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Volume 9, issue 3, 1995

The Soviet Economic Decline pp. 341-71

William Easterly and Stanley Fischer

Contingent Valuation and Actual Behavior: Predicting Connections to New Water Systems in the State of Kerala, India pp. 373-95

Griffin, Charles C, et al

Political Influence on the Central Bank: International Evidence pp. 397-423

Alex Cukierman and Steven B Webb

Pioneers for Profit: St. Petersburg Entrepreneurs in Services pp. 425-50

Martha de Melo, Gur Ofer and Olga Sandler

Apprenticeship Contracts, Small Enterprises, and Credit Markets in Ghana pp. 451-75

Ann Velenchik

Inequality and Growth Reconsidered: Lessons from East Asia pp. 477-508

Nancy Birdsall, David Ross and Richard Sabot

Another Look at the East Asian Miracle pp. 509-34

Gustav Ranis

Volume 9, issue 2, 1995

Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data pp. 175-200

Jonathan Isham, Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett

Winners and Losers in Transition: Returns to Education, Experience, and Gender in Slovenia pp. 201-30

Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

An Eclectic Approach to Estimating the Determinants of Achievement in Jamaican Primary Education pp. 231-58

Glewwe, Paul, et al

Natural Resource Management and Economywide Policies in Costa Rica: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling Approach pp. 259-85

Annika Persson and Mohan Munasinghe

The Role of Infrastructure in Mexican Economic Reform pp. 287-304

Andrew Feltenstein and Jiming Ha

The Current Account in Developing Countries: A Perspective from the Consumption-Smoothing Approach pp. 305-33

Atish Ghosh and Jonathan Ostry

Measuring the Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes: Comment pp. 335-40

M K Anyadike-Danes

Volume 9, issue 1, 1995

The Emergence of Equity Investment in Developing Countries: Overview pp. 1-17

Stijn Claessens

The Risk Exposure of Emerging Equity Markets pp. 19-50

Campbell Harvey

Emerging Stock Markets and International Asset Pricing pp. 51-74

Elaine Buckberg

Market Integration and Investment Barriers in Emerging Equity Markets pp. 75-107

Geert Bekaert

U.S. Equity Investment in Emerging Stock Markets pp. 109-29

Linda Tesar and Ingrid M Werner

Return Behavior in Emerging Stock Markets pp. 131-51

Stijn Claessens, Susmita Dasgupta and Jack Glen

Portfolio Capital Flows: Hot or Cold? pp. 153-74

Stijn Claessens, Michael Dooley and Andrew Warner

Volume 8, issue 3, 1994

Capital Mobility in Developing Countries: Some Measurement Issues and Empirical Estimates pp. 311-50

Peter Montiel

The Political Economy of Growth: A Critical Survey of the Recent Literature pp. 351-71

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

A Presumptive Pigovian Tax: Complementing Regulation to Mimic an Emissions Fee pp. 373-94

Gunnar Eskeland

Changing Labor Market Conditions and Economic Development in Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, China pp. 395-414

Gary Fields

The Welfare Costs of Price Controls for Cars and Color Televisions in Poland: Contrasting Estimates of Rent-Seeking from Recent Experience pp. 415-43

David Tarr

Volume 8, issue 2, 1994

Measuring the Restrictiveness of Trade Policy pp. 151-69

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

The Trade Restrictiveness of the Multi-fibre Arrangement pp. 171-89

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

Labor Supply and Targeting in Poverty Alleviation Programs pp. 191-211

Ravi Kanbur, Michael Keen and Matti Tuomala

Dual Exchange Rates in Europe and Latin America pp. 213-45

Nancy Marion

The Impact of Mexico's Retraining Program on Employment and Wages pp. 247-77

Ana Revenga, Michelle Riboud and Hong Tan

The Distribution of Subsidies through Public Health Services in Indonesia, 1978-87 pp. 279-309

Dominique van de Walle

Volume 8, issue 1, 1994

Tariff Rates, Tariff Revenue, and Tariff Reform: Some New Facts pp. 1-16

Lant Pritchett and Geeta Sethi

The Effect of Financial Liberalization on the Capital Structure and Investment Decisions of Indonesian Manufacturing Establishments pp. 17-47

John R Harris, Fabio Schiantarelli and Miranda G Siregar

The Scope for Fuel Substitution in Manufacturing Industries: A Case Study of Chile and Colombia pp. 49-74

Diana L Moss and James Tybout

How Robust Is a Poverty Profile? pp. 75-102

Martin Ravallion and Benu Bidani

The Impact of Two-Tier Producer and Consumer Food Pricing in India pp. 103-25

Maurice Schiff

Domestic Content and Compensatory Export Requirements: Protection of the Motor Vehicle Industry in the Philippines pp. 127-49

Wendy Takacs

Volume 7, issue 3, 1993

Correcting for Sampling Bias in the Measurement of Welfare and Poverty in the Cote d'Ivoire Living Standards Survey pp. 263-92

Lionel Demery and Christiaan Grootaert

Household Welfare and the Pricing of Cocoa and Coffee in Cote d'Ivoire: Lessons from the Living Standards Surveys pp. 293-318

Dwayne Benjamin and Angus Deaton

The Determinants and Consequences of the Placement of Government Programs in Indonesia pp. 319-48

Mark Pitt, Mark Rosenzweig and Donna M Gibbons

Labor Markets and Adjustment in Open Asian Economies: The Republic of Korea and Malaysia pp. 349-80

Dipak Mazumdar

Explaining the Relative Decline of Agriculture: A Supply-Side Analysis for Indonesia pp. 381-401

Will Martin and Peter Warr

Further Results on the Macroeconomic Effects of AIDS: The Dualistic, Labor-Surplus Economy pp. 403-17

John Cuddington

Volume 7, issue 2, 1993

Sovereign Debt: A Primer pp. 137-72

Jonathan Eaton

Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of AIDS, with an Application to Tanzania pp. 173-89

John Cuddington

Trade Reform in the Partially Liberalized Economy of Turkey pp. 191-217

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

A Medium-Term Framework for Analyzing the Real Exchange Rate, with Applications to the Philippines and Tanzania pp. 219-45

Kathie L Krumm

An Institutional Analysis of the Design and Sequence of Trade and Investment Policy Reform pp. 247-62

Brian Levy

Volume 7, issue 1, 1993

Moderate Inflation pp. 1-44

Rüdiger Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer

External Shocks, Purchasing Power Parity, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate pp. 45-63

Shantayanan Devarajan, Jeffrey D Lewis and Sherman Robinson

Obstacles to Developing Indigenous Small and Medium Enterprises: An Empirical Assessment pp. 65-83

Brian Levy

Estimating Returns to Scale with Large, Imperfect Panels: An Application to Chilean Manufacturing Industries pp. 85-112

M Daniel Westbrook and James Tybout

Theoretical Implications of Imperfect Competition on Quota License Prices and Auctions pp. 113-36

Kala Krishna