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A series of online summaries of research backed up by full studies and longer papers available on the research program sites.

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 

2009 
NOVToxic Waste from Obsolete PesticidesA Growing Threat in Developing CountriesResearch Brief 
OCTThe Economic Impact of Expanding Access to Finance in MexicoImpact Series Note 
(Series
SEPThe Results of a Pilot Financial Literacy and Business Planning Training Program for Women in UgandaImpact Series Note
(Series
SEPThe International Financial Crisis: Have the Rules of Finance Changed?Conference Summary 
JULYBack to Global Imbalances?Research Brief
JUNDo Marginal Firms in Bolivia Benefit from Formalizing?Impact Series Note 
(Series)
MAY Managing Systemic CrisesConference Summary
MAY The Use of Bankruptcy in the Resolution of Corporate DistressResearch Brief 
MAY Evaluating the Efficiency of a Bankruptcy Reform Impact Series Note 
(Series
MAY Valuing Financial Literacy: Evidence from Indonesia Impact Series Note 
(Series
APR The Crisis and Beyond: Why Trade Facilitation MattersResearch Brief 
APR As SAFTA Gains New Momentum, Trade Facilitation Should Remain Key PriorityResearch Brief 
APR Why is More Capital Not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?Impact Series Note 
(Series
MAR Measurement, Promotion and Impact of Access to Financial ServicesConference Summary 
MAR The Promise of Index InsuranceImpact Series Note 
(Series
FEB Political Incentives Driving Fiscal Policy

Brief

FEBWhich Microenterprises have High Returns to Capital?

Impact Series Note
(Series

FEB The Preference for Sons Does Not Always Decrease with DevelopmentBrief
FEBDoes Business Registration Reform Increase Entrepreneurial Activity?

Impact Series Note 
(Series

FEB Public Opinion Influences the Level and Effectiveness of Foreign AidResearch Brief  
JAN Financial Stability and Access: The Importance of Financial Literacy

Research Brief

JAN Are All the Sacred Cows Dead? Implications of the Financial Crisis for Macro and Financial Policies

Research Brief   

 2008  

Top 

DEC Fiscal Policy Responses to the Current Financial Crisis: Issues for Developing Countries

Research Brief

NOVThe Ongoing Financial Crisis

Research Brief 

NOVNew Data on New Business Creation in 100 Countries

Research Brief 

OCT Spite and Development: Altruistic Punishment vs. Spiteful Punishment

Research Brief 

SEP The Promise of Index InsuranceResearch Brief
SEP Does Community Monitoring Improve Public Services? Diverging Evidence from Uganda and India

Research Brief  

AUGPublic Health in Chad: Connecting Spending and ResultsResearch Brief  
JULMicrofinance Meets the MarketResearch Brief
MAY Armed Conflict and Schooling: Long-term Evidence from Cambodia and Rwanda

Research Brief 

APR  Rural to Urban Migration in China: How Do Migrant-Sending Communities Benefit?Research Brief 
MARUsing Surveys to Measure Households' Access to and Use of Financial ServicesResearch Brief  
MAR Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage

Research Brief  

MAR Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in AlbaniaResearch Brief   

FEB

Informality among Formal Firms and Access to External FinanceResearch Brief 
JAN New Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital in Microenterprises

Research Brief  

JANImproving Nutritional Status through Behavioral Change: Lessons from Madagascar

Research Brief

DECCorruption in Small Business Fixed Investments: The Case of Indian Manufacturers

Research Brief 

NOV Infant Mortality over the Business Cycle in the Developing World

Research Brief 

OCT Democracy by Other Means? Legalizing Demand for Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World

Research Brief 

OCTCountry Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations

Research Brief 

SEP Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation across Countries

Research Brief 

AUG

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

Research Brief 

MAY Poverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal

Research Brief 

APR China’s “Missing Girls”—Son Preference or Hepatitis B Infections?

Research Brief 
(in
 Chinese)

MAR New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty

Research Brief 

FEB Youth and Citizenship

Research Brief 

FEB Migration, Sex Bias and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Rural Pakistan

Research Brief 

JAN Inefficient Lobbying, Populism, and Oligarchy

Research Brief 

2006 

Top 

DEC Cushioning the Effects of Health Shocks on Households

Research Brief 
(in
 Chinese)

DEC Fiscal Decentralization in China—Potential Next Steps

Research Brief 
(in
 Chinese)

DEC Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China

Research Brief

DEC Road Upgrading and Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Research Brief

NOV The Effects of Donor Fragmentation on Bureaucratic Quality in Aid-Recipient Countries

Research Brief 
(in Arabic, Chinese)

NOV Local Inequality and Project ChoiceResearch Brief 
OCT Discordant Couples and HIV/AIDS Transmission in Five African Countries

Research Brief
(in Chinese,  French)

OCT Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition

Research Brief 

AUG Superstition, Family Planning and Human Development

Research Brief 

AUG Investing in Early Childhood Development

Research rief 
(in Chinese, Spanish)

JUN Orphanhood, Poverty, and School Enrollment

Research Brief 

MAR In Quest of Institutions that Promote Fiscal DisciplineResearch Brief 
FEB A New Look at Quality of Medical Care in Low-Income Countries

Research Brief 

2005 

Top 

NOV Do Macroeconomic Crises Affect Schooling and Child Health? Evidence from Peru

Research Brief

OCTMissing in Action: Teacher and Medical Provider Absence in Developing CountriesResesarch Brief
  

 


Last updated: 2009-03-09




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