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- 1186: Recent estimates of capital flight

- Stijn Claessens and David Naude
- 1185: Reforming Hungarian agricultural trade policy: a quantitative evaluation

- Morris Morkre and David Tarr
- 1184: Providing social benefits in Russia: redefining the roles of firms and government

- Simon Commander and Richard Jackman
- 1183: Who would vote for inflation in Brazil?: an integrated framework approach to inflation and income distribution

- Cheikh Kane and Jacques Morisett
- 1182: Corporate governance in Central and Eastern Europe: lessons from advanced market economies

- Cheryl W. Gray and Rebecca J. Hanson
- 1181: Reforming health care: a case for stay well health insurance

- Zeljko Bogetic and Dennis Heffley
- 1180: The financing and taxation of U.S. direct investment abroad

- Harry Huizinga
- 1179: How the market transition affected export performance in the Central European economies

- Bartlomiej Kaminski and Dec
- 1178: Productivity of public spending, sectoral allocation choices, and economic growth

- John Baffes and Anwar Shah
- 1177: Environmental taxes and policies for developing countries

- Neil Bruce and Gregory M. Ellis
- 1176: Cash social transfers, direct taxes, and income distribution in late socialism

- Branko Milanovic
- 1175: OECD trade barriers faced by the successor states of the Soviet Union

- Bartlomiej Kaminski and Alexander Yeats
- 1174: Asian trade barriers against primary and processed commodities

- Raed Safadi and Alexander Yeats
- 1173: Morocco's free trade agreement with the European community: a quantitative assessment

- Thomas Rutherford, Elisabet Rutstrom and David Tarr
- 1172: Liberalizing Indian agriculture: an agenda for reform

- Garry Pursell and Ashok Gulati
- 1171: Finance and its reform: beyond laissez-faire

- Gerard Caprio and Lawrence Summers
- 1170: Job search by employed workers: the effects of restrictions

- Avner Bar-ilan and Anat Levy
- 1169: Costs and benefits of debt and debt service reduction

- Eduardo Fernandez-Arias
- 1168: How macroeconomic projections in policy framework papers for the African region compare with outcomes

- Rashid Faruqee
- 1167: Unemployment and labor market dynamics in Russia

- Simon Commander, Leonid Liberman and Ruslan Yemtsov
- 1166: The behavior of Russian firms in 1992: evidence from a survey

- Simon Commander, Leonid Liberman and Cecilia Ugaz
- 1165: Social costs of the transition to capitalism: Poland, 1990-91

- Branko Milanovic
- 1164: Power, distortions, revolt, and reform in agricultural land relations

- Hans Binswanger-Mkhize, Klaus Deininger and Gershon Feder
- 1163: Domestic distortions and international trade

- James Anderson and J. Peter Neary
- 1162: The Slovenian labor market in transition: issues and lessons learned

- Milan Vodopivec and Samo Hribar-Milic
- 1161: Increasing women's participation in the primary school teaching force and teacher training in Nepal

- Molly Maguire Teas
- 1160: Equity and bond flows to Asia and Latin America: the role of global and country factors

- Punam Chuhan, Stijn Claessens and Nlandu Mamingi
- 1159: Stock market development and financial intermediary growth: a research agenda

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
- 1158: Population growth, externalities, and poverty

- Nancy Birdsall and Charles Griffin
- 1157: Intertemporal and interspatial comparisons of income: the meaning of relative prices

- Sultan Ahmad
- 1156: Tropical timber trade policies: what impact will eco-labeling have?

- Panayotis N. Varangis, Carlos A. Primo Braga and Kenji Takeuchi
- 1155: The regulation and structure of nonlife insurance in the United States

- Martin Grace and Michael M. Barth
- 1154: Options for pension reform in Tunisia

- Dimitri Vittas
- 1153: North American free trade agreement: issues on trade in financial services for Mexico

- Dimitri Vittas, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Alberto Musalem
- 1152: Population, health, and nutrition: annual operational review for fiscal 1992

- Denise Vaillancourt and Stacye Brown
- 1151: Is growth bad for the environment? Pollution, abatement, and endogenous growth

- Charles Marrewijk, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Jos Verbeek
- 1150: Wealthier is healthier

- Lant Pritchett and Lawrence Summers
- 1149: How labor markets and imperfect competition affect tariff policy

- Martin Rama
- 1148: Economic instability and aggregate investment

- Robert Pindyck and Andres Solimano
- 1147: Interest rates, growth, and external debt: the macroeconomic impact of Mexico's Brady deal

- Stijn Claessens, Daniel Oks and Sweder van Wijnbergen
- 1146: Is poverty increasing in the developing world?

- Shaohua Chen, Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion
- 1145: The simple(r) algebra of pension plans

- Dimitri Vittas
- 1144: The foreign trade dimension of the market transition in Poland: the surprising export performance and its sustainability

- Bartlomiej Kaminski
- 1143: Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform: some new facts

- Lant Pritchett and Geeta Sethi
- 1142: Rent - seeking trade policy: a time series approach

- Martin Rama
- 1141: Foreign direct investment in a macroeconomic framework: finance, efficiency, incentives, and distortions

- Maxwell J. Fry
- 1140: How retail food markets responded to price liberalization in Russia after January 1992

- Bruce Gardner and Karen M. Brooks
- 1139: Should sub-Saharan Africa expand cotton exports?

- Jonathan R. Coleman and M. Elton Thigpen
- 1138: The economic impact of military expenditures

- Daniel Landau
- 1137: Railway reform in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies

- Philip W. Blackshaw, Louis S. Thompson, Dec and Esd
- 1136: The dynamic behavior of quota license prices: theory and evidence from the Hong Kong apparel quotas

- Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan
- 1135: Inflation in Czechoslovakia, 1985-91

- Zdenek Drabek, Kamil Janáček and Zdenek Tuma
- 1134: Bahrain - Managing a nonrenewable resource: savings and exchange-rate policies

- Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, Majd Nader and Dec
- 1133: Macroeconomic framework for an oil-based economy: the case of Bahrain

- Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Nader Majd
- 1132: An analysis of repressed inflation in three transitional economies

- Andrew Feltenstein and Jiming Ha
- 1131: Prices and protocols in public health care

- Jeffrey Hammer
- 1130: Poverty and policy

- Michael Lipton and Martin Ravallion
- 1129: How policy changes affected cocoa sectors in sub-Saharan African countries

- Jonathan R. Coleman, Takamasa Akiyama and Panos N. Varangis
- 1128: The international ocean transport industry in crisis: assessing the reasons and outlook

- Hans Jurgen Peters
- 1127: How international economic links affect East Asia

- Vikram Nehru
- 1126: The costs and benefits of Slovenian independence

- Milan Cvikl, Evan Kraft and Milan Vodopivec
- 1125: Industrial development and the environment in Mexico

- Adriaan Ten Kate
- 1124: A new database on human capital stock: sources, methodology and results

- Vikram Nehru, Eric Swanson and Ashutosh Dubey
- 1123: Social development is economic development

- Nancy Birdsall
- 1122: Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis

- Richard Bird and Christine Wallich
- 1121: Measuring capital flight: a case study of Mexico

- Harald Eggerstedt, Rebecca Brideau Hall and Sweder van Wijnbergen
- 1120: Policies for coping with price uncertainty for Mexican maize: policies for maize price variability in Mexico

- Donald Larson
- 1119: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): its effect on South Asia

- Raed Safadi and Alexander Yeats
- 1118: Trends in retirement systems and lessons for reform

- Olivia Mitchell
- 1117: Portfolio investment flows to emerging markets

- Sudarshan Gooptu
- 1116: Implications of agricultural trade liberalization for the developing countries

- Antonio Salazar P. Brandao and Will Martin
- 1115: Looking at the facts: what we know about policy and growth from cross-country analysis

- Ross Levine and Sara Zervos
- 1114: Does price uncertainty really reduce private investment? A small model applied to Chile

- Anita George, Jacques Morisset and Dec
- 1113: The lucky few amidst economic decline: distributional change in Cote d'Ivoire as seen through panel data sets, 1985-88

- Christiaan Grootaert and Ravi Kanbur
- 1112: Privatization, concentration, and pressure for protection: a steel sector study

- Ying Qian and Ronald C. Duncan
- 1111: Foreign investment law in Central and Eastern Europe

- Cheryl W. Gray and William Jarosz
- 1110: What would happen if all developing countries expanded their manufactured exports?

- Will Martin
- 1109: Risk management and stable financial structures

- Andrew Sheng and Yoon Je Cho
- 1108: Public output and private decisions: conceptual issues in the evaluation of Government activities and their implications for fiscal policy

- Thanos Catsambas
- 1107: Financial reform lessons and strategies

- Gerard Caprio, Izak Atiyas and James Hanson
- 1106: Improving women's access to higher education: a review of World Bank project experience

- Halil Dundar and Jennifer Haworth
- 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
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