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Volume 12, issue 3, 1998

Credibility of Rules and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector pp. 353-84

Aymo Brunetti, Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Does Economic Analysis Improve the Quality of Foreign Assistance? pp. 385-418

Klaus Deininger, Lyn Squire and Swati Basu

Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia pp. 419-55

David Bloom and Jeffrey Williamson

The Bolivian Social Investment Fund: An Analysis of Baseline Data for Impact Evaluation pp. 457-82

Menno Pradhan, Laura Rawlings and Geert Ridder

International Evidence on the Determinants of Private Saving pp. 483-501

Paul Masson, Tamim Bayoumi and Hossein Samiei

Unfair Trade? The Increasing Gap between World and Domestic Prices in Commodity Markets during the Past 25 Years pp. 503-26

Jacques Morisset

A Database of World Stocks of Infrastructure, 1950-95 pp. 529-47

David Canning

Volume 12, issue 2, 1998

Dynamics and Politics in Regional Integration Arrangements: An Introduction pp. 177-95

Maurice Schiff and L. Winters

Returns to Regionalism: An Analysis of Nontraditional Gains from Regional Trade Agreements pp. 197-220

Raquel Fernandez and Jonathan Portes

Trading Arrangements and Industrial Development pp. 221-49

Diego Puga and Anthony Venables

Regional Integration and Economic Growth pp. 251-70

Athanasios Vamvakidis

Regional Integration as Diplomacy pp. 271-95

Maurice Schiff and L. Winters

Endogenous Tariff Formation: The Case of Mercosur pp. 297-320

Marcelo Olarreaga and Isidro Soloaga

Half a Century of Development Economics: A Review Based on the Handbook of Development Economics pp. 323-52

Jean Waelbroeck

Volume 12, issue 1, 1998

Does Mercosur's Trade Performance Raise Concerns about the Effects of Regional Trade Arrangements? pp. 1-28

Alexander J Yeats

A Panel Data Analysis of the Fungibility of Foreign Aid pp. 29-58

Tarhan Feyzioglu, Vinaya Swaroop and Min Zhu

Technological Capability and Firm Efficiency in Taiwan (China) pp. 59-79

Bee Yan Aw and Geeta Batra

Skills, Schooling, and Household Income in Ghana pp. 81-104

Dean Jolliffe

The Tragedy of the Commons in Cote d'Ivoire Agriculture: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Evaluating Trade Policies pp. 105-31

Ramon Lopez

Economic Parameters of Deforestation pp. 133-53

Joachim von Amsberg

Why Has Poland Avoided the Price Liberalization Trap? The Case of the Hog-Pork Sector pp. 155-74

Anning Wei, Waldemar Guba and Burcroff, Richard,

Volume 11, issue 3, 1997

Rationing Can Backfire: The "Day without a Car" in Mexico City pp. 383-408

Gunnar Eskeland and Tarhan Feyzioglu

Prices and Protocols in Public Health Care pp. 409-32

Jeffrey Hammer

Formal and Informal Regulation of Industrial Pollution: Comparative Evidence from Indonesia and the United States pp. 433-50

Pargal, Sheoli, et al

Capital Flows to Developing Countries: Long- and Short-Term Determinants pp. 451-70

Mark Taylor and Lucio Sarno

Determinants of the Export Structure of Countries in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 471-87

Bernard Hoekman and Simeon Djankov

A New Data Base on State-Owned Enterprises pp. 491-513

Luke Haggarty and Mary M Shirley

Volume 11, issue 2, 1997

Financial Market Fragmentation and Reforms in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania pp. 195-218

Aryeetey, Ernest, et al

Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Government Projects pp. 219-42

Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann and Lant Pritchett

The Relative Efficiency and Implementation Costs of Alternative Methods for Pricing Irrigation Water pp. 243-62

Yacov Tsur and Ariel Dinar

Managing Price Risk in the Pakistan Wheat Market pp. 263-92

Rashid Faruqee, Jonathan R Coleman and Tom Scott

Explaining Industrial Growth in Coastal China: Economic Reforms... and What Else? pp. 293-325

Ashoka Mody and Fang-Yi Wang

Organized Labor and the Political Economy of Product Market Distortions pp. 327-55

Martin Rama

What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent Changes in Distribution and Poverty? pp. 357-82

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

Volume 11, issue 1, 1997

How International Exchange, Technology, and Institutions Affect Workers: An Introduction pp. 1-15

Ishac Diwan and Michael Walton

Learning by Trading and the Returns to Human Capital in Developing Countries pp. 17-32

Christopher Pissarides

Openness and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Latin American Challenge to East Asian Conventional Wisdom pp. 33-57

Adrian Wood

Technology and Firm Size-Wage Differentials in Colombia, Mexico, and Taiwan (China) pp. 59-83

Hong Tan and Geeta Batra

The Effects of Public Sector Hiring and Compensation Policies on the Egyptian Labor Market pp. 85-118

Ragui Assaad

The Impact of Labor Market Regulations pp. 119-43

Lyn Squire and Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput

Economic Reform and Labor Unions: A General-Equilibrium Analysis Applied to Bangladesh and Indonesia pp. 145-70

Shantayanan Devarajan, Hafez Ghanem and Karen Thierfelder

Does the Type of Political Regime Matter for Trade and Labor Market Policies? pp. 171-94

Arup Banerji and Hafez Ghanem

Volume 10, issue 3, 1996

Patterns of Transition from Plan to Market pp. 397-424

Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer and Alan Gelb

Hungary's Bankruptcy Experience, 1992-93 pp. 425-50

Cheryl W Gray, Sabine Schlorke and Miklos Szanyi

Why and When Do Governments Initiate Public Enterprise Reform? pp. 451-85

Jose Edgardo Campos and Hadi Esfahani

Roads, Land Use, and Deforestation: A Spatial Model Applied to Belize pp. 487-512

Kenneth M Chomitz and David A Gray

Industrial Centralization in Indonesia pp. 513-40

J. Vernon Henderson and Ari Kuncoro

Guidelines on Searching for a Dalton-Improving Tax Reform: An Illustration with Data from Indonesia pp. 541-62

Shlomo Yitzhaki and Jeffrey D Lewis

A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality pp. 565-91

Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire

Volume 10, issue 2, 1996

Stock Markets, Corporate Finance, and Economic Growth: An Overview pp. 223-39

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

Equity Markets, Transactions Costs, and Capital Accumulation: An Illustration pp. 241-65

Valerie Bencivenga, Bruce Smith and Ross M Starr

A Measure of Stock Market Integration for Developed and Emerging Markets pp. 267-89

Robert Korajczyk

Stock Market Development and Financial Intermediaries: Stylized Facts pp. 291-321

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

Stock Market Development and Long-Run Growth pp. 323-39

Ross Levine and Sara Zervos

Stock Market Development and Financing Choices of Firms pp. 341-69

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

The Coevolution of the Real and Financial Sectors in the Growth Process pp. 371-96

John Boyd and Bruce Smith

Volume 10, issue 1, 1996

How Important to India's Poor Is the Sectoral Composition of Economic Growth? pp. 1-25

Martin Ravallion and Gaurav Datt

Is the Debt Crisis History? Recent Private Capital Inflows to Developing Countries pp. 27-50

Michael Dooley, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Kenneth Kletzer

The Surge in Capital Inflows to Developing Countries: An Analytical Overview pp. 51-77

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Peter Montiel

The Impact of Women's Schooling on Fertility and Contraceptive Use: A Study of Fourteen Sub-Saharan African Countries pp. 85-122

Martha Ainsworth, Kathleen Beegle and Andrew Nyamete

Fertility and Child Mortality in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana pp. 123-58

Kofi Benefo and T. Schultz

Contraceptive Use and the Quality, Price, and Availability of Family Planning in Nigeria pp. 159-87

Bamikale J Feyisetan and Martha Ainsworth

Fertility, Contraceptive Choice, and Public Policy in Zimbabwe pp. 189-222

Duncan Thomas and John Maluccio