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wp-1999-170: Regulation of Social Services in the Least Developed Countries: What Are the Issues at Stake?

Cecilia Ugaz

wp-1999-169: The IMF Model and Resource-Abundant Transition Economies: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Richard M. Auty

wp-1999-168: Guinea-Bissau: War, Reconstruction and Reform

Jens Kovsted and Finn Tarp

wp-1999-167: Natural Resources and Economic Growth: A Nordic Perspective on the Dutch Disease

Thorvaldur Gylfason

wp-1999-166: Development Discountinuities: Leaders and Intermediaries in Producers' Associations

Tito Bianchi

wp-1999-165: A Macroeconomic Model of a Developing Country Endowed with a Natural Resource

Mansoob Murshed

wp-1999-164: Kyrgyzstan: A Case Study of Social Stratification

Vladimir Mikhalev and Georges Heinrich

wp-1999-163: On the Regulation of Telecommunications Markets

Manfred J. Holler

wp-1999-162: Resource-Led Growth - A Long-Term Perspective: The Relevance of the 1870-1914 Experience for Today's Developing Economies

Ronald Findlay and Mats Lundahl

wp-1999-161: Group Behaviour and Development

Judith Heyer, Frances Stewart and Rosemary Thorp

wp-1999-160: Rising Wealth Inequality and Changing Social Structure in Rural China, 1988-95

Terry McKinley and Mark D. Brenner

wp-1999-159: Economics Theories of the Household: A Critical Review

Päivi Mattila-Wiro

wp-1999-158: Inequality in Income and Access to Education: A Cross-Country Analysis

Daniele Checchi

wp-1999-157: Liberalization, Globalization and Income Distribution

Giovanni Cornia

wp-1999-156: Wage Reform, Soft Budget Constraints and Competition

Jian Sun

wp-1999-155: The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Danny Quah

wp-1998-154: Costa Rica: Policies and Conditions for Export Diversification

Ennio Rodrigues

wp-1998-153: Information Technology and Economic Development: An Introduction to the Research Issues

Matti Pohjola

wp-1998-152: Computers and Labour Markets: International Evidence

Francis Kramarz

wp-1998-151: Unemployment, Labour Policies and Health in Transition: Evidence from Kazakhstan

Paolo Verme

wp-1998-150: State-Owned versus Township and Village Enterprises in China

Enrico Perotti, Laixiang Sun and Liang Zou

wp-1998-149: The Role of Knowledge and Capital in Economic Growth

Sergio Rebelo

wp-1998-148: Computers and Economic Growth in Finland

Petri Niininen

wp-1998-147: Provision of Health Care and Education in Transitional Asia: Key Issues and Lessons from Vietnam

Paul Glewwe and Jennie Litvack

wp-1998-146: Privatization in the Countries of Eastern and Central Europe and of the Former Soviet Union

Pekka Sutela

wp-1997-145: South-North Challenges in Global Forestry

Alexander S. Mather

wp-1997-144: Export Performance in Chile: Lessons for Africa

Manuel Agosin

wp-1997-143: The Rise and Fall of Development Aid

Stephen Browne

wp-1997-142: War, Hunger, and Displacement: An Econometric Investigation into the Sources of Humanitarian Emergencies

Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen

wp-1997-141: Health Status and Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-Term Perspective

Giovanni Cornia and Germano Mwabu

wp-1997-140: Humanitarian Emergencies and Warlord Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone

William Reno

wp-1997-139: The Road to the Market in North Korea: Projects, Problems and Prospects

Keun Lee

wp-1997-138: Income Distribution during the Transition in China

Ping Zhang

wp-1997-137: Gender Aspects of Urban Economic Growth and Development

Sylvia Chant

wp-1997-136: Viet Nam: Transition as a Socialist Project in East Asia

Manuel F. Montes

wp-1997-135: Uzbekistan: Welfare Impact of Slow Transition

Richard Pomfret and Kathryn H. Anderson

wp-1997-134: User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education

Simon Appleton

wp-1997-133: Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits

Helmut Reisen

wp-1997-132: Causes and Lessons of the Mexican Peso Crisis

Stephany Griffith-Jones

wp-1997-131: The Political Economy of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons from El Salvador

Manuel Pastor and James Boyce

wp-1997-130: Decentralization and the Provision and Financing of Social Services: Concepts and Issues

Cecilia Ugaz

wp-1997-129: The Scale and Nature of International Donor Assistance to Housing, Basic Services and Other Human-Settlements Related Projects

David Satterthwaite

wp-1997-128: The Process of Economic Change

Douglass North

wp-1997-127: User Charges for Health Care: A Review of the Underlying Theory and Assumptions

Germano Mwabu

wp-1997-126: Economic Shocks, Impoverishment and Poverty-Related Mortality during the Eastern European Transition

Renato Paniccià

wp-1997-125: Privatization, Asset Distribution and Equity in Transitional Economies

Juha Honkkila

wp-1997-124: Evolution of the Women's Movement in Contemporary Algeria: Organization, Objectives and Prospects

Cherifa Bouatta

wp-1997-123: Promoting Education within the Context of a Neo-Patrimonial State: The Case of Nigeria

Daniel Edevbaro

wp-1996-122: Long-Term Growth and Welfare in Transitional Economies: The Impact of Demographic, Investment and Social Policy Changes

Giovanni Cornia, Juha Honkkila, Renato Paniccià and Vladimir Popov

wp-1996-121: Country Responses to Massive Capital Flows

Manuel F. Montes

wp-1996-120: Health Effects of Market-Based Reforms in Developing Countries

Germano Mwabu

wp-1996-119: The Economics Of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Preliminary Approaches And Findings

Wayne Nafziger

wp-1995-118: Employment-Based Safety Nets: Exploring an Alternative Approach to Limit the Adverse Consequences of Recurrent Droughts in Ethiopia

Derseh Endale

wp-1994-117: Sustainable Ecosystem in Africa: Managing Natural Forest in Sudan

Siddig A. Salih

wp-1994-116: Market Reforms and Women Workers in Vietnam: A Case Study of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

Valentine M. Moghadam

wp-1994-115: The Restructuring Process of Rural Russian Karelia: A Case Study of Two Karelian Villages

Eira Varis

wp-1993-114: The J-curve is a Gamma-curve: Initial welfare Consequences of Price Liberalization in Eastern Europe

Bryan Roberts

wp-1993-113: Transforming an Economy While Building a Nation: The Case of Estonia

Ardo H. Hansson

wp-1993-112: Decentralized Socialism and Macroeconomic Stability: Lessons from China

Gang Fan and Wing Thye Woo

wp-1993-111: The Government Budget and the Economic Transformation of Poland

Alain de Crombrugghe and David Lipton

wp-1993-110: Social Protection and Women Workers in Asia

Valentine M. Moghadam

wp-1993-109: Is There a Conflict between Growth and Welfarism?: The Tale of Sri Lanka

S. R. Osmani

wp-1993-108: Growth and Entitlements: The Analytics of the Green Revolution

S. R. Osmani

wp-1993-107: The Entitlement Approach to Famine: An Assessment

S. R. Osmani

wp-1993-106: Monetary Aspects of Russian Transition

Stanislav V. Zhukov

wp-1993-105: Production Aspects of Russian Transition

Alexander Yu Vorobyov

wp-1993-104: Rural Markets, Food-Grain Prices and Famines: A Study on Selected Regions in Ethiopia

Derseh Endale

wp-1993-103: External Imbalances, Famines And Entitlements: A Case Study

Derseh Endale

wp-1993-102: The Ethiopian Famines, Entitlements and Governance

Derseh Endale

wp-1992-101: Utilities, Preferences and Substantive Goods

John Harsanyi

wp-1992-100: Lush Fields and Parched Throats: The Political Economy of Groundwater in Gujarat

Bela Bhatia

wp-1992-099: Development and Patriarchy: the Middle East and North Africa in Economic and Demographic Transition

Valentine M. Moghadam

wp-1992-098: Rural Poverty, Public Policy and Social Change: Some Findings from Surveys of Six Villages

Haris Gazdar

wp-1992-097: Managing Renewable Natural Capital in Africa

Siddig A. Salih

wp-1992-096: Reforming the Soviet Union: Lessons from Structural Experience

Stanislav V. Zhukov and Alexander Yu Vorobyov

wp-1991-095: Understanding the ''Informal Sector'': A Survey

Madhura Swaminathan

wp-1991-094: The Importance of Being Earnest: Early Stages of the West German Wirtschaftswunder

Ardo H. Hansson

wp-1991-093: The Emergence and Stabilization of Extreme Inflationary Pressures in the Soviet Union

Ardo H. Hansson

wp-1991-092: Accelerating Privatization in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland

Jeffrey D. Sachs

wp-1991-091: Spontaneous Privatization in the Soviet Union: How, Why and for Whom?

Simon Johnson

wp-1991-090: Property Rights and Economic Reform in Uzbekistan

Simon Johnson and Bakhtior Islamov

wp-1991-089: Oil Driven Macroeconometric Model of Kuwait

Siddig A. Salih, William Branson and Yusuf Al Ebraheem

wp-1990-088: Commodity Price Fluctuations and Macro-economic Adjustments in the Developed Countries

Walter C. Labys and Alfred Maizels

wp-1990-087: Gender and Restructuring: Perestroika, the 1989 Revolutions, and Women

Valentine M. Moghadam

wp-1990-086: Political Theories of Development Cooperation - A Study of Theories of International Cooperation

Lauri Siitonen

wp-1990-085: Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in the Middle East and North Africa

Valentine M. Moghadam

wp-1990-084: The Environment as a Commodity

Partha Dasgupta

wp-1990-083: Modified Planned Economies at the Crossroads: The Case of Hungary

Kalman Mizsei and Adam Török

wp-1990-082: Food Deprivation and Undernutrition in Rural Bangladesh

S. R. Osmani

wp-1990-081: Stabilization Policy in Poland: Challenges and Constraints

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Marian Ostrowski and Dariusz Rosati

wp-1989-080: Well-Being: Foundations, and the Extent of its Realization in Poor Countries

Partha Dasgupta

wp-1989-079: Rural Women, informal Sector and Household Economy in Tanzania

C. K. Omari

wp-1989-078: The International Debt Problem: Could Someone Please Explain It to Me?

Kaushik Basu

wp-1989-077: Soviet Economy: Opening Up and Stabilization

Andrei Vernikov

wp-1989-076: Gap Disequilibria: Inflation, Investment, Saving and Foreign Exchange

Lance Taylor

wp-1989-075: Are World Financial Markets More Open?: If so Why and With What Effects?

Robert B. Zevin

wp-1989-074: Openness, Innovation and Share Ownership: The Changing Structure of Financial Markets

A. D. Cosh, Alan Hughes and Ajit Singh

wp-1989-073: International Capital Markets and the Limits of National Economic Policy

Gerald Epstein and Herbert Gintis

wp-1989-072: Explanation and Practical Reason

Charles Taylor

wp-1989-071: Distributing Health: the Allocation of Resources by an International Agency

John Roemer