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- 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

- Christos 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
- 3207: The limits to competition in urban bus services in developing countries

- Antonio Estache and Andres Gomez-Lobo
- 3206: On the geography of trade: distance is alive and well

- Celine Carrere and Maurice Schiff
- 3205: Poor people's knowledge: helping poor people to earn from their knowledge

- Joseph Finger
- 3204: The determinants of financing obstacles

- Thorsten Beck, Luc Laeven and Vojislav Maksimovic
- 3203: Financial development, growth, and poverty: how close are the links?

- Patrick Honohan
- 3202: Governance and bank valuation

- Gerard Caprio, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine
- 3201: A literature review on the use of expert opinion in probabilistic risk analysis

- Fumika Ouchi
- 3200: When is external debt sustainable?

- Aart Kraay and Vikram Nehru
- 3199: On the measurement of solvency of insurance companies: recent developments that will alter methodsadopted in emerging markets

- Craig Thorburn
- 3198: Market access for sale: Latin America's lobbying for U.S. tariff preferences

- Hiau Looi Kee, Marcelo Olarreaga and Peri Silva
- 3197: Building and running general equilibrium models in EViews

- Essama-Nssah
- 3196: Technological asymmetry among foreign investors and mode of entry

- Beata Javorcik and Kamal Saggi
- 3195: Government procurement: Market access, transparency, and multilateral trade rules

- Simon Evenett and Bernard Hoekman
- 3194: Law and firms'access to finance

- Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
- 3193: Quantifying the impact of services liberalization in a developing country

- Denise Konan and Keith Maskus
- 3192: Greenfield foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions - feedback and macroeconomic effects

- Cesar Calderon, Norman Loayza and Luis Servén
- 3191: Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country - Madagascar 2001

- Michael Lokshin, Nithin Umapathi and Stefano Paternostro
- 3190: On the quantity and quality of knowledge - the impact of openness and foreign research and development on North-North and North-South technology spillovers

- Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang
- 3189: Do market pressures induce economic efficiency ? The case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994-2001

- Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec
- 3188: Trading market access for competition policy enforcement

- Bernard Hoekman and Kamal Saggi
- 3187: To serve the community or oneself - the public servant's dilemma

- Abigail Barr, Magnus Lindelow and Pieter Serneels
- 3186: Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients

- Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman
- 3185: Does infrastructure reform work for the poor? A case study from Guatemala

- Vivien Foster and M. Caridad Araujo
- 3184: Volatility and growth

- Viktoria Hnatkovska and Norman Loayza
- 3183: Conflicts of interest in self-regulation: can demutualized exchanges successfully manage them?

- John W. Carson
- 3182: The International Finance Corporation's MBA survey: how developing country firms rate local business school training

- Azam Chaudhry
- 3181: Temporary sequestration credits: an instrument for carbon bears

- Kenneth M. Chomitz and Franck Lecocq
- 3180: Equitable provision of long-term public goods: the role of negotiation mandates

- Franck Lecocq and Jean-Charles Hourcade
- 3179: International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries

- Richard Adams and John Page
- 3178: Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence

- Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine
- 3177: Does infrastructure reform work for the poor? A case study on the cities of La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia

- Vivien Foster and Osvaldo Irusta
- 3176: Location decisions and nongovernmental organization motivation: evidence from rural Bangladesh

- Anna Fruttero and Varun Gauri
- 3175: The use of"asset swaps"by institutional investors in South Africa

- Dimitri Vittas
- 3174: Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil

- François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Marta Menéndez
- 3173: Distributional effects of crises: the role of financial transfers

- Marina Halac and Sergio Schmukler
- 3172: Supply-side school improvement and the learning achievement of the poorest children in indigenous and rural schools - the case of PARE

- Vicente Paqueo and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
- 3171: On the use of transparent formulae to allocate federal education transfers

- Vicente Paqueo, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Suhas Parandekar
- 3170: Direct support to private firms - evidence on effectiveness

- Geeta Batra and Syed Mahmood
- 3169: Is inequality in Africa really different ?

- Branko Milanovic
- 3168: Banking in developing countries in the 1990s

- James A. Hanson
- 3167: Combining insurance, contingent debt, and self-retention in an optimal corporate risk financing strategy

- Eugene Gurenko and Olivier Mahul
- 3166: In measuring aggregate"social efficiency"

- Martin Ravallion
- 3165: Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas

- Emanuela Galasso and Martin Ravallion
- 3164: Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor

- Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani
- 3163: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The role of infrastructure

- Marianne Fay, Danny Leipziger, Quentin Wodon and Tito Yepes
- 3162: The political economy of public spending on education, inequality, and growth

- Mark Gradstein
- 3161: Liquidity needs and vulnerability to financial udnerdevelopment

- Claudio Raddatz
- 3160: Monetary policy and sectoral shocks: did the Federal Reserve react properly to the high-tech crisis?

- Claudio Raddatz and Roberto Rigobon
- 3159: Does judicial efficiency lower the cost of credit

- Luc Laeven and Giovanni Majnoni
- 3158: Restoring economic growth in Argentina

- William Cline
- 3157: On the utility consistency of poverty lines

- Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin
- 3156: Tariff evasion and customs corruption: does pre-shipment inspection help?

- Olivier Cadot, José Ansón and Marcelo Olarreaga
- 3155: Evaluating the impact of infrastructure rehabilitation projects on household welfare in rural Georgia

- Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov
- 3154: The twin effects of globalization

- Francesco Daveri, Paolo Manasse and Danilo Serra
- 3153: Gender and poverty: a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes

- Michael Lokshin and Thomas Mroz
- 3152: The long-run economic costs of AIDS: theory and an application to South Africa

- Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan and Hans Gersbach
- 3151: A multi-output cost function for port terminals: some guidelines for regulation

- Lourdes Trujillo, Sergio Jara-Diaz and Beatriz Tovar
- 3150: Income-related biases in international trade: what do trademark registration data tell us?

- Carsten Fink, Beata Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu
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