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Each thematic research program produces several research briefs a year. Please also see research feature stories.

 2008 
Aug Public Health in Chad: Connecting Spending and Results
Waly Wane | Brief
Jul Microfinance Meets the Market
Robert J. Cull,  Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Jonathan Morduch | Brief
May

Armed Conflict and Schooling: Long-term Evidence from Cambodia and Rwanda
Damien de Walque | Brief 

AprRural to Urban Migration in China: How Do Migrant-Sending Communities Benefit?
Alan de Brauw and John Giles | Brief
Mar Using Surveys to Measure Households' Access to and Use of Financial Services
Bob Cull and Patrick Honohan | Brief
 Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage
Piet Buys, Susmita Dasgupta, Tim Thomas, and David Wheeler | Brief
 Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania
Calogero Carletto, Talip Kilic, Benjamin Davis, and Alberto ZezzaBrief

Feb

Informality among Formal Firms and Access to External Finance
Roberta Gatti and Maddalena Honorati | Brief
Jan

New Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital in Microenterprises
David McKenzie | Brief 

 

Improving Nutritional Status through Behavioral Change: Lessons from Madagascar
Emanuela Galasso and Nithin Umapathi | Brief

 2007

 

Dec 

Corruption in Small Business Fixed Investments: The Case of Indian Manufacturers
Maddalena Honorati and Taye Mengistae | Brief

Nov

Infant Mortality over the Business Cycle in the Developing World
Sarah Baird,Jed Friedman, and Norbert Schady | Brief

Oct

Democracy by Other Means? Legalizing Demand for Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World
Varun Gauri | Brief

 

Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations
Craig Meisner and Uwe Deichmann |  Brief

Sep

Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation across Countries
Leora Klapper  |  Brief

Aug

Climate Change: The Final Blow for Agricul ture in Africa?   
Ariel Dinar 
Brief

May

Poverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal  
Quy-Toan Do and 
Lakshmi Iyer  |  
Brief

Apr

China’s “Missing Girls”—Son Preference or Hepatitis B Infections? 
Monica Das Gupta  |  
Brief  (Available in Chinese)

Mar

New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, and Prem Sangraula  |   
Brief

Feb

Youth and Citizenship
Varun Gauri and Mattias Lundberg  | Brief

 

Migration, Sex Bias and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Ghazala Mansuri  |  
Brief

JanInefficient Lobbying, Populism, and Oligarchy 
Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Filipe R. Campante | Brief
 

 2006 

 

Dec

Cushioning the Effects of Health Shocks on Househo lds 
Adam Wagstaff   | 
Brief (Available in  Chinese)

 

Fiscal Decentralization in China—Potential Next Steps 
Chunli Chen and Heng-fu Zou  | 
Brief (Available in Chinese)

 

Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China   
Shaohua Chen, Ren Mu, and Martin Ravallion  |  
Brief

 

Road Upgrading and Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa 
Uwe Deichmann  | 
Brief

Nov

The Effects of Donor Fragmentation on Bureaucratic Quality in Aid-Recipient Countries 
Stephen Knack | 
Brief ( Available in ArabicChinese)

 Local Inequality and Project Choice   
Francisco Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw, and Berk Ozler  |
Brief
Oct

Discordant Couples and HIV/AIDS Transmission in Five African Countries   
Damien de Walque  |
 Brief  (Available in ChineseFrench)

 

Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition 
Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle | 
Brief

 Aug

Superstition, Family Planning and Human Development 
Quy-Toan Do and Tung Duc Phung  | 
Brief

 

Investing in Early Childhood Development  
Harold Alderman and Elizabeth King  |  
Brief  (Available in ChineseSpanish)

Jun

Orphanhood, Poverty, and School Enrollment 
Martha Ainsworth and Deon Filmer  | 
Brief

MarIn Quest of Institutions that Promote Fiscal Discipline 
Stuti Khemani  | 
Brief
Feb

A New Look at Quality of Medical Care in Low-Income Countries 
Jishnu Das  | 
Brief

 

 

 2005 
Nov

Do Macroeconomic Crises Affect Schooling and Child Health? Evidence from Peru 
Norbert Schady  | 
Brief

Oct Missing in Action: Teacher and Medical Provider Absence in Developing Countries
Halsey Rogers  | Brief
 




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