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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
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