The World Bank research observer 19 (2)

How have the world's poorest fared since the early 1980s? ; by Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion. Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment ?; by Holger Gorg and David Greenaway. Policies on managing risk in agricultural market; by Donald F. Larson, Jock R. Anderson and Panos Varangis. Oil, macroeconomics, and forests: assessing the linkages; by Sven Wunder and William D. Sunderlin. Vouchers for basic education in developing economies: an accountability perspective; by Varun Gauri and Ayesha Vawda.