2013 Briefs
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| JANUARY | Lessons for Matching Grant Programs from Failed Attempts to Evaluate Them
Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Ana Fernandes, Markus Goldstein, and David McKenzie |
2012 Briefs
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| OCTOBER | Business Training for New and Existing Female-Owned Firms in Sri Lanka
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff
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| OCTOBER | The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants and their Families
Yoko Doi, David McKenzie and Bilal Zia
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| OCTOBER | Community-Driven Development, Participation, and Inequality: What Does the Evidence Say?
Ghazala Mansure and Vijayendra Rao (October 2012)
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| SUMMER | Retirement Behavior among China’s Older Workers
John Giles, Dewen Wang, and Wei Cai (Summer 2012)
In China the rural elderly are often unable to retire—while urban women often drop out of the labor force early.
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| SUMMER | What Are the Health Effects of Universal Health Care?
Adam Wagstaff and Wanwiphang Manachotphong (Summer 2012)
In Thailand universal coverage reduced the probability of people being too ill to work by 20 percent.
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| JULY | Financial Development and Inclusion in Kenya
Bob Cull
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| JUNE | Navigating the Perplexing Web of Trade Policy Indicators
Chad P. Bown and Daniel Lederman
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| MAY | The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants at Destination
John Gibson, David McKenzie and Bilal Zia, May 2012
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| APRIL | Using the WTO to Keep South-South Trade Flowing Lessons from Antidumping
Chad P. Bown and Daniel Lederman
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| MAR | Research Highlight: Trade Facilitation and Economic Growth
John S. Wilson
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| MAR | Do Informal Firms Want to Formalize and Does It Help Them If They Do?
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff
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| FEB | Long-Term Impacts of One-Off Grants to Microenterprises
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff
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2011
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| AUG | The Impact of Commitment Savings Accounts: The Case of Malawi
Xavier Gine
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| JUL | Radio Access and Service Delivery in Benin
Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani
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| JUL | Trends in Adult Mortality around the Developing World
Damien de Walque and Deon Filmer
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| JUL | Summary: Financial Structure and Economic Development Conference, June 2011
Bob Cull
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| JUN | Capital, Gender, and Microenterprise Growth in Ghana
Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn and Christopher Woodruff
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| MAY | The Impact of Business and Financial Literacy Training for Young Entrepreneurs in Bosnia-Herzogovina
Miriam Bruhn and Bilal Zia
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| FEB | An Agenda for Aid Effectiveness and Trade
Benjamin J. Taylor and John S. Wilson
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| JAN | Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment and Risky Sexual Behaviors
Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, and Mead Over
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2010
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| DEC | Spurring Development through a Seasonal Migration Program
John Gibson and David McKenzie |
| OCT | The Global Financial Crisis Led to a Drop in Business Creation
Leora Klapper |
| OCT | The Black Hole of Pakistan: Are billions of dollars of U.S. aid going to waste?
Jishnu Das (Foreign Policy Magazine) |
| SEP | Reform and Regional Integration of Professional Services in East Africa
by Nora Dihel, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Aaditya Mattoo, and Nicholas Strychacz |
| SEP | Financial Access and the Crisis
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt |
| AUG | Aid for Trade: An Action Agenda Looking Forward
Bernard Hoekman and John S. Wilson |
| JUL | International Monetary Fund Unveils its Online Database on Financial Access
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt |
| JUNE | Infrastructure and Growth
Luis Serven |
| MAY | Resilience to External Crises
Sergio Schmukler |
| MAY | The Impact of Mobile Money Transfers in Kenya
Robert Cull |
| MAY | Using Biometric Technology in Rural Credit Markets: The
Case of Malawi
Xavier Giné |
| MAY | Improving Management in India
Nick Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts |
| SPRING | How Financial Crises in Donor Countries Affect Aid
Steve Knack and Halsey Rogers |
| MAR | Turning Research Into Practice: Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers in Burkina Faso
Damien de Walque |
| MAR | Taking Stock of Finance and Private Sector Research in 2009: Relevance, Quality, and Impact
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt |
| JAN | Can Informal Finance Substitute for Formal Finance?
Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Meghana Ayyagari, and Vojislav Maksimovic |
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2009
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| DEC | Turning Research Into Practice: Measuring Absence of Teachers and Medical Providers
Halsey Rogers |
| DEC | Aid and Trust in Country Systems: Obstacles to Achieving Paris Declaration Targets
Stephen Knack |
| NOV | Entrepreneurship and Growth
Leora Klapper and Inessa Love |
| NOV | Toxic Waste from Obsolete Pesticides—A Growing Threat in Developing Countries
Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor, Walid Dhouibi, Abdelaziz Lagnaoui, Craig Meisner, and Hassine Ben Salah |
| OCT | The Economic Impact of Expanding Access to Finance in Mexico
Miriam Bruhn and Inessa Love |
| SEP | Turning Research Into Practice: Health Reform in China
Adam Wagstaff |
| SEP | The Results of a Pilot Financial Literacy and Business Planning Training Program for Women in Uganda
David McKenzie and Michaela Weber |
| SEP | The International Financial Crisis: Have the Rules of Finance Changed?
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ouarda Merrouche |
| JULY | Back to Global Imbalances?
Augusto de la Torre, Sergio Schmukler, and Luis Servén |
| JUN | Do Marginal Firms in Bolivia Benefit from Formalizing?
David McKenzie and Yaye Seynabou Sakho |
| MAY | Managing Systemic Crises
Miriam Bruhn |
| MAY | The Use of Bankruptcy in the Resolution of Corporate Distress
Leora Klapper |
| MAY | Evaluating the Efficiency of a Bankruptcy Reform
Xavier Giné and Inessa Love |
| MAY | Valuing Financial Literacy: Evidence from Indonesia
Bilal Zia |
| APR | The Crisis and Beyond: Why Trade Facilitation Matters
Benjamin J. Taylor and John S. Wilson |
| APR | As SAFTA Gains New Momentum, Trade Facilitation Should Remain Key Priority
Benjamin J. Taylor and John S. Wilson |
| APR | Why is More Capital Not Enough to Grow Female Businesses?
David McKenzie |
| MAR | Measurement, Promotion and Impact of Access to Financial Services
Robert Cull |
| FEB | Political Incentives Driving Fiscal Policy
Stuti Khemani and Waly Wane |
| FEB | Which Microenterprises have High Returns to Capital?
David McKenzie |
| FEB | The Preference for Sons Does Not Always Decrease with Development
Deon Filmer, Jed Friedman, and Norbert Schady |
| FEB | Does Business Registration Reform Increase Entrepreneurial Activity?
Miriam Bruhn |
| FEB | Public Opinion Influences the Level and Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Pamela Paxton and Stephen Knack |
| JAN | Financial Stability and Access: The Importance of Financial Literacy
Leora Klapper and Bilal Husnain Zia |
| JAN | Are All the Sacred Cows Dead? Implications of the Financial Crisis for Macro and Financial Policies
Asli Demirgüç-Kuntx |
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2008
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| DEC | Fiscal Policy Responses to the Current Financial Crisis: Issues for Developing Countries
Aart Kraay and Luis Servén |
| NOV | The Ongoing Financial Crisis
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt |
| NOV | New Data on New Business Creation in 100 Countries
Leora Klapper, Juan Manuel Quesada Delgado, and Anat Lewin |
| OCT | Spite and Development: Altruistic Punishment vs. Spiteful Punishment
Karla Hoff |
| SEP | The Promise of Index Insurance
Xavier Giné |
| SEP | Does Community Monitoring Improve Public Services? Diverging Evidence from Uganda and India
Stuti Khemani |
| AUG | Public Health in Chad: Connecting Spending and Results
Waly Wane |
| JUL | Microfinance Meets the Market
Robert J. Cull, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Jonathan Morduch |
| MAY | Armed Conflict and Schooling: Long-term Evidence from Cambodia and Rwanda
Damien de Walque |
| APR | Rural to Urban Migration in China: How Do Migrant-Sending Communities Benefit?
Alan de Brauw and John Giles |
| MAR | Using Surveys to Measure Households' Access to and Use of Financial Services
Bob Cull and Patrick Honohan |
| MAR | Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage
Piet Buys, Susmita Dasgupta, Tim Thomas, David Wheeler |
| MAR | Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania
Calogero Carletto,Talip Kilic, Benjamin Davis, and Alberto Zezza |
FEB | Informality among Formal Firms and Access to External Finance
Roberta Gatti and Maddalena Honorati |
| JAN | New Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital in Microenterprises
David McKenzie |
| JAN | Improving Nutritional Status through Behavioral Change: Lessons from Madagascar
Emanuela Galasso and Nithin Umapathi |
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2007
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| DEC | Corruption in Small Business Fixed Investments: The Case of Indian Manufacturers
Maddalena Honorati and Taye Mengistaex |
| NOV | Infant Mortality over the Business Cycle in the Developing World
Sarah Baird, Jed Friedman, Norbert Schady |
| OCT | Democracy by Other Means? Legalizing Demand for Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World
Varun Gauri |
| OCT | Country Stakes in Climate Change Negotiations
Craig Meisner and Uwe Deichmann |
| SEP | Entrepreneurship and Firm Formation across Countries
Leora Klapper |
AUG | Climate Change: The Final Blow for Agricul ture in Africa?
Ariel Dinar |
| MAY | Poverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal
Quy Toan Do, Lakshmi Iyer |
| APR | China’s “Missing Girls”—Son Preference or Hepatitis B Infections?
Monica Das Gupta
(in Chinese) |
| MAR | New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, and Prem Sangraula |
| FEB | Youth and Citizenship
Varun Gauri and Mattias Lundberg |
| FEB | Migration, Sex Bias and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Ghazala Mansuri |
| JAN | Inefficient Lobbying, Populism, and Oligarchy
Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Filipe R. Campante |
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2006
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| DEC | Cushioning the Effects of Health Shocks on Households
Adam Wagstaff
(in Chinese) |
| DEC | Fiscal Decentralization in China—Potential Next Steps
Chunli Shen and Heng-fu Zou
(in Chinese) |
| DEC | Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China
Shaohua Chen, Ren Mu, and Martin Ravallion |
| DEC | Road Upgrading and Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Uwe Deichmann |
| NOV | The Effects of Donor Fragmentation on Bureaucratic Quality in Aid-Recipient Countries
Steve Knack
(in Arabic, Chinese) |
| NOV | Local Inequality and Project Choice
Caridad Araujo, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw, and Berk Ozler |
| OCT | Discordant Couples and HIV/AIDS Transmission in Five African Countries
Damien de Walque
(in Chinese, French) |
| OCT | Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition
Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle |
| AUG | Superstition, Family Planning and Human Development
Quy-Toan Do and Tung Duc Phung |
| AUG | Investing in Early Childhood Development
Harold Alderman and Elizabeth M. King
(in Chinese, Spanish) |
| JUN | Orphanhood, Poverty, and School Enrollment
Martha Ainsworth and Deon Filmer |
| MAR | In Quest of Institutions that Promote Fiscal Discipline
Stuti Khemani |
| FEB | A New Look at Quality of Medical Care in Low-Income Countries
Jishnu Das |
2005
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NOV
| Do Macroeconomic Crises Affect Schooling and Child Health? Evidence from Peru
Norbert Schady |
| OCT | Missing in Action: Teacher and Medical Provider Absence in Developing Countries
F. Halsey Rogers |
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