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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 Teck 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 J. 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

3249: Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help?

Jishnu Das

3248: Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda

Klaus Deininger and Raffaella Castagnini

3247: The political economy of deposit insurance

Luc Laeven

3246: The quality of the legal system, firm ownership, andfirm size

Luc Laeven and Christopher Woodruff

3245: Educational expansion: evidence and interpretation

Mark Gradstein and Denis Nikitin

3244: Price effects of preferential market access: the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the apparel sector

Caglar Ozden and Gunjan Sharma

3243: Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate

Martin Ravallion

3242: Pro-poor growth: A primer

Martin Ravallion

3241: Environmental determinants of child mortality in rural china: A competing risks approach

Hanan Jacoby and Limin Wang

3240: Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy

Filipe Campante and Francisco Ferreira

3239: The power of information: evidence from a newspaper campaign to reduce capture

Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

3238: Moving people to deliver services: how can the WTO help?

Sumanta Chaudhuri, Aaditya Mattoo and Richard Self

3237: Pre-empting protectionism in services - the WTO and outsourcing

Aaditya Mattoo and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent

3236: Professional development and incentives for teacher performance in schools in Mexico

Gladys Lopez Acevedo

3235: Household composition and the response of child labor supply to product market integration: evidence from Vietnam

Eric Edmonds and Eric V.

3234: Product market integration and household labor supply in a poor economy: evidence from Vietnam

Eric Edmonds, Eric V. and Nina Pavcnik

3233: Gender, time use, and models of the household

Patricia Apps

3232: Business environment and firm entry: Evidence from international data

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan

3231: Incidence analysis of public support to the private education sector in Cote d'Ivoire

Chris Sakellariou and Harry Patrinos

3230: India: why fiscal adjustment now

Brian Pinto and Farah Zahir

3229: Housekeeping and plumbing - the investability of emerging markets

Jeppe Ladekarl and Sara Zervos

3228: Strained mercy: The quality of medical care in Delhi

Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer

3227: Regulating islamic financial institutions: The nature of the regulated

El-Hawary, Dahlia, Wafik Grais and Zamir Iqbal

3226: Groundnut policies, global trade dynamics, and the impact of trade liberalization

Ndiame Diop, John Beghin and Mirvat Sewadeh

3225: When is growth pro-poor? Cross-country evidence

Aart Kraay

3224: Assessing the potential benefit of trade facilitation: A global perspective

John Wilson, Catherine Mann and Tsunehiro Otsuki

3223: Coordination failure in foreign aid

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

3222: Sugar policies opportunity for change

Donald Mitchell

3221: What do we know about competition agencies in emerging and transition countries? Evidence on workload, personnel, priority sectors, and training needs

Tomas Serebrisky

3220: Public management and essential public health functions

Peyvand Khaleghian and Monica Das Gupta

3219: A financial social accounting matrix for the integrated macroeconomic model for poverty analysis: application to Cameroon with a fixed-price multiplier analysis

Christian Emini and Hippolyte Fofack

3218: Cotton: Market setting, trade policies, and issues

John Baffes

3217: When can school inputs improve test scores?

Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana and Pramila Krishnan

3216: Making the poor count takes more than counting the poor: A quick poverty assessment of the state of Bahia, Brazil

Dorte Verner

3215: Has the internet increased trade? Evidence from industrial and developing countries

George Clarke and Scott J. Wallsten

3214: Trademark protection or protectionism?

Eugenia Baroncelli, Ekaterina Krivonos and Marcelo Olarreaga

3213: On the measurement of product variety in trade

Robert Feenstra and Hiau Looi Kee

3212: Coping with risk through mismatches: domestic and international financial contracts for emerging economies

Augusto de la Torre, Sergio Schmukler and Sergio L.

3211: Enabling productive but asset-poor farmers to succeed: A risk financing framework

Eugene Gurenko and Mahul Olivier

3210: How foreign participation and market concentration impact bank spreads: evidence from Latin America

Maria Martinez Peria and Ashoka Mody

3209: Community-based (and driven) development: A critical review

Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao

3208: A conceptual framework for retirement products: Risk sharing arrangements between providers and retirees

Gregorio Impavido, Craig Thorburn and Mike Wadsworth