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- 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
- 3071: Survey techniques to measure and explain corruption

- Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson
- 3070: Are you satisfied? citizen feedback and delivery of urban services

- Uwe Deichmann and Somik Lall
- 3069: International migration, remittances, and the brain drain; a study of 24 labor exporting countries

- Richard Adams
- 3068: Poverty and economic growth in Egypt, 1995-2000

- Heba El-Laithy, Michael Lokshin and Arup Banerji
- 3067: The mini-integrated macroeconomic model for poverty analysis: a framework for analyzing the unemployment and poverty effects of fiscal and labor market reforms

- Pierre-Richard Agénor
- 3066: The potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV-1 vaccine in Southern India

- Shreelata Rao Seshadri, P. Subramaniyam and Prabhat Jha
- 3065: Ghost doctors - absenteeism in Bangladeshi health facilities

- Nazmul Chaudhury and Jeffrey Hammer
- 3064: Trade policy, trade volumes, and plant-level productivity in Colombian manufacturing industries

- Ana Fernandes
- 3063: Trade liberalization, firm performance, and labor market outcomes in the developing world: what can we learn from micro-level data?

- Paolo Epifani
- 3062: Labor effects of adult mortality in Tanzanian households

- Kathleen Beegle
- 3061: Reciprocity in free trade agreements

- Caroline Freund
- 3060: World market integration through the lens of foreign direct investors

- Rui Albuquerque, Norman Loayza and Luis Servén
- 3059: Do capital flows respond to risk and return?

- Cesar Calderon, Norman Loayza and Luis Servén
- 3058: Working for God? evualuating service delivery of religious not-for-profit health care providers in Uganda

- Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson
- 3057: Teaching adults to read better and faster: results from an experiment in Burkina Faso

- Helen Abadzi
- 3056: Avoiding the pitfalls in taxing financial intermediation

- Patrick Honohan
- 3055: The global growth of mutual funds

- Deepthi Fernando, Leora Klapper, Victor Sulla and Dimitri Vittas
- 3054: The new comparative economics

- Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer
- 3053: Economic impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization

- Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin
- 3052: Long-run impacts of China's WTO accession on farm-nonfarm income inequality and rural poverty

- Kym Anderson, Jikun Huang and Elena Ianchovichina
- 3051: Regional, multilateral, and unilateral trade policies on MERCOSUR for growth and poverty reduction in Brazil

- Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Angelo Gurgel
- 3050: The changing financial landscape: opportunities and challenges for the Middle East and North Africa

- Wafik Grais and Zeynep Kantur
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