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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

2906: Macroeconomics effects of private sector participation in Latin America's infrastructure

Lourdes Trujillo, Noelia Martin, Antonio Estache and Javier Campos

2905: Financing patterns around the world: the role of institutions

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

2904: Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

2903: Financial globalization: unequal blessings

Augusto de la Torre, Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Sergio Schmukler

2902: Aid, policy, and growth in post-conflict societies

Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler

2901: Decentralized credtor-led corporate restructuring - cross-country experience

Marinela E. Dado and Daniela Klingebiel

2900: Economic structure, productivity, and infrastructure quality in southern Mexico

Uwe Deichmann, Marianne Fay, Jun Koo and Somik Lall

2899: The political economy of fiscal policy and economic management in oil exporting countries

Benn Eifert, Alan Gelb and Nils Borje Tallroth

2898: Relative returns to policy reform - evidence from controlled cross-country regressions

Samy de Castro Alxandre, Ian Goldin and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva

2897: Gender dimensions of child labor and street children in Brazil

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Hnin Hnin Pyne

2896: The wage labor market and inequality in Viet Nam in the 1990s

John Luke Gallup

2895: Telecommuications reform in Cote d'Ivoire

Jean-Jacques Laffont and Tchetche N'Guessan

2894: Telecommunications sector reforms in Senegal

Jean-Paul Azam, Magueye Dia and Tchetche N'Guessan

2893: Banking on foreigners: the behavior of international Bank lending to Latin America, 1985-2000

Maria Martinez Peria, Andrew Powell and Ivanna Vladkova Hollar

2892: Productivity in endowments: sectoral evidence for Hong Kong's aggregate growth

Hiau Looi Kee

2891: Trends in the education sector from 1993 - 98

Nga Nguyet Nguyen

2890: Sector organization, governance, and the inefficiency of African water utilities

Antonio Estache and Eugene Kouassi

2889: Environmental performance rating and disclosure - China's green-watch program

Hua Wang, Jun Bi, David Wheeler, Jinnan Wang, Dong Cao, Genfa Lu and Yuan Wang

2888: A poverty analysis macroeconomic simulator (PAMS) linking household surveys with macro-models

Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, B. Essama-Nssah and Issouf Samake

2887: The demand for commodity insurance by developing country agricultural producers - theory and an application to cocoa in Ghana

Alexander Sarris

2886: Examining the feasibility of livestock insurance in Mongolia

Jerry R. Skees and Ayurzana Enkh-Amgalan

2885: Poverty, AIDS, and children's schooling - a targeting dilemma

Martha Ainsworth and Deon Filmer

2884: Privatization and labor force restructuring around the world

Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

2883: Assessing the distributional impact of public policy

B. Essama-Nssah

2882: Politically optimal tariffs: an application to Egypt

Dorsati Madani and Marcelo Olarreaga

2881: Returns to investment in education: a further update

George Psacharopoulos and Harry Patrinos

2880: The hidden costs of ethnic conflict - decomposing trends in educational outcomes of young Kosovars

Soumya Alva, Edmundo Murrugarra and Pierella Paci

2879: Externalities in rural development - evidence for China

Martin Ravallion

2878: On the governance of public pension fund management

Gregorio Impavido

2877: Patterns of industrial development revisted: the role of finance

Raymond Fisman and Inessa Love

2876: Can we discern the effect of globalization on income distribution? evidence from household budget surveys

Branko Milanovic

2875: Does Liberte = Egalite ? A survey of the empirical links between democracy and inequality with some evidence on the transition economies

Branko Milanovic

2874: Risks and macroeconomic impacts of HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa: why waiting to intervene can be costly

David Robalino, Carol Jenkins and Karim El Maroufi

2873: A little engine that could: domestic private companies and Vietnam?s pressing need for wage employment

Liesbet Steer and Markus Taussig

2872: Regional cooperation, and the role of international organizations and regional integration

Maurice Schiff and L. Winters

2871: Pricing of deposit insurance

Luc Laeven

2870: Electronic security - risk mitigation in financial transactions: public policy issues

Thomas Glaessner, Tom Kellermann and Valerie McNevin

2869: Stabilizing intergovernmental transfers in Latin America: a complement to national/subnational fiscal rules?

Christian Y. Gonzalez, David Rosenblatt and Steven B. Webb

2868: Universal(ly bad) service - providing infrastructure services to rural and poor urban consumers

George Clarke and Scott J. Wallsten

2867: Cotton sector strategies in West and Central Africa

Ousmane Badiane, Dhaneshwar Ghura, Louis Goreux and Paul Masson

2866: Transforming the old into a foundation for the new - lessons of the Moldova ARIA Project

David Ellerman and Vladimir Kreacic

2865: Bankruptcy around the world - explanations of its relative use

Stijn Claessens and Leora Klapper

2864: Telecommunications reform in Uganda

Mary M. Shirley, F.F. Tusubira, Frew Gebreab and Luke Haggarty

2863: Getting connected: competition and diffusion in African mobile telecommunications markets

Frew Amare Gebreab

2862: Tenure, Divesity, and commitment - community participation for urban service provision

Somik Lall, Uwe Deichmann, Mattias Lundberg and Nazmul Chaudhury

2861: Trade-related technology diffusion and the dynamics of North-South and South-South integration

Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang and Marcelo Olarreaga