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1930: The main determinants of inflation in Albania
Iker Domac and Carolos Elbirt
1929: A database of world infrastructure stocks, 1950-95
David Canning
1928: Combining census and survey data to study spatial dimensions of poverty
Jesko Hentschel , Jean Olson Lanjouw , Peter Frederik Lanjouw and Javier Poggi
1927: Revenue-productive income tax structures and tax reforms in emerging market economies - evidence from Bulgaria
Fareed M. A. Hassan
1926: Do budgets really matter? - evidence from public spending on education and health in Uganda
Emmanuel Ablo and Ritva Reinikka
1925: Half a century of development economics: a review based on the"Handbook of Development Economics"
Jean Waelbroeck
1924: Voucher privatization with investment funds: an institutional analysis
David Ellerman
1923: When vintage technology makes sense: matching imports to skills
Giorgio Barba Navaretti , Isidro Soloaga and Wendy Takacs
1922: Regional groupings among microstates
Soamiely Andriamananjara and Maurice Schiff
1921: Making voice work: the report card on Banglalore's public service
Samuel Paul
1920: Education and earnings in a transition economy (Vietnam)
Peter R. Moock , Harry Anthony Patrinos and Meera Venkataraman
1919: The empirical effects of performance contracts: evidence from China
Mary Shirley and Lixin Colin Xu
1918: How does foreign entry affect the domestic banking market?
Stijn Claessens , Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry P. Huizinga
1917: Financial liberalization and financial fragility
Asli Demirguc-Kent and Enrica Detragiache
1916: The size, origins, and character of Mongolia's informal sector during the transition
James Horton Anderson
1915: Distortionary effects of state trading in agriculture: issues for the next round of negotiations
Merlinda Ingco and Francis Ng
1914: Distinguishing between types of data and methods of collecting them
Jesko Hentschel
1913: The 1994 currency crisis in Turkey
Oya Celasun
1912: Pay and grade differentials at the World Bank
Deon Filmer , Margaret Grosh , Elizabeth M. King and Dominique van de Walle
1911: The internationalization of financial services in Asia
Stijn Claessens and Tom Glaessner
1910: Capital outflow from the agricultural sector in Thailand
Junichi Yamada
1909: Capital markets responses to environmental performance in developing countries
Susmita Dasgupta , Benoit Laplante and Nlandu Mamingi
1908: How dirty are"quick and dirty"methods of project appraisal?
Dominique van de Walle and Dileni Gunewardena
1907: Development expenditures and the local financing constraint
Albert D. K. Agbonyitor
1906: Developing countries'participation in the World Trade Organization
Constantine Michalopoulos
1905: Child labor in Cote d'Ivoire: incidence and determinants
Christiaan Grootaert
1904: Ecuador's rural nonfarm sector as a route out of poverty
Peter Frederik Lanjouw
1903: Taxing capital income in Hungary and the European Union
Jean-Jacques Dethier and Christoph John
1902: When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China
Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen
1901: Reaching poor areas in a federal system
Martin Ravallion
1900: Determinants of commercial bank interest margins and profitability: some international evidence
Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry P. Huizinga
1899: Determinants of emerging market bond spread: do economic fundamentals matter?
Hong-Ghi Min
1898: Does membership in a regional preferential trade arrangement make a country more or less protectionist?
Faezeh Foroutan
1897: Development of natural gas and pipeline capacity markets in the United States
Andrej Juris
1896: Congestion pricing and network expansion
Thomas-Olivier Nasser
1895: The emergence of markets in the natural gas industry
Andrej Juris
1894: Applying a simple measure of good governance to the debate on fiscal decentralization
Jeff Huther and Anwar Shah
1893: Regulatory controversies of private pension funds
Dimitri Vittas
1892: The role of non-bank financial intermediaries (with particular reference to Egypt)
Dimitri Vittas
1891: The housing market in the Russian Federation: privatization and its implications for market development
Alla K. Guzanova
1890: Market development in the United Kingdom's natural gas industry
Andrej Juris
1889: Development strategy reconsidered: Mexico, 1960-94
Toru Yanagihara and Yoshiaki Hisamatsu
1888: What do doctors want? developing incentives for doctors to serve in Indonesia's rural and remote areas
Kenneth M. Chomitz , Gunawan Setiadi , Azrul Azwar , Nusye Ismail and Widiyarti
1887: The structure of derivatives exchanges: lessons from developed and emerging markets
George Tsetsekos and Panos Varangis
1886: Country funds and asymmetric information
Jeffrey Alexander Frankel and Sergio Luis Schmukler
1885: Aid, taxation, and development: analytical perspectives on aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
Christopher Adam and O'Connell, Stephen A.
1884: Fiscal aspect of evolving federations: issues for policy and research
David Wildasin
1883: Intersectoral resource allocation and its impact on economic development in the Philippines
Fumihide Takeuchi and Takehiko Hagino
1882: Interregional resource transfer and economic growth in Indonesia
Toshihiko Kawagoe
1881: The Asian miracle and modern growth theory
Richard R. Nelson and Howard Pack
1880: Foreign aid and rent-seeking
Jakob Svensson
1879: Relative prices and inflation in Poland, 1989-97: the special role of administered price increases
Przemyslaw Wozniak
1878: Searching for sustainable microfinance: a review of five Indonesian initiatives
R. Marisol Ravicz
1877: What improves environmental performance? evidence from Mexican industry
Susmita Dasgupta , Hemamala Hettige and David Wheeler
1876: Industrial pollution in economic development: Kuznets revisited
Hemamala Hettige , Muthukumara Mani and David Wheeler
1875: How deposit insurance affects financial depth: a cross-country analysis
Robert Cull
1874: Health policy in poor countries: weak links in the chain
Deon Filmer , Jeffrey Stuart Hammer and Lant Pritchett
1873: Wage misalignment in CFA countries: are labor market policies to blame?
Martin Rama
1872: How integration into the Central African Economic and Monetary Community affects Cameroon's economy: general equilibrium estimates
Ferdinand Bakoup and David Gerald Tarr
1871: Just how big is global production sharing?
Alexander J. Yeats
1870: The evolution of poverty and inequality in Indian villages
Raji Jayraman and Peter Frederik Lanjouw
1869: Risk reduction and public spending
Shantayanan Devarajan and Jeffrey Stuart Hammer
1868: Government support to private infrastructure projects in emerging markets
Mansoor Dailami and Michael Klein
1867: Gender disparity in South Asia: comparisons between and within countries
Deon Filmer , Elizabeth M. King and Lant Pritchett
1866: Circumstance and choice: the role of initial conditions and policies in transition economies
Martha de Melo , Cevdet A. Denizer , Alan Gelb and Stoyan Tenev
1865: Pension reform in Latin America: quick fixes or sustainable reform?
Sri-Ram Aiyer
1864: Child mortality and public spending on health: how much does money matter?
Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett
1863: Are the poor less well-insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China
Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion
1862: Spatial poverty traps?
Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion
1861: Infrastructure project finance and capital flows: a new perspective
Mansoor Dailami and Danny Leipziger
1860: The health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India
Maureen L. Cropper , Nathalie B. Simon , Anna Alberini and P. K. Sharma
1859: Lessons from Sao Paulo's Metropolitan Busway Concessions Program
Jorge Rebelo and Pedro Benvenuto
1858: Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh
Martin Ravallion and Quentin Wodon
1857: Leasing to support small businesses and microenterprises
Joselito Gallardo
1856: Surviving success: policy reform and the future of industrial pollution in China
Susmita Dasgupta , Hua Wang and David Wheeler
1855: Stabilization, adjustment, and growth prospects in transition economies
Cevdet A. Denizer
1854: Regulatory tradeoffs in designing concession contracts for infrastructure networks
Claude Crampes and Antonio Estache
1853: Pension reform and private pension funds in Peru and Colombia
Monika Queisser
1852: Leading indicators of currency crises
Graciela Laura Kaminsky , Saul Lizondo and Carmen M. Reinhart
1851: Transportation infrastructure investments and regional trade liberalization
Eric W. Bond
1850: Determinants of intra-industry trade between East and West Europe
Chonira Aturupane , Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman
1849: Regional integration and factor income taxation
Valeria De Bonis
1848: Regional integration and commodity tax harmonization
Valeria De Bonis
1847: Outsiders and regional trade agreements among small countries: the case of regional markets
Anju Gupta and Maurice Schiff
1846: Africa's role in multilateral trade negotiations
Zhen Kun Wang and L. Alan Winters
1845: Employment, labor markets, and poverty in Ghana
R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Dipak Mazumdar
1844: Child labor and schooling in Ghana
R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Harold Coulombe
1843: Externalities and bailouts: hard and soft budget constraints in intergovernmental fiscal relations
David Wildasin
1842: Motorization and the provision of roads in countries and cities
Gregory K. Ingram and Zhi Liu
1841: Patterns of metropolitan development: what have we learned?
Gregory K. Ingram
1840: Efficient public sector downsizing
Martin Rama
1839: The effects of financial liberalization and new bank entry on market structure and competition in Turkey
Cevdet A. Denizer
1838: The limits and merits of participation
Paulo Vieira da Cunha and Maria Valeria Junho Pena
1837: How Estonia's economic transition affected employment and wages (1989-95)
Rivo Noorkoiv , Peter Orazem , Allan Puur and Milan Vodopivec
1836: Health and labor productivity: the economic impact of onchocercal skin disease
Aehyung Kim , Ajay Tandon and Asrat Hailu
1835: Cost-benefit analysis of the Global Dracunculiasis Eradication Campaign (GDEC)
Aehyung Kim , Ajay Tandon and Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben
1834: The comparative advantage of government: a review
Pedro Belli
1833: Cost recovery and pricing of payment services
David B. Humphrey , Robert H. Keppler and Fernando Montes-Negret
1832: Pension reform in Bolivia: innovative solutions to common problems
Hermann von Gersdorff
1831: How trade patterns and technology flows affect productivity growth
Wolfgang Keller