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- 2590: Household welfare and poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso: empirical evidence from household surveys

- Hippolyte Fofack, Celestin Monga and Hasan Tuluy
- 2589: Implementing the market approach to enterprise support - an evaluation of ten matching grant schemes

- David A. Phillips
- 2588: The regulation and supervision of banks around the world - a new database

- James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine
- 2587: Growth is good for the poor

- David Dollar and Aart Kraay
- 2586: On the urbanization of poverty

- Martin Ravallion
- 2585: Law, politics, and finance

- Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
- 2584: Structural adjustment and forest resources - the impact of World Bank operations

- Kiran D. Pandey and David Wheeler
- 2583: How the location of roads and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand

- Maureen Cropper, Jyotsna Puri and Charles Griffiths
- 2582: Development financing during a crisis: securitization of future receivables

- Suhas Ketkar and Dilip Ratha
- 2581: Securities clearance and settlement systems - a guide to best practices

- Mario Guadamillas and Robert Keppler
- 2580: On"indirect"trade-related research and development spillovers

- Olivier Lumenga-Neso, Marcelo Olarreaga and Maurice Schiff
- 2579: Public health and education spending in Ghana in 1992-98: issues of equity and efficiency

- R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Xiao Ye
- 2578: How accession to the European Union has affected external trade and foreign direct investment in Central European economies

- Bartlomiej Kaminski
- 2577: Developing rainfall-based index insurance in Morocco

- Jerry Skees, Stephanie Gober, Panos Varangis and Le
- 2576: Trade policy, standards, and development in Central America

- Gary Hufbauer, Barbara Kotschwar and John Wilson
- 2575: The quality of bureaucracy and capital account policies

- Chong-En Bai and Shang-Jin Wei
- 2574: How adverse selection affects the health insurance market

- Paolo Belli
- 2573: The gender implications of public sector downsizing: the reform program of Vietnam

- Martin Rama
- 2572: Nonfarm income, inequality, and poverty in rural Egypt and Jordan

- Richard Adams
- 2571: Stock market responses to bank restructuring policies during the East Asian crisis

- Daniela Klingebiel, Randy Kroszner, Luc Laeven and Pieter van Oijen
- 2570: Asymmetries in union relative wage effects in Ghanaian manufacturing - an analysis applying quantile regressions

- Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Dorte Verner
- 2569: From users to custodians: changing relations between people and the State in forest management in Tanzania

- Liz Alden Wily and Peter A. Dewees
- 2568: Ownership structure and the temptation to loot: evidence from privatized firms in the Czech Republic

- Robert Cull, Jana Matesova and Mary Shirley
- 2567: Policy reform, economic growth, and the digital divide - an econometric analysis

- Susmita Dasgupta, Somik Lall and David Wheeler
- 2566: Convexity and sheepskin effects in the human capital earnings function: recent evidence for Filipino men

- Norbert Schady
- 2565: Does fiscal decentralization improve health outcomes? - evidence from a cross-country analysis

- David Robalino, Oscar F. Picazo and Albertus Voetberg
- 2564: Economic analysis of World Bank education projects and project outcomes

- Ayesha Yaqub Vawda, Peter Moock, J. Price Gittinger and Harry Patrinos
- 2563: A race to the top? A case study of food safety standards and African exports

- Tsunehiro Otsuki, John Wilson and Mirvat Sewadeh
- 2562: Decomposing world income distribution: does the world have a middle class ?

- Branko Milanovic and Shlomo Yitzhaki
- 2561: Democracy and income inequality: an empirical analysis

- Mark Gradstein, Branko Milanovic and Yvonne Ying
- 2560: Catastrophe risk management: using alternative risk financing and insurance pooling mechanisms

- John D Pollner
- 2559: Deposit insurance as private club - Is Germany a model?

- Thorsten Beck
- 2558: Growth, inequality, and poverty: looking beyond averages

- Martin Ravallion
- 2557: Decentralization and accountability: are voters more vigilant in local than in national elections ?

- Stuti Khemani
- 2556: Household strategies for coping with poverty and social exclusion in post-crisis Russia

- Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov
- 2555: Implicit pension debt, transition cost, options, and impact of China's pension reform: a computable general equilibrium analysis

- Yan Wang, Dianqing Xu, Zhi Wang and FanZhai
- 2554: Administrative costs and the organization of individual retirement account systems: a comparative perspective

- Estelle James, James Smalhout and Dimitri Vittas
- 2553: The value of relationship banking during financial crises: evidence from the Republic of Korea

- Giovanni Ferri, Tae Soo Kang and In-June Kim
- 2552: Inventories in developing countries: levels and determinants - a red flag for competitiveness and growth

- J. Luis Guasch and Joseph Kogan
- 2551: Infrastructure coverage and the poor: the global perspective

- Kristin Komives, Dale Whittington and Xun Wu
- 2550: Measuring equity in health care financing - reflections on (and alternatives to) the World Health Organization's fairness of financing index

- Adam Wagstaff
- 2549: Measuring poverty dynamics and inequality in transition economies - disentangling real events from noisy data

- Erzo Luttmer
- 2548: International provision of trade services, trade, and fragmentation

- Alan Deardorff
- 2547: The design of incentives for health care providers in developing countries: contracts, competition, and cost control

- Jeffrey Hammer and William G. Jack
- 2546: Gender dimensions of pension reform in the Former Soviet Union

- Paulette Castel and Louise Fox
- 2545: Financing the future: infrastructure needs in Latin America, 2000-05

- Marianne Fay
- 2544: The uniqueness of short-term collateralization

- Leora Klapper
- 2543: When do special interests run rampant ? disentangling the role in banking crises of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances

- Philip Keefer
- 2542: Checks and balances, private information, and the credibility of monetary commitments

- Philip Keefer and David Stasavage
- 2541: Household schooling decisions in rural Pakistan

- Yasuyuki Sawada and Michael Lokshin
- 2540: Recapitalizing banking systems: implications for incentives and fiscal and monetary policy

- Patrick Honohan
- 2539: Disorganization or self-organization: the emergence of business associations in a transition economy

- Francesca Recanatini and Randi Ryterman
- 2538: Designing natural gas distribution concessions in a megacity: tradeoffs beetween scale economies and information disclosure in Mexico City

- Juan Rosellon and Jonathan Halpern
- 2537: Regulatory reform in Mexico's natural gas industry: liberalization in the context of a dominant upstream incumbent

- Juan Rosellon and Jonathan Halpern
- 2536: Malaysian capital controls

- Ron Hood
- 2535: Trade policy reform in the East Asian transition economies

- Will Martin
- 2534: Indigenous ethnicity and entrepreneurial success in Africa: some evidence from Ethiopia

- Taye Mengistae
- 2533: How much war will we see? Estimating the incidence of civil war in 161 countries

- Ibrahim Elbadawi and Nicholas Sambanis
- 2532: Market presence, contestability, and the terms-of-trade effects of regional integration

- Maurice Schiff and Won Chang
- 2531: Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises?

- William Easterly
- 2530: The role of nongovernmental organizations in primary education - a study of six NGOs in India

- Shanti Jagannathan
- 2529: Mutual fund investment in emerging markets - an overview

- Graciela Kaminsky, Richard Lyons and Sergio Schmukler
- 2528: Poverty and public celebrations in rural India

- Vijayendra Rao
- 2527: Is inequality bad for business: a non-linear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment

- Alice Mesnard and Martin Ravallion
- 2526: Linking participatory poverty assessments to policy and policymaking - experience from Vietnam

- Carrie Turk
- 2525: Measuring education inequality - Gini coefficients of education

- Vinod Thomas, Yan Wang and Xibo Fan
- 2524: Racing to the bottom: foreign investment and air pollution in developing countries

- David Wheeler
- 2523: Can duty-drawbacks have a protectionist bias? Evidence from MERCOSUR

- Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo and Marcelo Olarreaga
- 2522: Trade in international maritime services: how much does policy matter?

- Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo and Ileana Neagu Constantinescu
- 2521: Labor market"rigidity"and the success of economic reforms across more than one hundred countries

- Alvaro Forteza and Martin Rama
- 2520: Wage effects of unions and industrial councils in South Africa

- Kristin Butcher and Cecilia Elena Rouse
- 2519: Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence

- Shantayanan Devarajan, William R. Easterley and Howard Pack
- 2518: Can reforming global institutions help developing countries share more in the benefits from globalization?

- Andres Solimano
- 2517: The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty

- William Easterly
- 2516: Does decentralization increase responsiveness to local needs? - evidence from Bolivia

- Jean-Paul Faguet
- 2515: Firm-level survey provides data on Asia's corporate crisis and recovery

- Mary Hallward-Driemeier
- 2514: Intersectoral dynamics and economic growth in Ecuador

- Norbert Fiess and Dorte Verner
- 2513: Do state holding companies facilitate private participation in the water sector? evidence from Cote d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Guinea, and Senegal

- Michel Kerf
- 2512: Quantifying the impact of technical barriers to trade: a framework for analysis

- Keith Maskus, John Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki
- 2511: Monetary policy under flexible exchange rates - an introduction to inflation targeting

- Pierre-Richard Agénor
- 2510: Environmental protection and optimal taxation

- Gunnar Eskeland
- 2509: How tax policy and incentives affect foreign direct investment - a review

- Jacques Morrisset and Neda Pirnia
- 2508: Sources of financial assistance for households suffering an adult death in Kagera, Tanzania

- Mattias Lundberg, A. Over and Phare Mujinja
- 2507: Public expenditures and environmental protection: when is the cost of funds irrelevant?

- Gunnar Eskeland
- 2506: Ethnicity and wage determination in Ghana

- Barr and Abena Oduro
- 2505: Family altruism and incentives

- Roberta Gatti
- 2504: Social capital and the quality of Government: evidence from the U.S. States

- Stephen Knack
- 2503: Proposed strategy for a regional exchange rate arrangement in post-crisis East Asia

- Masahiro Kawai and Shinji Takagi
- 2502: Implications of the currency crisis for exchange rate arrangements in emerging East Asia

- Masahiro Kawai and Shigeru Akiyama
- 2501: Anti-corruption policies and programs: a framework for evaluation

- Jeff Huther and Anwar Shah
- 2500: Investigating corruption

- Canice Prendergast
- 2499: The treatment of non-essential inputs in a Cobb-Douglas technology: an application to Mexican rural household-level data

- Isidro Soloaga
- 2498: Sustaining economic welfare: estimating changes in per capita wealth

- Kirk Hamilton
- 2497: State policies and women's autonomy in China, India, and the Republic of Korea, 1950-2000: lessons from contrasting experiences

- Monica Das Gupta, Sunhwa Lee, Patricia Uberoi, Danning Wang, Lihong Wang and Xiaodan Zhang
- 2496: Perspectives on the sources of heterogeneity in Indian industry

- Somik Lall and G. Chris Rodrigo
- 2495: The Australian annuity market

- David Knox
- 2494: The relevance of index funds for pension investment in equities

- Ajay Shah and Kshama Fernandes
- 2493: Annuity markets in comparative perspective: do consumers get their money's wotrth?

- Estelle James and Dimitri Vittas
- 2492: Health insurance reform in four Latin American countries: theory and practice

- William Jack
- 2491: Labor demand andtrade reform in Latin America

- Pablo Fajnzylber and William Maloney
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