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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

Volume 8, issue 2, 1993

The Design and Diffusion of Improved Cooking Stoves pp. 119-41

Barnes, Douglas F, et al

What Do We Know about the Political Economy of Economic Policy Reform? pp. 143-68

Stephan Haggard and Steven B Webb

Using Auctions to Allocate and Price Long-Term Credit pp. 169-94

J Luis Guasch and Thomas Glaessner

Wage Controls during the Transition from Central Planning to a Market Economy pp. 195-210

Fabrizio Coricelli and Timothy D Lane

Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries pp. 211-37

William Easterly and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Recent Lessons of Development pp. 241-54

Lawrence Summers and Vinod Thomas

Volume 8, issue 1, 1993

The Economics of Malaria Control pp. 1-22

Jeffrey Hammer

Feeding Latin America's Children pp. 23-45

Philip Musgrove

Student Loans: An Effective Instrument for Cost Recovery in Higher Education? pp. 71-90

Douglas Albrecht and Adrian Ziderman

Alternative Forms of External Finance: A Survey pp. 91-117

Stijn Claessens

Volume 7, issue 2, 1992

Dumping and Antidumping: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Protection in Industrial Countries pp. 121-43

Joseph Finger

Policy Instruments for Pollution Control in Developing Countries pp. 145-69

Gunnar Eskeland and Emmanuel Jimenez

A Survey of the Costs of World Sugar Policies pp. 171-94

Brent Borrell and Ronald C Duncan

The Coordinated Reform of Tariffs and Indirect Taxes pp. 195-218

Pradeep Mitra

A Simpler Consumption-Based Alternative to the Income Tax for Socialist Economies in Transition pp. 221-37

McLure, Charles E,

A Not-So-Simple Alternative to the Income Tax for Socialist Economies in Transition: A Comment on McLure pp. 239-48

Alan A Tait

Volume 7, issue 1, 1992

On "Hunger and Public Action": A Review Article pp. 1-16

Martin Ravallion

Who Wins and Who Loses from Voluntary Export Restraints? The Case of Footwear pp. 17-33

Carl B Hamilton, Jaime de Melo and L. Winters

When Do Heterodox Stabilization Programs Work? Lessons from Experience pp. 35-57

Miguel A Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

Government Spending in Developing Countries: Trends, Causes, and Consequences pp. 59-78

David L Lindauer and Ann Velenchik

Incomplete Markets and Commodity-Linked Finance in Developing Countries pp. 79-94

Robert Myers

Private Investment and Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Survey pp. 95-114

Luis Servén and Andres Solimano