Policy Research Working Paper Series
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- 2369: How the proposd Basel Guidelines on rating-agency assessments would affect developing countries

- Giovanni Ferri, Li-Gang Liu and Giovanni Majnoni
- 2368: Seeds of corruption - Do market institutions matter?

- Harry G. Broadman and Francesca Recanatini
- 2367: Gender, poverty, and nonfarm employment in Ghana and Uganda

- Constance Newman and R. Sudharshan Canagarajah
- 2366: Fiscal constraints, collection costs, and trade policies

- Keiko Kubota
- 2365: Leading indicator project - Lithuania

- Stephen S. Everhart and Robert Duval-Hernandez
- 2364: Perverse effects of a ratings-related capital adequacy system

- Patrick Honohan
- 2363: Would collective action clauses raise borrowing costs? - an update and additional results

- Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody
- 2362: A transitory regime: water supply in Conakry, Guinea

- Claude Menard and George Clarke
- 2361: The welfare effects of private sector participation in Guinea's urban water supply

- George Clarke, Claude Menard and Ana Maria Zuluaga
- 2360: Corruption and the composition of foreign direct investment - firm-level evidence

- Beata K. Smarzynska and Shang-Jin Wei
- 2359: Reducing carbon dioxide emissions through joint implementation of projects

- Will Martin
- 2358: Why infrastructure financing facilities often fall short of their objectives

- Daniela Klingebiel and Jeff Ruster
- 2357: Evaluating carbon offsets from forestry and energy projects

- Kenneth M. Chomitz
- 2356: Bureaucratic delegation and political institutions: when are independent central banks irrelevent?

- Philip Keffer and David Stasavage
- 2355: Greed and grievance in civil war

- Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler
- 2354: When the bureaucrats move out of business: a cost-benefit assessment of labor retrenchment in China

- Yi Chen and Ishac Diwan
- 2353: The Sao Mateus - Jabaquara Trolleybusway Concession in Brazil

- Jorge Rebelo and Pedro Machado
- 2352: How stronger patent protection in India might affect the behavior of transnational pharaceutical industries

- Carsten Fink
- 2351: Environmental policy and time consistency - emissions taxes and emissions trading

- Peter Kennedy and Benoit Laplante
- 2350: Multilateral trade liberalization and political disintegration - implications for the evolution of free trade areas and customs unions

- Maurice Schiff
- 2349: Trade, foreign direct investment, and international technology transfer: a survey

- Kamal Saggi
- 2348: Taxing issues with privatization: a checklist

- Jack Mintz, Duanjie Chen and Evangelia Zorotheos
- 2347: Terror as a bargaining instrument: a case study of dowry violence in rural India

- Francis Bloch and Vijayendra Rao
- 2346: the middle class consensus and economic development

- William Easterly
- 2345: Information and modeling issues in designing water and sanitation subsidy schemes

- Andres Gomez-Lobo, Vivien Foster and Jonathan Halpern
- 2344: Designing direct subsidies for water and sanitation services - Panama: a case study

- Vivien Foster, Andres Gomez-Lobo and Jonat Halpern
- 2343: Ownership and performance of Lithuanian enterprises

- David Grigorian
- 2342: What can we learn about country performance from conditional comparisons across countries?

- Martin Ravallion
- 2341: The tyranny of concepts - CUDIE (Cumulated, Depreciated Investment Effort) is NOT capital

- Lant Pritchett
- 2340: Currency substitution in Latin America - lessons from the 1990s

- Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Carlos Serrano and Alejandro Somuano
- 2339: Building subnational debt markets in developing and transition economies: a framework for analysis, policy reform, and assistance strategy

- Michel Noel
- 2338: The geography of international investment

- Howard Shatz and Anthony Venables
- 2337: Pollution charges, community pressure, and abatement cost of industrial pollution in China

- Hua Wang
- 2336: Endogenous enforcement and effectiveness of China's pollution levy system

- Hua Wang and David Wheeler
- 2335: Inflation and the poor

- William Easterly and Stanley Fischer
- 2334: Sex workers and the cost of safe sex - the compensating differential for condom use in Calcutta

- Vijayendra Rao, Indrani Gupta and Smarajit Jana
- 2333: Output fluctuations in Latin America - what explains the recent slowdown?

- Santiago Herrera, Guillermo Perry and Neile Quintero
- 2332: Financial intermediary distress in the Republic of Korea - Small is beautiful?

- Paola Bongini, Giovanni Ferri and Tae Soo Kang
- 2331: Competition, Corporate Governance, and regulation in Central Asia - Uzbekistan's structural reform challenges

- Harry G. Boradman
- 2330: Reducing structural dominance and entry barriers in Russian industry

- Harry G. Broadman
- 2329: Improving Russia's policy on foreign direct investment

- Joel Bergsman, Harry G. Broadman and Vladimir Drebentsov
- 2328: Social transfers and social assistance - an empirical analysis using Latvian household survey data

- Branko Milanovic
- 2327: How the Republic of Korea's financial structure affects the volatility of four asset prices

- Hong-Ghi Min and Jong-Goo Par
- 2326: How urban concentration affects economic growth

- J. Vernon Henderson
- 2325: Banking systems around the globe: do regulation and ownership affect the performance and stability?

- James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine
- 2324: Give growth and macroeconomic stability in Russia a chance - harden budgets by eliminating nonpayments

- Brian Pinto, Vladimir Drebentsov and Alexander Morozov
- 2323: Globalization and firms'financing choices - evidence from emerging economies

- Sergio Schmukler and Esteban Versperoni
- 2322: Self-targeted subsidies - the distributional impact of the Egyptian food subsidy system

- Richard Adams
- 2321: Algorithms for purchasing AIDS vaccines

- David Bishai, Maria K. Lin and C.W.B. Kiyonga
- 2320: Does more intense competition lead to higher growth?

- Mark A. Dutz and Aydin Hayri
- 2319: Externalities and production efficiency

- Gunnar Eskeland
- 2318: Regulatory reform, competition, and innovation - a case study of the Mexican road freight industry

- Mark A. Dutz, Aydin Hayri and Pablo Ibarra
- 2317: Trade negotiations in the presence of network externalities

- Keiko Kubota
- 2316: Distributional outcomes of a decentralized welfare program

- Emanuela Galasso and Martin Ravallion
- 2315: Investment in natural gas pipelines in the Southern Cone of Latin America

- Alejandro Jadresic
- 2314: Technological leadership and foreign investors'choice of entry mode

- Beata K. Smarzynska
- 2313: How interest rates changed under financial liberalization - a cross-country review

- Patrick Honohan
- 2312: Measuring governance, corruption, and State capture - how firms and bureaucrats shape the business environment in transition economies

- Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones, Daniel Kaufmann and Mark Schankerman
- 2311: The Buenos Aires water concession

- Lorena Alcázar, Manuel Abdala and Mary M. Shirley
- 2310: How politics and institutions affect pension reform in three post-communist countries

- Mitchell A. Orenstein
- 2309: What drives private saving around the world?

- Norman Loayza, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Luis Servén
- 2308: How small should an economy's fiscal deficit be? - a monetary programming approach

- Paul E. Beckerman
- 2307: Surveying surveys and questioning questions - learning from World Bank experience

- Francesca Recanatini, Scott J. Wallsten and Lixin Xu
- 2306: International contagion - implications for policy

- Roberto Chang and Giovanni Majnoni
- 2305: The impact of banking crises on money demand and price stability

- Maria Martinez Peria
- 2304: Disinflation and the supply side

- Pierre-Richard Agénor and Lodovico Pizzati
- 2303: Malaria and growth

- F. Desmond McCarthy, Holger Wolf and Yi Wu
- 2302: Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

- Klaus Deininger and Pedro Olinto
- 2301: Identifying welfare effects from subjective questions

- Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin
- 2300: Single mothers in Russia - household strategies for coping with poverty

- Michael Lokshin, Kathleen Mullan Harris and Barry Popkin
- 2299: Household savings in transition economies

- Cevdet Denizer, Holger C. Wolf and Yvonne Ying
- 2298: Fiscal deficits, monetary reform, and inflation stabilization in Romania

- Nina Budina and Sweder van Wijnbergen
- 2297: Sources of ethnic inequality in Vietnam

- Dileni Gunewardena and Dominique van de Walle
- 2296: An ecological and historical perspective on agricultural development in Southeast Asia

- Yujiro Hayami
- 2295: Resolving bank failures in Argentina - recent developments and issues

- Augusto de la Torre
- 2294: Reforming the urban water system in Santiago, Chile

- Mary M. Shirley, Lixin Xu and Ana Maria Zuluaga
- 2293: Should capital flows be regulated? - a look at the issues and policies

- Roumeen Islam
- 2292: Dividing the spoils - pensions, privatization, and reform in Russia's transition

- Ethan B. Kapstein and Branko Milanovic
- 2291: Incentives for pollution control - regulation and public disclosure

- Jerome Foulon, Paul Lanoie and Benoit Laplante
- 2290: Decentralization and corruption - evidence across countries

- Raymond Fisman and Roberta Gatti
- 2289: Exchange rate overvaluation and trade protection - lessons from experience

- Howard Shatz and David Tarr
- 2288: Ten years of transformation - macroeconomic lessons

- Charles Wyplosz
- 2287: The vicious circles of control - regional governments and insiders in privatized Russian enterprises

- Raj Desai and Itzhak Goldberg
- 2286: Transparency, liberalization, and banking crisis

- Gil Mehrez and Daniel Kaufmann
- 2285: Industrial environmental performance in China - the impact of inspections

- Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Nlandu Namingi and Hua Wang
- 2284: The use of asset management companies in the resolution of banking crises - cross-country experience

- Daniela Klingebiel
- 2283: New tools and new tests in comparative political economy - the database of political institutions

- Thorsten Beck, George Clarke, Alberto Groff, Philip Keefer and Patrick Walsh
- 2282: Managing fiscal risk in Bulgaria

- Hana Brixi, Sergei Shatalov and Leila Zlaoui
- 2281: External sustainability: a stock equilibrium perspective

- Cesar Calderon, Norman Loayza and Luis Servén
- 2280: Willingness to pay for air quality improvements in Sofia, Bulgaria

- Dale Whittington and Hua Wang
- 2279: Broad roads in a thin country - infrastructure concessions in Chile

- Sergio Hinojosa and Andres Gomez-Lobo
- 2278: Liquidity constraints and investment in transition economies - the case of Bulgaria

- Nina Budina, Harry Garretsen and Elke de Jong
- 2277: Determinants of Bulgarian Brady bond prices - an empirical assessment

- Nina Budina and Tzvetan Mantchev
- 2276: Evaluating the case for export subsidies

- Arvind Panagariya
- 2275: Who gained from Vietnam's boom in the 1990s? An analysis of poverty and inequality trends

- Paul Glewwe, Michele Gragnolatti and Hassan Zaman
- 2274: How access to urban potable water and sewerage connections affects child mortality

- Anqing Shi
- 2273: The value of preventing malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia

- Maureen Cropper, Mitiku Haile, Julian A. Lampieti, Christine Poulos and Dale Whittington
- 2272: Ownership versus environment: disentangling the sources of public sector inefficiency

- Ann P. Bartel and Ann Harrison
- 2271: Corporate risk around the world

- Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov and Tatiana Nenova
- 2270: The optimal income tax when poverty is a public"bad"

- Waly Wane
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