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1105: Estimating quasi-fiscal deficits in a consistency framework: the case of Madagascar

Philippe Le Houerou and Hector Sierra

1104: Trade policy reform in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1980s

Asad Alam and Sarath Rajapatirana

1103: Capital mobility in developing countries: some measurement issues and empirical estimates

Peter Montiel

1102: Did the debt crisis or declining oil prices cause Mexico's investment collapse?

Andrew Warner

1101: Transforming state enterprises in Poland: macroeconomic evidence on adjustment

Brian Pinto, Marek Belka and Stefan Krajewski

1100: Indigenous territories and tropical forest management in Latin America

Shelton H. Davis and Alaka Wali

1099: Trade unions and collective bargaining

Harry C. Katz, Sarosh Kuruvilla and Lowell Turner

1098: Fortress Europe and other myths concerning trade

Jean Baneth

1097: A production function-based policy simulation model of perennial commodity markets

Takamasa Akiyama and Jonathan R. Coleman

1096: How trade liberalization affected productivity in Morocco

Mona Haddad

1095: Are failproof banking systems feasible? Desirable?

Samuel H. Talley

1094: The new regionalism: a country perspective

Jaime de Melo, Arvind Panagariya and Dani Rodrik

1093: Swiss Chilanpore: the way forward for pension reform?

Dimitri Vittas

1092: The effect of financial liberalization on allocation of credit: panel data evidence for Ecuador

Fidel Jaramillo, Fabio Schiantarelli and Andrew Weiss

1091: Capital market imperfections before and after financial liberalization: a Euler Equation approach to panel data for Ecuadorian firms

Fidel Jaramillo, Fabio Schiantarelli and Andrew Weiss

1090: Government expenditures as a citizens'evaluation of public output: public choice and the benefit principle of taxation

Thanos Catsambas

1089: Equity portfolio investment in developing countries: a literature survey

Stijn Claessens

1088: A primer on the MFA maze

Riccardo Faini, Jaime de Melo and Wendy Takacs

1087: Exchange rate based stabilization: tales from Europe and Latin America

Alberto F. Ades, Miguel Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

1086: Teachers'salaries in Latin America: a comparative analysis

George Psacharopoulos, Jorge Valenzuela and Mary Arends-Kuenning

1085: Economic approaches to modeling fertility determinants: a selective review

Cristino R. Arroyo

1084: Stock market development and financial deepening in developing countries: some correlation patterns

Dong He and Robert Pardy

1083: Finance and growth: Schumpeter might be right

Robert King and Ross Levine

1082: What do governments buy? The composition of public spending and economic performance

Shantayanan Devarajan, Vinaya Swaroop and Heng-Fu Zou

1081: Correcting for sampling bias in the measurement of welfare and poverty: the case of the Cote d'Ivoire living standards survey

Lionel Demery and Christiaan Grootaert

1080: A new regional price index for Cote d'Ivoire using data from the international comparisons project

Christiaan Grootaert and Ravi Kanbur

1079: How useful are integrated household survey data for policy-oriented analysis of poverty? Lessons from the Cote d'Ivoire living standards survey

Christiaan Grootaert

1078: The evolution of welfare and poverty under structural change and economic recession in Cote d'Ivoire, 1985-88

Christiaan Grootaert

1077: Risk management prospects for Egyptian cotton

Panos Varangis, Elton Thigpen and Takamasa Akiyama

1076: A presumptive pigovian tax on gasoline: analysis of an air pollution control program for Mexico City

Gunnar Eskeland

1075: Many paths to skilled employment: a reverse tracer study of eight occupations in Colombia

Adrian Ziderman and Robin Horn

1074: How moving to world prices affects the terms of trade in 15 countries of the former Soviet Union

David Tarr

1073: Fiscal aspects of developing countrydebt problems and debt and debt-service reduction operations: a conceptual framework

Peter Montiel

1072: Costs of alternative treatments for incomplete abortion

Brooke R. Johnson, Janie Benson, Janet Bradley, Aurora Rabago Ordonez, Catia Zambrano, Leonard Okoko, Leticia Vazquez Chavez, Paulina Quiroz and Khama Rogo

1071: Congestion charging mechanisms for roads: an evaluation of current practice

Timothy D. Hau

1070: Economic fundamentals of road pricing: a diagrammatic analysis

Timothy D. Hau

1069: Why is there proportionately more enrollment in private schools in some countries?

Estelle James

1068: Enterprise reform in Eastern Europe

Sweder van Wijnbergen

1067: Returns to investment in education: a global update

George Psacharopoulos

1066: Pollution control in a decentralized economy: which level of government should subsidize what in Brazil

Antonio Estache and Kangbin Zheng

1065: Strengthening Uganda's policy environment for investing in university development

Thomas Owen Eisemon, John Sheehan, George Eyoku, Franklin Van Buer, Delane Welsch, Louisa Masutti, Nat Colletta and Lee Roberts

1064: More evidence on income distribution and growth

George Clarke

1063: Mongolia - Privatization and system transformation in an isolated economy

Cevdet Denizer and Alan Gelb

1062: Economic development, environmental regulation, and the international migration of toxic industrial pollution: 1960-88

Robert Lucas, David Wheeler and Hemamala Hettige

1061: Dynamic response to foreign transfers and terms-of-trade shocks in open economies

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Luis Serven

1060: Economies of the former Soviet Union: an input-output approach to the 1987 national accounts

Dmitri Steinberg

1059: Political economy of policy reform in Turkey in the 1980s

Ziya Onis and Steven B. Webb

1058: The pricing of country funds and their role in capital mobilization for emerging economies

Ishac Diwan, Vihang Errunza and Lemma W. Senbet

1057: Measuring the incomes of economies of the former Soviet Union

International Economics Department

1056: Earnings and education in Latin America: assessing priorities for schooling investments

George Psacharopoulos and Ying Chu Ng

1055: Wealth, weather risk, and the composition and profitability of agricultural investments

Mark Rosenzweig and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

1054: Eastern Europe and Russian Federation - Distributional impact of cash and in-kind social transfers in Eastern Europe and Russia

Branko Milanovic

1053: Development of the Zimbabwe family planning program

Alex F. Zinanga

1052: A reappraisal of how oral rehydration therapy affected mortality in Egypt

Hoda Rashad

1051: The legal framework for private sector activity in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic

Cheryl W. Gray

1050: Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries

William Easterly and Sergio Rebelo

1049: Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation

William Easterly, Paolo Mauro and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

1048: Targets and indicators in World Bank population projects

George Baldwin

1047: Cote d'Ivoire: private sector dynamics and constraints

Enrique Rueda-Sabater and Andrew Stone

1046: World Bank project-financed research on population, health, and nutrition

J. Price Gittinger and Carol Bradford

1045: Social gains from female education: a cross-national study

Kalanidhi Subbarao and Laura Raney

1044: Hospital cost functions for developing countries

Adam Wagstaff and Howard Barnum

1043: Deriving developing country repayment capacity from the market prices of sovereign debt

Stijn Claessens and George Pennacchi

1042: Family planning success in two cities in Zaire

Jane T. Bertrand and Judith E. Brown

1041: Family planning success stories in Bangladesh and India

Moni Nag

1040: Lessons of trade liberalization in Latin America for economies in transition

Jaime de Melo and Sumana Dhar

1039: Education, externalities, fertility, and economic growth

Martin Weale

1038: Determinants of expatriate workers'remittances in North Africa and Europe

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Robert de Rezende Rocha

1037: Vocational secondary schooling, occupational choice, and earnings in Brazil

Ana-Maria Arriagada and Adrian Ziderman

1036: Output decline in Hungary and Poland in 1990-91: structural change and aggregate shocks

Simon Commander and Fabrizio Coricelli

1035: How import protection affects the Philippines'motor vehicle industry

Wendy Takacs

1034: Revising financial sector policy in transitional socialist economies: will universal banks prove viable?

David H. Scott

1033: Latin America and the Caribbean region (and Northern America) population projections: 1992-93 edition

My T. Vu, Eduard Bos and Ann Levin

1032: East Asia and Pacific region South Asia region population projections 1992-93 edition

Eduard Bos, My T. Vu and Ann Levin

1031: Measuring the possibilities of interfuel substitution

Robert Bacon

1030: Measuring the effects of urban transportation policies on the environment: a survey of models

Alan Krupnick

1029: Controlling tropical deforestation: an analysis of alternative policies

Robert Deacon

1028: Socioeconomic and ethnic determinants of grade repetition in Bolivia and Guatemala

Harry Patrinos and George Psacharopoulos

1027: Lessons from bank privatization in Mexico

Guillermo Barnes

1026: Financial liberation and adjustment in Chile and New Zealand

Paul McNelis and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

1025: Openness and economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from time-series cross-country analysis

Kazi M. Matin

1024: An exact approach for evaluating the benefits from technological change

Will Martin and Julian Alston

1023: Tariff index theory

James Anderson

1022: A new approach to evaluating trade policy

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

1021: Measuring welfare changes from commodity price stabilization in small open economies

Jonathan R. Coleman and Chris Jones

1020: Another look at population and global warming

Nancy Birdsall

1019: How effective are directed credit policies in the United States? A literature survey

Anita M. Schwarz

1018: Tariff andtax reform: do World Bank recommendations integrate revenue and protection objectives?

Anand Rajaram

1017: Rural poverty, migration, and the environment in developing countries: three case studies

Richard E. Bilsborrow

1016: Europe and Central Asia region Middle East and North Africa region population projects: 1992-93 edition

My T. Vu, Eduard Bos and Ann Levin

1015: Benefit incidence analysis in developing countries

Thomas M. Selden and Michael J. Wasylenko

1014: Ethnicity, education, and earnings in Bolivia and Guatemala

George Psacharopoulos

1013: The impact of Mexico's retraining program on employment and wages

Michelle Riboud, Hong Tan and Ana Revenga

1012: The Brady Plan, the 1989 Mexican debt reduction agreement, and bank stock returns in the United States and Japan

Haluk Unal, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Kwok-Wai Leung

1011: How tax incentives affect decisions to invest in developing countries

Robin Boadway and Anwar Shah

1010: Competition and efficiency in Hungarian banking

Dimitri Vittas and Craig Neal

1009: Labor and women's nutrition: a study of energy expenditure, fertility, and nutritional status in Ghana

Paul A Higgins, Harold Alderman and Dec

1008: Do the poor insure? A synthesis of the literature on risk and consumption in developing countries

Harold Alderman, Christina Paxson and Dec

1007: Global estimates and projections of mortality by cause, 1970-2015

Rodolfo A. Bulatao and Patience W. Stephens

1006: Preparing multiyear railway investment plans: a market-oriented approach

Jorge M. Rebelo