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2107: Approaches to liberalizing services

Sherry M. Stephenson

2106: Subjective economic welfare

Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin

2105: Wage rates and job queues - does the public sector overpay in Ethiopia?

Taye Mengistae

2104: The relative effects of skill formation and job matching on wage growth in Ethiopia

Taye Mengistae

2103: Was the credit channel a key monetary transmission mechanism following the recent financial crisis in the Republic of Korea?

Hyun E. Kim

2102: Self-employment and labor turnover - cross-country evidence

William Maloney

2101: Are wages and productivity in Zimbabwe affected by human capital investment and international trade?

Dorte Verner

2100: Decentralization in regional fiscal systems in Russia - trends and links to economic performance

Lev Freinkman and Plamen Yossifov

2099: Mutual funds and institutional investments - what is the most efficient way to set up individual accounts in a social security system?

Estelle James, Gary Ferrier, James Smalhout and Dimitri Vittas

2098: Reconsidering the evidence on returns to T&V extension in Kenya

Madhur Gautam and Jack R. Anderson

2097: The theory of access pricing: an overview for infrastructure regulators

Tommaso Valletti and Antonio Estache

2096: Reforming the urban transport sector in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan region - a case study in concessions

Jorge M. Rebelo

2095: Ten years of post-socialist transition lessons for policy reform

Grzegorz W. Koldko

2094: What triggers market jitters? A chronicle of the Asian crisis

Graciela Kaminsky and Sergio Schmukler

2093: Free entry in infrastructure

David Ehrhardt and Rebecca Burdon

2092: What does aid to Africa finance?

Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop

2091: Beyond unequal development: an overview

Andres Solimano

2090: Risks, lessons learned, and secondary markets for greenhouse gas reductions

Donald Larson and Paul Parks

2089: Corporate diversification in East Asia: the role of ultimate ownership and group affiliation

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, Joseph P. H. Fan and Larry Lang

2088: Expropriation of minority shareholders: evidence from East Asia

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, Joseph P. H. Fan and Larry Lang

2087: Male-female differences in labor market outcomes during the early transition to market: the case of Estonia and Slovenia

Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

2086: Deregulating technology transfer in agriculture: reform's impact on turkey in the 1980s

David Gisselquist and Carl Pray

2085: Monitoring banking sector fragility: a multivariate logit approach with an application to the 1996-97 banking crises

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache

2084: Future inequality in Carbon Dioxide emissions and the projected impact of abatement proposals

Mark T. Heil and Quentin Wodon

2083: INFRISK: a computer simulation approach to risk management in infrastructure project finance transactions

Mansoor Dailami, Ilya Lipkovich and John Van Dyck

2082: Gross worker and job flows in a transition economy: an analysis of Estonia

John Haltiwanger and Milan Vodopivec

2081: Reforming Cote d'Ivoire's cocoa marketing and pricing system

John McIntire and Panos Varangis

2080: Monitoring targeting performance when decentralized allocation to the poor are unobserved

Martin Ravallion

2079: Is more targeting consistent with less spending?

Martin Ravallion

2078: Valuing mortality reductions in India: a study of compensating wage differentials

Nathalie Simon, Maureen Cropper, Anna Alberini and Seema Arora

2077: Change in the perception of the poverty line during times of depression: Russia 1993-96

Branko Milanovic and Branko Jovanovic

2076: Microdeterminants of consumption, poverty, growth, and inequality in Bangladesh

Quentin Wodon

2075: Between group inequality and targeted transfers

Quentin Wodon

2074: Light and lightning at the end of the public tunnel: reform of the electricity sector in the Southern Cone

Antonio Estache and Martin Rodriguez-Pardina

2073: Politics, transaction costs, and the design of regulatory institutions

Antonio Estache and David Martimort

2072: Growth, poverty, and inequality: a regional panel for Bangladesh

Quentin Wodon

2071: The World Bank's Unified Survey projections: how accurate are they? an ex-post evaluation of US91-US97

Jos Verbeek

2070: The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa

David Dollar and William Easterly

2069: Logit analysis in a rotating panel context and an application to self-employment decisions

Patricio Aroca and William Maloney

2068: Quitting and labor turnover: microeconomic evidence and macroeconomic consequences

Tom Krebs and William Maloney

2067: Multinational firms and technology transfer

Amy Glass and Kamal Saggi

2066: Flight capital as a portfolio choice

Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler and Catherine Pattillo

2065: Exporting, externalities, and technology transfer

Howard Pack and Kamal Saggi

2064: Regulating privatized rail transport

Javier Campos and Pedro Cantos-Sánchez

2063: The practice of access pricing: telecommunications in the United Kingdom

Tommaso Valletti

2062: Does financial reform increase or reduce savings ?

Oriana Bandiera, Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan and Fabio Schiantarelli

2061: A framework for regulating microfinance institutions

Hennie van Greuning, Joselito Gallardo and Bikki Randhawa

2060: The macroeconomics of delayed exchange-rate unification: theory and evidence from Tanzania

Daniel Kaufmann and Stephen O'Connell

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Ross Levine, Norman Loayza and Thorsten Beck

2058: Do depositors punish banks for"bad"behavior?: market discipline in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico

Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler

2057: Finance and the sources of growth

Thorsten Beck, Ross Levine and Norman Loayza

2056: Does a thin foreign exchange market lead to destabilizing capital-market speculation in the Asian Crisis countries?

Hong-Ghi Min and Judith A. McDonald

2055: Social security reform, income disribution, fiscal policy, and capital accumulation

Carlos Serrano

2054: Who controls East Asian corporations ?

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov and Larry Lang

2053: Managing foreign labor in Singapore and Malaysia: are there lessons for GCC countries?

Elizabeth Ruppert

2052: The macro wage curve and labor market flexibility in Zimbabwe

Dorte Verner

2051: How stronger protection of intellectual property rights affects international trade flows

Carsten Fink and Carlos A. Primo Braga

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Charles C. Chang, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Serve

2049: Household labor supply, unemployment, and minimum wage legislation

Kaushik Basu, Garance Genicot and Joseph Stiglitz

2048: Corruption in economic development - beneficial grease, minor annoyance, or major obstacle?

Shang-Jin Wei

2047: Ownership structure and enterprise restructuring in six newly independent states

Simeon Djankov

2046: Restructuring of insider-dominated firms

Simeon Djankov

2045: Water challenge and institutional response (a cross-country perspective)

R. Maria Saleth and Ariel Dinar

2044: Trade, migration, and welfare: the impact of social capital

Maurice Schiff

2043: Demand for public safety

Menno Pradhan and Martin Ravallion

2042: Determinants of motorization and road provision

Gregory K. Ingram and Zhi Liu

2041: Aid allocation and poverty reduction

Paul Collier and David Dollar

2040: Making negotiated land reform work: initial experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

Klaus Deininger

2039: Reforming institutions for service delivery: a framework for development assistance with an application to the health, nutrition, and population portfolio

Navin Girishankar

2038: Good governance and trade policy: are they the keys to Africa's global integration and growth?

Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats

2037: Financial regulation and performance: cross-country evidence

James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine

2036: Vehicles, roads, and road use - alternative empirical specifications

Gregory K. Ingram and Zhi Liu

2035: Macroeconomic uncertainty and private investment in developing countries - an empirical investigation

Luis Servén

2034: Information, accounting, and the regulation of concessioned infrastructure monopolies

Phil Burns and Antonio Estache

2033: Diversification and efficiency of investment by East Asian corporations

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, Joseph P. H. Fan and Larry Lang

2032: Institutional investors and securities markets: which comes first?

Dimitri Vittas

2031: Addressing the education puzzle: the distribution of education and economic reform

Ramon Lopez, Vinod Thomas and Yan Wang

2030: The political economy of financial repression in transition economies

Cevdet Denizer, Raj Desai and Nikolay Gueorguiev

2029: Small manufacturing plants, pollution, and poverty: new evidence from Brazil and Mexico

Susmita Dasgupta, Robert Lucas and David Wheeler

2028: Access to markets and the benefits of rural roads

Hanan Jacoby

2027: Child labor: cause, consequence, and cure, with remarks on International Labor Standards

Kaushik Basu

2026: Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform

Biagio Bossone

2025: Dynamic capita mobility, capital market risk, and exchange rate misalignment: evidence from seven Asian Countries

Hong-Ghi Min

2024: Re-engineering insurance supervision

Lawrie Savage

2023: Capital inflow reversals, banking stability, and prudential regulation in Central and Eastern Europe

Samuel Talley, Marcelo M. Giugale and Rossana Polastri

2022: The implications of foreign aid fungibility for development assistance

Shantayanan Devarajan and Vinaya Swaroop

2021: Balance, accountability, and responsiveness: lessons about decentralization

Anwar Shah

2020: Trade liberalization, fiscal adjustment, and exchange rate policy in India

Delfin Go and Pradeep Mitra

2019: The effects on developing countries of the Kyoto Protocol and carbon dioxide emissions trading

A. Denny Ellerman, Henry D. Jacoby and Annelene Decaux

2018: Prerequisites for a development-oriented state in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mondonga Mokoli and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

2017: Corporate growth, financing, and risks in the decade before East Asia's financial crisis

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov and Larry Lang

2016: Financial services for the urban poor: South Africa's E Plan

Jo Ann Paulson and James McAndrews

2015: The mechanics of progress in education: evidence from cross-country data

Alain Mingat and Jee-Peng Tan

2014: Land institutions and land markets

Klaus Deininger and Gershon Feder

2013: A new database on investment and capital for agriculture and manufacturing

Al Crego, Donald Larson, Rita Butzer and Yair Mundlak

2012: Export quotas and policy constraints in the Indian textile and garment industries

Sanjay Kathuria and Anjali Bhardwaj

2011: Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare

Menno Pradhan and Martin Ravallion

2010: The real impact of financial shocks: evidence from the Republic of Korea

Ilker Domac and Giovanni Ferri

2009: Poverty and the economic transition: how do changes in economies of scale affect poverty rates for different households?

Peter Lanjouw, Branko Milanovic and Stefano Paternostro

2008: Volatility and contagion in a financially integrated world: lessons from East Asia's recent experience

Pedro Alba, Amar Bhattacharya, Stijn Claessens, Swati Ghosh and Leonardo Hernandez