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The policy research working papers below are drawn from the World Bank's institutional archives. Each link opens a page with an abstract of the document and several download options. Choose the 'light-weight documents' option for easy download.
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Impact and Adaptation to Climate ChangeAgricultural Growth and Productivity| WPS3928 | The rise and fall of training and visit extension : an Asian mini-drama with an African epilogue | Anderson, Jock R.; Feder, Gershon; Ganguly, Sushma | 2006/05 | | WPS3916 | The role of opinion leaders in the diffusion of new knowledge : the case of integrated pest management | Feder, Gershon; Savastano, Sara | 2006/05 | | WPS3022 | Sending farmers back to school - the impact of farmer field schools in Indonesia | Feder, Gershon; Murgai, Rinku; Quizon, Jaime B. | 2003/04 | | WPS2995 | Commodity market reform in Africa : some recent experience | Akiyama, Takamasa; Baffes, John; Larson, Donald F.; Varangis, Panos | 2003/03 | | WPS2976 | Rural extension services | Anderson, Jock R.; Feder, Gershon | 2003/02 | | WPS2949 | Intersectoral migration in Southeast Asia - evidence from Indonesia, Thailan, and the Philippines | Butzer, Rita; Mundlak, Yair; Larson, Donald F. | 2003/01 | | WPS2812 | Can financial markets be tapped to help poor people cope with weather risks ? | Skees, Jerry; Varangis, Panos; Larson, Donald; Siegel, Paul | 2002/03 | | WPS2803 | Determinants of agricultural growth in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand | Mundlack, Yair; Larson, Donald F.; Butzer, Rita | 2002/03 | | WPS2793 | Agricultural markets and risks - management of the latter, not the former | Varangis, Panos; Larson, Donald; Anderson, Jack R. | 2002/02 | | WPS2787 | Do farmers choose to be inefficient? evidence from Bicol, Philippines | Larson, Donald F.; Plessmann, Frank | 2002/02 |
Land Policy| WPS4442 | Assessing the functioning of land rental markets in Ethiopia | Deininger, Klaus; Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Alemu, Tekie | 2007/12 | | WPS4448 | Land reforms, poverty reduction, and economic growth : evidence from India | Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing; Nagarajan, Hari K. | 2007/12 | | WPS4454 | Land rental markets in the process of rural structural transformation : productivity and equity impacts in China | Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing | 2007/12 | | WPS4447 | Securing property rights in transition: lessons from implementation of China's rural land contracting law | Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing | 2007/12 | | WPS4363 | Property rights in a very poor country : tenure insecurity and investment in Ethiopia | Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Dercon, Stefan; Gautam, Madhur | 2007/09 | | WPS4323 | Determinants and consequences of land sales market participation : panel evidence from India | Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing ; Nagarajan, Hari K. | 2007/08 | | WPS4324 | Efficiency and equity impacts of rural land rental restrictions : evidence from India | Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing; Nagarajan, Hari K. | 2007/08 | | WPS4218 | Rural land certification in Ethiopia : process, initial impact, and implications for other African countries | Deininger, Klaus; Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Holden, Stein; Zevenbergen, Jaap | 2007/04 | | WPS4125 | Incentives, supervision, and sharecropper productivity | Jacoby, Hanan G.; Mansuri, Ghazala | 2007/02 | | WPS3871 | Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition? | Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique | 2006/04 |
Infrastructure| WPS4097 | Road network upgrading and overland trade expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa | Buys, Piet; Deichmann, Uwe; Wheeler, David | 2006/12 | | WPS3875 | The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh | Khandker, Shahidur R.; Bakht, Zaid; Koolwal, Gayatri B. | 2006/04 | | WPS2845 | The spatial division of labor in Nepal | Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad | 2002/05 | | WPS2663 | Agglomeration economies and productivity in Indian industry | Lall, Somik; Shalizi, Zmarak; Deichmann, Uwe | 2001/08 | | WPS2567 | Policy reform, economic growth, and the digital divide - an econometric analysis | Dasgupta, Susmita; Lall, Somik; Wheeler, David | 2001/03 | | WPS2496 | Perspectives on the sources of heterogeneity in Indian industry | Lall, Somik V.; Rodrigo, G. Chris | 2000/11 | | WPS2457 | Urban and regional dynamics in Poland | Deichmann, Uwe; Henderson, Vernon | 2000/09 | | WPS2253 | Revenue recycling and the welfare effects of road pricing | Parry, Ian W.H.; Bento, Antonio Miguel R. | 1999/12 |
Community-Driven DevelopmentRural Informal and Micro FinanceRural Non-Farm EconomyEconomics and Institutions of Water| WPS4294 | Scarperation : an empirical inquiry into the role of scarcity in fostering cooperation between international river riparians | Dinar, Shlomi; Dinar, Ariel; Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep | 2007/07 | | WPS4083 | Water allocation strategies for the Kat Basin in South Africa : comparing negotiation tools and game theory models | Dinar, Ariel; Farolfi, Stefano; Patrone, Fioravante; Rowntree, Kate | 2006/12 | | WPS4073 | Cooperative game theory and its application to natural, environmental, and water resource issues : 2. application to natural and environmental resources | Zara, Stefano; Dinar, Ariel; Patrone, Fioravante | 2006/11 | | WPS4074 | Cooperative game theory and its application to natural, environmental, and water resource issues : 3. application to water resources | Parrachino, Irene; Dinar, Ariel; Patrone, Fioravante | 2006/11 | | WPS3641 | Applications of negotiation theory to water issues | Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen; Sgobbi, Alessandra | 2005/06 | | WPS3636 | Comparison of institutional arrangements for river basin management in eight basins | Blomquist, William; Dinar, Ariel; Kemper, Karin | 2005/06 | | WPS3637 | Decentralization of river basin management : a global analysis | Dinar, Ariel; Kemper, Karin; Blomquist, William; Diez, Michele; Sine, Gisele; Fru, William | 2005/06 | | WPS3550 | Feedback links between economy-wide and farm-level policies : application to irrigation water management in Morocco | Roe, Terry; Dinar, Ariel; Tsur, Yacov; Xinshen Diao | 2005/03 | | WPS3527 | Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Murray Darling River Basin, Austrialia | Blomquist, William; Haisman, Brian; Dinar, Ariel; Bhat, Anjali | 2005/02 | | WPS3528 | Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the Warta River Basin, Poland | Blomquist, William; Tonderski, Andrzej; Dinar, Ariel | 2005/02 |
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