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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

Volume 11, issue 2, 1996

Some Lessons from the East Asian Miracle pp. 151-77

Joseph Stiglitz

In Search of Owners: Privatization and Corporate Governance in Transition Economies pp. 179-97

Cheryl W Gray

How Well Can Method Substitute for Data? Five Experiments in Poverty Analysis pp. 199-221

Martin Ravallion

Deforestation and Forest Land Use: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications pp. 223-48

William F Hyde, Gregory S Amacher and William Magrath

Financial Markets, Public Policy, and the East Asian Miracle pp. 249-76

Joseph Stiglitz and Marilou Uy

Credit Policies: Lessons from Japan and Korea pp. 277-98

Dimitri Vittas and Yoon Je Cho

Volume 11, issue 1, 1996

Household Responses to Public Health Services: Cost and Quality Tradeoffs pp. 3-22

Harold Alderman and Victor Lavy

The Impact of Health and Nutrition on Education pp. 23-37

Jere Behrman

Macroeconomic Adjustment and Poverty in Africa: An Emerging Picture pp. 39-59

Lionel Demery and Lyn Squire

Macroeconomic Adjustment to Capital Inflows: Lessons from Recent Latin American and East Asian Experience pp. 61-85

Vittorio Corbo and Leonardo Hernandez

Saving and Investment: Paradigms, Puzzles, Policies pp. 87-117

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Luis Servén and Andres Solimano

Valuing and Accounting for Loan Guarantees pp. 119-42

Ashoka Mody and Dilip K Patro

"The Dangers of Decentralization" According to Prud'homme: Some Further Aspects pp. 143-50

David O Sewell

Volume 10, issue 2, 1995

The Economics of Municipal Solid Waste pp. 113-50

David N Beede and David Bloom

The Costs and Benefits of Agroforestry to Farmers pp. 151-80

Dean Current, Ernst Lutz and Sara J Scherr

Emerging Equity Markets: Growth, Benefits, and Policy Concerns pp. 181-200

Robert A Feldman and Manmohan S Kumar

The Dangers of Decentralization pp. 201-20

Remy Prud'homme

The Dangers of Decentralization: Comment pp. 221-26

McLure, Charles E,

Interpreting Recent Research on Schooling in Developing Countries pp. 227-46

Eric Hanushek

Research on Schooling: What We Know and What We Don't: A Comment pp. 247-54

Michael Kremer

Volume 10, issue 1, 1995

Unitary versus Collective Models of the Household: Is It Time to Shift the Burden of Proof? pp. 1-19

Alderman, Harold, et al

Parallel Exchange Rates in Developing Countries pp. 21-52

Miguel Kiguel and Stephen O'Connell

Incentives and the Resolution of Bank Distress pp. 53-73

Thomas Glaessner and Ignacio Mas

Financing Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Railway Age pp. 75-91

Barry Eichengreen

The Economics of Natural Resource Extraction: A Primer for Development Economists pp. 93-111

Stephen Salant

Volume 9, issue 2, 1994

Evaluating Social Policies: Principles and U.S. Experience pp. 159-80

Jean Baldwin Grossman

Using Randomized Control Designs in Evaluating Social Sector Programs in Developing Countries pp. 181-201

John Newman, Laura Rawlings and Paul Gertler

AIDS and African Development pp. 203-40

Martha Ainsworth and A. Over

Privatization: Lessons from Market Economies pp. 241-72

Sunita Kikeri, John Nellis and Mary Shirley

The Costs and Benefits of Soil Conservation: The Farmers' Viewpoint pp. 273-95

Ernst Lutz, Stefano Pagiola and Carlos Reiche

Volume 9, issue 1, 1994

Reforming Finance in Transitional Socialist Economies pp. 1-24

Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine

How Do Market Failures Justify Interventions in Rural Credit Markets? pp. 27-47

Timothy Besley

What Makes Rural Finance Institutions Successful? pp. 49-70

Jacob Yaron

Animal Health Services: Finding the Balance between Public and Private Delivery pp. 71-96

Dina L Umali, Gershon Feder and Cornelis de Haan

The Roles of the Private and Public Sectors in Enhancing the Performance of Seed Systems pp. 97-117

Steven Jaffee and Jitendra Srivastava

The Impact of EC-92 on Trade in Developing Countries pp. 121-46

Andrew Hughes Hallett

Is European Integration Bad News for Developing Countries? pp. 147-55

Gerhard Pohl and Piritta Sorsa