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3249: Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help? Downloads
Jishnu Das
3248: Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda Downloads
Klaus Deininger and Raffaella Castagnini
3247: The political economy of deposit insurance Downloads
Luc Laeven
3246: The quality of the legal system, firm ownership, andfirm size Downloads
Luc Laeven and Christopher Woodruff
3245: Educational expansion: evidence and interpretation Downloads
Mark Gradstein and Denis Nikitin
3244: Price effects of preferential market access: the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the apparel sector Downloads
Caglar Ozden and Gunjan Sharma
3243: Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate Downloads
Martin Ravallion
3242: Pro-poor growth: A primer Downloads
Martin Ravallion
3241: Environmental determinants of child mortality in rural china: A competing risks approach Downloads
Hanan Jacoby and Limin Wang
3240: Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy Downloads
Filipe Campante and Francisco Ferreira
3239: The power of information: evidence from a newspaper campaign to reduce capture Downloads
Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson
3238: Moving people to deliver services: how can the WTO help? Downloads
Sumanta Chaudhuri, Aaditya Mattoo and Richard Self
3237: Pre-empting protectionism in services - the WTO and outsourcing Downloads
Aaditya Mattoo and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
3236: Professional development and incentives for teacher performance in schools in Mexico Downloads
Gladys Lopez Acevedo
3235: Household composition and the response of child labor supply to product market integration: evidence from Vietnam Downloads
Eric Edmonds and Eric V.
3234: Product market integration and household labor supply in a poor economy: evidence from Vietnam Downloads
Eric Edmonds, Eric V. and Nina Pavcnik
3233: Gender, time use, and models of the household Downloads
Patricia Apps
3232: Business environment and firm entry: Evidence from international data Downloads
Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan
3231: Incidence analysis of public support to the private education sector in Cote d'Ivoire Downloads
Christos Sakellariou and Harry Patrinos
3230: India: why fiscal adjustment now Downloads
Brian Pinto and Farah Zahir
3229: Housekeeping and plumbing - the investability of emerging markets Downloads
Jeppe Ladekarl and Sara Zervos
3228: Strained mercy: The quality of medical care in Delhi Downloads
Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer
3227: Regulating islamic financial institutions: The nature of the regulated Downloads
El-Hawary, Dahlia, Wafik Grais and Zamir Iqbal
3226: Groundnut policies, global trade dynamics, and the impact of trade liberalization Downloads
Ndiame Diop, John Beghin and Mirvat Sewadeh
3225: When is growth pro-poor? Cross-country evidence Downloads
Aart Kraay
3224: Assessing the potential benefit of trade facilitation: A global perspective Downloads
John Wilson, Catherine Mann and Tsunehiro Otsuki
3223: Coordination failure in foreign aid Downloads
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
3222: Sugar policies opportunity for change Downloads
Donald Mitchell
3221: What do we know about competition agencies in emerging and transition countries? Evidence on workload, personnel, priority sectors, and training needs Downloads
Tomas Serebrisky
3220: Public management and essential public health functions Downloads
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 Downloads
Christian Emini and Hippolyte Fofack
3218: Cotton: Market setting, trade policies, and issues Downloads
John Baffes
3217: When can school inputs improve test scores? Downloads
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 Downloads
Dorte Verner
3215: Has the internet increased trade? Evidence from industrial and developing countries Downloads
George Clarke and Scott J. Wallsten
3214: Trademark protection or protectionism? Downloads
Eugenia Baroncelli, Ekaterina Krivonos and Marcelo Olarreaga
3213: On the measurement of product variety in trade Downloads
Robert Feenstra and Hiau Looi Kee
3212: Coping with risk through mismatches: domestic and international financial contracts for emerging economies Downloads
Augusto de la Torre, Sergio Schmukler and Sergio L.
3211: Enabling productive but asset-poor farmers to succeed: A risk financing framework Downloads
Eugene Gurenko and Mahul Olivier
3210: How foreign participation and market concentration impact bank spreads: evidence from Latin America Downloads
Maria Martinez Peria and Ashoka Mody
3209: Community-based (and driven) development: A critical review Downloads
Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao
3208: A conceptual framework for retirement products: Risk sharing arrangements between providers and retirees Downloads
Gregorio Impavido, Craig Thorburn and Mike Wadsworth
3207: The limits to competition in urban bus services in developing countries Downloads
Antonio Estache and Andres Gomez-Lobo
3206: On the geography of trade: distance is alive and well Downloads
Celine Carrere and Maurice Schiff
3205: Poor people's knowledge: helping poor people to earn from their knowledge Downloads
Joseph Finger
3204: The determinants of financing obstacles Downloads
Thorsten Beck, Luc Laeven and Vojislav Maksimovic
3203: Financial development, growth, and poverty: how close are the links? Downloads
Patrick Honohan
3202: Governance and bank valuation Downloads
Gerard Caprio, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine
3201: A literature review on the use of expert opinion in probabilistic risk analysis Downloads
Fumika Ouchi
3200: When is external debt sustainable? Downloads
Aart Kraay and Vikram Nehru
3199: On the measurement of solvency of insurance companies: recent developments that will alter methodsadopted in emerging markets Downloads
Craig Thorburn
3198: Market access for sale: Latin America's lobbying for U.S. tariff preferences Downloads
Hiau Looi Kee, Marcelo Olarreaga and Peri Silva
3197: Building and running general equilibrium models in EViews Downloads
Essama-Nssah
3196: Technological asymmetry among foreign investors and mode of entry Downloads
Beata Javorcik and Kamal Saggi
3195: Government procurement: Market access, transparency, and multilateral trade rules Downloads
Simon Evenett and Bernard Hoekman
3194: Law and firms'access to finance Downloads
Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
3193: Quantifying the impact of services liberalization in a developing country Downloads
Denise Konan and Keith Maskus
3192: Greenfield foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions - feedback and macroeconomic effects Downloads
Cesar Calderon, Norman Loayza and Luis Servén
3191: Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country - Madagascar 2001 Downloads
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 Downloads
Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang
3189: Do market pressures induce economic efficiency ? The case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994-2001 Downloads
Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec
3188: Trading market access for competition policy enforcement Downloads
Bernard Hoekman and Kamal Saggi
3187: To serve the community or oneself - the public servant's dilemma Downloads
Abigail Barr, Magnus Lindelow and Pieter Serneels
3186: Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients Downloads
Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman
3185: Does infrastructure reform work for the poor? A case study from Guatemala Downloads
Vivien Foster and M. Caridad Araujo
3184: Volatility and growth Downloads
Viktoria Hnatkovska and Norman Loayza
3183: Conflicts of interest in self-regulation: can demutualized exchanges successfully manage them? Downloads
John W. Carson
3182: The International Finance Corporation's MBA survey: how developing country firms rate local business school training Downloads
Azam Chaudhry
3181: Temporary sequestration credits: an instrument for carbon bears Downloads
Kenneth M. Chomitz and Franck Lecocq
3180: Equitable provision of long-term public goods: the role of negotiation mandates Downloads
Franck Lecocq and Jean-Charles Hourcade
3179: International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries Downloads
Richard Adams and John Page
3178: Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence Downloads
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 Downloads
Vivien Foster and Osvaldo Irusta
3176: Location decisions and nongovernmental organization motivation: evidence from rural Bangladesh Downloads
Anna Fruttero and Varun Gauri
3175: The use of"asset swaps"by institutional investors in South Africa Downloads
Dimitri Vittas
3174: Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil Downloads
François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Marta Menéndez
3173: Distributional effects of crises: the role of financial transfers Downloads
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 Downloads
Vicente Paqueo and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
3171: On the use of transparent formulae to allocate federal education transfers Downloads
Vicente Paqueo, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Suhas Parandekar
3170: Direct support to private firms - evidence on effectiveness Downloads
Geeta Batra and Syed Mahmood
3169: Is inequality in Africa really different ? Downloads
Branko Milanovic
3168: Banking in developing countries in the 1990s Downloads
James A. Hanson
3167: Combining insurance, contingent debt, and self-retention in an optimal corporate risk financing strategy Downloads
Eugene Gurenko and Olivier Mahul
3166: In measuring aggregate"social efficiency" Downloads
Martin Ravallion
3165: Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas Downloads
Emanuela Galasso and Martin Ravallion
3164: Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor Downloads
Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani
3163: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The role of infrastructure Downloads
Marianne Fay, Danny Leipziger, Quentin Wodon and Tito Yepes
3162: The political economy of public spending on education, inequality, and growth Downloads
Mark Gradstein
3161: Liquidity needs and vulnerability to financial udnerdevelopment Downloads
Claudio Raddatz
3160: Monetary policy and sectoral shocks: did the Federal Reserve react properly to the high-tech crisis? Downloads
Claudio Raddatz and Roberto Rigobon
3159: Does judicial efficiency lower the cost of credit Downloads
Luc Laeven and Giovanni Majnoni
3158: Restoring economic growth in Argentina Downloads
William Cline
3157: On the utility consistency of poverty lines Downloads
Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin
3156: Tariff evasion and customs corruption: does pre-shipment inspection help? Downloads
Olivier Cadot, José Ansón and Marcelo Olarreaga
3155: Evaluating the impact of infrastructure rehabilitation projects on household welfare in rural Georgia Downloads
Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov
3154: The twin effects of globalization Downloads
Francesco Daveri, Paolo Manasse and Danilo Serra
3153: Gender and poverty: a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes Downloads
Michael Lokshin and Thomas Mroz
3152: The long-run economic costs of AIDS: theory and an application to South Africa Downloads
Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan and Hans Gersbach
3151: A multi-output cost function for port terminals: some guidelines for regulation Downloads
Lourdes Trujillo, Sergio Jara-Diaz and Beatriz Tovar
3150: Income-related biases in international trade: what do trademark registration data tell us? Downloads
Carsten Fink, Beata Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu
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