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Volume 15, issue 3, 2001

Capital Account Liberalization: What Do Cross-Country Studies Tell Us? pp. 341--365

Barry Eichengreen

Where Has All the Education Gone? pp. 367--391

Lant Pritchett

Measuring the Dynamic Gains from Trade pp. 393--429

Romain Wacziarg

Ownership and Growth pp. 431--449

Thorvaldur Gylfason, Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson and Gylfi Zoega

Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage, Transport Costs, and Trade pp. 451--479

Nuno Limão and Anthony Venables

Deposit Insurance around the World pp. 481--490

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Tolga Sobaci

Volume 15, issue 2, 2001

It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models pp. 177--219

William Easterly and Ross Levine

Comment on 'It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models,' by William Easterly and Ross Levine pp. 221--224

Pete Klenow

Comment on 'It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models,' by William Easterly and Ross Levine pp. 225--227

Paul Romer

Growth Empirics and Reality pp. 229--272

William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf

Comment on 'Growth Empirics and Reality,' by William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf pp. 273--275

Lant Pritchett

Comment on 'Growth Empirics and Reality,' by William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf pp. 277--282

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Applying Growth Theory across Countries pp. 283--288

Robert Solow

Crisis Transmission: Evidence from the Debt, Tequila, and Asian Flu Crises pp. 289--314

José De Gregorio and Rodrigo Valdés

Mutual Fund Investment in Emerging Markets: An Overview pp. 315--340

Graciela L. Kaminsky, Richard K. Lyons and Sergio Schmukler

Volume 15, issue 1, 2001

Circumstance and Choice: The Role of Initial Conditions and Policies in Transition Economies pp. 1--31

Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer, Alan Gelb and Stoyan Tenev

Multi-Tier Targeting of Social Assistance: The Role of Intergovernmental Transfers pp. 33--53

Harold Alderman

Flight Capital as a Portfolio Choice pp. 55--80

Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler and Catherine Pattillo

The Impact of Early Childhood Nutritional Status on Cognitive Development: Does the Timing of Malnutrition Matter? pp. 81--113

Paul Glewwe and Elizabeth King

The Mystery of the Vanishing Benefits: An Introduction to Impact Evaluation pp. 115--140

Martin Ravallion

Does Ignoring Heterogeneity in Impacts Distort Project Appraisals? An Experiment for Irrigation in Vietnam pp. 141--164

Dominique van de Walle and Dileni Gunewardena

New Tools in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions pp. 165--176

Thorsten Beck, George Clarke, Alberto Groff, Philip Keefer and Patrick Walsh

Volume 14, issue 3, 2000

Saving in Developing Countries: An Overview pp. 393-414

Norman Loayza, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Luis Servén

Can Africa's Saving Collapse Be Reversed? pp. 415-443

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Francis M. Mwega

The Saving Collapse during the Transition in Eastern Europe pp. 445-455

Cevdet Denizer and Holger C. Wolf

What Drives Consumption Booms? pp. 457-480

Peter Montiel

Saving Transitions pp. 481-507

Dani Rodrik

Personal and Corporate Saving in South Africa pp. 509-544

Janine Aron and John Muellbauer

Household Saving in China pp. 545-570

Aart Kraay

Private Saving in India pp. 571-594

Norman Loayza and Rashmi Shankar

A New Database on the Structure and Development of the Financial Sector pp. 597-605

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

Volume 14, issue 2, 2000

Understanding Patterns of Economic Growth: Searching for Hills among Plateaus, Mountains, and Plains pp. 221-50

Lant Pritchett

Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Developing Countries: Some Stylized Facts pp. 251-85

Pierre-Richard Agénor, Christopher McDermott and Eswar Prasad

Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility: A Multivariate Logit Approach pp. 287-307

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache

Trade Reform Dynamics and Technical Efficiency: The Peruvian Experience pp. 309-30

Ila M Semenick Alam and Andrew R Morrison

Monitoring Targeting Performance When Decentralized Allocations to the Poor Are Unobserved pp. 331-45

Martin Ravallion

Child Labor, Child Schooling, and Their Interaction with Adult Labor: Empirical Evidence for Peru and Pakistan pp. 347-67

Ranjan Ray

A Cross-Country Database for Sector Investment and Capital pp. 371-91

Donald Larson, Rita Butzer, Yair Mundlak and Al Crego

Volume 14, issue 1, 2000

International Knowledge Flows and Economic Performance: A Review of the Evidence pp. 1-15

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and David Tarr

Do Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect Productivity Growth? pp. 17-47

Wolfgang Keller

Foreign Investment and Productivity Growth in Czech Enterprises pp. 49-64

Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman

Productivity and Turnover in the Export Market: Micro-level Evidence from the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China) pp. 65-90

Bee Yan Aw, Sukkyun Chung and Mark Roberts

Vintage Technologies and Skill Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Exports of New and Used Machines pp. 91-109

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Isidro Soloaga and Wendy Takacs

An Argument for Deregulating the Transfer of Agricultural Technologies to Developing Countries pp. 111-27

David Gisselquist and Jean-Marie Grether

Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation: An Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 129-45

David Bigman and Hippolyte Fofack

Combining Census and Survey Data to Trace the Spatial Dimensions of Poverty: A Case Study of Ecuador pp. 147-65

Hentschel, Jesko, et al

Community Targeting for Poverty Reduction in Burkina Faso pp. 167-93

Bigman, David, et al

Combining Light Monitoring Surveys with Integrated Surveys to Improve Targeting for Poverty Reduction: The Case of Ghana pp. 195-219

Hippolyte Fofack

Volume 13, issue 3, 1999

Evaluating Education Reforms: Four Cases in Developing Countries pp. 409-13

Elizabeth King and Peter Orazem

Do Community-Managed Schools Work? An Evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO Program pp. 415-41

Emmanuel Jimenez and Yasuyuki Sawada

Can Private School Subsidies Increase Enrollment for the Poor? The Quetta Urban Fellowship Program pp. 443-65

Jooseop Kim, Harold Alderman and Peter Orazem

Central Mandates and Local Incentives: The Colombia Education Voucher Program pp. 467-91

Elizabeth King, Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth

Student Outcomes in Philippine Elementary Schools: An Evaluation of Four Experiments pp. 493-508

Jee-Peng Tan, Julia Lane and Gerard Lassibille

Calm after the Storms: Income Distribution and Welfare in Chile, 1987-94 pp. 509-38

Francisco Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

Changes in the Perception of the Poverty Line during the Depression in Russia, 1993-96 pp. 539-59

Branko Milanovic and Branko Jovanovic

Labor Market Analysis and Public Policy: The Case of Morocco pp. 561-78

Julia Lane, Guillermo Hakim and Javier Miranda

Volume 13, issue 2, 1999

Household Income and Child Schooling in Vietnam pp. 211-56

Jere Behrman and James C Knowles

Benefit Incidence, Public Spending Reforms, and the Timing of Program Capture pp. 257-73

Peter Lanjouw and Martin Ravallion

Does Informality Imply Segmentation in Urban Labor Markets? Evidence from Sectoral Transitions in Mexico pp. 275-302

William Maloney

Tax Incidence in Madagascar: An Analysis Using Household Data pp. 303-31

Younger, Stephen D, et al

Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries pp. 333-56

Kirk Hamilton and Michael Clemens

Winners and Losers from the Privatization and Regulation of Utilities: Lessons from a General Equilibrium Model of Argentina pp. 357-78

Omar Chisari, Antonio Estache and Carlos Romero

Determinants of Commercial Bank Interest Margins and Profitability: Some International Evidence pp. 379-408

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

Volume 13, issue 1, 1999

Public Sector Downsizing: An Introduction pp. 1-22

Martin Rama

Cross-Country Evidence on Public Sector Retrenchment pp. 23-66

John Haltiwanger and Manisha Singh

The Efficient Mechanism for Downsizing the Public Sector pp. 67-88

Doh-Shin Jeon and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Earnings and Welfare after Downsizing: Central Bank Employees in Ecuador pp. 89-116

Martin Rama and Donna MacIsaac

Matching Severance Payments with Worker Losses in the Egyptian Public Sector pp. 117-53

Ragui Assaad

The Algerian Retrenchment System: A Financial and Economic Evaluation pp. 155-83

Elizabeth Ruppert

Labor Earnings in One-Company Towns: Theory and Evidence from Kazakhstan pp. 185-209

Martin Rama and Kinnon Scott