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Volume 22, issue 2, 2007

Evaluating Recipes for Development Success pp. 131-157

Avinash Dixit

Comment on "Evaluating Recipes for Development Success": The Policy Usefulness of Institutional and Political Analyses of Development pp. 159-164

Philip Keefer

Domestic Bond Market Development: The Arirang Bond Experience in Korea pp. 165-195

Jonathan Batten and Peter Szilagyi

Inside Decentralization: How Three Central American School-based Management Reforms Affect Student Learning Through Teacher Incentives pp. 197-215

Ilana Umansky and Emiliana Vegas

Using Global Positioning Systems in Household Surveys for Better Economics and Better Policy pp. 217-241

John Gibson and David McKenzie

Volume 21, issue 2, 2006

Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Countries: How Much Is Enough? pp. 151-178

Peter Montiel and Luis Servén

Banking and Regulation in Emerging Markets: The Role of External Discipline pp. 179-206

Xavier Vives

Access to Financial Services: A Review of the Issues and Public Policy Objectives pp. 207-240

Stijn Claessens

What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa? pp. 241-265

Arne Bigsten and Mans Soderbom

Is There a Case for Industrial Policy? A Critical Survey pp. 267-297

Howard Pack and Kamal Saggi

Volume 21, issue 1, 2006

Who is Not Poor? Dreaming of a World Truly Free of Poverty pp. 1-23

Lant Pritchett

Reducing the Incidence of Low Birth Weight in Low-Income Countries Has Substantial Economic Benefits pp. 25-48

Harold Alderman and Jere Behrman

Choosing a System of Unemployment Income Support: Guidelines for Developing and Transition Countries pp. 49-89

Milan Vodopivec

Corporate Governance and Development pp. 91-122

Stijn Claessens

Enforcement and Good Corporate Governance in Developing Countries and Transition Economies pp. 123-150

Erik Berglof and Stijn Claessens

Volume 20, issue 2, 2005

Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980 pp. 145-175

David Dollar

Data and Dogma: The Great Indian Poverty Debate pp. 177-199

Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel

Insights on Development from the Economics of Happiness pp. 201-231

Carol Graham

Housing Policy in Developing Countries: Conjectures and Refutations pp. 233-257

Robert Buckley and Jerry Kalarickal

Public Debt Management and Macroeconomic Stability: An Overview pp. 259-281

Peter Montiel

Volume 20, issue 1, 2005

Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services pp. 1-27

Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani

Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs pp. 29-55

Laura B. Rawlings

Reassessing Conditional Cash Transfer Programs pp. 57-80

Jishnu Das

Infrastructure Privatization and Regulation: Promises and Perils pp. 81-108

Ioannis Kessides

The "Cotton Problem" pp. 109-144

John Baffes

Volume 19, issue 2, 2004

How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s? pp. 141-169

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

Much Ado about Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment? pp. 171-197

Holger Görg and Sir David Greenaway

Policies on Managing Risk in Agricultural Markets pp. 199-230

Donald Larson, Jock Anderson and Panos Varangis

Oil, Macroeconomics, and Forests: Assessing the Linkages pp. 231-257

Sven Wunder and William D. Sunderlin

Vouchers for Basic Education in Developing Economies: An Accountability Perspective pp. 259-280

Varun Gauri and Ayesha Vawda

Volume 19, issue 1, 2004

Community-Based and -Driven Development: A Critical Review pp. 1-39

Ghazala Mansuri

Agricultural Extension: Good Intentions and Hard Realities pp. 41-60

Jock Anderson

Targeting Outcomes Redux pp. 61-85

David Coady

An Assessment of Privatization pp. 87-118

Sunita Kikeri

Managing Oil Price Risk in Developing Countries pp. 119-139

Julia Devlin

Volume 18, issue 2, 2003

Infectious Diseases, Public Policy, and the Marriage of Economics and Epidemiology pp. 129-157

Mark Gersovitz and Jeffrey Hammer

Globalization and the Labor Market pp. 159-186

Martin Rama

Developing Countries' Changing Participation in World Trade pp. 187-203

Will Martin

Paths of Institutional Development: A View from Economic History pp. 205-226

Karla Hoff

IMF Conditionality and Country Ownership of Adjustment Programs pp. 227-248

Mohsin Khan and Sunil Sharma

Should Policy-Based Lending Still Involve Conditionality? pp. 249-273

Stefan G. Koeberle

Volume 18, issue 1, 2003

Tight Money in a Post-Crisis Defense of the Exchange Rate: What Have We Learned? pp. 1-23

Peter Montiel

Foreign Bank Entry: Experience, Implications for Developing Economies, and Agenda for Further Research pp. 25-59

George Clarke, Robert Cull, Maria Martinez Peria and Susana M. S·nchez

Judicial Reform pp. 61-88

Juan Carlos Botero, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Alexander Volokh

Evolution of Corporate Law and the Transplant Effect: Lessons from Six Countries pp. 89-112

Katharina Pistor, Yoram Keinan, Jan Kleinheisterkamp and Mark D. West

How Effective Are Second-Generation Road Funds? A Preliminary Appraisal pp. 113-128

Ken Gwilliam and Ajay Kumar

Volume 17, issue 2, 2002

Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets pp. 141-166

Stefan Dercon

The Gender Implications of Public Sector Downsizing: The Reform Program of Vietnam pp. 167-189

Martin Rama

Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Technology Transfer: A Survey pp. 191-235

Kamal Saggi

Deregulating the Transfer of Agricultural Technology: Lessons from Bangladesh, India, Turkey, and Zimbabwe pp. 237-265

David Gisselquist, John Nash and Carl Pray

How Research Can Assist Policy: The Case of Economic Reforms in Uganda pp. 267-292

John Mackinnon and Ritva Reinikka

Volume 17, issue 1, 2002

Weathering the Storm: The Impact of the East Asian Crisis on Farm Households in Indonesia and Thailand pp. 1-20

Fabrizio Bresciani, Gershon Feder, Daniel Gilligan, Hanan Jacoby, Tongroj Onchan and Jaime Quizon

The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes, and Poverty: A Review of Evidence pp. 21-45

Peter R. Fallon and Robert Lucas

Weak Links in the Chain II: A Prescription for Health Policy in Poor Countries pp. 47-66

Deon Filmer, Jeffrey Hammer and Lant Pritchett

Public Intervention in Health Insurance Markets: Theory and Four Examples from Latin America pp. 67-88

William Jack

Urbanization in Developing Countries pp. 89-112

J. Vernon Henderson

Developing Countries and a New Round of WTO Negotiations pp. 113-140

Thomas Hertel, Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin