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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

2860: Privatization in competitive sectors: the record to date

Sunita Kikeri and John Nellis

2859: Ethnic and gender wagedisparities in Sri Lanka

Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

2858: The state of corporate governance - experience from country assessments

Mierta Capaul and Olivier Fremond

2857: Markups, returns to scale, and productivity: a case study of Singapore's manufacturing sector

Hiau Looi Kee

2856: Banking policy and macroeconomic stability - an exploration

Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

2855: Financial crises, financial dependence, and industry growth

Luc Laeven, Daniela Klingebiel and Randy Kroszner

2854: Rich and powerful? Subjective power and welfare in Russia

Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin

2853: Private inter-household transfers in Vietnam in the early and late 1990s

Donald Cox

2852: Regional agreements and trade services - policy issues

Aaditya Mattoo and Carsten Fink

2851: Economic Development and the World Trade Organization after Doha

Bernard Hoeckman

2850: Determinants of commercial bank performance in transition - an application of data envelopment analysis

David Grigorian and Vlad Manole

2849: Pooling, savings, and prevention - mitigating the risk of old age poverty in Chile

Truman G. Packard

2848: Administrative barriers to foreign investment in developing countries

Jacques Morisset and Olivier Lumenga Neso

2847: The nature and dynamics of poverty determinants in Burkina Faso in the 1990s

Hippolyte L. Fofack

2846: Is India's economic growth leaving the poor behind?

Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion

2845: The spatial division of labor in Nepal

Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi

2844: Money demand in Venezuela: multiple cycle extraction in a cointegration frmaework

Mario Cuevas

2843: A practical guide to managing systemic financial crises: a review of approaches taken in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and Thailand

David Scott

2842: Financial sector inefficiencies and the debt Laffer curve

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

2841: Contractual savings in countries with a small financial sector

Gregorio Impavido, Alberto R. Musalem and Dimitri Vittas

2840: Public spending and outcomes: does governance matter?

Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop

2839: Marketing externalities and market development

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

2838: Economic mobility in Vietnam in the 1990s

Paul Glewwe and Phong Nguyen

2837: Reform, growth, and poverty in Vietnam

David Dollar

2836: Ethnic minority development in Vietnam: a socioeconomic perspective

Bob Baulch, Truong Thi Kim Chuyen, Dominique Haughton and Jonathan Haughton

2835: A decade of fiscal transition

Asad Alam and Mark Sundberg

2834: Investor protection, ownership, and the cost of capital

Charles P. Himmelberg, Robert Hubbard and Inessa Love

2833: School choice, student performance, and teacher and school characteristics: the Chilean case

Emiliana Vega

2832: Poverty and survival prospects of Vietnamese children under Doi Moi

Adam Wagstaff and Nga Nguyet Nguyen

2831: Health outcomes in poor countries and policy options: empirical findings from demographic and health surveys

Limin Wang

2830: Labor market implications of switching the currency peg in a general equilibrium model for Lithuania

Lodovico Pizzati

2829: The spatial distribution of poverty in Vietnam and the potential for targeting

Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch

2828: Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: accounting for differences in household income distributions across countries

François Bourguignon and Francisco Ferreira

2827: Learning to export - evidence from Moroccan manufacturing

Marcel Fafchamps, Said El Hamine and Albert Zeufack

2826: Potential GDP growth in Venezuela: a structural time series approach

Mario Cuevas

2825: Demand for imports in Venezuela: a structural time series approach

Mario Cuevas

2824: Trade policy and labor services: final status options for the West Bank and Gaza

Maurice Schiff

2823: Real exchange rate uncertainty and private investment in developing countries

Luis Servén

2822: An econometric analysis of IBRD creditworthiness

David McKenzie

2821: Income, wealth, and socialization in Argentina: provocative responses from individuals

Daniel Lederman

2820: The privatization of the Russian coal industry: policies and processes in the transformation of a major industry

Igor Artemiev and Michael Haney

2819: Goals for development: history, prospects and costs

Shantayanan Devarajan, Margaret J. Miller and Eric V. Swanson

2818: Corporate governance, investor protection, and performance in emerging markets

Leora Klapper and Inessa Love

2817: Does sequencing matter? regulation and privatization in telecommunications reforms

Scott Wallsten

2816: Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centers

Stijn Claessens, Daniela Klingebiel and Sergio Schmukler

2815: Pricing currency risk: facts and puzzles from currency boards

Sergio Schmukler and Luis Servén

2814: Estimating the endogenously determined intrahousehold balance of power and its impact on expenditure pattern: evidence from Nepal

Gayatri Koolwal and Ranjan Ray

2813: The collective model of the household and an unexpected implication for child labor: hypothesis and an empirical test

Kaushik Basu and Ranjan Ray

2812: Can financial markets be tapped to help poor people cope with weather risks ?

Jerry Skees, Panos Varangis, Donald Larson and Paul Siegel

2811: The epidemiological impact of an HIV/AIDS vaccine in developing countries

John Stover, Geoff P. Garnett, Steve Seitz and Steven Forsythe

2810: Growth, distribution, and poverty in Africa: messages from the 1990s

Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery and Stefano Paternostro

2809: On the measurement and impact of fiscal decentralization

Robert Ebel and Serdar Yilmaz

2808: A capital accord for emerging economies?

Andrew Powell

2807: The role of natural resources in fundamental tax reform in the Russian Federation

Benoit Bosquet

2806: Dirty exports and environmental regulation: do standards matter to trade?

John Wilson, Tsunehiro Otsuki and Mirvat Sewadeh

2805: To spray or not to spray? - pesticides, banana exports, and food safety

John Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki

2804: Liberalizing trade in agriculture: developing countries in Asia and the post-Doha agenda

John Wilson

2803: Determinants of agricultural growth in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand

Yair Mundlack, Donald Larson and Rita Butzer

2802: Telecommunication reforms, access regulation, and Internet adoption in Latin America

Antonio Estache, Marco Manacorda and Tommaso Valletti

2801: Policies to promote saving for retirement: a synthetic overview

Dimitri Vittas

2800: Did social safety net scholarships reduce drop-out rates during the Indonesian economic crisis?

Lisa Cameron

2799: The impact of the Indonesian financial crisis on children: data from 100 villages survey

Lisa Cameron

2798: Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa

Deon Filmer

2797: Regional integration and development in small states

Maurice Schiff

2796: Do rural infrastructure investments benefit the poor? Evaluating linkages: a global view, a focus on Vietnam

Jocelyn A. Songco

2795: Inequalities in health in developing countries - swimming against the tide?

Adam Wagstaff

2794: Land policies and evolving farm structures in transition countries

Zvi Lerman, Csaba Csaki and Gershon Feder

2793: Agricultural markets and risks - management of the latter, not the former

Panos Varangis, Donald Larson and Jack R. Anderson

2792: Determinants of life insurance consumption across countries

Thorsten Beck and Ian Webb

2791: The static and dynamic incidence of Vietnam's public safety net

Dominique van de Walle

2790: Estimating the poverty impacts of trade liberalization

Jeffrey Reimer

2789: "Learning by dining": informal networks and productivity in Mexican industry

Somik Lall and Sudeshna Ghosh

2788: Macroeconomic adjustment and the poor: analytical issues and cross-country evidence

Pierre-Richard Agénor