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Volume 4, issue 3, 1990

Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets--Puzzles and Policy Perspectives pp. 235-50

Karla Hoff and Joseph Stiglitz

Credit Markets in Northern Nigeria: Credit as Insurance in a Rural Economy pp. 251-69

Christopher Udry

The Thai Rural Credit System: Public Subsidies, Private Information, and Segmented Markets pp. 271-95

Siamwalla, Ammar, et al

Interactions between Institutional and Informal Credit Agencies in Rural India pp. 297-327

Clive Bell

Imperfect Information, Screening, and the Costs of Informal Lending: A Study of a Rural Credit Market in Pakistan pp. 329-49

Irfan Aleem

Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets pp. 351-66

Joseph Stiglitz

Volume 4, issue 2, 1990

Toward Equitable and Sustainable Rural Water Supplies: A Contingent Valuation Study in Brazil pp. 115-34

Briscoe, John, et al

On the Accuracy of Economic Observations: Do Sub-Saharan Trade Statistics Mean Anything? pp. 135-56

Alexander J Yeats

The Impact of the International Coffee Agreement on Producing Company pp. 157-73

Takamasa Akiyama and Panayotis N Varangis

Second-Best Foreign Exchange Policy in the Presence of Domestic Price Controls and Export Subsidies pp. 175-93

David Tarr

Import Dependency and Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 195-207

Ramon Lopez and Vinod Thomas

Voluntary Export Restraints and Resource Allocation in Exporting Countries pp. 209-33

Jaime de Melo and L. Winters

Volume 4, issue 1, 1990

Do African Countries Pay More for Imports? Yes pp. 1-20

Alexander J Yeats

Investment Incentives: New Money, Debt Relief, and the Critical Role of Conditionality in the Debt Crisis pp. 21-41

Stijn Claessens and Ishac Diwan

Debt Relief: Implications of Secondary Market Discounts and Debt Overhangs pp. 43-53

Daniel Cohen

Effects of Macroeconomic Policies on Sectoral Prices pp. 55-79

Yair Mundlak, Domingo Cavallo and Roberto Domenech

Corporate Tax Holidays and Investment pp. 81-102

Jack Mintz

Industrial Sickness, Primary and Secondary: The Effects of Exit Constraints on Industrial Performance pp. 103-14

Garry Pursell

Volume 3, issue 3, 1989

External Debt, Inflation, and the Public Sector: Toward Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Growth pp. 297-320

Sweder van Wijnbergen

Black Market Premia, Exchange Rate Unification, and Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 321-38

Brian Pinto

Indexation and Inflationary Inertia: Brazil 1964-1985 pp. 339-57

Fernando Barbosa and Paul McNelis

Fiscal Response to a Temporary Trade Shock: The Aftermath of the Kenyan Coffee Boom pp. 359-78

David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

Determinants of Consumption and Savings Behavior in Developing Countries pp. 379-93

Lakshmi Raut and Arvind Virmani

Ending Food Subsidies: Nutritional, Welfare, and Budgetary Effects pp. 395-408

Karim Laraki

Volume 3, issue 1, 1989

Looking for Boy-Girl Discrimination in Household Expenditure Data pp. 1-15

Angus Deaton

Inflation and the Financing of Government Expenditure: An Introductory Analysis with an Application to Turkey pp. 17-38

Ritu Anand and Sweder van Wijnbergen

Food Aid: A Cause of Development Failure or an Instrument for Success? pp. 39-65

T. Srinivasan

Wage Differentials and Moonlighting by Civil Servants: Evidence from Cote d'Ivoire and Peru pp. 67-95

Jacques van der Gaag, Morton Stelcner and Wim Vijverberg

Wage Rigidity: Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Market Adjustment in the Modern Sector pp. 97-117

Victor Levy and John Newman

Sources of Growth in East African Agriculture pp. 119-44

Uma Lele

Volume 2, issue 3, 1988

Agricultural Incentives in Developing Countries: Measuring the Effect of Sectoral and Economywide Policies pp. 255-71

Anne O Krueger, Maurice Schiff and Alberto Valdes

Inflationary Rigidities and Orthodox Stabilization Policies: Lessons from Latin America pp. 273-98

Miguel A Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

Nutrients: Impacts and Determinants pp. 299-320

Jere Behrman, Anil Deolalikar and Barbara Wolfe

A Structural Model for Developing Countries' Manufactured Exports pp. 321-40

Cristian Moran

Export Quota Allocations, Export Earnings, and Market Diversification pp. 341-48

Taeho Bark and Jaime de Melo

Approximating the Effective Protection Coefficient without Reference to Technological Data pp. 349-63

Patrick J Conway and Malcolm Bale

Volume 2, issue 2, 1988

The Relative Efficiency of Private and Public Schools: The Case of Thailand pp. 139-64

Emmanuel Jimenez, Marlaine Lockheed and Nongnuch Wattanawaha

Terms of Trade, Tariffs, and Labor Market Adjustment in Developing Countries pp. 165-85

Sebastian Edwards

The Impact of Landownership Security: Theory and Evidence from Thailand pp. 187-204

Yongyuth Chalamwong and Gershon Feder

Service Sector Protection: Considerations for Developing Countries pp. 205-24

Brian Hindley

The Korean Construction Industry as an Exporter of Services pp. 225-38

Sooyong Kim

Some Policy Lessons from the Opening of the Korean Insurance Market pp. 239-54

Yoon Je Cho

Volume 2, issue 1, 1988

Primary Commodity Prices, Manufactured Goods Prices, and the Terms of Trade of Developing Countries: What the Long Run Shows pp. 1-47

Enzo R Grilli and Maw Cheng Yang

Price and Income Elasticities of Demand for Modern Health Care: The Case of Infant Delivery in the Philippines pp. 49-76

J. Schwartz, John Akin and Barry M Popkin

The Management of the Developing Countries' Debt: Guidelines and Applications to Brazil pp. 77-103

Daniel Cohen

External Shocks and the Demand for Adjustment Finance pp. 105-21

Ricardo Martin and Marcelo Selowsky

Personal Income Taxes in Developing Countries pp. 123-38

Gerardo P Sicat and Arvind Virmani

Volume 1, issue 4, 1987

A Symposium Issue on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations and Developing-Country Interests: Introduction pp. 539-47

Jagdish N Bhagwati, Anne O Krueger and Richard H Snape

Trade in Services and the Multilateral Trade Negotiations pp. 549-69

Jagdish N Bhagwati

Agriculture in the Uruguay Round: Interests of Developing Countries pp. 571-93

Alberto Valdes

GATT Law, Agricultural Trade, and Developing Countries: Lessons from Two Case Studies pp. 595-618

Surakiart Sathirathai and Ammar Siamwalla

Textiles and Clothing in a New Round of Trade Negotiations pp. 619-46

Vincent Cable

Differential and More Favorable Treatment of Developing Countries and the International Trading System pp. 647-68

Martin Wolf

Balance of Payments and Related Issues in the Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations pp. 669-88

Shailendra J Anjaria

GATT Safeguards and Voluntary Export Restraints: What Are the Interests of Developing Countries? pp. 689-705

Brian Hindley

International Control of Subsidies and Countervailing Duties pp. 707-25

Joseph Finger and Julio Nogues

Export-Promoting Subsidies, Countervailing Threats, and the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade pp. 727-43

Chong-Hyun Nam

Volume 1, issue 3, 1987

Public Debt Guarantees and Private Capital Flight pp. 377-95

Jonathan Eaton

Effects of Restraining Steel Exports from the Republic of Korea and Other Countries to the United States and the European Economic Community pp. 397-418

David Tarr

Nigeria during and after the Oil Boom: A Policy Comparison with Indonesia pp. 419-45

Brian Pinto

Adjustment with a Fixed Exchange Rate: Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal pp. 447-87

Shantayanan Devarajan and Jaime de Melo

Consequences of a Commodity Boom in a Controlled Economy: Accumulation and Redistribution in Kenya 1975-83 pp. 489-513

David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

Growth and Equity in Developing Countries: A Reinterpretation of the Sri Lankan Experience: A Comment pp. 515-20

Graham Pyatt

Growth and Equity in Developing Countries: A Reinterpretation of the Sri Lankan Experience: A Comment pp. 521-31

Paul Isenman

A Response to Comment [The Distribution of Income in Sri Lanka in 1969-70 and 1980-81: Sri Lankan Experience] pp. 533-36

Paul Glewwe and Surjit Bhalla

Volume 1, issue 2, 1987

Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Developing Countries pp. 203-35

I M D Little

A Valuation Model of Developing-Country Debt with Endogenous Rescheduling pp. 237-71

Gerard Gennotte, Homi J Kharas and Sayeed Sadeq

The Political Economy of Economic Liberalization pp. 273-99

Deepak Lal

Sites and Services--and Subsidies: The Economics of Low-Cost Housing in Developing Countries pp. 301-35

Stephen K Mayo and David J Gross

Multimarket Analysis of Agricultural Price Policies in an Operational Context: The Case of Cyprus pp. 337-56

Avishay Braverman, Jeffrey Hammer and Anne Gron

Devaluation, Fiscal Deficits, and the Real Exchange Rate pp. 357-74

Mohsin Khan and J Saul Lizondo

Volume 1, issue 1, 1986

Special Exchange Rates for Capital Account Transactions pp. 3-33

Rüdiger Dornbusch

Growth and Equity in Developing Countries: A Reinterpretation of the Sri Lankan Experience pp. 35-63

Surjit Bhalla and Paul Glewwe

A New Method for Estimating the Effects of Fuel Taxes: An Application to Thailand pp. 65-101

Gordon Hughes

Modeling the Impact of Agricultural Growth and Government Policy on Income Distribution in India pp. 103-48

Jaime Quizon and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

A Survey of Agricultural Household Models: Recent Findings and Policy Implications pp. 149-79

Inderjit Singh, Lyn Squire and John Strauss

The Extent of Nontariff Barriers to Industrial Countries' Imports pp. 181-99

Julio Nogues, Andrzej Olechowski and L. Winters