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World Bank Economic Review

1986 - 2007

Edited by Jaime de Melo

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Volume 21, issue 1, 2007

Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence pp. 1-20
Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning and Bill Kinsey
Dollars, Debt, and International Financial Institutions: Dedollarizing Multilateral Lending pp. 21-47
Eduardo Levy Yeyati
Business Cycle Synchronization and Regional Integration: A Case Study for Central America pp. 49-72
Norbert Fiess
Protecting the Vulnerable: the Tradeoff between Risk Reduction and Public Insurance pp. 73-91
Shantayanan Devarajan and William Jack
The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare: Comparative Evidence from Asia pp. 93-123
Owen O'Donnell, Eddy K.A. Van Doorslaer, Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya, Aparnaa Somanathan, Shiva Raj Adhikari, Deni Harbianto, Charu C. Garg, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Mohammed N. Huq, Anup Karan, Gabriel M. Leung, Chiu Wan Ng, Badri Raj Pande, Keith Tin, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Laksono Trisnantoro, Yuhui Zhang and Yuxin Zhao
Did the Health Card Program Ensure Access to Medical Care for the Poor during Indonesia's Economic Crisis? pp. 125-150
Menno Pradhan, Fadia Saadah and Robert Sparrow
A Short Note on Updating the Grilli and Yang Commodity Price Index pp. 151-163
Stephan Pfaffenzeller, Paul Newbold and Anthony Rayner
Trade, Production, and Protection Database, 1976--2004 pp. 165-171
Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga

Volume 20, issue 3, 2006

The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: Direct Income Effects of Malaria Prevalence pp. 309-339
Kai Carstensen and Erich Gundlach
When Is External Debt Sustainable? pp. 341-365
Aart Kraay and Vikram Nehru
Will African Agriculture Survive Climate Change? pp. 367-388
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Robert Owen Mendelsohn, Rashid Hassan, James K A Benhin, Temesgen Deressa, Mbaye Diop, Helmy Mohamed Eid, K. Yerfi Fosu, Glwadys Gbetibouo, Suman Jain, Ali Mahamadou, Renneth Mano, Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Samia El-Marsafawy, Ernest Molua, Samiha Ouda, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Isidor Séne, David Maddison, S. Niggol Seo and Ariel Dinar
Microenterprise Dynamics in Developing Countries: How Similar are They to Those in the Industrialized World? Evidence from Mexico pp. 389-419
Pablo Fajnzylber, William F. Maloney and Gabriel Montes Rojas
The "Glass of Milk" Subsidy Program and Malnutrition in Peru pp. 421-448
David Stifel and Harold Alderman
How Endowments, Accumulations, and Choice Determine the Geography of Agricultural Productivity in Ecuador pp. 449-471
Donald F. Larson and Mauricio León

Volume 20, issue 2, 2006

The Doha Round and Preference Erosion: A Symposium pp. 165-168
Bernard Hoekman
Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: What Is at Stake for Developing Countries? pp. 169-195
Kym Anderson, Will J Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization pp. 197-216
Joseph Francois, Bernard Hoekman and Miriam Manchin
Trade Preferences to Small Developing Countries and the Welfare Costs of Lost Multilateral Liberalization pp. 217-240
Nuno M. Limão and Marcelo Olarreaga
Price Effects of Preferential Market Access: Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Apparel Sector pp. 241-259
Çaglar Özden and Gunjan Sharma
Aid and the Supply Side: Public Investment, Export Performance, and Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries pp. 261-290
Christopher S. Adam and David L. Bevan
Infrastructure, Externalities, and Economic Development: A Study of the Indian Manufacturing Industry pp. 291-308
Charles R. Hulten, Esra Bennathan and Sylaja Srinivasan

Volume 20, issue 1, 2006

Making Conditional Cash Transfer Programs More Efficient: Designing for Maximum Effect of the Conditionality pp. 1-29
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet
Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America pp. 31-54
Victoria Gunnarsson, Peter Orazem and Mario A. Sánchez
The Long-Run Economic Costs of aids: A Model with an Application to South Africa pp. 55-89
Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan and Hans Gersbach
Robust Multidimensional Spatial Poverty Comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda pp. 91-113
Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn and Stephen D. Younger
The Impact of Regulatory Governance and Privatization on Electricity Industry Generation Capacity in Developing Economies pp. 115-141
John Cubbin and Jon Stern
An Empirical Analysis of State and Private-Sector Provision of Water Services in Africa pp. 143-163
Colin Kirkpatrick, David Parker and Yin-Fang Zhang

Volume 19, issue 3, 2005

Tracking pp. 335-344
Daniel Lederman and Luis Servén
Spatial Dimensions of Trade Liberalization and Economic Convergence: Mexico 1985--2002 pp. 345-378
Patricio Aroca, Mariano Bosch and William F. Maloney
Market Access and Welfare under Free Trade Agreements: Textiles under pp. 379-405
Olivier Cadot, Céline Carrère, Jaime de Melo and Alberto Portugal-Pérez
The Effects of pp. 407-424
Bruce A. Blonigen
Has pp. 425-448
Raymond Robertson
Migration, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico pp. 449-472
Patricio Aroca and William F. Maloney
Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico since the Approval of pp. 473-488
Alfredo Cuevas, Miguel Messmacher and Alejandro Werner

Volume 19, issue 2, 2005

The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth pp. 141-174
Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett and Gwen Busby
Attaching Workers through In-Kind Payments: Theory and Evidence from Russia pp. 175-202
Guido Friebel and Sergei Guriev
Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru pp. 203-223
Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady
Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Education in Developing Economies pp. 225-261
Justin van der Sluis, Mirjam van Praag and Wim Vijverberg
Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh pp. 263-286
Shahidur R. Khandker
Participation in pp. 287-310
Chad P. Bown
Has Rural Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Georgia Helped the Poor? pp. 311-333
Michael Lokshin and Ruslan G. Yemtsov

Volume 19, issue 1, 2005

Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000 pp. 1-20
Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty
Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Surveys pp. 21-44
Branko Milanovic
Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute? pp. 45-67
William Jack and Jean O. Lanjouw
Prices and Unit Values in Poverty Measurement and Tax Reform Analysis pp. 69-97
John Gibson and Scott Rozelle
Has Distance Died? Evidence from a Panel Gravity Model pp. 99-120
Jean Francois Brun, Céline Carrère, Patrick Guillaumont and Jaime de Melo
Measuring and Explaining the Impact of Productive Efficiency on Economic Development pp. 121-140
Ruwan Jayasuriya and Quentin Wodon

Volume 18, issue 3, 2004

Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil pp. 289-317
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David Gerald Tarr and Angelo Gurgel
Trade Liberalization and Industry Wage Structure: Evidence from Brazil pp. 319-344
Nina Pavcnik, Andreas Blom, Pinelopi Goldberg and Norbert Schady
Lobbying, Counterlobbying, and the Structure of Tariff Protection in Poor and Rich Countries pp. 345-366
Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo and Marcelo Olarreaga
Social Protection in a Crisis: Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas pp. 367-399
Emanuela Galasso and Martin Ravallion
On the Unequal Inequality of Poor Communities pp. 401-421
Chris Elbers, Peter Frederik Lanjouw, Johan Andre Mistiaen, Berk Özler and Kenneth Simler
Ghost Doctors: Absenteeism in Rural Bangladeshi Health Facilities pp. 423-441
Nazmul Chaudhury and Jeffrey S. Hammer
Small-Scale Industry, Environmental Regulation, and Poverty: The Case of Brazil pp. 443-464
Rajshri Jayaraman and Peter Frederik Lanjouw

Volume 18, issue 2, 2004

Do Macroeconomic Crises Always Slow Human Capital Accumulation? pp. 131-154
Norbert Schady
The Distribution of Income Shocks during Crises: An Application of Quantile Analysis to Mexico, 1992--95 pp. 155-174
William F. Maloney, Wendy V. Cunningham and Mariano Bosch
Agricultural Tariffs or Subsidies: Which Are More Important for Developing Economies? pp. 175-204
Bernard Hoekman, Francis Ng and Marcelo Olarreaga
The Earnings Effects of Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Implications for Poverty pp. 205-236
Thomas Warren Hertel, Maros Ivanic, Paul V. Preckel and John Cranfield
Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana pp. 237-252
Niels-Hugo Blunch and Dorte Verner
Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002 pp. 253-287
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

Volume 18, issue 1, 2004

China's Accession to the World Trade Organization, Policy Reform, and Poverty Reduction: An Introduction pp. 1-2
Deepak Bhattasali, Li Shantong and Will J Martin
Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization pp. 3-27
Elena Ianchovichina and Will J Martin
Welfare Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization pp. 29-57
Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion
Tracking Distortions in Agriculture: China and Its Accession to the World Trade Organization pp. 59-84
Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and Min Chang
Regulated Efficiency, World Trade Organization Accession, and the Motor Vehicle Sector in China pp. 85-104
Joseph Francois and Dean Spinanger
China in the World Trade Organization: Antidumping and Safeguards pp. 105-130
Patrick A. Messerlin
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