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Volume 15, issue 2, 2000

International Approaches to Global Climate Change pp. 145-72

Richard N Cooper

A Comment on Cooper pp. 173-75

Kenneth Arrow

Contagion: Understanding How It Spreads pp. 177-97

Rüdiger Dornbusch, Yung Chul Park and Stijn Claessens

Weak Links in the Chain: A Diagnosis of Health Policy in Poor Countries pp. 199-224

Deon Filmer, Jeffrey Hammer and Lant Pritchett

Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy pp. 225-49

Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan

What Should the World Bank Think about the Washington Consensus? pp. 251-64

John Williamson

The Washington Consensus a Decade Later: Ideology and the Art and Science of Policy Advice pp. 265-70

T. Srinivasan

Volume 15, issue 1, 2000

Crisis, Adjustment, and Reform in Thailand's Industrial Firms pp. 1-22

David Dollar and Mary Hallward-Driemeier

Corporate Performance in the East Asian Financial Crisis pp. 23-46

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov and Lixin Xu

Industrial Policy: Growth Elixir or Poison? pp. 47-67

Howard Pack

Financial Safety Nets: Lessons from Chile pp. 69-84

Philip L Brock

Lessons in Structuring Derivatives Exchanges pp. 85-98

George Tsetsekos and Panos Varangis

Growth and Institutions: A Review of the Evidence pp. 99-135

Janine Aron

Volume 14, issue 2, 1999

Road Funds, User Charges and Taxes pp. 159-85

Ken Gwilliam and Zmarak Shalizi

Between the State and the Market: Can Informal Insurance Patch the Safety Net? pp. 187-207

Jonathan Morduch

Using Household Surveys to Build Analytic Capacity pp. 209-27

Lorraine Blank and Margaret Grosh

Managing Government Exposure to Private Infrastructure Risks pp. 229-45

Timothy Irwin, Michael Klein, Guillermo E. Perry and Mateen Thobani

The Evolution of the World Bank's Land Policy: Principles, Experience, and Future Challenges pp. 247-76

Klaus Deininger and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

Climate Change, Agriculture, and Developing Countries: Does Adaptation Matter? pp. 277-93

Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar

What Does Climate Change Mean for Agriculture in Developing Countries? A Comment on Mendelsohn and Dinar pp. 295-305

John Reilly

Volume 14, issue 1, 1999

The Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Indian Villages pp. 1-30

Rajshri Jayaraman and Peter Lanjouw

Appraising Workfare pp. 31-48

Martin Ravallion

Public Social Spending in Africa: Do the Poor Benefit? pp. 49-72

Florencia Castro-Leal, Julia Dayton, Lionel Demery and Kalpana Mehra

Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models pp. 73-98

Arild Angelsen and David Kaimowitz

Formal and Informal Markets for Water: Institutions, Performance, and Constraints pp. 99-116

K. Easter, Mark Rosegrant and Ariel Dinar

Judicial Reform and Economic Development: A Survey of the Issues pp. 117-36

Richard E Messick

The Costs and Benefits of Regulation: Implications for Developing Countries pp. 137-58

J Luis Guasch and Robert Hahn

Volume 13, issue 2, 1998

Promoting Efficient Rural Financial Intermediation pp. 147-70

Jacob Yaron, McDonald Benjamin and Stephanie Charitonenko

The Role of Long-Term Finance: Theory and Evidence pp. 171-89

Gerard Caprio and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

From Prices to Incomes: Agricultural Subsidization without Protection? pp. 191-211

John Baffes and Jacob Meerman

The Potential and Limitations of Self-Targeted Food Subsidies pp. 213-29

Harold Alderman and Kathy Lindert

Targeting Revisited pp. 231-48

Dominique van de Walle

Using International Institutions to Improve Public Procurement pp. 249-69

Bernard Hoekman

New Models for Old-Age Security: Experiments, Evidence, and Unanswered Questions pp. 271-301

Estelle James

Volume 13, issue 1, 1998

Creating a Legal Framework for Economic Development pp. 1-11

Richard Posner

The Domestic Benefits of Tropical Forests: A Critical Review pp. 13-35

Kenneth M Chomitz and Kanta Kumari

Poverty in Russia during the Transition: An Overview pp. 37-58

Jeni Klugman and Jeanine Braithwaite

How Bad Is Unemployment in Tunisia? Assessing Labor Market Efficiency in a Developing Country pp. 59-77

Martin Rama

Evaluating Retraining Programs in OECD Countries: Lessons Learned pp. 79-101

Amit Dar and Indermit S Gill

Public Sector Reform in New Zealand and Its Relevance to Developing Countries pp. 103-21

Malcolm Bale and Tony Dale

Why Most Developing Countries Should Not Try New Zealand's Reforms pp. 123-31

Allen Schick

Deforestation and Forest Land Use: A Comment pp. 133-40

Jeffrey Vincent and Stephen Gillis

Deforestation and Forest Land Use: A Reply pp. 141-45

William F Hyde

Volume 12, issue 2, 1997

Globalization and Inequality, Past and Present pp. 117-35

Jeffrey Williamson

The Policymaking Uses of Multitopic Household Survey Data: A Primer pp. 137-60

Margaret E Grosh

Formal Water Markets: Why, When, and How to Introduce Tradable Water Rights pp. 161-79

Mateen Thobani

The Impact of T&V Extension in Africa: The Experience of Kenya and Burkina Faso pp. 183-201

Vishva Bindlish and Robert E Evenson

Public and Private Agricultural Extension: Partners or Rivals? pp. 203-24

Dina Umali-Deininger

Cofinanced Public Extension in Nicaragua pp. 225-47

Gabriel Keynan, Manuel Olin and Ariel Dinar

Reconsidering Agricultural Extension pp. 249-59

Robert Picciotto and Jock Anderson

Volume 12, issue 1, 1997

Producer Turnover and Productivity Growth in Developing Countries pp. 1-18

Mark Roberts and James Tybout

Housing and Income Distribution in Russia: Zhivago's Legacy pp. 19-32

Robert Buckley and Eugene Gurenko

Beyond Rate of Return: Reorienting Project Appraisal pp. 35-46

Shantayanan Devarajan, Lyn Squire and Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput

Economic Analysis for Health Projects pp. 47-71

Jeffrey Hammer

New Frontiers in Project Evaluation? A Comment on Devarajan, Squire, and Suthiwart-Narueput pp. 73-79

Arnold Harberger

Education Vouchers in Principle and Practice: A Survey pp. 83-103

Edwin G West

Is Privatization through Education Vouchers Really the Answer? A Comment pp. 105-16

Martin Carnoy