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2000
- 2282 Managing fiscal risk in Bulgaria
by Polackova Brixi, Hana & Shatalov, Sergei & Zlaoui, Leila
- 2281 External sustainability : a stock equilibrium perspective
by Calderon,Cesar & Loayza,Norman V. & Serven,Luis
- 2280 Willingness to pay for air quality improvements in Sofia, Bulgaria
by Whittington, Dale & Hua Wang
- 2279 Broad roads in a thin country - infrastructure concessions in Chile
by Hinojosa, Sergio & Gomez-Lobo, Andres
- 2278 Liquidity constraints and investment in transition economies - the case of Bulgaria
by Budina, Nina & Garretsen, Harry & de Jong, Elke
- 2277 Determinants of Bulgarian Brady bond prices - an empirical assessment
by Budina, Nina & Mantchev, Tzvetan
- 2276 Evaluating the case for export subsidies
by Panagariya, Arvind
- 2275 Who gained from Vietnam's boom in the 1990s? An analysis of poverty and inequality trends
by Glewwe, Paul & Gragnolatti, Michele & Zaman, Hassan
- 2274 How access to urban potable water and sewerage connections affects child mortality
by Shi, Anqing
- 2273 The value of preventing malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia
by Cropper, Mauren L. & Haile, Mitiku & Lampieti, Julian A. & Poulos, Christine & Whittington, Dale
- 2272 Ownership versus environment : disentangling the sources of public sector inefficiency
by Bartel, Ann P. & Harrison, Ann E.
- 2271 Corporate risk around the world
by Claessens, Stijn & Djankov, Simeon & Nenova, Tatiana
- 2270 The optimal income tax when poverty is a public"bad"
by Wane, Waly
- 2269 Context is everything : measuring institutional change in transition economies
by Campos, Nauro F.
- 2268 The structure of social disparities in education : gender and wealth
by Filmer, Deon
- 2267 Do high interest rates defend currencies during speculative attacks ?
by Kraay, Aart
- 2266 The impact of adult deaths on children's health in Northwestern Tanzania
by Ainsworth, Martha & Semali, Innocent
- 2265 The political economy of distress in East Asian financial institutions
by Bongini, Paola & Claessens, Stijn & Ferri, Giovanni
1999
- 21224 Abstracts : policy research working paper series - numbers 2133-2196
by anonymous
- 21223 Abstracts : policy research working paper series - numbers 2071-2132
by anonymous
- 20012 Abstracts : policy research working paper series - numbers 2197 - 2261
by anonymous
- 2264 Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold?
by Milanovic, Branko
- 2263 When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states
by Ravallion, Martin & Datt, Gaurav
- 2262 How inadequate provision of public infrastructure and services affects private investment
by Reinikka, Ritva & Svensson, Jakob
- 2261 Is knowledge shared within households?
by Basu, Kaushik & Narayan, Ambar & Ravallion, Martin
- 2260 Regional integration agreements - a force for convergence or divergence?
by Venables, Anthony J.
- 2259 Predicting currency fluctuations and crises - do resident firms have an informational advantage?
by Kaufmann, Daniel & Mehrez, Gil & Schmukler, Sergio
- 2258 Market access bargaining in the Uruguay Round - Rigid or relaxed reciprocity?
by Finger, J. Michael & Reincke, Ulrich & Castro, Adriana
- 2257 Infrastructure, geographical disadvantage, and transport costs
by Limao, Nuno & Venables, Anthony J.
- 2256 Geographical disadvantage - a Heckscher-Ohlin-von Thunen model of international specialization
by Venables, Anthony J. & Limao, Nuno
- 2255 Risk and efficiency in East Asian banks
by Laeven,Luc A.
- 2254 Does"grease money"speed up the wheels of commerce?
by Kaufman, Daniel & Shang-Jin Wei
- 2253 Revenue recycling and the welfare effects of road pricing
by Parry, Ian W.H. & Bento, Antonio Miguel R.
- 2252 Productivity growth, capital accumulation, and the banking sector - some lessons from Malaysia
by Ghani, Ejaz & Suri, Vivek
- 2251 Will the Euro create a bonanza for Africa?
by Cohen,Daniel & Kristensen,Nicolai & Verner,Dorte
- 2249 Argentina's transport privatization and re-regulation : ups and downs of a daring decade-long experience
by Estache, Antonio & Carbajo, Jose C. & de Rus, Gines
- 2248 Privatization and regulation of transport infrastructure in the 1990s - successes...and bugs to fix for the next millennium
by Estache, Antonio
- 2247 Does deposit insurance increase banking system stability ? An empirical investigation
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Detragiache, Enrica
- 2246 Infrastructure's contribution to aggregate output
by Canning, David
- 2245 Opportunities for improving environmental compliance in Mexico
by Dasgupta, Susmita
- 2244 True world income distribution, 1988 and 1993 - first calculations, based on household surveys alone
by Milanovic, Branko
- 2243 Designing pro-poor water and sewer concessions : early lessons from Bolivia
by Komives, Kristin
- 2242 Confronting competition - investment response and constraints in Uganda
by Reinikka, Ritva & Svensson, Jakob
- 2241 How land registration affects financial development and economic growth in Thailand
by Byamugisha, Frank F.K.
- 2240 The effects of land registration on financial development and economic growth - a theoretical and conceptual framework
by Byamugisha, Frank F.K.
- 2239 The EU factor in the trade policies of Central European countries
by Kaminski, Bartlomiej
- 2238 A review of the role and impact of export processing zones
by Madani, Dorsati
- 2237 Reforming tax systems - the World Bank record in the 1990s
by Barbone, Luca & Das-Gupta, Arindam & De Wulf, Luc & Hansson, Anna
- 2236 Valuing water for Chinese industries : a marginal productivity assessment
by Wang, Hua & Lall, Somik
- 2235 Beyond capital ideals : restoring banking stability
by Caprio,Gerard & Honohan, Patrick
- 2234 The green revolution and the productivity paradox : evidence from the Indian Punjab
by Murgai, Rinku
- 2233 User's guide to an early warning system for macroeconomic vulnerability in Latin American countries
by Herrara, Santiago & Garcia, Conrado
- 2232 Market access advances and retreats : the Uruguay Round and beyond
by Finger, J. Michael & Schuknecht, Ludger
- 2231 What's behind MERCOSUR's common external tariff?
by Olarreaga, Marcelo & Soloaga, Isidro & Winters, Alan
- 2230 Bankruptcy reorganization through markets : Auction-based Creditor Ordering by Reducing Debts (ACCORD)
by Hausch, Donald B. & Ramachandran, S.
- 2229 Do school facilities matter? : the case of the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES)
by Paxson, Christina & Schady, Norbert
- 2228 Fiscal contingency planning for banking crises
by Honohan, Patrick
- 2227 The Sri Lankan unemployment problem revisited
by Rama, Martin
- 2226 Money, politics and a future for the international financial system
by Klein, Michael
- 2225 How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted? : reviewing two decades of debt relief
by Easterly, William
- 2224 Growth forecasts using time series and growth models
by Kraay, Aart & Monokroussos, George
- 2223 Integrated financial supervision : lessons of Northern European experience
by Taylor, Michael & Fleming, Alex
- 2222 Labor market integration in the presence of social capital
by Schiff, Maurice
- 2221 The dynamics of poverty and the effectiveness of Poland's safety net (1993-96)
by Okrasa,Wlodzimierz
- 2220 A Quantitative evaluation of Vietnam's accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area
by Fukase, Emiko & Martin, Will
- 2219 The effect of the United States'granting Most Favored Nation status to Vietnam
by Fukase, Emiko & Martin, Will
- 2218 Who avoids and who escapes from poverty during transition? - evidence from Polish panel data, 1993-96
by Okrasa, Wlodzimierz
- 2217 Border, border, wide and far, how we wonder what you are
by Parsley, David C. & Shang-Jin Wei
- 2216 Corruption and trade tariffs, or a case for uniform tariffs
by Gatti, Roberta
- 2215 Implementation of Uruguay Round commitments : the development challenge
by Finger, Michael J. & Schuler, Philip
- 2214 Trade policy and market access issues for developing countries : implications for the Millennium Round
by Michalopoulos,Constantine
- 2213 Fiscal solvency and sustainability in economic management
by Hinh T. Dinh
- 2212 Is African manufacturing skill-constrained?
by Pack, Howard & Paxson, Christina
- 2211 Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization
by Hoekman, Bernard & Holmes, Peter
- 2210 The slippery slope : explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976-96
by Ferreira, Francisco H. G. & Paes de Barrios, Ricardo
- 2209 Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
by Shang-Jin Wei
- 2208 Ethnic partition as a solution to ethnic war - an empirical critique of the theoretical literature
by Sambanis, Nicholas
- 2207 Jamaica's food stamp program - impacts on poverty and welfare
by Ezemenari, Kene & Subbarao, Kalanidhi
- 2206 Household childcare choices and women's work behavior in Russia
by Lokshin, Michael M.
- 2205 Foreign-owned capital and endogenous tariffs
by Olarreaga, Marcelo
- 2204 Corruption under moral hazard
by Eskeland, Gunnar S. & Thiele, Henrik
- 2203 Market versus administrative reallocation of agricultural land in a period of rapid industrialization
by Carter, Michael R. & Yang Yao
- 2202 Specialization without regret - transfer rights, agricultural productivity, and investment in an industrializing economy
by Carter, Michael R. & Yang Yao
- 2201 Financial development and industrial capital accumulation
by Bossone, Biagio
- 2200 The role of trust in financial sector development
by Bossone, Biagio
- 2199 Managing risks of capital mobility
by Dailami, Mansoor
- 2198 How the Chinese system of charges and subsidies affects pollution control efforts by China's top industrial polluters
by Wang,Hua*Ming Chen
- 2197 Production sharing in East Asia : who does what for whom, and why?
by Ng, Francis & Yeats, Alexander
- 2196 Governance matters
by Kaufmann, Daniel & Kraay, Aart & Zoido-Lobaton, Pablo
- 2195 Aggregating governance indicators
by Kaufmann, Daniel & Kraay, Aart & Zoido-Lobaton, Pablo
- 2194 Does democracy facilitate the economic transition : an empirical study of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
by Dethier, Jean-Jacques & Ghanem, Hafez & Zoli, Edda
- 2193 Children's growth and poverty in rural Guatemala
by Gragnolati, Michele
- 2192 Districts, spillovers, and government overspending
by Baqir, Reza
- 2191 Can no antitrust policy be better than some antitrust policy?
by Mattoo, Aaditya
- 2190 The credit channel at work - lessons from the Republic of Korea's financial crisis
by Ferri, Giovanni & Tae Soo Kang
- 2189 Alternative frameworks for providing financial services
by Claessens, Stijn & Klingebiel, Daniela
- 2188 Financial liberalization and the capital account : Thailand, 1988-97
by Alba, Pedro & Hernandez, Leonardo & Klingebiel, Daniela
- 2187 Who determines Mexican trade policy?
by Grether,Jean-Marie & De Melo,Jaime A. P. & Olarreaga,Marcelo
- 2186 Contagion, bank lending spreads, and output fluctuations
by Agenor, Pierre-Richard & Aizenman, Joshua & Hoffmais
- 2185 Financial sector inefficiencies and coordination failures : implications for crisis management
by Agenor, Pierre-Richard & Aizenman, Joshua
- 2184 Financial services and the World Trade Organization - liberalization commitments of the developing and transition economies
by Mattoo, Aaditya
- 2183 Market discipline and financial safety net design
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asl1 & Huizinga, Harry
- 2182 The integration of transition economies into the world trading system
by Michalopoulos, Constantine
- 2181 Privatization and regulation of the seaport industry
by Trujillo, Lourdes & Nombela, Gustavo
- 2180 Regulating privatized infrastructures and airport services
by Betancor, Ofelia & Rendeiro, Robert
- 2179 How child labor and child schooling interact with adult labor
by Ray, Ranjan
- 2178 Nonfarm income, inequality, and land in Rural Egypt
by Adams, Richard H., Jr
- 2177 Fiscal adjustment and contingent government liabilities : case studies of the Czech Republic and Macedonia
by Brixi, Hana Polackova & Ghanem, Hafez & Islam, Roumeen
- 2176 Fiscal risks and the quality of fiscal adjustment in Hungary
by Brixi, Hana Polackova & Papp, Anita & Schick, Allen
- 2175 Sector growth and the dual economy model - evidence from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zimbabwe
by Blunch, Niels-Hugo & Verner, Dorte
- 2174 Prospective deficits and the asian currency crisis
by Burnside, Craig & Eichenbaum, Martin & Rebelo, Sergi
- 2173 The intriguing relation between adult minimum wage and child labor
by Basu, Kaushik
- 2172 The East Asian crisis : investigating causes and policy responses
by McKibbin, Warwick & Marin, Will
- 2171 Productivity growth and convergence in agriculture and manufacturing
by Martin, Will & Mitra, Devashish
- 2170 The distributional consequences of monetary policy : evidence from Malaysia
by Domac, Ilker
- 2169 Corruption, public finances, and the unofficial economy
by Johnson, Simon & Kaufmann, Daniel & Zoido-Lobaton, Pablo
- 2168 Wage and productivity gaps - evidence from Ghana
by Verner, Dorte
- 2167 Bonds and bridges : social and poverty
by Narayan, Deepa
- 2166 Seeking votes - the political economy of expenditures by the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES), 1991-95
by Schady, Norbert R.
- 2165 The Russian city in transition - the first six years in ten Volga capitals
by de Melo, Martha & Ofer, Gur
- 2164 Challenging El Salvador's rural health care strategy
by Lewis, Maureen & Eskeland, Gunnar S. & Traa-Valerezo, Ximena
- 2163 Coverage under old-agesecurity programs and protection for the uninsured - What are the issues?
by James, Estelle
- 2162 Quantifying the fiscal effects of trade reform
by Devarajan, Shantayanan & Go, Delfin S. & Hongyi Li
- 2161 Will the real"natural trading partner"please stand up?
by Schiff, Maurice
- 2160 Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks
by Ferreira, Francisco & Prennushi, Giovanna & Ravallion, Martin
- 2159 Provincial bank privatization in Argentina : the why, how, and"so what"?
by Clarke, George R. G. & Cull, Robert
- 2158 The effect of foreign entry on Argentina's domestic banking sector
by Clarke, George R. G. & Cull, Robert & D'Amato, Laura & Molinari, Andrea
- 2157 How regional blocs affect excluded countries - the price effects of MERCOSUR
by Won Chang & Winters, L. Alan
- 2156 How has regionalism in the 1990s affected trade?
by Soloaga, Isidro & Winters, L. Alan
- 2155 Lending booms, reserves, and the sustainability of short-term debt - inferences from the pricing of syndicated bank loans
by Eichengreen, Barry & Mody, Ashoka
- 2154 Inter-industry labor mobility in Taiwan, China
by Pack, Howard & Paxson, Christina
- 2153 Themystery of the vanishing benefits : Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
by Ravallion, Martin
- 2152 Comparing the performance of public and private water companies in the Asia and Pacific region : what a stochastic costs frontier shows
by Estache, Antonio & Rossi, Martin A.
- 2151 A few things transport regulators should know about risk and the cost of capital
by Alexander, Ian & Estache, Antonio & Oliveri, Adele
- 2150 Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's
by Ravallion, Martin & Lokshin, Michael
- 2149 Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
by Jalan, Jyotsna & Ravallion, Martin
- 2148 Social capital, houshold welfare, and poverty in Indonesia
by Grootaert, Christiaan
- 2147 Developing country goals and strategies for the Millennium Round
by Michalopoulos, Constantine
- 2146 A new database on financial development and structure
by Beck, Thorsten & Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Levine, Ross
- 2145 Assessing the impact of micro-credit on poverty and vulnerability in Bangladesh
by Zaman, Hassan
- 2144 Aid dependence reconsidered
by Azam, Jean-Paul & Devarajan, Shantayanan & O'Connell
- 2143 Bank-based and market-based financial systems - cross-country comparisons
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Levine, Ross
- 2142 Adjusting to trade policy reform
by Matusz, Steven J. & Tarr, David
- 2141 Capital flows, macroeconomic management, and the financial system - Turkey, 1989-97
by Celasun, Oya & Denizer, Cevdet & Dong He
- 2140 Gender bias in China, the Republic of Korea, and India 1920-90 - effects of war, famine, and fertility decline
by Das Gupta, Monica & Li Shuzhuo
- 2139 Small states, small problems?
by Easterly, William & Kraay, Aart
- 2138 Multilateral disciplines for investment-related policies
by Hoekman, Bernard & Saggi, Kamal
- 2137 Globalization and national development at the end ot the 20th century - tensions and challenges
by Solimano, Andres
- 2136 An empirical analysis ofcompetition, privatization, and regulation in telecommunications markets in Africa and Latin America
by Wallsten, Scott J.
- 2135 Hungary's integration into European Union markets - production and trade restructuring
by Kaminski, Bartlomiej
- 2134 Interlinkage, limited liability, and strategic interaction
by Basu, Kaushik & Bell, Clive & Bose, Pinaki
- 2133 Resolution of corporate distress - evidence from East Asia's financial crisis
by Claessens, Stijn & Djankov, Simeon & Klapper, Leora
- 2132 A regime - switching approach to studying speculative attacks : focus on European Monetary System crises
by Peria, Maria Soledad Martinez
- 2131 Efficiency wage and union effects in labor demand and wage structure in Mexico - An application of quantile analysis
by Maloney, William F. & Pontual Ribeiro, Eduardo
- 2130 Deep integration, nondiscrimination, and Euro-Mediterranean free trade
by Hoekman, Bernard & Konan, Denise Eby
- 2129 Agricultural extension - generic challenges and the ingredients for solutions
by Feder, Gershon & Willett, Anthony & Zijp, Willem
- 2128 Learning outcomes and school cost-effectiveness in Mexico : the PARE program
by Lopez Acevedo, Gladys
- 2127 Lifeboat ethics versus corporate ethics - social and demographic implications of stem and joint families
by Das Gupta, Monica
- 2126 Liberte, egalite, fraternite : exploring the role of governance in fertility decline
by Das Gupta, Monica
- 2125 Developing country agriculture and the new trade agenda
by Hoekman, Bernard & Anderson, Kym
- 2124 Social exclusion and land administration in Orissa, India
by Mearns, Robin & Sinha, Saurabh
- 2123 Access to land in rural India - policy issues and options
by Mearns, Robin
- 2122 Decentralization and fiscal management in Colombia
by Dillinger, William & Webb, Steven B.
- 2121 Fiscal management in federal democracies : Argentina and Brazil
by Dillinger,William R. & Webb,Steven Benjamin
- 2120 Can Africa export manufactures? The role of endowment, exchange rates, and transaction costs
by Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.
- 2119 Tax deductions, environmental policy, and the"double dividend"hypothesis
by Parry, Ian & Bento, Antonio
- 2118 Developing countries and the next round of multilateral trade negotiations
by Krueger, Anne O.
- 2117 On the size and number of regional integration arrangements - a political economy model
by Andriamananjara, Soamiely
- 2116 Does child labor displace schooling? - evidence on behavioral responses to an enrollment subsidy
by Ravallion, Martin & Wodon, Quentin
- 2115 Foreign investment and productivity growth in Czech enterprises
by Djankov, Simeon & Hoekman, Bernard
- 2114 Economic reforms and total factor productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (1950-95) - an empirical note
by Fajnzylber, Pablo & Lederman, Daniel
- 2113 Wage determination and gender discrimination in a transition economy : the case of Romania
by Paternostro, Stefano & Sahn, David E.
- 2112 Industrial policy after the East Asian crisis - from"outward orientation"to new internal capabilities?
by Mody, Ashoka
- 2111 Agricultural land reform in postwar Japan : experiences and issues
by Kawagoe, Toshihiko
- 2110 Life during growth : international evidence on quality of life and per capita income
by Easterly, William
- 2109 When is fiscal adjustment an illusion?
by Easterly, William
- 2108 Public goods and ethnic divisions
by Alesina, Alberto & Baqir, Reza & Easterly, William
- 2107 Approaches to liberalizing services
by Stephenson, Sherry M.
- 2106 Subjective economic welfare
by Ravallion, Martin & Lokshin, Michael
- 2105 Wage rates and job queues - does the public sector overpay in Ethiopia?
by Mengistae, Taye
- 2104 The relative effects of skill formation and job matching on wage growth in Ethiopia
by Mengistae, Taye
- 2103 Was the credit channel a key monetary transmission mechanism following the recent financial crisis in the Republic of Korea?
by Kim, Hyun E.
- 2102 Self-employment and labor turnover - cross-country evidence
by Maloney, William F.
- 2101 Are wages and productivity in Zimbabwe affected by human capital investment and international trade?
by Verner, Dorte
- 2100 Decentralization in regional fiscal systems in Russia - trends and links to economic performance
by Freinkman, Lev & Yossifov, Plamen
- 2099 Mutual funds and institutional investments - what is the most efficient way to set up individual accounts in a social security system?
by James, Estelle & Ferrier, Gary & Smalhout, James & Vittas, Dimitri
- 2098 Reconsidering the evidence on returns to T&V extension in Kenya
by Gautam, Madhur & Anderson, Jack R.
- 2097 The theory of access pricing : an overview for infrastructure regulators
by Valletti, Tommaso M. & Estache, Antonio
- 2096 Reforming the urban transport sector in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan region - a case study in concessions
by Rebelo, Jorge M.
- 2095 Ten years of post-socialist transition lessons for policy reform
by Koldko, Grzegorz W.
- 2094 What triggers market jitters? A chronicle of the Asian crisis
by Kaminsky, Graciela L. & Schmukler, Sergio L.
- 2093 Free entry in infrastructure
by Ehrhardt, David & Burdon, Rebecca
- 2092 What does aid to Africa finance?
by Devarajan, Shantayanan & Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil & Swaroop, Vinaya
- 2091 Beyond unequal development : an overview
by Solimano, Andres
- 2090 Risks, lessons learned, and secondary markets for greenhouse gas reductions
by Larson, Donald F. & Parks, Paul
- 2089 Corporate diversification in East Asia : the role of ultimate ownership and group affiliation
by Claessens, Stijn & Djankov, Simeon & Joseph P. H. Fan & Lang, Larry H. P.
- 2088 Expropriation of minority shareholders : evidence from East Asia
by Claessens, Stijn & Djankov, Simeon & Joseph P. H. Fan & Lang, Larry H. P.
- 2087 Male-female differences in labor market outcomes during the early transition to market : the case of Estonia and Slovenia
by Orazem, Peter F. & Vodopivec, Milan
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