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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 Servén

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

Dorte Verner

3320: Country Portfolios

Aart Kraay, Norman Loayza, Luis Servén 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 Staiger

3313: On the unequal inequality of poor communities

Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, Berk Özler and Kenneth 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

3307: Latvia's macroeconomic options in the medium term: fiscal and monetary challenges of European Union membership

Celestin Monga

3306: Export commodity production and broad-based rural development: coffee and cocoa in the Dominican Republic

Paul B. Siegel and Jeffrey Alwang

3305: Do stronger intellectual property rights increase international technology transfer? Empirical evidence from U.S. firm-level panel data

Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman and C. Fritz Foley

3304: The RMSM-S+P: a minimal poverty module for the RMSM-X

Derek Hung Chiat Chen, Thilakaratna Ranaweera and Andriy Storozhuk

3303: Can the distributional impacts of macroeconomic shocks be predicted? A comparison of the performance of macro-micro models with historical data for Brazil

Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite, Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva and Paulo Picchetti

3302: Convergence, dynamics, and geography of economic growth: The case of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Dorte Verner and Edinaldo Tebaldi

3301: Which doctor? Combining vignettes and item response to measure doctor quality

Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer

3300: The labor market effects of foreign-owned firms

Rita Almeida

3299: Increasing selectivity of foreign aid, 1984-2002

David Dollar and Victoria Levin

3298: Insurance regulation in Jordan: New rules--old system

Dimitri Vittas

3297: Unemployment - poverty trade-offs

Pierre-Richard Agénor

3296: Youth at risk, social exclusion, and intergenerational poverty dynamics: A new survey instrument with application to Brazil

Dorte Verner and Erik Alda

3295: The home as factory floor: employment and remuneration of home-based workers

Wendy Cunningham and Carlos Ramos Gomez

3294: Imputed welfare estimates in regression analysis

Chris Elbers, Jean Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw

3293: On the conservation of distance in international trade

Matias Berthelon and Caroline Freund

3292: Regulatory instruments and their effects on investment behavior

Phil Burns and Christoph Riechmann

3291: Institutional trap

Quy-Toan Do

3290: Analyzing building height restrictions - predicted impacts, welfare costs, and a case study of Bangalore, India

Alain Bertaud and Jan Brueckner

3289: How does the impact of an HIV/AIDS information campaign vary with educational attainment ? Evidence from rural Uganda

Damien de Walque

3288: Is there room for foreign exchange interventions under an inflation targeting framework ? Evidence from Mexico and Turkey

Ilker Domac and Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez

3287: Explaining and forecasting inflation in Tukey

Ilker Domac

3286: New tools for studying network industry reforms in developing countries: the telecommunications and electricity regulation database

Scott Wallsten, George Clarke, Luke Haggarty, Rosario Kaneshiro, Roger Noll, Mary Shirley and Lixin Xu

3285: Gender equality and economic development: the role for information and communication technologies

Derek H.C. Chen

3284: Bargaining for a new fiscal pact in Mexico

Steven B. Webb and Christian Y. Gonzalez

3283: Regulation of fixed income securities markets in the United States

Felice B Friedman

3282: Fiscal decentralization in developing and transition economies: progress, problems, and the promise

Anwar Shah

3281: Child mortality in rural India

Bas van der Klaauw and Limin Wang

3280: Conditional cash transfers and the equity-efficiency debate

Jishnu Das, Quy-Toan Do and Berk Özler

3279: Raising revenue with transaction taxes in Latin america - or is it better to tax with the devil you know?

Rodrigo Suescun

3278: Rapid onset natural disasters: The role of financing in effective risk management

Eugene Gurenko and Rodney Lester

3277: Does greater accountability improve the quality of delivery of public services? Evidence from Uganda

Klaus Deininger and Paul Mpuga

3276: Economic and Welfare Effects of the Abolition of Health User Fees: Evidence from Uganda

Klaus Deininger and Paul Mpuga

3275: Do foreign investors care about labor market regulations?

Beata Smarzynska and Mariana Spartareanu

3274: Avoiding customer and taxpayer bailouts in private infrastructure projects: Policy toward leverage, risk allocation, and bankruptcy

David Ehrhardt and Timothy Irwin

3273: Boosting productivity via innovation and adoption of new technologies: any role for labor market institutions?

Stefano Scarpetta and Thierry Tressel

3272: Trade, capital accumulation, and structural unemployment: An empirical study of the Singapore economy

Hiau Looi Kee and Hian Hoon

3271: The environment as a factor of production

Timothy J. Considine and Donald Larson

3270: The global distribution of trademarks - some stylized facts

Eugenia Baroncelli, Carsten Kink and Beata Javorcik

3269: How has environment mattered ? an analysis of World Bank resource allocation

Anjali Acharya, Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Kirk Hamilton, Piet Buys, Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, Kiran Pandey and David Wheeler

3268: Location, concentration, and performance of economic activity in Brazil

Somik Lall, Richard Funderburg and Tito Yepes

3267: The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic

Piet Buys, Kenneth Chomitz, Susmita Dasgupta, Uwe Deichmann, Bjorn Larsen, Craig Meisner, Jostein Nygard, Kiran Pandey, Nat Pinnoi and David Wheeler

3266: Efficiency and equity of a marginal tax reform - income, quality, and price elasticities for Mexico

Alessandro Nicita

3265: Who benefited from trade liberalization in Mexico? Measuring the effects on household welfare

Alessandro Nicita

3264: Does cross-listing lead to functional convergence? Empirical evidence

Meghana Ayyagari

3263: The impact of Chilean fruit sector development on female employment and household income

Lovell Jarvis and Esperanza Vera-Toscano

3262: The initial and potential impact of preferential access to the U.S. market under the African Growth and Opportunity Act

Paul Brenton and Takako Ikezuki

3261: Detecting illegal trade practices by analyzing discrepancies in forest products trade statistics: An application to Europe, with a focus on Romania

Jeffrey Vincent

3260: Child health and the 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru

Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady

3259: The dynamics of poverty and its determinants - the case of the Northeast of Brazil and its states

Norbert Fiess and Dorte Verner

3258: Comparing land reform and land markets in colombia: impacts on equity and efficiency

Raffaella Castagnini, Klaus Deininger and Maria A. Gonzalez

3257: Toward a microeconomics of growth

Robin Burgess and Anthony Venables

3256: Globalization and the gender wage gap

Remco Oostendorp

3255: Trade, regulations, and growth

Bineswaree Bolaky and Caroline Freund

3254: Decentralization or fiscal autonomy ? What does really matter ? effects on growth and public sector size in European transition countries

Jean-Philippe Meloche, Francois Vaillancourt and Serdar Yilmaz

3253: Firms, jobs, and employment in Moldova

Jan Rutkowski

3252: Explaining U.S. immigration, 1971-98

Ximena Clark, Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

3251: Aid, policies, and growth: revisiting the evidence

Craig Burnside and David Dollar

3250: What does political economy tell us about economic development - and vice versa?

Philip Keefer