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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

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

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 Servén

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

Cesar Calderon and Luis Servén

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