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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