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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 Serven

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 S. 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 Serven

3059: Do capital flows respond to risk and return?

Cesar Calderon, Norman Loayza and Luis Serven

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

3049: Hidden impact ? Ex-post evaluation of an anti-poverty program

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

3048: Targeted transfers in poor countries: revisiting the tradeoffs and policy options

Martin Ravallion

3047: Comparing mortgage credit risk policies: an options-based approach

Robert Buckley, Gulmira Karaguishiyeva, Robert Van Order and Laura Vecvagare

3046: Migration, spillovers, and trade diversion: the impact of internationalization on stock market liquidity

Ross Levine and Sergio Schmukler

3045: Causes and consequences of civil strife - micro-level evidence from Uganda

Klaus Deininger

3044: Impregnated nets cannot fully substitute for DDT: field effectiveness of Malaria prevention in Solomon Islands

Raman Velayudhan, Peter Wilikai, Patricia M. Graves, A. Over and Bernard Bakote'e

3043: The incentive-compatible design of deposit insurance and bank failure resolution: concepts and country studies

Thorsten Beck

3042: Bank supervision and corporate finance

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

3041: Bank concentration and crises

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

3040: Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

3039: Scaling up community-driven development: theoretical underpinnings and program design implications

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Swaminathan Aiyar

3038: The debate on globalization, poverty, and inequality: why measurement matters

Martin Ravallion

3037: Regulation and private sector investment in infrastructure - evidence from Latin America

Sheoli Pargal

3036: Telecommunications reform in Malawi

George Clarke, Frew A. Gebreab and Henr Mgombelo

3035: Traffic fatalities and economic growth

Elizabeth Kopits and Maureen Cropper

3034: The insurance industry in Mauritius

Dimitri Vittas

3033: The role of occupational pension funds in Mauritius

Dimitri Vittas

3032: Information diffusion in international markets

Alejandro Izquierdo, Jacques Morisset and Marcelo Olarreaga

3031: Imports, entry, and competition law as market disciplines

Hiau Looi Kee and Bernard Hoekman

3030: The impact of bank regulations, concentration, and institutions on bank margins

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

3029: Who benefits and how much?: how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry

Alessandro Nicita and Susan Razzaz

3028: Does a country need a promotion agency to attract foreign direct investment: a small analytical model applied to 58 countries

Jacques Morisset

3027: Financial intermediation and growth - Chinese style

Genevieve Boyreau-Debray

3026: Strategic approaches to science and technology in development

Robert Watson, Michael Crawford and Sara Farley

3025: Trade structure and growth

Daniel Lederman and William Maloney

3024: Research and development (R&D) and development

Daniel Lederman and William Maloney

3023: Productivity growth and product variety: gains from imitation and education

Douglas M. Addison

3022: Sending farmers back to school - the impact of farmer field schools in Indonesia

Gershon Feder, Rinku Murgai and Jaime B. Quizon

3021: Institutional arrangements for public debt management

Elizabeth Currie, Jean-Jacques Dethier and Eriko Togo

3020: Consumption, health, gender, and poverty

Anne Case and Angus Deaton

3019: Foreign aid, conditionality, and ghost of the financing gap - a forgotten aspect of the aid debate

Thilak Ranaweera

3018: Integrating the least developed countries into the world trading system: the current impact of EU preferences under everything but arms

Paul Brenton

3017: Why is unemployment so high in Bulgaria?

Jan Rutkowski

3016: Partisan politics and intergovernmental transfers in India

Stuti Khemani

3015: Off and running? Technology, trade and the rising demand for skilled workers in Latin America

Carolina Sanchez-Paramo and Norbert Schady

3014: Evaluation of financial liberalization: a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice

Xavier Gine and Robert Townsend

3013: Land sales and rental markets in transition - evidence from rural Viet Nam

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

3012: Just-in-case inventories - a cross-country analysis

J. Luis Guasch and Joseph Kogan

3011: Renegotiation of concession contracts in Latin America

J. Luis Guasch, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Stephane Straub

3010: Vulnerability in consumption, education, and health - evidence from Moldova during the Russian crisis

Edmundo Murrugarra and Jose Signoret

3009: Agriculture in the Doha Agenda

Patrick Messerlin

3008: Technology, computers, and wages: evidence from a developing economy

Chris N. Sakellariou and Harry Patrinos