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1990
- 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
- 429 Ghana's cocoa pricing policy
by Bateman, Merrill J. & Meeraus, Alexander & Newbery, David M. & Okyere, William Asenso & O'Mara, Gerald T.
- 428 Perestroyka and its implications for European socialist countries
by Balassa, Bela
- 427 Exchange reform, parallel markets, and inflation in Africa : the case of Ghana
by Chhibber, Ajay & Shafik, Nemat
- 426 Growth oriented adjustment programs : a statistical analysis
by Faini, Riccardo & de Melo, Jaime & Senhadji-Semlali,
- 425 Earmarking government revenues in Colombia
by McCleary, William A. & Tobon, Evamaria Uribe
- 424 Mexico's external debt restructuring in 1989-90
by van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 423 Relative price changes and the growth of the public sector
by Khan,M. Shahbaz
- 422 Civil service reform and the World Bank
by Nunberg, Barbara & Nellis, John
- 421 Taxation of financial intermediation : measurement principles and application to five African countries
by Chamley, Christophe & Honohan, Patrick
- 420 Making Bank irrigation investments more sustainable
by O'Mara, Gerald T.
- 419 The design and sequencing of trade and investment policy reform : an institutional analysis
by Levy, Brian
- 418 Does devaluation hurt private investment? The Indonesian case
by Chhibber, Ajay & Shafik, Nemat
- 417 Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms
by Easterly, William & Hwa, E. C & Kongsamut, Piyabha & Zizek, Jan
- 416 Improving data on poverty in the Third World : the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study
by Glewwe, Paul
- 415 How good ( or bad ) are country projections?
by Hicks, Norman & Vaugeois, Michel
- 414 Supporting safe motherhood : a review of financial trends : summary
by Howard, L. M.
- 413 Supporting safe motherhood : a review of financial trends : full report
by Howard, L. M.
- 412 Exchange rate policy in developing countries
by Corden, W. Max
- 411 Institutional dimensions of poverty reduction
by Salmen, Lawrence
- 410 The cost of capital and investment in developing countries
by Auerbach, Alan
- 409 Financial policy and corporate investment in imperfect capital markets : the case of Korea
by Dailami, Mansoor
- 408 Methodological issues in evaluating debt - reducing deals
by Claessens, Stijn & Diwan, Ishac
- 407 Public enterprise reform : a challenge for the World Bank
by Galal,Ahmed
- 406 Township, village, and private industry in China's economic reform
by Byrd, William & Gelb, Alan
- 405 Investments in solid waste management : opportunities for environmental improvement
by Bartone, Carl & Bernstein, Janis & Wright, Frederick
- 404 Chile's labor markets in an era of adjustment
by Riveros, Luis A.
- 403 Innovative agricultural extension for women : a case study in Cameroon
by Walker, S. Tjip
- 402 The GATT as international discipline over trade restrictions : a public choice approach
by Finger, J. Michael
- 401 Policing unfair imports : the U.S. example
by Finger, J. Michael & Murray, Tracy
- 400 Macroeconomic constraints for medium term growth and distribution : a model for Chile
by Solimano,Andres R.
- 399 Macroeconomic adjustment, stabilization, and growth in reforming socialist economies : analytical and policy issues
by Solimano, Andres
- 398 Agricultural extension for women farmers in Africa
by Saito, Katrine A. & Weidemann, C. Jean
- 397 Antidumping regulations or procartel law? : the European Community chemical cases
by Messerlin, Patrick A.
- 396 Strategic trade policy : how new? how sensible?
by Corden, W. Max
- 395 How Gambians save and what their strategies imply for international aid
by Shipton, Parker
- 394 Threshold effects in international lending
by Spiegel, Mark M.
- 393 Debt for nature swaps
by Occhiolini, Michael
- 392 Institutional development in World Bank projects : a cross sectoral review
by Paul, Samuel
- 391 Wealth effects of voluntary debt reduction in Latin America
by Oks, Daniel
- 390 Price and monetary convergence in currency unions : the Franc and Rand zones
by Honohan, Patrick
- 389 Monetary cooperation in the CFA zone
by Honohan, Patrick
- 388 The distortionary effects of tariff exemptions in Argentina
by Foroutan,Faezeh S.
- 387 Productivity and externalities : models of export led growth
by de Melo, Jaime & Robinson, Sherman
- 386 Argentina's labor markets in an era of adjustment
by Riveros, Luis A. & Sanchez, Carlos E.
- 385 The principles of targeting
by Besley, Timothy & Kanbur, Ravi
- 384 The rational expectations hypothesis in models of primary commodity prices
by Gilbert, Christopher L.
- 383 On the relevance of world agricultural prices
by Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Donald F.
- 382 The Indonesian vegetable oils sector : modeling the impact of policy changes
by Larson, Donald F.
- 381 Trade in banking services : issues for multilateral negotiations
by Gelb, Alan & Sagari, Silvia
- 380 Techniques for railway restructuring
by Huff, Lee W. & Thompson, Louis S.
- 379 Some implications of policy games for high inflation economies
by Kiguel, Miguel A. & Liviatan, Nissan
- 378 How does the debt crisis affect investment and growth? : a neoclassical growth model applied to Mexico
by Arrau, Patricio
- 377 After the cold war : security for development
by Stremlau, John
- 376 The world economy in the mid 1990s : alternative patterns of trade and growth
by Bradford, Colin I.
- 375 Regional disparities, targeting, and poverty in India
by Datt, Gaurav & Ravallion, Martin
- 374 Two sources of bias in standard partial equilibrium trade models
by Laird, Samuel & Yeats, Alexander J.
- 373 Are better off households more unequal or less unequal ?
by Haddad, Lawrence & Kanbur, Ravi
- 372 Long term outlook for the world economy : issues and projections for the 1990s
by Fardoust, Shahrokh & Dhareshwar, Ashok
- 371 Tariff valuation bases and trade among developing countries : do developing countries discriminate against their own trade?
by Erzan, Refik & Yeats, Alexander
- 370 Turkey : export miracle or accounting trick?
by Arslan, Ismail & van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 369 Cost recovery strategy for rural water delivery in Nigeria
by Whittington, Dale & Okorafor, Apia & Okore, Augustine & McPhail, Alexander
- 368 Reforming state enterprises in socialist economies : guidelines for leasing them to entrepreneurs
by Schjelderup, Guttorm
- 367 The response of Japanese and U.S. steel prices to changes in the yen - dollar exchange rate
by Varangis, Panos & Duncan, Ronald C.
- 359 A survey of recent estimates of price elasticities of demand for transport
by Tae H. Oum & Waters, W.G. & Jong Say Yong
- 358 The long term behavior of commodity prices
by Ardeni, Pier Giorgio & Wright, Brian
- 357 Application of flexible functional forms to substitutability among metals in U.S. industries
by Ying Qian
- 356 A framework for analyzing financial performance of the transport sector
by Heggie, Ian G. & Quick, Michael
- 355 The evolution of credit terms : an empirical study of commercial bank lending to developing countries
by Ozler, Sule
- 354 How commodity prices respond to macroeconomic news
by Ghura, Dhaneshwar
- 353 How should tariffs be structured?
by Panagariya, Arvind
- 352 Voluntary export restraints and resource allocation in exporting countries
by de Melo, Jaime & Winters, L. Alan
- 351 The savings and loan problem in the United States
by Silverberg, Stanley C.
- 349 How Indonesia's monetary policy affects key variables
by Ahmed, Sadiq & Kapur, Basant K.
- 346 India - India's growing conflict between trade and transport : issues and options
by Peters, Hans Jurgen
- 340 Prudential regulation and banking supervision : building an institutional framework for Banks
by Polizatto, Vincent P.
- 338 Bank lending for divestiture : a review of experience
by Kikeri,Sunita
- 336 Input tariffs and duty drawbacks in the design of tariff reform
by Panagariya, Arvind
- 334 An econometric method for estimating the tax elasticity and the impact on revenues of discretionary tax measures : applied to Malawi and Mauritius
by Ehdaie, Jaber
- 333 An option - pricing approach to secondary market debt : applied to Mexico
by Claessens, Stijn & van Wijnbergen, Sweder
- 332 India - Effective incentives in India's agriculture : cotton, groundnuts, wheat and rice
by Gulati, Ashok & Hanson, James & Pursell, Garry
- 327 Making noisy data sing : a micro approach to measuring industrial efficiency
by Tybout, James R.
- 326 Do exporters gain from voluntary export restraints?
by de Melo, Jaime & Winters, L. Alan
- 315 Notes on patents, distortions, and development
by Nogues,Julio
- 285 Enhancing the contribution of land reform to Mexican agricultural development
by Heath, John Richard
- 274 Efficiency and equity in social spending : how and why governments misbehave
by Birdsall, Nancy & James, Estelle
- 271 How industry - labor relations and government policies affect Senegal's economic performance
by Terrell, Katherine & Svejnar, Jan
- 217 Public sector management issues in structural adjustment lending
by Nunberg, Barbara
- 58 Macrofinancial indicators for 117 developing and industrial countries
by Neal, Craig R.
- 57 Financial distress of industrial firms on the Greek banking system
by Antoniades, Dimitris & Kouzionis, Dimitris
1989
- 366 Inflation, monetary balances and the aggregate production function : the case of Colombia
by Buckley, Robert & Dokeniya, Anupam & INU & PRE
- 365 Cost and benefits of rent control in Kumasi, Ghana
by Malpezzi, Stephen & Tipple, A. Graham & Willis, Kenneth G. & INU & PRE
- 364 Financing urban services in Latin America : spatial distribution issues
by Guarda,Gian Carlo
- 363 Paying for urban services : a study of water vending and willingness to pay for water in Onitsha, Nigeria
by Whittington, Dale & Lauria, Donald T. & Xinming Mu
- 362 Urban property taxation : lessons from Brazil
by Dillinger, William
- 350 Legal process and economic development : a case study of Indonesia
by Gray, Cheryl W.
- 348 Recent trends and prospects for agricultural commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa
by Takamasa Akiyama & Larson, Donald F.
- 347 Housing finance in developing countries : a transaction cost approach
by Buckley, Robert M.
- 345 Private transfers and public policy in developing countries : a case study for Peru
by Cox, Donald & Jimenez, Emmanuel
- 344 Policy distortions, size of government, and growth
by Easterly, William R.
- 343 Policy determinants of growth : survey of theory and evidence
by Easterly, William R. & Wetzel, Deborah L.
- 342 Human capital and endogenous growth in a large scale life cycle model
by Arrau, Patricio
- 341 Cost of living differences between urban and rural areas in Indonesia
by Ravallion, Martin & van de Walle, Dominique
- 339 Private investment and macroeconomic adjustment : an overview
by Serven, Luis & Solimano, Andres
- 337 Projecting mortality for all countries
by Bulatao, Rodolfo A. & Bos, Eduard & Stephens, Patience W. & My T. Vu
- 335 Macroeconomic adjustment and the labor market in four Latin American countries
by Lopez, Ramon E. & Riveros, Luis A.
- 331 Asia region population projections : 1989-90 edition
by Bulatao, Rodolfo A. & Bos, Eduard & Stephens, Patience W. & Vu, My T.
- 330 Africa region population projections : 1989-90 edition
by Bulatao, Rodolfo A. & Bos, Eduard & Stephens, Patience W. & Vu, My T.
- 329 Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region population projections : 1989-90 edition
by Bulatao, Rodolfo A. & Bos, Eduard & Stephens, Patience W. & Vu, My T.
- 328 Europe, Middle East, and North Africa (EMN) region population projections : 1989-90 edition
by Bos,Eduard R. & Bulatao,Rodolfo Andres & Stephens,Patience W. & Vu, My T.
- 325 Manufacturers'responses to infrastructure deficiencies in Nigeria : private alternatives and policy options
by Kyu Sik Lee & Anas, Alex
- 324 Ethical approaches to family planning in Africa
by Sai,F. T. & Newman, K.
- 323 The old and the new in heterodox stabilization programs : lessons from the 1960s and the 1980s
by Kiguel, Miguel A. & Liviatan, Nissan
- 322 Earmarking government revenues : does it work ?
by McCleary, William
- 321 Economic and policy determinants of public sector deficits
by Marshall, Jorge & Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
- 320 Protection facing exports from sub-Saharan Africa in the EC, Japan, and the United States
by Erzan, Refik & Svedberg, Peter
- 319 Would general trade liberalization in developing countries expand South-South trade?
by Erzan, Refik
- 318 Sovereign debt buybacks as a signal of creditworthiness
by Acharya, Sankarshan & Diwan, Ishac
- 317 Price and quality competitiveness of socialist countries'exports
by Drabek, Zdenek & Olechowski, Andrzej
- 316 The macroeconomics of populism in Latin America
by Dornbusch, Rudiger & Edwards, Sebastian
- 314 Primary commodity prices and macroeconomic variables : a long run relationship
by Palaskas, Theodosios & Varangis, Panos
- 313 Environmental management in development : the evolution of paradigms
by Colby, Michael E.
- 312 Improving public enterprise performance : lessons from South Korea
by Shirley, Mary M.
- 311 Macroeconomic performance before and after disinflation in Israel
by Leiderman, Leonardo & Liviatan, Nissan
- 310 A framework for macroeconomic consistency for Zimbabwe
by Khadr, Ali & Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
- 309 How to improve public sector finances in Honduras
by Baran, Yalcin M.
- 308 Harmonizing tax policies in Central America
by Baran, Yalcin M.
- 307 On the accuracy of economic observations : do Sub-Saharan trade statistics mean anything?
by Yeats, Alexander J.
- 306 A method for macroeconomic consistency in current and constant prices
by Khadr, Ali & Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
- 305 World Bank work with nongovernmental organizations
by Salmen, Lawrence F. & Eaves, A. Paige
- 304 The new political economy : positive economics and negative politics
by Grindle,Merilee S.
- 303 Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes?
by Ravallion, Martin
- 302 Improving support services for rural schools : a management perspective
by Keith, Sherry
- 301 Myths of the West : lessons from developed countries for development finance
by Mayer, Colin
- 300 How the 1981-83 Chilean banking crisis was handled
by Larrain,Mauricio
- 299 The external effects of public sector deficits
by Rodriguez, Carlos Alfredo
- 298 Evaluating global macroeconomic models : a case study of MULTIMOD
by Jamshidi, Ahmad
- 297 Effects of the multifibre arrangement on developing countries'trade : an empirical investigation
by Erzan, Refik & Goto, Junichi & Holmes, Paula
- 296 How serious is the neglect of intrahousehold inequality ?
by Haddad, Lawrence & Kanbur, Ravi
- 295 Developing country experience in trade reform
by Thomas,Vinod
- 294 Irreversibility, uncertainty, and investment
by Pindyck, Robert
- 293 Central bank losses : origins, conceptual issues, and measurement problems
by Teijeiro, Mario O.
- 292 Is the new political economy relevant to developing countries ?
by Findlay, Ronald
- 291 How can Indonesia maintain creditworthiness and noninflationary growth ?
by Ahmed, Sadiq & Chhibber, Ajay
- 290 Risk - adjusted rates of return for project appraisal
by Dixit, Avinash & Williamson, Amy
- 289 Inflation and seigniorage in Argentina
by Kiguel, Miguel A. & Neumeyer, Pablo Andres
- 288 School effects and costs for private and public schools in the Dominican Republic
by Jimenez, Emmanuel & Lockheed, Marlaine E. & Luna, Ed
- 287 The consistency of government deficits with macroeconomic adjustment : an application to Kenya and Ghana
by Catsambas, Thanos & Pigato, Miria
- 286 Poverty and undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s
by Ravallion, Martin & Huppi, Monika
- 284 The role of groups and credit cooperatives in rural lending
by Huppi, Monika & Feder, Gershon
- 283 Experiences of financial distress in Thailand
by Sundaravej, Tipsuda & Trairatvorakul, Prasarn
- 282 EMENA manufactured exports and EEC trade policy
by Balassa, Bela
- 281 Tariff policy and taxation in developing countries
by Balassa, Bela
- 280 Adjustment policies in East Asia
by Balassa, Bela
- 279 What determines the rate of growth and technological change?
by Romer,Paul M
- 278 Inflation and the company tax base : methods to minimize inflation - induced distortions
by Rajaram, Anand
- 277 The effect of formal credit on output and employment in rural India
by Khandker, Shahidur R. & Binswanger, Hans P.
- 276 Improving rural wages in India
by Khandker, Shahidur R.
- 275 Revised estimates and projections of international migration : 1980-2000
by Arnold, Fred
- 273 Population, health and nutrition : FY88 annual sector review
by Population and Human Resources Department
- 272 Women's changing participation in the labor force : a world perspective
by Schultz, T. Paul
- 270 Fuelwood stumpage : financing renewable energy for the world's other half
by Openshaw, Keith & Feinstein, Charles
- 269 Women in development : issues for economic and sector analysis
by Women in Development Division
- 268 Shortcomings in the market for developing country debt
by Wakeman-Linn, John
- 267 Issues in income tax reform in developing countries
by Gray,Cheryl W.
- 266 Policy changes that encourage private business investment in Colombia
by Dailami, Mansoor
- 265 Do African countries pay more for imports ?
by Yeats, Alexander J.
- 264 Two irrigation systems in Colombia : their performance and transfer of management to users'associations
by Plusquellec, Herve