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Volume 6, issue 3, 1992

Measuring the Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes pp. 353-98

Alex Cukierman, Steven B Webb and Bilin Neyapti

On the Transmission of World Agricultural Prices pp. 399-422

Yair Mundlak and Donald Larson

How Small Enterprises in Ghana Have Responded to Adjustment pp. 423-38

William F Steel and Leila M Webster

The Dynamics of Optimal Gradual Stabilizations pp. 439-58

Alex Cukierman and Nissan Liviatan

Uniform Commercial Policy, Illegal Trade, and the Real Exchange Rate: A Theoretical Analysis pp. 459-79

Stephen O'Connell

Maize and the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the United States pp. 481-502

Santiago Levy and Sweder van Wijnbergen

The Optimal Currency Composition of External Debt: Theory and Applications to Mexico and Brazil pp. 503-28

Stijn Claessens

Household Saving in Developing Countries: First Cross-Country Evidence pp. 529-47

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Steven B Webb and Giancarlo Corsetti

Volume 6, issue 2, 1992

Linking Trade and Productivity: New Research Directions pp. 189-211

James Tybout

Transportation Policy and Panterritorial Pricing in Africa pp. 213-31

Mark Gersovitz

The Economics of Farm Fragmentation: Evidence from Ghana and Rwanda pp. 233-54

Blarel, Benoit, et al

Project Evaluation and Uncertainty in Practice: A Statistical Analysis of Rate-of-Return Divergences of 1,015 World Bank Projects pp. 255-77

Gerhard Pohl and Dubravko Mihaljek

The Business Cycle Associated.with Exchange Rate-Based Stabilizations pp. 279-305

Miguel A Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Pricing Policies for Cocoa and Coffee in Cote d'Ivoire pp. 307-30

Pravin Trivedi and Takamasa Akiyama

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Policy pp. 331-51

Edward F Buffie

Volume 6, issue 1, 1992

Inflation and the Transition to a Market Economy: An Overview pp. 3-12

Simon Commander

Lessons from Experiences with High Inflation pp. 13-31

Rüdiger Dornbusch

Price-Wage Dynamics and Inflation in Socialist Economies: Empirical Models for Hungary and Poland pp. 33-53

Simon Commander and Fabrizio Coricelli

Are High Interest Rates Effective for Stopping High Inflation? Some Skeptical Notes pp. 55-69

Guillermo Calvo

Stagflationary Effects of Stabilization Programs in Reforming Socialist Countries: Enterprise-Side and Household-Side Factors pp. 71-90

Guillermo Calvo and Fabrizio Coricelli

Voluntary Choices in Concerted Deals: The Menu Approach to Debt Reduction in Developing Countries pp. 91-108

Ishac Diwan and Kenneth Kletzer

Does Undernutrition Respond to Incomes and Prices? Dominance Tests for Indonesia pp. 109-24

Martin Ravallion

Alleviating Transitory Food Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa: International Altruism and Trade pp. 125-38

Victor Lavy

The Working Behavior of Young People in Rural Cote d'Ivoire pp. 139-54

Alessie, Rob, et al

Social Security and Private Transfers in Developing Countries: The Case of Peru pp. 155-69

Donald Cox and Emmanuel Jimenez

The Willingness to Pay for Education for Daughters in Contrast to Sons: Evidence from Rural Peru pp. 171-88

Paul Gertler and Paul Glewwe

Volume 5, issue 3, 1991

The Impact of Changes in Job Security Regulations in India and Zimbabwe pp. 395-413

Peter R Fallon and Robert Lucas

Diversification of Macroeconomic Risk and International Integration of Capital Markets: The Case of Mexico pp. 415-36

Luis F de la Calle

Debt Relief and Economic Growth in Mexico pp. 437-55

Sweder van Wijnbergen

A Symposium on Tax Policy in Developing Countries: Introduction: Tax Policy Issues for the 1990s pp. 459-71

Javad Khalilzadeh-Shirazi and Anwar Shah

Do Taxes Matter for Foreign Direct Investment? pp. 473-91

Anwar Shah and Joel Slemrod

Prospects for Agricultural Land Taxation in Developing Countries pp. 493-511

Jonathan Skinner

Taxation of Financial Assets in Developing Countries pp. 513-33

Christophe Chamley

Tax Incidence Analysis of Developing Countries: An Alternative View pp. 535-52

Anwar Shah and John Whalley

Applying Tax Policy Models in Country Eocnomic Work: Bangladesh, China, and India pp. 553-72

Henrik Dahl and Pradeep Mitra

Volume 5, issue 2, 1991

Poverty and Adjustment in the 1980s: Introduction pp. 177-85

Lyn Squire

Poverty in Eastern Europe in the Years of Crisis, 1978 to 1987: Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia pp. 187-205

Branko Milanovic

Macroeconomic Adjustment and Poverty in Selected Industrial Countries pp. 207-29

Christopher Pissarides

Inequality and Poverty in China: Institutional Change and Public Policy, 1978 to 1988 pp. 231-57

Ehtisham Ahmad and Yan Wang

Structural Adjustment and the Welfare of Rural Smallholders: A Comparative Analysis from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 259-89

David Sahn and Alexander H Sarris

The Poor and the Social Sectors during a Period of Macroeconomic Adjustment: Empirical Evidence for Jamaica pp. 291-313

Jere Behrman and Anil Deolalikar

Optimal Poverty Reduction, Adjustment, and Growth pp. 315-38

François Bourguignon

Distributional Effects of Adjustment Policies: Simulations for Archetype Economies in Africa and Latin America pp. 339-66

François Bourguignon, Jaime de Melo and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

How Did Workers Benefit from Bolivia's Emergency Social Fund? pp. 367-93

John Newman, Steen Jorgensen and Menno Pradhan

Volume 5, issue 1, 1991

Comparing Poverty Rates Internationally: Lessons from Recent Studies in Developed Countries pp. 3-21

Anthony Atkinson

Poverty in Palanpur pp. 23-55

Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern

Measuring Changes in Poverty: A Methodological Case Study of Indonesia during an Adjustment Period pp. 57-82

Martin Ravallion and Monika Huppi

Introduction: Agricultural Taxation and Land Rights Systems pp. 85-91

Karla Hoff

Land Taxes, Output Taxes, and Sharecropping: Was Henry George Right? pp. 93-111

Karla Hoff

If Agricultural Land Taxation Is So Efficient, Why Is It So Rarely Used? pp. 113-33

Jonathan Skinner

Land Tenure and Property Rights: Theory and Implications for Development Policy pp. 135-53

Gershon Feder and David Feeny

Indigenous Land Rights Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Constraint on Productivity? pp. 155-75

Migot-Adholla, Shem, et al