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1994
- 1245 The adding-up problem : strategies for primary commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa
by Akiyama, Takamasa & Larson, Donald F. & DEC
- 1244 Difficulties of transferring risk-based capital requirements to developing countries
by Kane, Edward J.*DEC
- 1243 Are institutional investors an important source of portfolio investment in emerging markets?
by Chuhan, Punam & DEC
- 1242 Financial policies in socialist countries in transition
by Pleskovic, Boris
- 1241 Regulation, institutions, and commitment in the British telecommunications sector
by Spiller, Pablo T. & Vogelsang, Ingo & DEC
- 1240 Financing the storm : macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93
by Easterly, William & da Cunha, Paulo Viera & DEC
- 1239 Principles of regulatory policy design
by Sappington, David E.M. & DEC
- 1238 Structural adjustment in the 1980s : Kenya
by Swamy, Gurushri & DEC
1993
- 14411 Policy research working papers : catalog of numbers 801-1200
by anonymous
- 12427 Policy, Research working paper series : numbers 1163-1197
by anonymous
- 1362 Regulation, institutions and commitment : the Jamaican telecommunications sector
by Spiller, Pablo T. & Sampson, Cezley I.
- 1237 Assessing Bank performance and the impact of financial restructuring in a macroeconomic framework : a new application
by Boray, Yavuz & Sierra, Hector
- 1236 The impact of two tier producer and consumer food pricing in India
by Schiff, Maurice
- 1235 Eastern Europe's experience with banking reform : is there a role for banks in the transition?
by Thorne, Alfredo & DEC
- 1234 Price formation, nominal anchors, and stabilization policies in Hungary : an empirical analysis
by Solimano, Andres & Yuravlivker, David E. & DEC
- 1233 Hedging cotton price risk in Francophone African countries
by Satyanarayan, Sudhakar & Thigpen, Elton & Varangis, Panos & DEC
- 1232 Will GATT enforcement control antidumping?
by Finger, J. Michael & Fung, K.C. & DEC
- 1231 Making a market : mass privatization in the Czech and Slovak Republics
by Shafik, Nemat & DEC
- 1230 Unemployment in Mexico : its characteristics and determinants
by Revenga, Ana & Riboud, Michelle & DEC
- 1229 The structure, regulation, and performance of pension funds in nine industrial countries
by Davis, E.P. & DEC
- 1228 Competition, competition policy, and the GATT
by Hoekman, Bernard M. & Mavroidis, Petros C. & DEC
- 1227 Designing water institutions : market failures and institutional response
by Livingston, Marie Leigh & DEC
- 1226 Forecasting volatility in commodity markets
by Kroner, Kenneth F. & Kneafsey, Devin P. & Claessens, Stijn & DEC
- 1225 Intra - Sub - Saharan African trade : is it too little?
by Foroutan, Faezeh & Pritchett, Lant
- 1224 Devaluation in low-inflation economies
by Kiguel, Miguel A. & Ghei, Nita
- 1223 How robust is a poverty profile?
by Ravallion, Martin & Bidani, Benu
- 1222 Trade reform in ten sub-Saharan African countries : achievements and failures
by Foroutan, Faezeh
- 1221 Does results and development (R&D) contribute to economic growth in developing countries?
by Birdsall, Nancy & Rhee, Changyong
- 1220 Developing countries and the Uruguay Round : negotiations on services
by Hoekman, Bernard & DEC
- 1219 Decentralizing water resource management : economic incentives, accountability, and assurance
by Easter, K. William & Hearne, Robert R. & DEC
- 1218 Implementation of trade reform in sub-Saharan Africa : how much heat and how much light?
by Nash, John & DEC
- 1217 Unitary versus collective models of the household : time to shift theburden of proof?
by Chiappori, Pierre-Andre & Haddad, Lawrence & Hoddinott, John & Kanbur, Ravi
- 1216 Regulation, institutions, and commitment : privatization and regulation in the Argentine telecommunications sector
by Hill, Alice & Abdala, Manuel Angel & DEC
- 1215 How much do distortions affect growth?
by Easterly, William & DEC
- 1214 Trade, aid, and investment in sub-Saharan Africa
by Husain, Ishrat & DEC
- 1213 Japanese foreign direct investment : recent trends, determinants, and prospects
by Kwang W. Jun & Sader, Frank & Haruo Horaguchi & Hyuntai Kwak & DEC
- 1212 The links between economic policy and research : three examples from Ghana and some general thoughts
by Kanbur, Ravi
- 1211 Savings investment correlations and capital mobility in developing countries
by Mamingi, Nlandu
- 1210 The taxation of natural resources : principles and policy issues
by Boadway, Robin & Flatters, Frank
- 1209 Should East Asia go regional? No, no and maybe
by Panagariya, Arvind
- 1208 Primary school achievement in English and mathematics in Zimbabwe : a multi-level analysis
by Nyagura, Levi M. & Riddell, Abby
- 1207 Characteristics and performance of settlement programs : a review
by Kinsey, Bill H. & Binswanger, Hans P.
- 1206 Empirical perspectives on national index funds
by Diwan, Ishac & Errunza, Vihang & Senbet, Lemma W.
- 1205 Wage and employment decisions in the Russian economy : an analysis of developments in 1992
by Commander, Simon & Liberman, Leonid & Yemtsov, Ruslan
- 1204 Structural adjustment, economic performance, and aid dependency in Tanzania
by Agrawal, Nisha & Ahmed, Zafar & Mered, Michael & Nord, Roger & DEC
- 1203 Determinants of value - added tax revenue : a cross section analysis
by Bogetic, Zeljko & Hassan, Fareed
- 1202 Privatization and foreign investment in the developing world, 1988-92
by Sader, Frank
- 1201 Five criteria for choosing among poverty programs
by Grosh, Margaret E.
- 1200 The life cycle distributional consequence of pay-as-you-go and funded pension systems
by Falkingham, Jane & Johnson, Paul
- 1199 Publicpension governance and performance : lessons for developing countries
by Mitchell, Olivia S.
- 1198 Enterprise reform in China : the evolving legal framework
by Lichtenstein, Natalie G. & DEC
- 1197 Determinants of inflation among franc zone countries in Africa
by Boccara, Bruno & Devarajan, Shantayanan
- 1196 Corporate tax structure and production
by Bernstein, Jeffrey & Shah, Anwar
- 1195 The enterprise sector and emergence of the Polish fiscal crisis, 1990-91
by Schaffer, Mark
- 1194 How fast has Chinese industry grown?
by Rawski, Tom
- 1193 The Armenian labor market in transition : issues and options
by Vodopivec, Milan & Vroman, Wayne
- 1192 Effects of tax reform on Argentina's revenues
by Morisset, Jacques & Izquierdo, Alejandro
- 1191 Rent-sharing in the multi-fibre arrangement : the case of Mexico
by Bannister, Geoffrey J.
- 1190 The government's role in Japanese and Korean credit markets : a new institutional economics perspective
by Yoon Je Cho & Hellmann, Thomas
- 1189 Can Communist economies transform incrementally? China's experience
by Gelb, Alan & Jefferson, Gary & Singh, Inderjit
- 1188 Developmentalism, socialism, and free market reform : three decades of income distribution in Chile
by Marcel, Mario & Solimano, Andres
- 1187 How should sovereign debtors restructure their debts? Fixed interest rates, flexible interest rates, or inflation - indexed
by Warner, Andrew
- 1186 Recent estimates of capital flight
by Claessens, Stijn & Naude, David
- 1185 Reforming Hungarian agricultural trade policy : a quantitative evaluation
by Morkre, Morris & Tarr, David G.
- 1184 Providing social benefits in Russia : redefining the roles of firms and government
by Commander, Simon & Jackman, Richard
- 1183 Who would vote for inflation in Brazil? : an integrated framework approach to inflation and income distribution
by Kane, Cheikh & Morisett, Jacques
- 1182 Corporate governance in Central and Eastern Europe : lessons from advanced market economies
by Gray, Cheryl W. & Hanson, Rebecca J.
- 1181 Reforming health care : a case for stay well health insurance
by Bogetic, Zeljko & Heffley, Dennis
- 1180 The financing and taxation of U.S. direct investment abroad
by Huizinga, Harry
- 1179 How the market transition affected export performance in the Central European economies
by Kaminski, Bartlomiej & DEC
- 1178 Productivity of public spending, sectoral allocation choices, and economic growth
by Baffes, John & Shah, Anwar
- 1177 Environmental taxes and policies for developing countries
by Bruce, Neil & Ellis, Gregory M.
- 1176 Cash social transfers, direct taxes, and income distribution in late socialism
by Milanovic, Branko
- 1175 OECD trade barriers faced by the successor states of the Soviet Union
by Kaminski, Bartlomiej & Yeats, Alexander
- 1174 Asian trade barriers against primary and processed commodities
by Safadi, Raed & Yeats, Alexander
- 1173 Morocco's free trade agreement with the European community : a quantitative assessment
by Rutherford, Thomas F. & Rutstrom, E.E. & Tarr, David
- 1172 Liberalizing Indian agriculture : an agenda for reform
by Pursell, Garry & Gulati, Ashok
- 1171 Finance and its reform : beyond laissez-faire
by Caprio, Gerard Jr. & Summers, Lawrence H.
- 1170 Job search by employed workers : the effects of restrictions
by Bar-Ilan, Avner & Levy, Anat
- 1169 Costs and benefits of debt and debt service reduction
by Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo
- 1168 How macroeconomic projections in policy framework papers for the African region compare with outcomes
by Faruqee, Rashid
- 1167 Unemployment and labor market dynamics in Russia
by Commander, Simon & Liberman, Leonid & Yemtsov, Ruslan
- 1166 The behavior of Russian firms in 1992 : evidence from a survey
by Commander, Simon & Liberman, Leonid & Ugaz, Cecilia
- 1165 Social costs of the transition to capitalism : Poland, 1990-91
by Milanovic, Branko
- 1164 Power, distortions, revolt, and reform in agricultural land relations
by Binswanger, Hans P. & Deininger, Klaus & Feder, Gershon
- 1163 Domestic distortions and international trade
by Anderson, James E. & Neary, J. Peter
- 1162 The Slovenian labor market in transition : issues and lessons learned
by Vodopivec, Milan & Hribar-Milic, Samo
- 1161 Increasing women's participation in the primary school teaching force and teacher training in Nepal
by Teas, Molly Maguire
- 1160 Equity and bond flows to Asia and Latin America : the role of global and country factors
by Chuhan, Punam & Claessens,Constantijn A. & Mamingi,
- 1159 Stock market development and financial intermediary growth : a research agenda
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Levine, Ross
- 1158 Population growth, externalities, and poverty
by Birdsall, Nancy & Griffin, Charles
- 1157 Intertemporal and interspatial comparisons of income : the meaning of relative prices
by Ahmad, Sultan
- 1156 Tropical timber trade policies : what impact will eco-labeling have?
by Varangis, Panayotis N. & Primo Braga, Carlos A. & Kenji Takeuchi
- 1155 The regulation and structure of nonlife insurance in the United States
by Grace, Martin F. & Barth, Michael M.
- 1154 Options for pension reform in Tunisia
by Vittas, Dimitri
- 1153 North American free trade agreement : issues on trade in financial services for Mexico
by Vittas, Dimitri & Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Musalem, Alberto
- 1152 Population, health, and nutrition : annual operational review for fiscal 1992
by Vaillancourt, Denise & Brown, Stacye
- 1151 Is growth bad for the environment? Pollution, abatement, and endogenous growth
by van Marrewijk, Charles & van der Ploeg, Federick & Verbeek, Jos
- 1150 Wealthier is healthier
by Pritchett, Lant & Summers, Lawrence H.
- 1149 How labor markets and imperfect competition affect tariff policy
by Rama, Martin
- 1148 Economic instability and aggregate investment
by Pindyck, Robert S. & Solimano, Andres
- 1147 Interest rates, growth, and external debt : the macroeconomic impact of Mexico's Brady deal
by Claessens, Stijn & Oks, Daniel & van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 1146 Is poverty increasing in the developing world?
by Shaohua Chen & Datt, Gaurav & Ravallion, Martin
- 1145 The simple(r) algebra of pension plans
by Vittas, Dimitri
- 1144 The foreign trade dimension of the market transition in Poland : the surprising export performance and its sustainability
by Kaminski, Bartlomiej
- 1143 Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform : some new facts
by Pritchett, Lant & Sethi, Geeta
- 1142 Rent - seeking trade policy : a time series approach
by Rama, Martin
- 1141 Foreign direct investment in a macroeconomic framework : finance, efficiency, incentives, and distortions
by Fry, Maxwell J.
- 1140 How retail food markets responded to price liberalization in Russia after January 1992
by Gardner, Bruce & Brooks, Karen M.
- 1139 Should sub-Saharan Africa expand cotton exports?
by Coleman, Jonathan R. & Thigpen, M. Elton
- 1138 The economic impact of military expenditures
by Landau, Daniel
- 1137 Railway reform in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies
by Blackshaw, Philip W. & Thompson, Louis S. & DEC & ESD
- 1136 The dynamic behavior of quota license prices : theory and evidence from the Hong Kong apparel quotas
by Krishna, Kala & Ling Hui Tan
- 1135 Inflation in Czechoslovakia, 1985-91
by Drabek, Zdenek & Janacek, Kamil & Tuma, Zdenek
- 1134 Bahrain - Managing a nonrenewable resource : savings and exchange-rate policies
by Elbadawi, Ibrahim A. & Nader, Majd & DEC
- 1133 Macroeconomic framework for an oil-based economy : the case of Bahrain
by Elbadawi, Ibrahim A. & Majd, Nader
- 1132 An analysis of repressed inflation in three transitional economies
by Feltenstein, Andrew & Jiming Ha
- 1131 Prices and protocols in public health care
by Hammer, Jeffrey S.
- 1130 Poverty and policy
by Lipton, Michael & Ravallion, Martin
- 1129 How policy changes affected cocoa sectors in sub-Saharan African countries
by Coleman, Jonathan R. & Akiyama, Takamasa & Varangis, Panos N.
- 1128 The international ocean transport industry in crisis : assessing the reasons and outlook
by Peters, Hans Jurgen
- 1127 How international economic links affect East Asia
by Nehru, Vikram
- 1126 The costs and benefits of Slovenian independence
by Cvikl, Milan & Kraft, Evan & Vodopivec, Milan
- 1125 Industrial development and the environment in Mexico
by Kate, Adriaan Ten
- 1124 A new database on human capital stock : sources, methodology and results
by Nehru, Vikram & Swanson, Eric & Dubey, Ashutosh
- 1123 Social development is economic development
by Birdsall, Nancy
- 1122 Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics : toward a systematic framework of analysis
by Bird, Richard & Wallich, Christine
- 1121 Measuring capital flight : a case study of Mexico
by Eggerstedt, Harald & Brideau Hall, Rebecca & van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 1120 Policies for coping with price uncertainty for Mexican maize : policies for maize price variability in Mexico
by Larson, Donald F.
- 1119 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) : its effect on South Asia
by Safadi, Raed & Yeats, Alexander
- 1118 Trends in retirement systems and lessons for reform
by Mitchell, Olivia S.
- 1117 Portfolio investment flows to emerging markets
by Gooptu, Sudarshan
- 1116 Implications of agricultural trade liberalization for the developing countries
by Salazar P. Brandao, Antonio & Martin, Will
- 1115 Looking at the facts : what we know about policy and growth from cross-country analysis
by Levine, Ross & Zervos, Sara
- 1114 Does price uncertainty really reduce private investment? A small model applied to Chile
by George, Anita & Morisset, Jacques & DEC
- 1113 The lucky few amidst economic decline : distributional change in Cote d'Ivoire as seen through panel data sets, 1985-88
by Grootaert, Christiaan & Kanbur, Ravi
- 1112 Privatization, concentration, and pressure for protection : a steel sector study
by Ying Qian & Duncan, Ronald C.
- 1111 Foreign investment law in Central and Eastern Europe
by Gray, Cheryl W. & Jarosz, William
- 1110 What would happen if all developing countries expanded their manufactured exports?
by Martin, Will
- 1109 Risk management and stable financial structures
by Sheng, Andrew & Yoon Je Cho
- 1108 Public output and private decisions : conceptual issues in the evaluation of Government activities and their implications for fiscal policy
by Catsambas, Thanos
- 1107 Financial reform lessons and strategies
by Caprio Jr, Gerard & Atiyas, Izak & Hanson, James
- 1106 Improving women's access to higher education : a review of World Bank project experience
by Dundar, Halil & Haworth, Jennifer
- 1105 Estimating quasi-fiscal deficits in a consistency framework : the case of Madagascar
by Le Houerou, Philippe & Sierra, Hector
- 1104 Trade policy reform in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1980s
by Alam, Asad & Rajapatirana, Sarath
- 1103 Capital mobility in developing countries : some measurement issues and empirical estimates
by Montiel, Peter J.
- 1102 Did the debt crisis or declining oil prices cause Mexico's investment collapse?
by Warner, Andrew M.
- 1101 Transforming state enterprises in Poland : macroeconomic evidence on adjustment
by Pinto, Brian & Belka, Marek & Krajewski, Stefan
- 1100 Indigenous territories and tropical forest management in Latin America
by Davis, Shelton H. & Wali, Alaka
- 1099 Trade unions and collective bargaining
by Katz, Harry C. & Kuruvilla, Sarosh & Turner, Lowell
- 1098 Fortress Europe and other myths concerning trade
by Baneth, Jean
- 1097 A production function-based policy simulation model of perennial commodity markets
by Takamasa Akiyama & Coleman, Jonathan R.
- 1096 How trade liberalization affected productivity in Morocco
by Haddad, Mona
- 1095 Are failproof banking systems feasible? Desirable?
by Talley, Samuel H.
- 1094 The new regionalism : a country perspective
by de Melo, Jaime & Panagariya, Arvind & Rodrik, Dani
- 1093 Swiss Chilanpore : the way forward for pension reform?
by Vittas, Dimitri
- 1092 The effect of financial liberalization on allocation of credit : panel data evidence for Ecuador
by Jaramillo, Fidel & Schiantarelli, Fabio & Weiss, Andrew
- 1091 Capital market imperfections before and after financial liberalization : a Euler Equation approach to panel data for Ecuadorian firms
by Jaramillo, Fidel & Schiantarelli, Fabio & Weiss, Andrew
- 1090 Government expenditures as a citizens'evaluation of public output : public choice and the benefit principle of taxation
by Catsambas, Thanos
- 1089 Equity portfolio investment in developing countries : a literature survey
by Claessens, Stijn
- 1088 A primer on the MFA maze
by Faini, Riccardo & de Melo, Jaime & Takacs, Wendy
- 1087 Exchange rate based stabilization : tales from Europe and Latin America
by Ades, Alberto F. & Kiguel, Miguel & Liviatan, Nissan
- 1086 Teachers'salaries in Latin America : a comparative analysis
by Psacharopoulos, George & Valenzuela, Jorge & Arends, Mary
- 1085 Economic approaches to modeling fertility determinants : a selective review
by Arroyo III, Cristino R.
- 1084 Stock market development and financial deepening in developing countries : some correlation patterns
by Dong He & Pardy, Robert
- 1083 Finance and growth : Schumpeter might be right
by King, Robert G. & Levine, Ross
- 1082 What do governments buy? The composition of public spending and economic performance
by Devarajan, Shantayanan & Swaroop, Vinaya & Heng-fu Zou
- 1081 Correcting for sampling bias in the measurement of welfare and poverty : the case of the Cote d'Ivoire living standards survey
by Demery, Lionel & Grootaert, Christiaan
- 1080 A new regional price index for Cote d'Ivoire using data from the international comparisons project
by Grootaert, Christiaan & Kanbur, Ravi
- 1079 How useful are integrated household survey data for policy-oriented analysis of poverty? Lessons from the Cote d'Ivoire living standards survey
by Grootaert, Christiaan
- 1078 The evolution of welfare and poverty under structural change and economic recession in Cote d'Ivoire, 1985-88
by Grootaert, Christiaan
- 1077 Risk management prospects for Egyptian cotton
by Varangis, Panos & Thigpen, Elton & Takamasa Akiyama
- 1076 A presumptive pigovian tax on gasoline : analysis of an air pollution control program for Mexico City
by Eskeland, Gunnar S.
- 1075 Many paths to skilled employment : a reverse tracer study of eight occupations in Colombia
by Ziderman, Adrian & Horn, Robin
- 1074 How moving to world prices affects the terms of trade in 15 countries of the former Soviet Union
by Tarr, David G.
- 1073 Fiscal aspects of developing countrydebt problems and debt and debt-service reduction operations : a conceptual framework
by Montiel, Peter J.
- 1072 Costs of alternative treatments for incomplete abortion
by Johnson, Brooke R. & Benson, Janie & Bradley, Janet & Rabago Ordonez, Aurora & Zambrano, Catia & Okoko, Leonard & Vazquez Chavez, Leticia & Quiroz, Paulina & Rogo,Khama
- 1069 Why is there proportionately more enrollment in private schools in some countries?
by James, Estelle
- 1068 Enterprise reform in Eastern Europe
by van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 1067 Returns to investment in education : a global update
by Psacharopoulos, George
- 1066 Pollution control in a decentralized economy : which level of government should subsidize what in Brazil
by Estache, Antonio & Zheng, Kangbin
- 1065 Strengthening Uganda's policy environment for investing in university development
by Eisemon, Thomas Owen & Sheehan, John & Eyoku, George & Van Buer, Franklin & Welsch, Delane & Masutti, Louisa & Colletta, Nat & Roberts, Lee
1992
- 1071 Congestion charging mechanisms for roads : an evaluation of current practice
by Hau, Timothy D.
- 1070 Economic fundamentals of road pricing : a diagrammatic analysis
by Hau, Timothy D.
- 1064 More evidence on income distribution and growth
by Clarke, George R. G.
- 1063 Mongolia - Privatization and system transformation in an isolated economy
by Denizer, Cevdet & Gelb, Alan
- 1062 Economic development, environmental regulation, and the international migration of toxic industrial pollution : 1960-88
by Lucas, Robert E.B. & Wheeler, David & Hettige, Hemamala
- 1061 Dynamic response to foreign transfers and terms-of-trade shocks in open economies
by Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus & Serven, Luis
- 1060 Economies of the former Soviet Union : an input-output approach to the 1987 national accounts
by Steinberg, Dmitri
- 1059 Political economy of policy reform in Turkey in the 1980s
by Ziya Onis & Webb, Steven B.
- 1058 The pricing of country funds and their role in capital mobilization for emerging economies
by Diwan, Ishac & Errunza, Vihang & Senbet, Lemma W.
- 1057 Measuring the incomes of economies of the former Soviet Union
by International Economics Department
- 1056 Earnings and education in Latin America : assessing priorities for schooling investments
by Psacharopoulos, George & Ying Chu Ng
- 1055 Wealth, weather risk, and the composition and profitability of agricultural investments
by Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Binswanger, Hans P.
- 1054 Eastern Europe and Russian Federation - Distributional impact of cash and in-kind social transfers in Eastern Europe and Russia
by Milanovic, Branko
- 1053 Development of the Zimbabwe family planning program
by Zinanga, Alex F.
- 1052 A reappraisal of how oral rehydration therapy affected mortality in Egypt
by Rashad,Hoda
- 1051 The legal framework for private sector activity in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
by Gray, Cheryl W.