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3007: The impact of urban spatial structure on travel demand in the United States

Antonio Bento, Maureen Cropper, Ahmed Mobarak and Katja Vinha

3006: Social rights and economics: claims to health care and education in developing countries

Varun Gauri

3005: Vouchers for basic education in developing countries: a principal-agent perspective

Varun Gauri and Ayesha Vawda

3004: Institutions, trade, and growth: revisiting the evidence

David Dollar and Aart Kraay

3003: The investment climate and the firm: firm-level evidence from China

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Scott Wallsten and Lixin Xu

3002: Information-based instruments for improved urban management

Uwe Deichman, Somik Lall, Ajay Suri and Pragya Rajoria

3001: An introduction to financial and economic modeling for utility regulators

Antonio Estache, Martin Rodriguez Pardina, José Rodriguez and German Sember

3000: International climate regime beyond 2012 - are quota allocation rules robust to uncertainty?

Franck Lecocq and Renaud Crassous

2999: Explaining liberalization commitments in financial services trade

Philipp Harms, Aaditya Mattoo and Ludge Schuknecht

2998: Does micro-credit empower women: evidence from Bangladesh

Mark Pitt, Shahidur Khandker and Jennifer Cartwright

2997: Financial and legal institutions and firm size

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

2996: Bank competition, financing obstacles, and access to credit

Thorsten Beck, Asl' Demirguc-Kant and Vojislav Maksimovic

2995: Commodity market reform in Africa: some recent experience

Takamasa Akiyama, John Baffes, Donald Larson and Panos Varangis

2994: Options for financing lifelong learning

Miguel Palacios

2993: Dealing with the coffee crisis in Central America - impacts and strategies

Panos Varangis, Paul Siegel, Daniele Giovannucci and Bryan Lewin

2992: Market and non-market transfers of land in Ethiopia - implications for efficiency, equity, and non-farm development

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Berhanu Adenew, Samuel Gebre-Selassie and Mulat Demeke

2991: Tenure security and land-related investment - evidence from Ethiopia

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Berhanu Adenew, Samuel Gebre-Selassie and Berhanu Nega

2990: Ways out of poverty: diffusing best practices and creating capabilities - perspectives on policies for poverty reduction

Michael Klein

2989: Decentralization and public services: the case of immunization

Peyvand Khaleghian

2988: Trade facilitation and economic development: measuring the impact

John Wilson, Catherine Mann and Tsunehiro Otsuki

2987: East Asia's dynamic development model and the Republic of Korea's experiences

Ho-Chul Lee and Mary P. McNulty

2986: Government bonds in domestic and foreign currency: the role of macroeconomic and institutional factors

Stijn Claessens, Daniela M. H. Klingebiel and Sergio Schmukler

2985: The impact of minimum wages on employment in a low income country: an evaluation using the difference-differences approach

Vivi Alatas and Lisa Cameron

2984: Finance and income inequality: test of alternative theories

George Clarke, Lixin Xu and Heng-Fu Zou

2983: Telecommunication reform in Ghana

Luke Haggarty, Mary M. Shirley and Scott Wallsten

2982: Trade liberalization and labor market adjustment in Brazil

Nina Pavcnik, Andreas Blom, Pinelopi Goldberg and Norbert Schady

2981: Voice lessons: local government organizations, social organizations, and the quality of local governance

Vivi Alatas, Lant Pritchett and Anna Wetterberg

2980: Living and dying with hard pegs: the rise and fall of Argentina's currency board

Augusto de la Torre, Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Sergio Schmukler

2979: Regulation and internet use in developing countries

Scott Wallsten

2978: The epidemiological impact of an HIV vaccine on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern India

Nico J.D. Nagelkerke and Sake J. De Vlas

2977: The strategic use and potential demand for an HIV vaccine in Southern Africa

Christopher Desmond and Robert Greener

2976: Rural extension services

Jock Anderson and Gershon Feder

2975: Policy options for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil: can micro-simulations help?

Francisco Ferreira and Phillippe G. Leite

2974: From knowledge to wealth: transforming Russian science and technology for a modern knowledge economy

Alfred Watkins

2973: Intellectual property rights, licensing, and innovation

Guifang Yang and Keith Maskus

2972: Economic growth, inequality, and poverty: findings from a new data set

Richard Adams

2971: Short but not sweet - new evidence on short duration morbidities from India

Jishnu Das and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

2970: The social impact of social funds in Jamaica - a mixed-methods analysis of participation, targeting, and collective action in community-driven development

Vijayendra Rao and Ana Ibáñez

2969: Fostering community-driven development - What role for the State?

Monica Das Gupta, Helene Grandvoinnet and Mattia Romani

2968: Refining policy with the poor: local consultations on the draft comprehensive poverty reduction and growth strategy in Vietnam

Edwin Shanks and Carrie Turk

2967: Malnutrition and poverty in Guatemala

Alessandra Marini and Michele Gragnolati

2966: Health and poverty in Guatemala

Michele Gragnolati and Alessandra Marini

2965: Informality revisited

William Maloney

2964: Wages and productivity in Mexican manufacturing

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2963: Catastrophe insurance market in the Caribbean Region: market failures and recommendations for public sector interventions

Philippe Auffret

2962: High consumption volatility: the impact of natural disasters?

Philippe Auffret

2961: Strategic planning for poverty reduction in Vietnam: progress and challenges for meeting the localized Millennium Development Goals

Rob Swinkels and Carrie Turk

2960: The poverty/environment nexus in Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic

Susmita Dasgupta, Uwe Deichmann, Craig Meisner and David Wheeler

2959: Wage differentials and state-private sector employment choice in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Michael Lokshin and Branko Jovanovic

2958: Globalization and workers in developing countries

Martin Rama

2957: Mexico: in-firm training for the knowledge economy

Hong Tan and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2956: Survey compliance and the distribution of income

Johan Mistiaen and Martin Ravallion

2955: The perversity of preferences: GSP and developing country trade policies, 1976 - 2000

Caglar Ozden and Eric Reinhardt

2954: Never too late to get together again: turning the Czech and Slovak Customs Union into a stepping stone to EU integration

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Beata Smarzynska

2953: Health facility surveys: an introduction

Magnus Lindelow and Adam Wagstaff

2952: The effects of a fee-waiver program on health care utilization among the poor: evidence from Armenia

Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey Hammer and Edmundo Murrugarra

2951: Land allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition

Martin Ravallion and Dominique Van der Walle

2950: Is the emerging nonfarm market economy the route out of poverty in Vietnam?

Dominique Van der Walle and Dorothyjean Cratty

2949: Intersectoral migration in Southeast Asia - evidence from Indonesia, Thailan, and the Philippines

Rita Butzer, Yair Mundlak and Donald Larson

2948: The impact of contractual savings institutions on securities markets

Gregorio Impavido, Alberto R. Musalem and Thierry Tressel

2947: Tax systems in transition

Pradeep Mitra and Nicholas Stern

2946: Rapid labor reallocation with a stagnant unemployment pool: the puzzle of the labor market in Lithuania

Jan Rutkowski

2945: Microfinance and poverty - evidence using panel data from Bangladesh

Shahidur Khandker

2944: Regulation, productivity, and growth: OECD evidence

Giuseppe Nicoletti and Stefano Scarpetta

2943: Capital flows, country risk, and contagion

Norbert Fiess

2942: Why is son preference so persistent in East and South Asia? a cross-country study of China, India, and the Republic of Korea

Monica Das Gupta, Jiang Zhenghua, Li Bohua, Xie Zhenming, Woojin Chung and Bae Hwa-Ok

2941: Income convergence during the disintegration of the world economy, 1919-39

Branko Milanovic

2940: The potential demand for an HIV/AIDS vaccine in Brazil

Hillegonda Maria Dutilh Novaes, Expedito J.A. Luna, Moises Goldbaum, Samuel Kilsztajn, Anaclaudia Rossbach and Jose de la Roca Carvalheiro

2939: School attendance and child labor in Ecuador

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2938: Recurrent expenditure requirements of capital projects - estimation for budget purposes

Ron Hood, David Husband and Fei Yu

2937: The determinants of Government environmental performance - an empirical analysis of Chinese townships

Hua Wang and Wenhua Di

2936: Industrial ownership and environmental performance: evidence from China

Hua Wang and Yanhong Jin

2935: Missed opportunities - innovation and resource-based growth in Latin America

William Maloney

2934: After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the emergence of the rule of law in post-communist societies

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

2933: Small and medium size enterprise financing in Eastern Europe

Leora Klapper, Virginia Sarria-Allende and Victor Sulla

2932: China's accession to the World Trade Organization - The services dimension

Aaditya Mattoo

2931: The impact of property rights on households'investment, risk coping, and policy preferences: evidence from China

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

2930: Land rental markets as an alternative to government reallocation? equity and efficiency considerations in the Chinese land tenure system

Klaus Deininger and Songqing Jin

2929: Assessing the impact of communication costs on international trade

Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo and Ileana Neagu Constantinescu

2928: Growth without governance

Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

2927: Military expenditure - threats, aid, and arms races

Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler

2926: Distinguishing between observationally equivalent theories of crises

Rashmi Shankar

2925: Crime and local inequality in South Africa

Gabriel Demombynes and Berk Özler

2924: Financial development, property rights, and growth

Stijn Claessens and Luc Laeven

2923: Does foreign direct investment increase the productivity of domestic firms: in search of spillovers through backward linkages

Beata K. Smarzynska

2921: Initial conditions and incentives for Arab economic integration: can the European Community's success be emulated?

Bernard Hoekman and Patrick Messerlin

2920: Social polarization, social institutions, and country creditworthiness

Philip Keefer and Stephen Knack

2919: Financial regulatory harmonization and the globalization of finance

Cally Jordan and Giovanni Majnoni

2918: Reducing agrcultural tariffs versus domestic support: what's more important for developing countries?

Bernard Hoekman, Francis Ng and Marcelo Olarreaga

2917: Economic development, competition policy, and the World Trade Organization

Bernard Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis

2916: Ex-ante evaluation of conditional cash transfer programs: the case of bolsa escola

François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Phillippe G. Leite

2915: Federal politics and budget deficits: evidence from the states of India

Stuti Khemani

2914: The impact of cash budgets on poverty reduction in Zambia: a case study of the conflict between well-intentioned macroeconomic policy and service delivery to the poor

Hinh Dinh, Abebe Adugna and Myers.Bernard

2913: Financial development and dynamic investment behavior: evidence from panel vector autoregression

Inessa Love and Lea Zicchino

2912: Short-run pain, long-run gain: the effects of financial liberalization

Graciela Kaminsky and Sergio Schmukler

2911: Micro-level estimation of welfare

Chris Elbers, Jean Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw

2910: Boondoogles and expropriation: rent-sseking and policy distortion when property rights are insecure

Philip Keefer and Stephen Knack

2909: An assessment of telecommunications reform in developing countries

Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo and Randeep Rathindran

2908: The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its rules of origin: generosity undermined?

Aaditya Mattoo, Devesh Roy and Arvind Subramanian

2907: The case for international coordination of electricity regulation: evidence from the measurement of efficiency in South America

Antonio Estache, Martín Rossi and Christian Ruzzier