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1991
- 711 Financial reform in socialist economies in transition
by Long, Millard & Sagari, Silvia B.
- 710 Urban property tax reform : guidelines and recommendations
by Dillinger, William
- 709 An empirical macroeconomic model for policy design : the case of Chile
by Serven, Luis & Solimano, Andres
- 708 Nongovernmental organizations and health delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
by DeJong, Jocelyn
- 707 Population, health, and nutrition : fiscal 1990 sector review
by Phn
- 706 Successful nutrition programs in Africa : what makes them work?
by Kennedy, Eileen
- 705 What causes differences in achievement in Zimbabwe's secondary schools?
by Nyagura, Levi Martin & Riddell, Abby Rubin
- 704 Costs and finance of higher education in Pakistan
by Bellew, Rosemary & DeStefano, Joseph
- 703 The political economy of fiscal policy and inflation in developing countries : an empirical analysis
by Edwards, Sebastian & Tabellini, Guido
- 702 Should price reform proceed gradually or in a"big bang?"
by van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 701 Education and adjustment : a review of the literature
by Noss, Andrew
- 700 Trade liberalization and the transition to a market economy
by Havrylyshyn, Oleh & Tarr, David
- 699 Regulation and deregulation in industrial countries : some lessons for LDCs
by Bradburd, Ralph & Ross, David R.
- 698 Tax policy options to promote private capital formation in Pakistan
by Feltenstein, Andrew & Shah, Anwar
- 697 Volatility reversal from interest rates to the real exchange rate : financial liberalization in Chile, 1975-82
by McNelis, Paul D. & Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
- 696 Macroeconomics of public sector deficits : the case of Chile
by Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus & Marshall, Jorge
- 695 Long term prospects in Eastern Europe : the role of external finance in an era of change
by Diwan, Ishac & Saldanha, Fernando
- 694 Labor markets in an era of adjustment : an overview
by Horton, Susan & Kanbur, Ravi & Mazumdar, Dipak
- 693 Report on adjustment lending II : lessons forEastern Europe
by Corbo, Vittorio
- 692 Health financing in the poor countries : cost recovery or cost reduction?
by Brunet-Jailly, J.
- 691 Can debt-reduction policies restore investment and economic growth in highly indebted countries? A macroeconomic framework applied to Argentina
by Morisset, Jacques
- 689 Do tax policies stimulate investment in physical and research and development capital?
by Baffes, John & Shah, Anwar
- 688 Macroeconomics of public sector deficits : the case of Zimbabwe
by Morande, Felipe & Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
- 687 Brazilian frozen concentrated orange juice : the folly of unfair trade cases
by Primo Braga, Carlos Alberto & Silber, Simao Davi
- 686 Lending for learning : twenty years of World Bank support for basic education
by Verspoor, Adriaan
- 685 Children and intra-household inequality : a theoretical analysis
by Kanbur, Ravi
- 684 The value of intra-household survey data for age-based nutritional targeting
by Haddad, Lawrence & Kanbur, Ravi
- 683 Vocational schooling, occupational matching, and labor market earnings in Israel
by Neuman, Shoshana & Ziderman, Adrian
- 682 Intertemporal substitution, risk aversion, and private savings in Mexico
by Arrau, Patricio & van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 681 Political economy arguments for uniform tariffs
by Panagariya, Arvind & Rodrik, Dani
- 680 On hunger and public action
by Ravallion, Martin
- 679 Poverty alleviation in Mexico
by Levy, Santiago
- 678 Economic growth : a review of the theoretical and empirical literature
by Renelt, David
- 677 On economic transformation in East - Central Europe : a historical and international perspective
by Solimano, Andres
- 676 Higher education in the Republic of Yemen : the University of Sana'a
by Selvaratnam, Viswanathan & Regel, Omporn L.
- 675 Are buybacks back? Menu-driven debt-reduction schemes with heterogenous creditors
by Diwan, Ishac & Spiegel, Mark M.
- 674 Distributional effects of adjustment policies : simulations for two archetypes economies
by Bourguignon, Francois & de Melo, Jaime & Akiko Suwa
- 673 The macroeconomics of public sector deficits : the case of Pakistan
by Haque, Nadeem U. & Montiel, Peter
- 672 The macroeconomics of public sector deficits : the case of Ghana
by Islam, Roumeen & Wetzel, Deborah L.
- 671 Lessons from the heterodox stabilization programs
by Kiguel, Miguel A. & Liviatan, Nissan
- 670 Inflation adjustments of financial statements : application of international accounting standard 29 : financial reporting in hyperinflationary economies
by Goldschmidt, Yaaqov & Yaron, Jacob
- 669 Are high real interest rates bad for world economic growth?
by Shafik, Nemat & Jalali, Jalaleddin
- 668 Inflation tax and deficit financing in Egypt
by Dinh, Hinh T. & Giugale, Marcelo
- 667 VERs under imperfect competition and foreign direct investment : a case study of the U.S. - Japan auto VER
by de Melo, Jaime & Tarr, David
- 666 Agriculture and the transition to the market
by Brooks, Karen M. & Guasch, Jose Luis & Braverman, Avishay & Csaki, Csaba
- 665 Microeconomic distortions : static losses and their effect on the efficiency of investment
by Lopez, Ramon
- 664 Should employee participation be part of privatization?
by Lee, Barbara W.
- 663 Bank holding companies : a better structure for conducting universal banking?
by Talley, Samuel H.
- 662 Trends in social indicators and social sector financing
by van der Gaag, Jacques & Makonnen, Elene & Englebert, Pierre
- 661 The Bretton Woods agencies and sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s : facing the tough questions
by Feinberg, Richard E.
- 660 The development of the Colombian cut flower industry
by Mendez, Jose A.
- 659 Inflation and growth in the transition from socialism : the case of Bulgaria
by Solimano, Andres
- 658 Cote d'Ivoire - Fiscal policy with fixed nominal exchange rates
by Chamley, Christophe & Ghanem, Hafez
- 657 Distributional aspects of debt adjustment
by Diwan, Ishac & Verdier, Thierry
- 656 Relative deprivation and migration : theory, evidence, and policy implications
by Stark, Oded & Taylor, J. Edward
- 655 Interest rate policy in Egypt : its role in stabilization and adjustment
by Dailami, Mansoor & Hinh T. Dinh
- 654 Reflections on credit policy in developing countries : its effect on private investment
by Dailami, Mansoor & Giugale, Marcelo
- 653 The effects of option hedging on the costs of domestic price stabilization schemes
by Larson, Donald F. & Coleman, Jonathan
- 652 Demographic response to economic shock
by Hill, Kenneth
- 651 Taxation of financial assets in developing countries
by Chamley, Christophe
- 650 Administrative valuation of Soviet agricultural land : results using Lithuanian production data
by Brooks, Karen
- 649 An observation on the bias in clinic-based estimates of malnutrition rates
by Grosh, Margaret E. & Fox, Kristin & Jackson, Maria
- 648 Who paid the bill? Adjustment and poverty in Brazil, 1980-95
by Fox, M. Louise & Morley, Samuel A.
- 647 Growth rates and aggregate welfare : an international comparison
by Kakwani, Nanak
- 646 The developmental effectiveness of aid to Africa
by Killick, Tony
- 645 Poverty, policy, and industrialization : lessons from the distant past
by Polak, Ben & Williamson, Jeffrey G.
- 644 Trade and payments arrangements in post-CMEA Eastern and Central Europe
by Michalopoulos, Constantine & Tarr, David
- 643 Regional integration among developing countries, revisited
by Inotai, Andras
- 642 How a change in Brazil's sugar policies would affect the world sugar market
by Borrell, Brent
- 641 Intertemporal substitution in consumption : evidence for some high- and middle-income countries
by Pedersen, Karsten N.
- 640 The impact of policy in African agriculture : an empirical investigation
by Jaeger,William K.
- 639 The high cost of protecting Uruguay's automotive industry
by Takacs, Wendy E.
- 638 Researching the trade - productivity link : new directions
by Tybout, James R.
- 637 Poverty in Poland : 1978-88
by Milanovic, Branko
- 636 Economic integration in Eastern Europe
by Balassa, Bela
- 635 Exchange rates and foreign tradein Korea
by Balassa, Bela
- 634 Trends in developing country exports, 1963-88
by Balassa, Bela
- 633 The macroeconomic effects of the public sector deficit : the case of Thailand
by Ramangkura, Virabongse & Nidhiprabha, Bhanupongse
- 632 The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Argentina
by Rodriguez, Carlos Alfredo
- 631 The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Morocco
by Faini, Riccardo
- 630 The spirit of capitalism and long-run growth
by Heng-fu Zou
- 629 An atheoretic evaluation of success in structural adjustment
by Conway, Patrick
- 628 The Indonesian family planning program : an economic perspective
by Chernichovsky, Dov & Pardoko, Henry & De Leeuw, David & Rahardjo, Pudjo & Lerman, Charles
- 627 The role of institutions in poverty reduction : a focus on the productive sectors
by Holt, Sharon L.
- 626 The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Colombia
by Easterly, William
- 625 How trade and macroeconomic policies affect economic growth and capital accumulation in developing countries
by Lopez, Ramon
- 624 Choosing policy instruments for pollution control : a review
by Eskeland, Gunnar S. & Jimenez, Emmanuel
- 623 World Bank-supported adjustment programs : country performance and effectiveness
by Corbo, Vittorio & Rojas, Patricio
- 622 How factors in creditor countries affect secondary market prices for developing country debt
by Ozler, Sule & Huizinga, Harry
- 621 Sensible debt buybacks for highly indebted countries
by Detragiache, Enrica
- 620 Have commercial banks ignored history?
by Ozler, Sule
- 619 Foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa
by Cockcroft, Laurence & Riddell, Roger C.
- 618 Poverty and development : the Human Development Report and the World Development Report, 1990
by Kanbur, Ravi
- 617 International poverty projections
by Anand, Sudhir & Kanbur, S. M. Ravi
- 616 Optimal non-linear income taxation for the alleviation of income poverty
by Kanbur, Ravi & Keen, Michael & Toumala, Matti
- 615 Socialist economic growth and political investment cycles
by Zou, Heng-fu
- 614 Accountability in public services : exit, voice and capture
by Paul, Samuel
- 613 Price - wage dynamics and the transmission of inflation in socialist economies : empirical models for Hungary and Poland
by Commander, Simon & Coricelli, Fabrizio
- 612 Education and productivity in developing countries : an aggregate production function approach
by Lau, Lawrence J. & Jamison, Dean T. & Louat, Frederic F.
- 611 Tariff-based commodity price stabilization schemes in Venezuela
by Coleman, Jonathan R. & Larson, Donald F.
- 610 Can preshipment inspection offset noncompetitive pricing of development countries'imports? The evidence from Madagascar
by Yeats, Alexander J.
- 609 A sensitivity analysis of cross-country growth regressions
by Levine, Ross & Renelt, David
- 608 Cross-country studies of growth and policy : methodological, conceptual, and statistical problems
by Levine, Ross & Renelt, David
- 607 Abolishing green rates : the effects on cereals, sugar, and oilseeds in West Germany
by Larson, Donald F. & Glance, Simon & Borrell, Brent & Ingco, Merlinda & Coleman, Jonathan
- 606 Adjustment policies and investment performance in developing countries : theory, country experiences, and policy implications
by Serven, Luis & Solimano, Andres
- 605 Overview of contractual savings institutions
by Vittas, Dimitri & Skully, Michael
- 604 Foreign trade and its relation to competition and productivity in Turkish industry
by Foroutan, Faezeh
- 603 The role of officially supported export credits in sub-Saharan Africa's external financing
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Erzan, Refik
- 602 Firm output adjustment to trade liberalization : theory with application to the Moroccan experience
by Dutz,Mark Andrew
- 601 Europe, Middle East, and North Africa region population projections : 1990-91
by Bos, Eduard & Stephens, Patience W. & Vu, My T. & Bulatao, Rodolfo A.
- 600 Latin America and the Caribbean region population projections : 1990-91
by Vu, My T. & Bos, Eduard & Stephens, Patience W. & Bulatao, Rodolfo
- 599 Asia region population projections : 1990-91 edition
by Bos, Eduard & Stephens, Patience W. & My T. Vu & Bulatao, Rodolfo A.
- 598 Africa region population projections : 1990-91
by Stephens, Patience W. & Bos, Eduard & Vu, My T. & Bulatao, Rodolfo A.
- 597 Rent sharing in the multi-fibre arrangement : theory and evidence from US apparel imports from Hong Kong
by Erzan, Refik & Krishna, Kala & Ling Hui Tan
- 596 The Mexican sugar industry : problems and prospects
by Borrell, Brent
- 595 Hungary : financial sector reform in a socialist economy
by Blejer, Mario I. & Sagari, Silvia B.
- 594 Size rationalization and trade exposure in developing countries
by Roberts, Mark J. & Tybout, James R.
- 593 Risk management in sub-Saharan Africa
by Claessens, Stijn & Qian, Ying
- 592 Official credits to developing countries : implicit transfers to the banks
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Huizinga, Harry
- 591 Global indicators of nutritional risk
by Galloway, Rae
- 590 The domestic financial market and the trade liberalization outcome : the evidence from Sri Lanka
by Athukorala, Premachandra & Rajapatirana, Sarath
- 589 To prescribe or not to prescribe : on the regulation of pharmaceuticals in less developed countries
by Hammer, Jeffrey S.
- 588 Obstacles to developing small and medium-sized enterprises : an empirical assessment
by Levy, Brian
- 587 Quantifying the magnitude and severity of absolute poverty in the developing world in the mid-1980s
by Ravallion, Martin & Datt, Gaurav & van de Walle, Dominique & Chan, Elaine
- 586 The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh
by Ravallion, Martin
- 585 Financial innovation and money demand : theory and empirical implementation
by Arrau, Patricio & de Gregorio, Jose
- 584 Whither Hungary and the European communities?
by Tovias, Alfred & Laird, Sam
- 583 World Bank lending for education research, 1982-89
by Lockheed, Marlaine E. & Rodd, Alastair G.
- 582 Adjustment programs and Bank support : rationale and main results
by Corbo, Vittorio & Fischer, Stanley
- 581 How successful is World Bank lending for structural adjustment?
by Conway, Patrick
- 580 Do natural resource-based industrialization strategies convey important (unrecognized) price benefits for commodity-exporting developing countries?
by Yeats, Alexander J.
- 579 Chile's experience with stabilization, revisited
by Corbo, Vittorio & Solimano, Andres
- 578 The Bank's use of technical assistance for institutional development
by Buyck, Beatrice
- 577 Africa's rising inflation : causes, consequences, and cures
by Chhibber, Ajay
- 576 Lessons from tax reform : an overview
by Thirsk, Wayne
- 575 Household saving in developing countries : first cross-country evidence
by Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus & Webb, Steven B. & Corsetti,
- 574 Public policies and saving in developing countries
by Corbo, Vittorio & Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
- 573 Malaysian labor markets under structural adjustment
by Mazumdar, Dipak
- 572 Capital positions of Japanese banks
by Kane, Edward J. & Unal, Haluk & Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
- 571 Credit's effect on productivity in Chinese agriculture : a microeconomic model of disequilibrium
by Feder, Gershon & Lau, Lawrence J. & Lin, Justin Y. & Xiaopeng Luo
- 570 Debt concentration and secondary market prices
by Fernandez, Raquel & Ozler, Sule
- 569 Domestic purchase requirements for import license allocations in Mali
by Takacs, Wendy E.
- 568 Higher wages for relief work can make many of the poor worse off : recent evidence from Maharashtra's"Employment Guarantee Scheme"
by Ravallion, Martin & Datt, Gaurav & Chaudhuri, Shubham
- 567 Macroeconomic management and the division of powers in Brazil : perspectives for the nineties
by Bomfim, Antulio N. & Shah, Anwar
- 566 Measuring outward orientation in developing countries : can it be done?
by Pritchett, Lant
- 540 Venture capital operations and their potential role in LDC markets
by Sagari, Silvia & Guidotti, Gabriela
1990
- 14310 PRE working papers : catalog of numbers 1 to 400
by anonymous
- 565 Issues in socialist economy reform
by Fischer, Stanley & Gelb, Alan
- 564 Costs and benefits of agricultural price stabilization in Brazil
by Braverman, Avishay & Kanbur, Ravi & Brandao, Antonio Salazar P. & Hammer, Jeffrey & Lopes, Mauro de Rezende & Tan, Alexandra
- 563 Empirical investment equations in developing countries
by Rama, Martin
- 562 Anticipated real exchange-rate changes and the dynamics of investment
by Serven, Luis
- 561 The labor market and the transition of socialist economies
by Vodopivec, Milan
- 560 The persistence of job security in reforming socialist economies
by Vodopivec, Milan
- 559 Fiscal policy and private investment in developing countries : recent evidence on key selected issues
by Chhibber, Ajay & Dailami, Mansoor
- 558 Alternative instruments for smoothing the consumption of primary commodity exporters
by Kletzer, Kenneth M. & Newbery, David M. & Wright, Brian D.
- 557 The new fiscal federalism in Brazil
by Shah, Anwar
- 556 Taxing choices in deficit reduction
by Baffes, John & Shah, Anwar
- 555 The macroeconomics of price reform in socialist countries : a dynamic framework
by Commander, Simon & Coricelli, Fabrizio
- 554 Korea's labor markets under structural adjustment
by Mazumdar, Dipak
- 553 Money, inflation, and deficit in Egypt
by Giugale, Marcelo & Hinh T. Dinh
- 552 Selected World Bank poverty studies : a summary of approaches, coverage, and findings
by Gillespie, Nancy
- 551 Australia's antidumping experience
by Banks, Gary
- 550 Firms'responses to relative price changes in Cote d'Ivoire : the implications for export subsidies and devaluations
by Newman, John L. & Lavy, Victor & Salomon, Raoul & de Vreyer, Philippe
- 549 Intertemporal substitution in a monetary framework : evidence from Chile and Mexico
by Arrau, Patricio
- 548 Deposit insurance in developing countries
by Talley, Samuel H. & Mas, Ignacio
- 547 Does high technology matter? An application to United States regional growth
by Boltho, Andrea & King, Robert
- 546 The transition to export-led growth in South Korea : 1954-1966
by Haggard, Stephan & Byung-Kook Kim & Chung-In Moon
- 545 Health and development : what can research contribute?
by Birdsall, Nancy
- 544 How support services can expand manufactured exports : new methods of assistance
by Keesing, Donald B. & Singer, Andrew
- 543 Development assistance gone wrong : why support services have failed to expand exports
by Keesing, Donald B. & Singer, Andrew
- 542 The metals price boom of 1987-89 : the role of supply disruptions and stock changes
by Boum-Jong Choe
- 541 Pricing average price options for the 1990 Mexican and Venezuelan recapture clauses
by Claessens, Stijn & van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 539 Maternal health in Jamaica : health needs, services, and utilization
by Feifer, Chris Naschak
- 538 Agricultural reform in developing countries : reflections for Eastern Europe
by Braverman, Avishay & Guasch, J. Luis
- 537 Commodity exports and real income in Africa
by Panagariya, Arvind & Schiff, Maurice
- 536 The link between poverty and malnutrition : a household theoretic approach
by Schiff, Maurice & Valdes, Alberto
- 535 Shared investment in general training : the role of information
by Katz, Eliakim & Ziderman, Adrian
- 534 Risk facing U.S. commercial banks
by Prywes, Menahem
- 533 Government revenue from financial repression
by Giovannini, Alberto & de Melo, Martha
- 532 Privatization in Turkey
by Kjellstrom, Sven B.
- 531 The World Bank's role in shaping Third World population policy
by Sai, Fred T. & Chester,Lauren A.
- 530 The menu approach to developing country external debt : an analysis of commercial banks'choice behavior
by Diwan, Ishac & Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
- 529 The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period : evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s
by Huppi, Monika & Ravallion, Martin
- 528 Monetary policy instruments for developing countries
by Caprio, Gerard & Honohan, Patrick
- 527 Voluntary choices in concerted deals : mechanics and attributes of the menu approach
by Diwan, Ishac & Kletzer, Ken
- 526 Rural poverty in India, 1973-86
by Kakwani, Nanak & Subbarao, Kalinidhi
- 525 School effects on achievement in secondary mathematics and Portuguese in Brazil
by Lockheed, Marlaine E. & Burns, Barbara
- 524 The Kuwaiti NGOs : their role in aid flows to developing countries
by Abdulhadi, Nural
- 523 EC Bananarama 1992
by Borrell, Brent & Maw-Cheng Yang
- 522 A survey of the costs of world sugar policies
by Borrell, Brent & Duncan, Ronald C.
- 521 World Bank treatment of the social impact of adjustment programs
by Ribe,Helena & Carvalho, Soniya
- 520 Trade reform, policy uncertainty, and the current account
by van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 519 Taxes, outward orientation, and growth performance in Korea
by Trela, Irene & Whalley, John
- 518 Industrial organization and trade liberalization : evidence from Korea
by de Melo, Jaime & Roland-Holst, David
- 517 Do wage distortions justify protection in the U.S. auto and steel industries?
by de Melo, Jaime & Tarr, David
- 516 International capital mobility and the costs of U.S. import restraints
by de Melo, Jaime & Roland-Holst, David
- 515 Stock markets in developing countries : key issues and a research agenda
by Dailami, Mansoor & Atkin, Michael
- 514 Restrictive labor practices in seaports
by Harding, Alan S.