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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

2007: Regional integration arrangements: static economic theory, quantitative findings, and policy guidelines

Dean A. DeRosa

2006: Household welfare measurement and the pricing of basic services

Jesko Hentschel and Peter Lanjouw

2005: Fiscal federalism and macroeconomic governance: for better or for worse?

Anwar Shah

2004: What can be expected from African regional trade arrangements? some empirical evidence

Alexander J. Yeats

2003: Thailand's corporate financing and governance structures

Pedro Alba, Stijn Claessens and Simeon Djankov

2002: Accounting for toxicity risks in pollution control: does it matter?

Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante and Craig Meisner

2001: Measuring the dynamic gains from trade

Romain Wacziarg

2000: GATT experience with safeguards - making economic and political sense of the possibilities that the GATT allows to restrict imports

Joseph Finger

1999: Heterogeneity among Mexico's micro-enterprises - an application of factor and cluster analysis

Wendy Cunningham and William Maloney

1998: The structure and determinants of inequality and poverty reduction in Ghana, 1988-92

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah, Dipak Mazumdar and Xiao Ye

1997: On measuring literacy

Kaushik Basu and James Foster

1996: Namibia's social safety net: issues and options for reform

Kalanidhi Subbarao

1995: What macroeconomic policies are"sound?"

Mansoor Dailami and Nadeem Ul Haque

1994: Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data - or tears: with an application to educational enrollments in states of India

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1993: Financial safety nets and incentive structures in Latin America

Philip L. Brock

1992: The present outlook for trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization

John Croome

1991: Reducing air pollution from urban passenger transport: a framework for policy analysis

Mark Heil and Sheoli Pargal

1990: The East Asia crisis and corporate finances: the untold micro story

Michael Pomerleano

1989: Contingent government liabilities: a hidden risk for fiscal stability

Hana Polackova

1988: The informal sector, firm dynamics, and institutional participation

Alec R. Levenson and William Maloney

1987: Political economy and political risks of institutional reform in the water sector

Ariel Dinar, Trichur K. Balakrishnan and Joseph Wambia

1986: Putting auction theory to work: the simultaneous ascending auction

Paul Milgrom

1985: The optimality of being efficient: designing auctions

Lawerence M. Ausubel and Peter Cramton

1984: NAFTA, capital mobility, and Mexico's financial system

Thomas Charles Glaessner and Daniel Oks

1983: Pension reform in small developing countries

Thomas Charles Glaessner and Salvador Valdés

1982: Analyzing financial sectors in transition: with special reference to the Former Soviet Union

Alan Roe, Paul Siegelbaum and Tim King

1981: Evaluating public expenditures when governments must rely on distortionary taxation

James Anderson and Will Martin

1980: The effect of household wealth on educational attainment: demographic and health survey evidence

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1979: Banking on crises: expensive lessons from recent financial crises

Gerard Caprio

1978: Behavioral responses to risk in rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1977: Economic reforms in Egypt: emerging patterns and their possible implications

Rania A. Al-Mashat and David Grigorian

1976: Capital flows to Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Stijn Claessens, Daniel Oks and R Polastri

1975: Acting globally while thinking locally: is the global environment protected by transport emission control programs?

Gunnar Eskeland and Jian Xie

1974: Volatility and the welfare costs of financial market integration

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

1973: The economic analysis of sector investment programs

Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput

1972: Why privatize?: the case of Argentina's public provincial banks

George Clarke and Robert Cull

1971: Promoting better logging practices in tropical forests

Marco Boscolo and Jeffrey Vincent

1970: Trade liberalization and endogenous growth in a small open economy: a quantitative assessment

Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

1969: Protecting the poor in Vietnam's emerging market economy

Dominique van de Walle

1968: The economic and law of rent control

Kaushik Basu and Patrick Emerson

1967: Agriculture and the macroeconomy

Maurice Schiff and Alberto Valdes

1966: Sulfur dioxide control by electric utilities: what are the gains from trade?

Curtis Carlson, Dallas Burtraw, Maureen Cropper and Karen Palmer

1965: Manufacuring firms in developing countries - how well do they do, and why?

James Tybout

1964: Public investment and economic growth in Mexico

Ulrich Lachler and David Aschauer

1963: Commodity risk management and development

Donald Larson, Panos Varangis and Nanae Yabuki

1962: The political economy of privatization: an empirical analysis of bank privatization in Argentina

George Clarke and Robert Cull

1961: Protecting the environment and the poor - a public goods framework applied to Indonesia

Gunnar Eskeland

1960: Calm after the storms: income distribution in Chile, 1987-94

Francisco Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

1959: Is there a credit crunch in East Asia?

Wei Ding, Ilker Domac and Giovanni Ferri

1958: Total strangers or soul mates? - antidumping and competition policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

J. Luis Guash and Sarath Rajapatirana

1957: Bidding for concessions

Michael Klein

1956: Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture

Peter Lanjouw and Martin Ravallion

1955: Appraising workfare programs

Martin Ravallion

1954: Politicians and firms in seven central and eastern European countries

Stijn Claessens and Simeon Djankov

1953: Trade policies and incentives in Indian agriculture: methodology, background statistics, and protection and incentive indicators, 1965-95

Garry Pursell and Anju Gupta

1952: Enterprise isolation programs in transition economies: evidence from Romania

Simeon Djankov

1951: The impact of policy announcements and news on capital markets: crisis management in Argentina during the Tequila Effect

Eduardo J. J. Ganapolsky and Sergio Schmukler

1950: Free trade and deep integration: antidumping and antitrust in regional agreements

Bernard Hoekman

1949: Education and earnings inequality in Mexico

Ulrich Lachler