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1991
- 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.
- 513 The business cycle associated with exchange-rate-based stabilization
by Kiguel, Miguel & Liviatan, Nissan
- 512 Social security reform : the capital accumulation and intergenerational distribution effect
by Arrau, Patricio
- 511 The macroeconomic underpinnings of adjustment lending
by Jaspersen, Fred & Shariff, Karim
- 510 Public expenditure reviews for education : the Bank's experience
by Schwartz, Antoine & Stevenson, Gail
- 509 The childbearing family in sub-Saharan Africa : structure, fertility, and the future
by Frank, Odile
- 508 A RMSM-X (Revised Minimum Standard Model) for Chile
by Servern, Luis
- 507 Poverty in Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia in the years of crisis, 1978-87
by Milanovic,Branko L.
- 506 Changes in food consumption patterns in the Republic of Korea
by Ingco, Merlinda D.
- 505 Creating the reform resistant dependent economy : the CMEA international trading relationship
by Hillman, Arye L. & Schnytzer, Adi
- 504 Applying tax policy models in country economic work : Bangladesh, China, and India
by Dahl, Henrik & Mitra, Pradeep
- 503 Household production, time allocation, and welfare in Peru
by Dagsvik, John & Aaberge, Rolf
- 502 Patents and pharmaceutical drugs : understanding the pressures on developing countries
by Nogues, Julio
- 501 Tax systems in the reforming socialist economies of Europe
by Gray, Cheryl W.
- 500 Projecting fertility for all countries
by Bos, Eduard & Bulatao, Rodolfo
- 499 Taxing foreign income in capital-importing countries : Thailand's perspective
by Mintz, Jack M. & Leechor, Chad
- 498 The build, operate, and transfer ("BOT") approach to infrastructure projects in developing countries
by Augenblick, Mark & Custer, B. Scott
- 497 The measurement of budgetary operations in highly distorted economies : the case of Angola
by Elbirt, Carlos
- 496 Issues in evaluating tax and payment arrangements for publicly owned minerals
by Conrad, Robert & Shalizi, Zmarak & Syme, Janet
- 495 The changing role of the state : institutional dimensions
by Israel, Arturo
- 494 Alleviating transitory food crisis in Africa : international altruism and trade
by Lavy, Victor
- 493 Tax reform in Malawi
by Shalizi, Zmarak & Thirsk, Wayne
- 492 Automotive air pollution : issues and options for developing countries
by Faiz, Asif & Sinha, Kumares & Walsh, Michael & Varma, Amiy
- 491 How well do India's social service programs serve the poor?
by Murthy, Nirmala & Hirway, Indira & Panchmukhi, P. R.
- 490 The coordinated reform of tariffs and domestic indirect taxes
by Mitra, Pradeep
- 489 Health insurance in Zaire
by Shepard, Donald S. & Vian, Taryn & Kleinau, Eckhard F.
- 488 Prepaid financing of primary health care in Guinea-Bissau : an assessment of 18 village health posts
by Eklund, Per & Stavem, Knut
- 487 Industrial organization implications of QR trade regimes : evidence and welfare costs
by Condon, Timothy & de Melo, Jaime
- 486 A RMSM-X model for Turkey
by Everaert, Luc & Garcia-Pinto, Fernando & Ventura, Jaume
- 485 Do labor market distortions cause overvaluation and rigidity of the real exchange rate?
by Lopez, Ramon & Riveros, Luis
- 484 Stock markets, growth, and policy
by Levine, Ross
- 483 An evaluation of the main elements in the leading proposals to phase out the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
by Erzan, Refik & Holmes, Paula
- 482 Membership in the CFA zone : Odyssean journey or Trojan horse?
by Devarajan, Shantayanan & de Melo, Jaime
- 481 The effects of trade reforms on scale and technical efficiency : new evidence from Chile
by Tybout, James & de Melo, Jaime & Corbo, Vittorio
- 480 An evaluation of neutral trade policy incentives under increasing returns to scale
by de Melo, Jaime & Roland-Holst, David
- 479 Conversion factors : a discussion of alternate rates and corresponding weights
by Hee, Michael
- 478 Interrelations among child mortality, breastfeeding, and fertility in Egypt, 1975-80
by Marcotte, John & Casterline, John B.
- 477 Private participation in the delivery of Guinea's water supply services
by Triche, Thelma
- 476 Health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa : a survey and analysis
by Vogel, Ronald J.
- 475 Does divestiture matter : a framework for learning from experience
by Galal, Ahmed
- 474 Methods for measuring the effect of adjustment policies on income distribution
by Maasland, Anne
- 473 Adjustment, investment, and the real exchange rate in developing countries
by Faini, Riccardo & de Melo, Jaime
- 472 Gains in the education of Peruvian women, 1940 to 1980
by King, Elizabeth M. & Bellew, Rosemary
- 471 The determinants of farm investment and residential construction in post-reform China
by Feder, Gershon & Lau, Lawrence J. & Lin, Justin & Luo Xiaopeng
- 470 What do alternative measures of comparative advantage reveal about the composition of developing countries'exports?
by Yeats, Alexander J.
- 469 Modeling economic behavior in Peru's informal urban retail sector
by Smith, J. Barry & Stelcner, Morton
- 468 Does the structure of production affect demand for schooling in Peru?
by Gill,Indermit S.
- 467 Structural adjustment and living conditions in developing countries
by Kakwani, Nanak & Makonnen, Elene & van der Gaag, Jacques
- 466 Is there an intra household Kuznets curve? Some evidence from the Philippines
by Kanbur, Ravi & Haddad, Lawrence
- 465 How integrated are tropical timber markets?
by Varangis, Panos
- 464 Does a woman's education affect her husband's earnings? Results for Israel in a dual labor market
by Neuman, Shoshana & Ziderman, Adrian
- 463 Redefining government's role in agriculture in the nineties
by Nash, John & Knudsen, Odin & Bovard, James & Gardner, Bruce & Winters, L. Alan
- 462 An alternative view of tax incidence analysis for developing countries
by Shah, Anwar & Whalley, John
- 461 Labor market participation, returns to education, and male - female wage differences in Peru
by Khandker, Shahidur R.
- 460 Does food aid depress food production? The disincentive dilemma in the African context
by Lavy, Victor
- 459 Policies for economic development
by Fischer, Stanley & Thomas, Vinod
- 458 Does Japanese direct foreign investment promote Japanese imports from developing countries?
by Takeuchi, Kenji
- 457 Financing health services in Africa : an assessment of alternative approaches
by Mwabu, Germano
- 456 Improving the supply and use of essential drugs in sub-Saharan Africa
by Foster, S. D.
- 455 A formal estimation of the effect of the MFA on clothing exports from LDCs
by Goto, Junichi
- 454 Asset and liability management in the developing countries : modern financial techniques - a primer
by Masuoka, Toshiya
- 453 Do steel prices move together? : a cointegration test
by Qian, Ying
- 452 Modeling investment behavior in developing countries : an application to Egypt
by Shafik, Nemat
- 451 Productivity, imperfect competition, and trade liberalization in Cote d'Ivoire
by Harrison, Ann E.
- 450 Portfolio effects of debt-equity swaps and debt exchanges with some applications to Latin America
by Oks, Daniel
- 449 Analyzing the effects of U.S. macroeconomic policy on U.S. agriculture using the USAGMKTS model
by Just, Richard
- 448 A model of U.S. corn, sorghum, and soybean markets and the role of government programs (USAGMKTS)
by Just, Richard E.
- 447 Analyzing the effects of U.S. agricultural policy on Mexican agricultural markets using the MEXAGMKTS model
by O'Mara, Gerald T.
- 446 MEXAGMKTS : a model of crop and livestock markets in Mexico
by O'Mara, Gerald T & Ingco, Merlinda
- 445 Pricing, cost recovery, and production efficiency in transport : a critique
by Kranton, Rachel E.
- 444 The political economy of inflation and stabilization in middle-income countries
by Haggard, Stephan & Kaufman, Robert
- 443 The inflation - stabilization cycles in Argentina and Brazil
by Kiguel, Miguel & Liviatan, Nissan
- 442 Indian women, health, and productivity
by Chatterjee, Meera
- 441 Inefficient private renegotiation of sovereign debt
by Kletzer, Kenneth M.
- 440 Financial sector policy in Thailand : a macroeconomic perspective
by Easterly, William & Honohan, Patrick
- 439 Indicative planning in developing countries
by Balassa, Bela
- 438 Yugoslavia - How redistribution hurts productivity in a socialist economy
by Vodopivec, Milan
- 437 Institutional development work in the World Bank : a review of 84 bank projects
by Gray, Cheryl W. & Khadiagala, Lynn S. & Moore, Richard J.
- 436 Commodity price forecasts and futures prices
by Boum-Jong Choe
- 435 Rational expectations and commodity price forecasts
by Boum-Jong Choe
- 434 Tax sensitivity of foreign direct investment : an empirical assessment
by Shah, Anwar & Slemrod, Joel
- 433 The pervasive effects of high taxation of capital goods in India
by Ettori, Francois
- 432 Policy choices in the newly industrializing countries
by Balassa, Bela
- 431 Recent developments in marketing and pricing systems for agricultural export commodities in sub-Saharan Africa
by Varangis, Panos & Akiyama, Takamasa & Thigpen, Elton
- 430 Rural - urban growth linkages in India
by Hazell, Peter B. & Haggblade, Steven