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1998
- 1960 Calm after the storms : income distribution in Chile, 1987-94
by Ferreira, Francisco H. G. & Litchfield, Julie A.
- 1959 Is there a credit crunch in East Asia?
by Wei Ding & Domac, Ilker & Ferri, Giovanni
- 1958 Total strangers or soul mates? - antidumping and competition policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Guash, J. Luis & Rajapatirana, Sarath
- 1957 Bidding for concessions
by Klein, Michael
- 1956 Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture
by Lanjouw, Peter & Ravallion, Martin
- 1955 Appraising workfare programs
by Ravallion, Martin
- 1954 Politicians and firms in seven central and eastern European countries
by Claessens,Constantijn A. & Djankov, Simeon
- 1953 Trade policies and incentives in Indian agriculture : methodology, background statistics, and protection and incentive indicators, 1965-95
by Pursell, Garry & Gupta, Anju
- 1952 Enterprise isolation programs in transition economies : evidence from Romania
by Djankov, Simeon
- 1951 The impact of policy announcements and news on capital markets : crisis management in Argentina during the Tequila Effect
by Ganapolsky, Eduardo J. J. & Schmukler, Sergio L.
- 1950 Free trade and deep integration : antidumping and antitrust in regional agreements
by Hoekman, Bernard
- 1949 Education and earnings inequality in Mexico
by Lachler, Ulrich
- 1948 Comparative advantage and the cross-section of business cycles
by Kraay, Aart & Ventura, Jaume
- 1947 Patterns of economic growth : hills, plateaus, mountains, and plains
by Pritchett, Lant
- 1946 Estonia : the challenge of financial integration
by Cavalcanti, Carlos & Oks, Daniel
- 1945 Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized
by Ravallion, Martin & Wodon, Quentin
- 1944 Detecting price links in the world cotton market
by Baffes, John & Ajwad, Mohamed I.
- 1943 The implications of hyperbolic discounting for project evaluation
by Cropper, Maureen & Laibson, David
- 1942 Poverty correlates and indicator-based targeting in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
by Grootaert, Christiaan & Braithwaite, Jeanine
- 1941 Are labor markets in developing countries dualistic?
by Maloney, William F.
- 1940 The structure of labor markets in developing countries : time series evidence on competing views
by Maloney, William F.
- 1939 Second thoughts on second moments : panel evidence on asset-based models of currency crises
by Galindo, Arturo J. & Maloney, William F.
- 1938 What explains the success or failure of structural adjustment programs?
by Dollar, David & Svensson, Jakob
- 1937 Aid, the incentive regime, and poverty reduction
by Burnside, Craig & Dollar, David
- 1936 Determinants of transient and chronic poverty : evidence from rural China
by Jalan, Jyotsna & Ravallion, Martin
- 1935 Explaining the increase in inequality during the transition
by Milanovic, Branko
- 1934 WTO accession for countries in transition
by Michalopoulos, Constantine
- 1933 The 1997 pension reform in Mexico
by Grandolini & Grandolini, Gloria & Cerda, Luis
- 1932 Air pollution and health effects - a study of respiratory illness among children in Santiago, Chile
by Ostro, Bart D. & Eskeland, Gunnar S. & Feyzioglu, Tarhan & Sanchez, Jose Miguel
- 1931 The cost and performance of paid agricultural extension services : the case of agricultural technology transfer in Nicaragua
by Dinar, Ariel & Keynan, Gabriel
- 1930 The main determinants of inflation in Albania
by Domac, Iker & Elbirt, Carolos
- 1929 A database of world infrastructure stocks, 1950-95
by Canning, David
- 1928 Combining census and survey data to study spatial dimensions of poverty
by Hentschel, Jesko & Lanjouw, Jean Olson & Lanjouw, Peter & Poggi, Javier
- 1927 Revenue-productive income tax structures and tax reforms in emerging market economies - evidence from Bulgaria
by Hassan, Fareed M. A.
- 1926 Do budgets really matter? - evidence from public spending on education and health in Uganda
by Ablo, Emmanuel & Reinikka, Ritva
- 1925 Half a century of development economics : a review based on the"Handbook of Development Economics"
by Waelbroeck, Jean
- 1924 Voucher privatization with investment funds : an institutional analysis
by Ellerman, David
- 1923 When vintage technology makes sense : matching imports to skills
by Navaretti, Giorgio Barba & Soloaga, Isidro & Takacs, Wendy
- 1922 Regional groupings among microstates
by Andriamananjara, Soamiely & Schiff, Maurice
- 1921 Making voice work : the report card on Banglalore's public service
by Paul, Samuel
- 1920 Education and earnings in a transition economy (Vietnam)
by Moock, Peter R. & Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Venkataraman, Meera
- 1919 The empirical effects of performance contracts: evidence from China
by Shirley, Mary & Lixin Colin Xu
- 1918 How does foreign entry affect the domestic banking market?
by Claessens, Stijn & Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Huizinga, Harry
- 1917 Financial liberalization and financial fragility
by Demirguc-Kent, Asli & Detragiache, Enrica
- 1916 The size, origins, and character of Mongolia's informal sector during the transition
by Anderson,James
- 1915 Distortionary effects of state trading in agriculture : issues for the next round of negotiations
by Ingco, Merlinda & Ng, Francis
- 1914 Distinguishing between types of data and methods of collecting them
by Hentschel, Jesko
- 1913 The 1994 currency crisis in Turkey
by Celasun, Oya
- 1912 Pay and grade differentials at the World Bank
by Filmer, Deon & Grosh, Margaret & King, Elizabeth & van de Walle, Dominique
- 1911 The internationalization of financial services in Asia
by Claessens, Stijn & Glaessner, Tom
- 1910 Capital outflow from the agricultural sector in Thailand
by Junichi Yamada
- 1909 Capital markets responses to environmental performance in developing countries
by Dasgupta, Susmita & Laplante, Benoit & Mamingi, Nlandu
- 1908 How dirty are"quick and dirty"methods of project appraisal?
by van de Walle, Dominique & Gunewardena, Dileni
- 1907 Development expenditures and the local financing constraint
by Agbonyitor, Albert D. K.
- 1906 Developing countries'participation in the World Trade Organization
by Michalopoulos, Constantine
- 1905 Child labor in Cote d'Ivoire: incidence and determinants
by Grootaert, Christiaan
- 1904 Ecuador's rural nonfarm sector as a route out of poverty
by Lanjouw, Peter
- 1903 Taxing capital income in Hungary and the European Union
by Dethier, Jean-Jacques & John, Christoph
- 1902 When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China
by Ravallion, Martin & Shaohua Chen
- 1901 Reaching poor areas in a federal system
by Ravallion, Martin
- 1900 Determinants of commercial bank interest margins and profitability : some international evidence
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Huizinga, Harry
- 1899 Determinants of emerging market bond spread : do economic fundamentals matter?
by Hong G. Min
- 1898 Does membership in a regional preferential trade arrangement make a country more or less protectionist?
by Foroutan, Faezeh
- 1897 Development of natural gas and pipeline capacity markets in the United States
by Juris, Andrej
- 1896 Congestion pricing and network expansion
by Nasser, Thomas-Olivier
- 1895 The emergence of markets in the natural gas industry
by Juris, Andrej
- 1894 Applying a simple measure of good governance to the debate on fiscal decentralization
by Huther, Jeff & Shah, Anwar
- 1893 Regulatory controversies of private pension funds
by Vittas, Dimitri
- 1892 The role of non-bank financial intermediaries (with particular reference to Egypt)
by Vittas, Dimitri
- 1891 The housing market in the Russian Federation : privatization and its implications for market development
by Guzanova, Alla K.
- 1890 Market development in the United Kingdom's natural gas industry
by Juris, Andrej
- 1889 Development strategy reconsidered : Mexico, 1960-94
by Yanagihara, Toru & Hisamatsu, Yoshiaki
- 1888 What do doctors want? developing incentives for doctors to serve in Indonesia's rural and remote areas
by Chomitz, Kenneth M. & Setiadi, Gunawan & Azwar, Azrul & Ismail, Nusye & Widiyarti
- 1887 The structure of derivatives exchanges : lessons from developed and emerging markets
by Tsetsekos, George & Varangis, Panos
- 1886 Country funds and asymmetric information
by Frankel, Jeffrey A. & Schmukler, Sergio L.
- 1885 Aid, taxation, and development: analytical perspectives on aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Adam, Christopher S. & O'Connell, Stephen A.
- 1884 Fiscal aspect of evolving federations : issues for policy and research
by Wildasin, David E.
- 1883 Intersectoral resource allocation and its impact on economic development in the Philippines
by Fumihide Takeuchi & Takehiko Hagino
- 1882 Interregional resource transfer and economic growth in Indonesia
by Toshihiko Kawagoe
- 1881 The Asian miracle and modern growth theory
by Nelson, Richard R. & Pack, Howard
- 1880 Foreign aid and rent-seeking
by Svensson, Jakob
- 1879 Relative prices and inflation in Poland, 1989-97 : the special role of administered price increases
by Wozniak, Przemyslaw
- 1878 Searching for sustainable microfinance : a review of five Indonesian initiatives
by Ravicz, R. Marisol
- 1877 What improves environmental performance? evidence from Mexican industry
by Dasgupta, Susmita & Hettige, Hemamala & Wheeler, David
- 1876 Industrial pollution in economic development: Kuznets revisited
by Hettige, Hemamala & Mani, Muthukumara & Wheeler, David
- 1875 How deposit insurance affects financial depth : a cross-country analysis
by Cull, Robert
- 1874 Health policy in poor countries : weak links in the chain
by Filmer, Deon & Hammer, Jeffrey & Pritchett, Lant
- 1873 Wage misalignment in CFA countries: are labor market policies to blame?
by Rama,Martin G.
- 1872 How integration into the Central African Economic and Monetary Community affects Cameroon's economy: general equilibrium estimates
by Bakoup, Ferdinand & Tarr, David
- 1871 Just how big is global production sharing?
by Yeats, Alexander J.
- 1870 The evolution of poverty and inequality in Indian villages
by Jayraman, Raji & Lanjouw, Peter
- 1869 Risk reduction and public spending
by Devarajan, Shantayanan & Hammer, Jeffrey S.
- 1868 Government support to private infrastructure projects in emerging markets
by Dailami, Mansoor & Klein, Michael
- 1867 Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons between and within countries
by Filmer, Deon & King, Elizabeth M. & Pritchett, Lant
1997
- 1866 Circumstance and choice : the role of initial conditions and policies in transition economies
by de Melo, Martha & Denizer, Cevdet & Gelb, Alan & Tenev, Stoyan
- 1865 Pension reform in Latin America : quick fixes or sustainable reform?
by Aiyer, Sri-Ram
- 1864 Child mortality and public spending on health : how much does money matter?
by Filmer, Deon & Pritchett, Lant
- 1863 Are the poor less well-insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
by Jalan, Jyotsna & Ravallion, Martin
- 1862 Spatial poverty traps?
by Jalan, Jyotsna & Ravallion, Martin
- 1861 Infrastructure project finance and capital flows : a new perspective
by Dailami, Mansoor & Leipziger, Danny
- 1860 The health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India
by Cropper, Maureen L. & Simon, Nathalie B. & Alberini, Anna & Sharma, P. K.
- 1859 Lessons from Sao Paulo's Metropolitan Busway Concessions Program
by Rebelo, Jorge & Benvenuto, Pedro
- 1858 Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh
by Ravallion, Martin & Wodon, Quentin
- 1857 Leasing to support small businesses and microenterprises
by Gallardo, Joselito
- 1856 Surviving success : policy reform and the future of industrial pollution in China
by Dasgupta, Susmita & Hua Wang & Wheeler, David
- 1855 Stabilization, adjustment, and growth prospects in transition economies
by Denizer, Cevdet
- 1854 Regulatory tradeoffs in designing concession contracts for infrastructure networks
by Crampes, Claude & Estache, Antonio
- 1853 Pension reform and private pension funds in Peru and Colombia
by Queisser, Monika
- 1852 Leading indicators of currency crises
by Kaminsky, Graciela & Lizondo, Saul & Reinhart, Carmen M.
- 1851 Transportation infrastructure investments and regional trade liberalization
by Bond,Eric W.
- 1850 Determinants of intra-industry trade between East and West Europe
by Aturupane, Chonira & Djankov, Simeon & Hoekman, Bernard
- 1849 Regional integration and factor income taxation
by De Bonis, Valeria
- 1848 Regional integration and commodity tax harmonization
by De Bonis, Valeria
- 1847 Outsiders and regional trade agreements among small countries : the case of regional markets
by Gupta, Anju & Schiff, Maurice
- 1846 Africa's role in multilateral trade negotiations
by Zhen Kun Wang & Winters, L. Alan
- 1845 Employment, labor markets, and poverty in Ghana
by Canagarajah, Sudharshan & Mazumdar, Dipak
- 1844 Child labor and schooling in Ghana
by Canagarajah, Sudharshan & Coulombe, Harold
- 1843 Externalities and bailouts : hard and soft budget constraints in intergovernmental fiscal relations
by Wildasin, David E.
- 1842 Motorization and the provision of roads in countries and cities
by Ingram, Gregory K. & Zhi Liu
- 1841 Patterns of metropolitan development : what have we learned?
by Ingram, Gregory K.
- 1840 Efficient public sector downsizing
by Rama,Martin G.
- 1839 The effects of financial liberalization and new bank entry on market structure and competition in Turkey
by Denizer, Cevdet
- 1838 The limits and merits of participation
by Vieira da Cunha, Paulo & Junho Pena, Maria Valeria
- 1837 How Estonia's economic transition affected employment and wages (1989-95)
by Noorkoiv, Rivo & Orazem, Peter F. & Puur, Allan & Vodopivec, Milan
- 1836 Health and labor productivity : the economic impact of onchocercal skin disease
by Aehyung Kim & Tandon, Ajay & Hailu, Asrat
- 1835 Cost-benefit analysis of the Global Dracunculiasis Eradication Campaign (GDEC)
by Aehyung Kim & Tandon, Ajay & Ruiz-Tiben, Ernesto
- 1834 The comparative advantage of government : a review
by Belli, Pedro
- 1833 Cost recovery and pricing of payment services
by Humphrey, David B. & Keppler, Robert H. & Montes-Negret, Fernando
- 1832 Pension reform in Bolivia : innovative solutions to common problems
by von Gersdorff, Hermann
- 1831 How trade patterns and technology flows affect productivity growth
by Keller, Wolfgang
- 1830 Private ownership and corporate performance : some lessons from transition economies
by Frydman, Roman & Gray, Cheryl W. & Hessel, Marek & Rapaczynski, Andrzej
- 1829 Economic reform and progress in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Loayza, Norman & Palacios, Luisa
- 1828 The determinants of banking crises : evidence from industrial and developing countries
by Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Detragiache, Enrica
- 1827 The determinants of agricultural production : a cross-country analysis
by Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Don & Butzer, Ritz
- 1826 Standards and conformity assessment as nontariff barriers to trade
by Stephenson, Sherry M.
- 1825 Current accounts in debtor and creditor countries
by Kraay, Aart & Ventura, Jaume
- 1824 Winners and losers from utility privatization in Argentina : lessons from a general equilibrium model
by Chisari, Omar & Estache, Antonio & Romero, Carlos
- 1823 Antidumping in law and practice
by Krishna, Raj
- 1822 Intergovernmental fiscal transfer in nine countries : lessons for developingcountries
by Jun Ma
- 1821 The"IPO-Plus": a new approach to privatization
by Goldberg, Itzhak & Jedrzejczak, Gregory & Fuchs, Michael
- 1820 Private pension funds in Argentina's newintegrated pension system
by Vittas, Dimitri
- 1819 The Argentine pension reform and its relevance for Eastern Europe
by Vittas, Dimitri
- 1818 What affects the Russian regional governments'propensity to subsidize?
by Freinkman, Lev & Haney, Michael
- 1817 Should core labor standards be imposed through international trade policy?
by Maskus, Keith E.
- 1816 Returns to regionalism : an evaluation of nontraditional gains from regional trade agreements
by Fernandez, Raquel
- 1815 Unfair trade? Empirical evidence in world commodity markets over te past 25 years
by Morisset, Jacques
- 1814 Making education in China equitable and efficient
by Hossain, Shaikh I.
- 1813 Tackling health transition in China
by Hossain, Shaikh I.
- 1812 Managing guarantee programs in support of infrastructure investment
by Klein, Michael
- 1811 Agricultural development : issues, evidence, and consequences
by Mundlak, Yair & Larson, Donald F. & Crego, Al
- 1810 Inspections and emissions in India : puzzling survey evidence about industrial pollution
by Pargal, Sheoli & Mani, Muthukumara & Huq, Mainul
- 1809 Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries
by Brunetti, Aymo & Kisunko, Gregory & Weder, Beatrice
- 1808 Economic transition and the distributions of income and wealth
by Ferreira, Francisco H. G.
- 1807 The ghost of financing gap : how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics
by Easterly, William
- 1806 An international statistical survey of government employment and wages
by Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore & de Tommaso, Giulio & Mukh
- 1805 Regional economic integration and agricultural trade
by Goto, Junichi
- 1804 Financial sector adjustment lending : a mid-course analysis
by Cull, Robert J.
- 1803 Field adjustments in transition economies : social transfers and the efficiency of public spending - a comparison with OECD countries
by Fakin, Barbara & de Crombrugghe, Alain
- 1802 Are there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?
by Huizinga, Harry
- 1801 Regional integration as diplomacy
by Schiff, Maurice & Winters, L. Alan
- 1800 Single-equation estimation of the equilibrium real exchange rate
by Baffes, John & Elbadawi, Ibrahim A. & O'Connell, Stephen A.
- 1799 More for the poor is less for the poor : the politics of targeting
by Gelbach, Jonath B. & Pritchett, Lant H.
- 1798 Poor areas, or only poor people?
by Ravallion, Martin & Wodon, Quentin
- 1797 Formal and informal regulation of industrial pollution : comparative evidence from Indonesia and the United States
by Pargal, Sheoli & Hettige, Hemamala & Singh, Manjula & Wheeler, David
- 1796 Cents and sociability : household income and social capital in rural Tanzania
by Narayan, Deepa & Pritchett, Lant
- 1795 What educational production functions really show : a positive theory of education spending
by Pritchett, Lant & Filmer,Deon
- 1794 Ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate performance : the case of Chinese stock companies
by Xiaonian Xu & Yan Wang
- 1793 Wage and pension pressure on the Polish budget
by de Crombrugghe, Alain
- 1792 Tradeoffs from hedging oil pricerisk in Ecuador
by Satyanarayan, Sudhakar & Somensatto, Eduardo
- 1791 Toward better regulation of private pension funds
by Shah, Hemant
- 1790 Interpreting the coefficient of schooling in the human capital earnings function
by Chiswick, Barry R.
- 1789 Competition law in Bulgaria after central planning
by Hoekman, Bernard & Djankov, Simeon
- 1788 An economic analysis of woodfuel management in the Sahel : the case of Chad
by Chomitz, Kenneth M. & Griffiths, Charles
- 1787 Trading arrangements and industrial development
by Puga, Diego & Venables, Anthony J.
- 1786 The economics of customs unions in the Commonwealth of Independent States
by Michalopoulos, Constantine & Tarr, David
- 1785 The causes of government and the consequences for growth and well-being
by Commander, Simon & Davoodi, Hamid R. & Lee, Une J.
- 1784 Analyzing the sustainability of fiscal deficitsin developing countries
by Cuddington, John T.
- 1783 Trade policy options for Chile : a quantitative evaluation
by Harrison, Glenn W. & Rutherford, Thomas F. & Tarr, David G.
- 1782 Regional integration and the prices of imports : an empirical investigation
by Winters, L. Alan & Won Chang
- 1781 Technology accumulation and diffusion : is there a regional dimension?
by Padoan, Pier Carlo
- 1780 High-level rent-seeking and corruption in African regimes : theory and cases
by Coolidge, Jacqueline & Rose-Ackerman, Susan
- 1779 Water allocation mechanisms : principles and examples
by Dinar, Ariel & Rosegrant, Mark W. & Meinzen-Dick, Ruth
- 1778 How government policies affect the relationship between Polish and world wheat prices
by Figiel, Szczepan & Scott, Tom & Varangis, Panos
- 1777 Aid, policies, and growth
by Burnside, Craig & Dollar, David
- 1776 From prices to incomes: agricultural subsidization without protection?
by Baffes, John & Meerman, Jacob
- 1775 Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
by Ravallion, Martin
- 1774 The demand for base money and the sustainability of public debt
by Garcia, Valeriano F.
- 1773 The costs and benefits of regulation : implications for developing countries
by Guasch, J. Luis & Hahn, Robert W.
- 1772 What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data
by Pfaff, Alexander S.P.
- 1771 Government employment and pay : a global and regional perspective
by Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore & de Tommaso, Giulio & Mukherjee, Amitabha
- 1770 Poverty and social transfers in Hungary
by Grootaert,Christiaan N.
- 1769 Information, incentives, and commitment : an empirical analysis of contracts between government and state enterprises
by Shirley, Mary M. & L. Colin Xu
- 1768 Is there a quantity-quality tradeoff as enrollments increase? Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India
by Duraisamy, P. & James, Estelle & Lane, Julia & Jee-Peng Tan
- 1767 Pension reform : is there a tradeoff between efficiency and equity?
by James,Estelle
- 1766 New systems for old age security - theory, practice, and empirical evidence
by James, Estelle
- 1765 Explaining agricultural and agrarian policies in developing countries
by Binswanger, Hans P. & Deininger, Klaus
- 1764 A reversal of fortune for Korean women : explaining the 1983 upward turn in relative earnings
by van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana
- 1763 China and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
by Yushu Feng