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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

2490: Contractual savings, stock, and asset markets

Gregorio Impavido and Alberto R. Musalem

2489: Banking crises and exchange rate regimes - Is there a link?

Ilker Domac and Maria Soledad Martinez-Peria

2488: Revisiting the link between poverty and child labor - the Ghanaian experience

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Dorte Verner

2487: Finance and macroeconomic volatility

Cevdet Denizer, Murat Iyigun and Ann Owen

2486: Who must pay bribes and how much? Evidence from a cross-section of firms

Jakob Svensson

2485: Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? - firm-level evidence

Raymond Fisman and Jakob Svensson

2484: Banking crises in transition economies: fiscal costs and related issues

Helena Tang, Edda Zoli and Irina Klytchnikova

2483: The credit crunch in East Asia: what can bank excess liquid assets tell us ?

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Joshua Aizenman and Alexander Hoffmaister

2482: Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ?

William Easterly

2481: Foreign direct investment in Africa: policies also matter

Jacques Morisset

2480: Productivity growth and resource degradation in Pakistan's Punjab - a decomposition analysis

Mubarik Ali and Derek Byerlee

2479: Estimating the effects of corruption - implications for Bangladesh

Aminur Rahman, Gregory Kisunko and Kapil Kapoor

2478: Institutions, politics, and contracts: the attempt to privatize the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru

Lorena Alcázar, Lixin Xu and Ana Maria Zuluaga

2477: Picking the poor: indicators for geographic targeting in Peru

Norbert R. Schady

2476: Measuring banking efficiency in the pre- and post-liberalization environment: evidence from the Turkish banking system

Cevdet Denizer, Mustafa Dinc and Murat Tarimcilar

2475: Industrial growth and the quality of institutions: what do (transition) economies have to gain from the Rule of Law?

David Grigorian and Albert Martinez

2474: Exports and information spillovers

Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

2473: Banking risks around the world - the implicit safety net subsidy approach

Luc Laeven

2472: Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan - a tale of two transition paths

Asad Alam and Arup Banerji

2471: Validating operational food insecurity indicators against a dynamic benchmark: evidence from Mali

Luc Christiaensen, Richard N. Boisvert and John Hoddinott

2470: Are larger countries really more corrupt?

Stephen Knack and Omar Azfar

2469: Risk shifting and long-term contracts: evidence from the Ras Gas Project

Mansoor Dailami and Robert Hauswald

2468: Pricing, subsidies, and the poor: demand for improved water services in Central America

Ian Walker, Fidel Ordonez, Pedro Serrano and Jonathan Halpern

2467: Does financial liberalization relax financing constraints on firms ?

Luc Laeven

2466: El Nino or El Peso? Crisis, poverty, and income distribution in the Philippines

Gaurav Datt and Hans Hoogeveen

2465: Reforming tax expenditure programs in Poland

Carlos B. Cavalcanti and Zhicheng Li

2464: The decumulation (payout) phase of defined contribution pillars - policy issues in the provision of annuities and other benefits

Estelle James and Dimitri Vittas

2463: Personal pension plans and stock market volatility

Max Alier and Dimitri Vittas

2462: Foreign entry in Turkey's banking sector, 1980-97

Cevdet Denizer

2461: Vertical price control and parallel imports - theory and evidence

Keith Maskus and Yongmin Chen

2460: Labor redundancy, retraining, and outplacement during privatization: the experience of Brazil's Federal Railway

Antonio Estache, Jose Antonio Schmitt de Azevedo and Evelyn Sydenstricker

2459: Short-lived shocks with long-lived impacts? - household income dynamics in a transition economy

Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion

2458: Choosing rural road investments to help reduce poverty

Dominique van de Walle

2457: Urban and regional dynamics in Poland

Uwe Deichmann and Vernon Henderson

2456: Geography and development

J. Vernon Henderson, Zmarak Shalizi and Anthony Venables

2455: The effects on growth of commodity price uncertainty and shocks

Jan Dehn

2454: Political cycles in a developing economy - effect of elections in Indian States

Stuti Khemani

2453: Designing financial safety nets to fit country circumstances

Edward Kane

2452: Trends in private sector development in World Bank education projects

Shobhana Sosale

2451: Can there be growth with equity: an initial assessment of land reform in South Africa

Klaus Deininger and Julian May

2450: Which firms do foreigners buy: evidence from the Republic of Korea

Caroline Freund and Simeon Djankov

2449: Pricing irrigation water: a literature survey

Robert Johansson

2448: On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth

Jo Ritzen, William Easterly and Michael Woolcock

2447: Attrition in longitudinal household survey data - some tests for three developing-country samples

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, John Maluccio and Susan Cotts Watkins

2446: Forecasting the demand for privatized transport - What economic regulators should know, and why

Lourdes Trujillo, Emile Quinet and Antonio Estache

2445: Subsidies in Chilean public utilities

Pablo Serra

2444: "Seize the state, seize the day": state capture, corruption, and influence in transition

Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones and Daniel Kaufmann

2443: The politics of economic policy reform in developing countries

Richard Adams

2442: A firm's-eye view of policy and fiscal reforms in Cameroon

Bernard Gauthier, Isidro Soloaga and James Tybout

2441: Controlling the fiscal costs of banking crises

Patrick Honohan and Daniela Klingebiel

2440: Lessons from Uganda on strategies to fight poverty

John Mackinnon and Ritva Reinikka

2439: State-community synergies in development: laying the basis for collective action

Monica Das Gupta, Helene Grandvoinnet and Mattia Romani

2438: Measurements of poverty in Indonesia - 1996, 1999, and beyond

Menno Pradhan, Asep Suryahadi, Sudarno Sumarto and Lant Pritchett

2437: Quantifying vulnerability to poverty - a proposed measure, applied to Indonesia

Lant Pritchett, Asep Suryahadi and Sudarno Sumarto

2436: Safety nets and safety ropes - who benefited from two Indonesian crisis programs - the"poor"or the"shocked"?

Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi and Lant Pritchett

2435: The evolution of poverty during the crisis in Indonesia, 1996-99

Asep Suryahadi, Sudarno Sumarto and Yusuf Suharso

2434: Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world

Adam Wagstaff and Naoko Watanabe

2433: External interventions and the duration of civil wars

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Nicholas Sambanis

2432: Funding growth in bank-based and market-based financial systems: evidence from firm level data

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

2431: Inside the crisis: an empirical analysis of banking systems in distress

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Enrica Detragiache and Poonam Gupta

2430: Financial structure and bank profitability

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

2429: Corruption, composition of capital flows, and currency crises

Shang-Jin Wei

2428: The role of foreign investors in debt market development - conceptual frameworks and policy issues

Jeong Yeon Lee

2427: Public officials and their institutional environment - an analytical model for assessing the impact of institutional change on public sector performance

Nick Manning, Ranjana Mukherjee and Omer Gokcekus

2426: Commodity price uncertainty in developing countries

Jan Dehn

2425: Are returns to investment lower for the poor? Human and physical capital interactions in rural Viet Nam

Dominique van de Walle

2424: Global transmission of interest rates: monetary independence and the currency regime

Jeffrey Frankel, Sergio Schmukler and Luis Serven

2423: Financial structure and economic development - firm, industry, and country evidence

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Ross Levine and Vojislav Maksimovic

2422: Private provision of a public good - social capital and solid waste management in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sheoli Pargal, Daniel Gilligan and Mainul Huq

2421: Contractual savings or stock market development - Which leads?

Mario Catalán, Gregorio Impavido and Alberto R. Musalem

2420: Public versus private ownership: the current state of the debate

Mary Shirley and Patrick Walsh

2419: The savings collapse during the transition in Eastern Europe

Cevdet Denizer and Holger C. Wolf

2418: Polarization, politics, and property rights: links between inequality and growth

Philip Keefer and Stephen Knack

2417: The indirect approach

David Ellerman

2416: The Swiss multi-pillar pension system: triumph of common sense?

Monika Queisser and Dimitri Vittas

2415: Infrastructure restructuring and regulation - building a base for sustainable growth

Ian Alexander and Antonio Estache

2414: Pension reform and capital market development -"feasibility"and"impact"preconditions

Dimitri Vittas

2413: Foreign direct investment in services and the domestic market for expertise

James Markusen, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

2412: Urbanization without growth: a not-so-uncommon phenomenon

Marianne Fay and Charlotte Opal

2411: Natural openness and good government

Shang-Jin Wei

2410: Is functional literacy a prerequisite for entering the labor market? An analysis of determinants of adults literacy and earnings in Ghana

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Dorte Verner

2409: How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s ?

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

2408: What makes banks special ? a study of banking, finance, and economic development

Biagio Bossone

2407: Utility privatization and the needs of the poor in Latin America - Have we learned enough to get it right?

Antonio Estache, Andres Gomez-Lobo and Danny Leipziger

2406: How Mexico's financial crisis affected income distribution

Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Angel Salinas