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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

2787: Do farmers chooseto be inefficient? evidence from Bicol, Philippines

Donald Larson and Frank Plessmann

2786: The composition of foreign direct investment and protection of intellectual property rights: evidence from transition economies

Beata K. Smarzynska

2785: Improving air quality in metropolitan Mexico City: an economic valuation

Herman Cesar, Victor H. Borja-Aburto, Kees Dorland, Roberto Munoz Cruz, Luke Brander, Maureen Cropper, Ana Citlalic Gonzalez Marinez, Gustavo Olaiz-Fernandez, Ana Patricia Martinez Bolivar, Xander Olsthoorn, Alberto Rosales-Castillo, Gloria Soto Montes de Oca, Victor Torres-Meza, Ricardo Uribe Ceron, Pieter Van Beukering, Eduardo Vega Lopez, Max Magin Nino Zarazua, Miguel Angel Nino Zarazua and Walter Vergara

2784: Financial and legal constraints to firm growth - Does size matter?

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

2783: Ownership, competition, and corruption: bribe takers versus bribe payers

George Clarke and Lixin Xu

2782: Global capital flows and financing constraints

Ann Harrison, Inessa Love and Margaret McMillan

2781: Maritime transport costs and port efficiency

David Dollar, Alejandro Micco and Ximena Clark

2780: Determinants of technology adoption in Mexico

Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo

2779: Technology and skill demand in Mexico

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2778: Technology and firm performance in Mexico

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2777: Teachers'incentives and professional development in schools in Mexico

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2776: Child nutrition, economic growth, and the provision of health care services in Vietnam in the 1990s

Paul Glewwe, Stefanie Koch and Bui Linh Nguyen

2775: Patterns of health care utilization in Vietnam: analysis of 1997-98 Vietnam Living Standards Survey Data

Pravin Trivedi

2774: Child labor in transition in Vietnam

Eric Edmonds and Carrie Turk

2773: Household enterprises in Vietnam: survival, growth, and living standards

Wim Vijverberg and Jonathan Haughton

2772: Governance matters II - updated indicators for 2000-01

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton

2771: Exchange rate appreciations, labor market rigidities, and informality

Marco Fugazza, Norbert Fiess and William Maloney

2770: Downsizing and productivity gains in the public and private sectors of Colombia

Martin Rama and Constance Newman

2769: Immunization in developing countries: its political and organizational determinants

Varun Gauri and Peyvand Khaleghian

2768: Trade, foreign exchange, and energy policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran: reform agenda, economic implications, and impact on the poor

Jesper Jensen and David Tarr

2767: Child labor: the role of income variability and access to credit in a cross-section of countries

Rajeev Dehejia and Roberta Gatti

2766: Autonomy, participation, and learning in Argentine schools - findings and their implications for decentralization

Gunnar Eskeland and Deon Filmer

2765: Inequality aversion, health inequalities, and health achievement

Adam Wagstaff

2764: What determines the quality of institutions?

Roumeen Islam and Claudio Montenegro

2763: Capacity building in economics: education and research in transition economies

Boris Pleskovic, Anders Aslund, William Bader and C

2762: The (positive) effect of macroeconomic crises on the schoolingand employment decisions of children in a middle-income country

Norbert Schady

2761: Precautionary saving from different sources of income - evidence from rural Pakistan

Richard Adams

2760: Bank lending to small businesses in Latin America: does Bank origin matter?

George Clarke, Robert Cull, Maria Martinez Peria and Susana M. Sanchez

2759: Product quality, productive efficiency, and international technology diffusion: evidence from plant-level panel data

Aart Kraay, Isidro Soloaga and James Tybout

2758: Inequality, the price of nontradables, and the real exchange rate: theory and cross-country evidence

Hong-Ghi Min

2757: Strengthening the global trade architecture for development

Bernard Hoekman

2756: Incomplete enforcement of pollution regulation: bargaining power of Chinese factories

Hua Wang, Nlandu Mamingi, Benoit Laplante and Dasgup

2755: A framework for regulating microfinance institutions: the experience in Ghana and the Philippines

Joselito Gallardo

2754: Revealed preference and self-insurance - Can we learn from the self-employed in Chile?

Abigail Barr and Truman Packard

2753: Unemployment, skills, and incentives - an overview of the safety net system in the Slovak Republic

Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

2752: Investment and income effects of land regularization: the case of Nicaragua

Klaus Deininger and Juan Sebastian Chamorro

2751: Contractual savings institutions and banks'stability and efficiency

Gregorio Impavido, Alberto R. Musalem and Thierry Tressel

2750: The political economy of commodity export policy: a case study of India

Masanori Kondo

2749: Loan loss provisioning and economic slowdowns: too much, too late?

Luc Laeven and Giovanni Majnoni