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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

2748: Deposit dollarization and the financial sector in emerging economies

Patrick Honohan and Anging Shi

2747: Are public sector workers underpaid? - Appropriate comparators in a developing country

Sarah Bales and Martin Rama

2746: Complementarity between multilateral lending and private flows to developing countries: some empirical results

Dilip Ratha

2745: Children's work and schooling - does gender matter?: evidence from the Peru LSMS panel data

Nadeem Ilahi

2743: Breadwinner or caregiver? - how household role affectslabor choices in Mexico

Wendy Cunningham

2742: Sectoral allocation by gender of Latin American workers over the liberalization period of the 1990s

Wendy Cunningham

2741: Female wage inequality in Latin American labor markets

Luz A. Saavedra

2740: Are men benefiting from the new economy: male economic marginalization in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica

Omar Arias

2739: Poverty, education, and health in Indonesia: who benefits from public spending?

Peter Lanjouw, Menno Pradhan, Fadia Saadah, Haneen Sayed and Robert Sparrow

2738: Assisting the transition from workfare to work: a randomized experiment

Emanuela Galasso, Martin Ravallion and Agustin Salvia

2737: Mode of foreign entry, technology transfer, and foreign direct investment policy

Aaditya Mattoo, Marcelo Olarreaga and Kamal Saggi

2736: Social policy and macroeconomics: the Irish experience

F. Desmond McCarthy

2735: Shifting tax burdens through exemptions and evasion - an empirical investigation of Uganda

Bernard Gauthier and Ritva Reinikka

2734: Agricultural markets in Benin and Malawi: the operation and performance of traders

Marcel Fafchamps and Eleni Gabre-Madhin

2733: Trade policy reform and poverty alleviation

Bernard Hoekman, Constantine Michalopoulos, Maurice Schiff and David Tarr

2732: The unbalanced Ururguay Round outcome: the new areas in future WTO negotiations

Joseph Finger and Julio Nogues

2731: An alternative technical education system in Mexico: a reassessment of CONALEP

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2730: Antidumping as safeguard policy

Joseph Finger, Francis Ng and Sonam Wangchuk

2729: International evidence on the value of product and geographic diversity

Luc Laeven

2728: Evaluating emergency programs

William Maloney

2727: Hospital governance and incentive design: the case of corporatized public hospitals in Lebanon

Florence Eid

2726: Applying the decision rights to a case of hospital institutional design

Florence Eid

2725: Bank regulation and supervision: what works best?

James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine

2724: Tropical bubbles: asset prices in Latin America, 1980-2001

Santiago Herrera and Guillermo Perry

2723: Using development-oriented equity investment as a tool for restructuring transition banking sectors

Helo Meigas

2722: Japan's official development assistance: recent issues and future directions

Masahiro Kawai and Shinji Takagi

2721: Implications for South Asian countries for abolishing the Multifibre Arrangement

Sanjay Kathuria, Will Martin and Anjali Bhardwaj

2720: International migration and the global economic order: an interview

Andres Solimano

2719: Is there a positive incentive effect from privatizing social security: evidence from Latin America

Truman G. Packard

2718: Liberalizing basic telecommunications: the Asian experience

Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo and Randeep Rathindran

2717: Bridging the economic divide within nations: a scorecard on the performance of regional development policies in reducing regional income disparities

Raja Shankar and Anwar Shah

2716: Does foreign bank penetration reduce access to credit in developing countries"evidence from asking borrowers

George Clarke, Robert Cull and Maria Martinez Peria

2715: Paying for health care: quantifying fairness, catastrophe, and impoverishment, with applications to Vietnam, 1993-98

Adam Wagstaff and Eddy Van Doorslaer

2714: On decomposing the causes of health sector inequalities with an application to malnutrition inequalities in Vietnam

Adam Wagstaff, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Naoko Watanabe

2713: Causes of inequality in health: who are you? where do you live? or who your parents were?

Adam Wagstaf, Pierella Paci and Heather Joshi

2712: Contract risks and credit spread determinants in the international project bond market

Mansoor Dailami and Robert Hauswald

2711: Identifying class size effects in developing countries: evidence from rural schools in Bolivia

Miguel Urquiola

2710: Breaking up the collective farm: welfare outcomes of Vietnam's massive land privatization

Martin Ravallion and Dominique Van der Walle

2709: Explaining leakage of public funds

Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

2708: Accountability and corruption: political institutions matter

Daniel Lederman, Norman Loayza and Rodrigo Soares

2707: Financial intermediary development and growth volatility: do intermediaries dampen or magnify shocks?

Thorsten Beck, Mattias Lundberg and Giovann Majnoni

2706: Household income dynamics in rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

2705: Concession contract renegotiations: some efficiency versus equity dilemmas

Antonio Estache and Lucía Quesada

2704: Regulatory governance and Chile's 1998-99 electricity shortage

Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

2703: Integrating independent power producers into emerging wholesale power markets

Fiona Woolf and Jonathan Halpern

2702: Productivity versus endowments - a study of Singapore's sectoral growth, 1974-92

Hiau Looi Kee

2701: Trade and production, 1976-99

Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

2700: Business cycles, economic crises, and the poor: testing for asymmetric effects

Pierre-Richard Agénor

2699: Benefits and costs of international financial integration: theory and facts

Pierre-Richard Agénor

2698: Foreign bank entry - experience, implications for developing countries, and agenda for further research

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

2697: Regional integration and industrial growth among developing countries - the case of three ASEAN members

Dorsati H. Madani

2696: Firms as financial intermediaries - evidence from trade credit data

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

2695: Trade credit, financial intermediary development, and industry growth

Raymond Fisman and Inessa Love

2694: Financial development and financing constraints - international evidence from the structural investment model

Inessa Love

2693: Helping people help themselves - toward a theory of autonomy-compatible help

David Ellerman

2692: Introduction to property theory - the fundamental theorems

David Ellerman

2691: Evolution of earnings and rates of returns to education in Mexico

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

2690: Ringing in the 20th century: the effects of state monopolies, private ownership, and operating licenses on telecommunications in Europe, 1892-1914

Scott Wallsten

2689: Global trade and food safety - winners and losers in a fragmented system

John Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki

2688: Aid, shocks, and growth

Paul Collier and Jan Dehn

2687: Geographic patterns of land use and land intensity in the Brazilian Amazon

Kenneth M. Chomitz and Timothy Thomas