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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

3149: Rules of thumb for evaluating preferential trading arrangements: evidence from computable general equilibrium assessments

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

3148: Gender wage differentials in Brazil: trends over a turbulent era

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani, Francisco Carneiro and Andrew Henley

3147: Human capital and earnings inequality in Brazil, 1988-98: quantile regression evidence

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani, Francisco Carneiro and Andrew Henley

3146: The price of inconvertible deposits - the stock market boom during the Argentine crisis

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Sergio Schmukler and Neeltje Van Horen

3145: Alternative paths to structural adjustment in Uzbekistan in a three-gap framework

Thilakaratna Ranaweera

3144: Market disequilibria and inflation in Uzbekistan, 1994-2000

Thilak Ranaweera

3143: Who benefits from labor market regulations? Chile 1960-1998

Claudio Montenegro and Carmen Pages

3142: Credit reporting and financing constraints

Inessa Love and Nataliya Mylenko

3141: Poverty in India during the1990s - a regional perspective

Yoko Kijima and Peter Lanjouw

3140: Raising the quality of secondary education in East Asia

Kaoru Nabeshima

3139: Contracting models of the Phillips curve - empirical estimates for Middle-income countries

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Nihal Bayraktar

3138: Fiscal federalism and regional growth: evidence from the Russian Federation in the 1990s

Raj Desai, Lev Freinkman and Itzhak Goldberg

3137: Using survey data to assess the distributional effects of trade policy

Guido Porto

3136: Legal institutions and financial development

Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine

3135: Trade reforms, market access, and poverty in Argentina

Guido Porto

3134: Institutional reform and the judiciary: which way forward?

Roumeen Islam

3133: Emerging trends in WTO dispute settlement: back to the GATT?

Peter Holmes, Jim Rollo and Alasdair R. Young

3132: Regional integration and technology diffusion: the case of the North America free trade agreement

Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang

3131: Social sector expenditures and rainy-day funds

Christian Y. Gonzalez and Vicente Paqueo

3130: The role of advocacy in competition policy: the case of the Argentine gasoline market

Tomas Serebrisky

3129: Price caps, efficiency payoffs, and infrastructure contract renegotiation in Latin America

Antonio Estache, Jose-Luis Guasch and Lourdes Trujillo

3128: Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia

Takashi Yamano, Harold Alderman and Luc Christiaensen

3127: Small and medium enterprises across the globe: a new database

Meghana Ayyagari, Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

3126: Public disclosure of environmental violations in the Republic of Korea

Jong Ho Long, Benoit Laplante and Craig Meisner

3125: Economic analysis of health care utilization and perceived illness; ethnicity and other factors

Vicente Paqueo and Christian Y. Gonzalez

3124: The impact of structural reforms on poverty: a simple methodology with extensions

Neil McCulloch

3123: Production and cost functions and their application to the port sector: a literature survey

Beatrice Tovar, Sergio Jara-Diaz and Lourdes Trujillo

3122: Individual attitudes toward corruption: do social effects matter?

Roberta Gatti, Stefano Paternostro and Iamele Rigolini

3121: Do bilateral investment treaties attract foreign direct investment? Only a bit - and they could bite

Mary Hallward-Driemeier

3120: Land rights and economic development: evidence from Vietnam

Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer

3119: Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs: lessons from Latin America

Laura B. Rawlings and Gloria M. Rubio

3118: To share or not to share: does local participation matter for spillovers from foreign direct investment?

Beata Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu

3117: Policy research on migration and development

David P. Ellerman

3116: Dollarization of the banking system: good or bad?

Gianni De Nicolo, Patrick Honohan and Alain Ize

3115: Integrating housing wealth into the social safety net: the elderly in Moscow

Robert Buckley, Kim Cartwright, Raymond Struyk and Edward Szymanoski

3114: The dynamics of foreign bank ownership - evidence from Hungary

Giovanni Majnoni, Rashmi Shankar and Eva Varhegyi

3113: What drives bank competition? some international evidence

Stijn Claessens and Luc Laeven

3112: On the timing of marriage, cattle, and weather shocks in rural Zimbabwe

Johannes Hoogeveen, Bas van der Klaauw and Gijsbert Van Lomwel

3111: International trade and wage discrimination: evidence from East Asia

Günseli Berik, Yana Rodgers and Joseph Zveglich

3110: Governance of public pension funds: lessons from corporate governance and international evidence

David Hess and Gregorio Impavido

3109: The impact of China's WTO accession on East Asia

Elena Ianchovichina and Terrie Walmsley

3108: Stabilization and association process in the Banlkans: integration options and their assessment

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Manuel de la Rocha

3107: More favorable and differential treatment of developing countries: toward a new approach in the World Trade Organization

Bernard Hoekman, Constantine Michalopoulos and L. Winters

3106: Government matters III: governance indicators for 1996-2002

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

3105: Further evidence on the link between finance and growth: an international analysis of community banking and economic performance

Allen Berger, Iftekhar Hasan and Leora Klapper

3104: Does strict employment protection discourage job creation? Evidence from Croatia

Jan Rutkowski

3103: Ownership structure and initial public offerings

Reena Aggarwal and Leora Klapper

3102: Investing in infrastructure: what is needed from 2000 to 2010?

Marianne Fay and Tito Yepes

3101: Portfolio preferences of foreign institutional investors

Reena Aggarwal, Leora Klapper and Peter Wysocki

3100: Governance of communicable disease control services: a case study and lessons from India

Monica Das Gupta, Peyvand Khaleghian and Rakesh Sarwal

3099: Creating partnerships for capacity building in developing countries - the experience of the World Bank

F. Desmond McCarthy, William Bader and Boris Pleskovic

3098: Governance and economic growth

Mark Gradstein

3097: Measuring up - new directions for environmental programs at the World Bank

Piet Buys, Susmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, Kiran Pandey, David Wheeler, Katharine Bolt, Kirk Hamilton and Limin Wang

3096: International survey of integrated financial sector supervision

Jose de Luna Martinez and Thomas A. Rose

3095: The emerging project bond market - covenant provisions and credit spreads

Mansoor Dailami and Robert Hauswald

3094: Oil, agriculture, and the public sector: linking intersector dynamics in Ecuador

Dorte Verner and Norbert Fiess

3093: Migration and human capital in Brazil during the 1990s

Norbert Fiess and Dorte Verner

3092: The integrated macroeconomic model for poverty analysis: a quantitative macroeconomic framework for the analysis of poverty reduction strategies

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Alejandro Izquierdo and Hippolyte Fofack

3091: Labor market policies and unemployment in Morocco: a quantitative analysis

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Karim El Aynaoui

3090: The Cotonou Agreement and its implications for the regional trade agenda in eastern and southern Africa

Manuel de la Rocha

3089: The "Glass of Milk" subsidy program and malnutrition in Peru

David Stifel and Harold Alderman

3088: US contingent protection against honey imports: development aspects and the Doha Round

Julio Nogues

3087: Gender, generations, and nonfarm participation

M. Shahe Emran, Misuzu Otsuka and Forhad Shilpi

3086: Intertemporal excess burden, bequest motives, and the budget deficit

Derek Hung Chiat Chen

3085: Export profiles of small landlocked countries: a case study focusing on their implications for Lesotho

Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats

3084: Major trade trends in East Asia: what are their implications for regional cooperation and growth

Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats

3083: Mine closure and its impact on the community: five years after mine closure in Romania, Russia and Ukraine

Michael Haney and Maria Shkaratan

3082: Financial dollarization and central bank credibility

Kevin Cowan and Quy-Toan Do

3081: The anatomy of a multiple crisis: why was Argentina special and what can we learn from it?

Guillermo Perry and Luis Servén

3080: Can fiscal rules help reduce macroeconomic volatility in the Latin America and Caribbean Region?

Guillermo Perry

3079: Regional integration in East Asia:challenges and opportunities - Part II: Trade, finance and integration

Eisuke Sakakibara and Sharon Yamakawa

3078: Regional integration in East Asia: challenges and opportunities - Part 1: history and institutions

Eisuke Sakakibara and Sharon Yamakawa

3077: do more transparent government govern better?

Roumeen Islam

3076: Trade reform in Vietnam: opportunities with emerging challenges

Philippe Auffret

3075: Child labor, income shocks, and access to credit

Rajeev Dehejia, Kathleen Beegle and Roberta Gatti

3074: The gender impact of pension reform: a cross-country analysis

Estelle James, Alejandra Cox Edwards and Rebecca Wong

3073: Metropolitan industrial clusters; patterns and processes

Sanjoy Chakravorty, Jun Koo and Somik Lall

3072: Diversity matters - the economic geography of industry location in India

Somik Lall, Jun Koo and Sanjoy Chakravorty