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2224: Growth forecasts using time series and growth models
Aart Kraay and George Monokroussos
2223: Integrated financial supervision: lessons of Northern European experience
Michael William Taylor and Alex Fleming
2222: Labor market integration in the presence of social capital
Maurice Schiff
2221: The dynamics of poverty and the effectiveness of Poland's safety net (1993-96)
Wlodzimierz Okrasa
2220: A Quantitative evaluation of Vietnam's accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area
Emiko Fukase and Will J Martin
2219: The effect of the United States'granting Most Favored Nation status to Vietnam
Emiko Fukase and Will J Martin
2218: Who avoids and who escapes from poverty during transition? - evidence from Polish panel data, 1993-96
Wlodzimierz Okrasa
2217: Border, border, wide and far, how we wonder what you are
David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei
2216: Corruption and trade tariffs, or a case for uniform tariffs
Roberta Gatti
2215: Implementation of Ururguay Round commitments: the development challenge
Joseph Michael Finger and Philip Schuler
2214: Trade policy and market access issues for developing countries: implications for the Millennium Round
Constantine Michalopoulos
2213: Fiscal solvency and sustainability in economic management
Hinh T. Dinh
2212: Is African manufacturing skill-constrained?
Howard Pack and Christina Paxson
2211: Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization
Bernard Hoekman and Peter Holmes
2210: The slippery slope: explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976-96
Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Ricardo Paes de Barrios
2209: Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
Shang-Jin Wei
2208: Ethnic partition as a solution to ethnic war - an empirical critique of the theoretical literature
Nicholas Sambanis
2207: Jamaica's food stamp program - impacts on poverty and welfare
Kene Ezemenari and Kalanidhi Subbarao
2206: Household childcare choices and women's work behavior in Russia
Michael Lokshin
2205: Foreign-owned capital and endogenous tariffs
Marcelo Olarreaga
2204: Corruption under moral hazard
Gunnar S. Eskeland and Henrik Thiele
2203: Market versus administrative reallocation of agricultural land in a period of rapid industrialization
Michael R. Carter and Yang Yao
2202: Specialization without regret - transfer rights, agricultural productivity, and investment in an industrializing economy
Michael R. Carter and Yang Yao
2201: Financial development and industrial capital accumulation
Biagio Bossone
2200: The role of trust in financial sector development
Biagio Bossone
2199: Managing risks of capital mobility
Mansoor Dailami
2198: How the Chinese system of charges and subsidies affects pollution control efforts by China's top industrial polluters
Hua Wang and Ming Chen
2197: Production sharing in East Asia: who does what for whom, and why?
Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats
2196: Governance matters
Daniel Kaufmann , Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton
2195: Aggregating governance indicators
Daniel Kaufmann , Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton
2194: Does democracy facilitate the economic transition: an empirical study of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Jean-Jacques Dethier , Hafez Ghanem and Edda Zoli
2193: Children's growth and poverty in rural Guatemala
Michele Gragnolati
2192: Districts, spillovers, and government overspending
Reza Baqir
2191: Can no antitrust policy be better than some antitrust policy?
Aaditya Mattoo
2190: The credit channel at work - lessons from the Republic of Korea's financial crisis
Giovanni Ferri and Tae Soo Kang
2189: Alternative frameworks for providing financial services
Stijn Claessens and Daniela Klingebiel
2188: Financial liberalization and the capital account: Thailand, 1988-97
Pedro Alba , Leonardo Hernandez and Daniela Klingebiel
2187: Who determines Mexican trade policy?
Jean-Marie Grether , Jaime A.P. de Melo and Marcelo Olarreaga
2186: Contagion, bank lending spreads, and output fluctuations
Pierre-Richard Agénor , Joshua Aizenman and Alexander W. Hoffmaister
2185: Financial sector inefficiencies and coordination failures: implications for crisis management
Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman
2184: Financial services and the World Trade Organization - liberalization commitments of the developing and transition economies
Aaditya Mattoo
2183: Market discipline and financial safety net design
Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry P. Huizinga
2182: The integration of transition economies into the world trading system
Constantine Michalopoulos
2181: Privatization and regulation of the seaport industry
Lourdes Trujillo and Gustavo Nombela
2180: Regulating privatized infrastructures and airport services
Ofelia Betancor and Robert Rendeiro
2179: How child labor and child schooling interact with adult labor
Ranjan Ray
2178: Nonfarm income, inequality, and land in Rural Egypt
Richard H. Adams
2177: Fiscal adjustment and contingent government liabilities: case studies of the Czech Republic and Macedonia
Hana Polackova Brixi , Hafez Ghanem and Roumeen Islam
2176: Fiscal risks and the quality of fiscal adjustment in Hungary
Hana Polackova Brixi , Anita Papp and Allen Schick
2175: Sector growth and the dual economy model - evidence from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zimbabwe
Niels-Hugo Blunch and Dorte Verner
2174: Prospective deficits and the asian currency crisis
Craig Burnside , Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio T Rebelo
2173: The intriguing relation between adult minimum wage and child labor
Kaushik Basu
2172: The East Asian crisis: investigating causes and policy responses
Warwick J. McKibbin and Will Marin
2171: Productivity growth and convergence in agriculture and manufacturing
Will J Martin and Devashish Mitra
2170: The distributional consequences of monetary policy: evidence from Malaysia
Ilker Domac
2169: Corruption, public finances, and the unofficial economy
Simon Johnson , Daniel Kaufmann and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton
2168: Wage and productivity gaps - evidence from Ghana
Dorte Verner
2167: Bonds and bridges: social and poverty
Deepa Narayan
2166: Seeking votes - the political economy of expenditures by the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES), 1991-95
Norbert Schady
2165: The Russian city in transition - the first six years in ten Volga capitals
Martha de Melo and Gur Ofer
2164: Challenging El Salvador's rural health care strategy
Maureen A. Lewis , Gunnar S. Eskeland and Ximena Traa-Valerezo
2163: Coverage under old-agesecurity programs and protection for the uninsured - What are the issues?
Estelle James
2162: Quantifying the fiscal effects of trade reform
Shantayanan Devarajan , Delfin S. Go and Hongyi Li
2161: Will the real"natural trading partner"please stand up?
Maurice Schiff
2160: Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks
Francisco H. G. Ferreira , Giovanna Prennushi and Martin Ravallion
2159: Provincial bank privatization in Argentina: the why, how, and"so what"?
George R.G. Clarke and Robert Cull
2158: The effect of foreign entry on Argentina's domestic banking sector
George R.G. Clarke , Robert Cull , D'Amato, Laura Inés and Andrea Molinari
2157: How regional blocs affect excluded countries - the price effects of MERCOSUR
Won Chang and L. Alan Winters
2156: How has regionalism in the 1990s affected trade?
Isidro Soloaga and L. Alan Winters
2155: Lending booms, reserves, and the sustainability of short-term debt - inferences from the pricing of syndicated bank loans
Barry Julian Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody
2154: Inter-industry labor mobility in Taiwan, China
Howard Pack and Christina Paxson
2153: Themystery of the vanishing benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
Martin Ravallion
2152: Comparing the performance of public and private water companies in the Asia and Pacific region: what a stochastic costs frontier shows
Antonio Estache and Martín A Rossi
2151: A few things transport regulators should know about risk and the cost of capital
Ian Alexander , Antonio Estache and Adele Oliveri
2150: Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's
Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin
2149: Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program
Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion
2148: Social capital, houshold welfare, and poverty in Indonesia
Christiaan Grootaert
2147: Developing country goals and strategies for the Millennium Round
Constantine Michalopoulos
2146: A new database on financial development and structure
Thorsten Beck , Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
2145: Assessing the impact of micro-credit on poverty and vulnerability in Bangladesh
Hassan Zaman
2144: Aid dependence reconsidered
Jean-Paul Azam , Shantayanan Devarajan and O'Connell, Stephen A.
2143: Bank-based and market-based financial systems - cross-country comparisons
Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
2142: Adjusting to trade policy reform
Steven J. Matusz and David Gerald Tarr
2141: Capital flows, macroeconomic management, and the financial system - Turkey, 1989-97
Oya Celasun , Cevdet A. Denizer and Dong He
2140: Gender bias in China, the Republic of Korea, and India 1920-90 - effects of war, famine, and fertility decline
Monica Das Gupta and Li Shuzhuo
2139: Small states, small problems?
William Easterly and Aart Kraay
2138: Multilateral disciplines for investment-related policies
Bernard Hoekman and Kamal Saggi
2137: Globalization and national development at the end ot the 20th century - tensions and challenges
Andres Solimano
2136: An empirical analysis ofcompetition, privatization, and regulation in telecommunications markets in Africa and Latin America
Scott J. Wallsten
2135: Hungary's integration into European Union markets - production and trade restructuring
Bartlomiej Kaminski
2134: Interlinkage, limited liability, and strategic interaction
Kaushik Basu , Clive Laurence George Bell and Pinaki Bose
2133: Resolution of corporate distress - evidence from East Asia's financial crisis
Stijn Claessens , Simeon Djankov and Leora F. Klapper
2132: A regime - switching approach to studying speculative attacks: focus on European Monetary System crises
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
2131: Efficiency wage and union effects in labor demand and wage structure in Mexico - An application of quantile analysis
William F. Maloney and Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro
2130: Deep integration, nondiscrimination, and Euro-Mediterranean free trade
Bernard Hoekman and Denise Eby Konan
2129: Agricultural extension - generic challenges and the ingredients for solutions
Gershon Feder , Anthony Willett and Willem Zijp
2128: Learning outcomes and school cost-effectiveness in Mexico: the PARE program
Gladys Lopez Acevedo
2127: Lifeboat ethics versus corporate ethics - social and demographic implications of stem and joint families
Monica Das Gupta
2126: Liberte, egalite, fraternite: exploring the role of governance in fertility decline
Monica Das Gupta
2125: Developing country agriculture and the new trade agenda
Bernard Hoekman and Kym Anderson