence from Nigeria

- Thorsten Beck, Robert Cull and Afeikhena Jerome
- 3510: Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

- Ruth Alsop and Nina Heinsohn
- 3509: Dynamic cities and creative clusters

- Weiping Wu
- 3508: The political economy of health services provision and access in Brazil

- Ahmed Mobarak, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Maureen Cropper
- 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 Servén
- 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 Christos Sakellariou
- 3459: Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela: 1992-2002

- Harry Patrinos and Christos 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 Servén
- 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 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
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