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869: Financing local government in Hungary

Richard Bird and Christine Wallich

868: Mortality reductions from measles and tetanus immunization: a review of the evidence

Michael Koenig

867: The rationale and performance of personal pension plans in Chile

Dimitri Vittas and Augusto Iglesias

866: Regulatory and institutional impacts of securities market computerization

Robert Pardy

865: Food security and health security: explaining the levels of nutrition in Pakistan

Harold Alderman and Marito Garcia

864: Privatization of natural monopoly public enterprises: the regulation issue

Ralph Bradburd

863: Intergovernmental fiscal relations in China

Roy Bahl and Christine Wallich

862: Higher education in Egypt

Alan Richards

861: Private saving in Mexico, 1980-90

Patricio Arrau and Daniel Oks

860: The restrictiveness of the multi-fibre arrangement on Eastern European trade

Refik Erzan and Christopher Holmes

859: Macroeconomic management and the black market for foreign exchange in Sudan

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi

858: Contractual savings and emerging securities markets

Dimitri Vittas

857: The life insurance industry in the United States: an analysis of economic and regulatory issues

Kenneth M. Wright

856: Latin American women's earnings and participation in the labor force

George Psacharopoulos and Zafiris Tzannatos

855: Sovereign debt: a primer

Jonathan Eaton

854: Is there a case for an optimal export tax on perennial crops?

Takamasa Akiyama

853: Policy uncertainty, information asymmetries, and financial intermediation

Gerard Caprio

852: How health insurance affects the delivery of health care in developing countries

Joseph Kutzin and Howard Barnum

851: Sources of World Bank estimates of current mortality rates

Eduard Bos, My T. Vu and Patience W. Stephens

850: Fiscal adjustment and the real exchange rate: the case of Bangladesh

Kazi M. Matin

849: Financial structures and economic development

Ross Levine

848: How EC 1992 and reforms of the common agricultural policy would affect developing countries'grain trade

Merlinda D. Ingco and Donald Mitchell

847: Coping with the legacies of subsidized mortgage credit in Hungary

Silvia B. Sagari and Loic Chiquier

846: Incorporating cost and cost - effectiveness into the development of safe motherhood programs

Larry Forgy, Diana M. Measham and Anne G. Tinker

845: Inflation stabilization in Turkey: an application of the RMSM-X model

Luc Everaert

844: Heterogeneity, distribution, and cooperation in common property resource management

Ravi Kanbur

843: How financial markets affect long run growth: a cross country study

Ejaz Ghani

842: Capital flows to South Asian and ASEAN countries: trends, determinants, and policy implications

Ishrat Husain and Kwang W. Jun

841: How access to contraception affects fertility and contraceptive use in Tunisia

Susan Cochrane and David K. Guilkey

840: Public sector debt, fiscal deficits, and economic adjustment: a comparative study of six EMENA countries

Alfredo E. Thorne and Azita Dastgheib

839: Regional integration under VERs: when trade diversion is unambiguously beneficial

David Tarr

838: Measuring trade policy intervention: a cross-country index of relative price dispersion

Brian J. Aitken

837: Manpower planning in a market economy with labor market signals

Arvil Van Adams, John Middleton and Adrian Ziderman

836: Sources of income inequality in rural Pakistan: a decomposition analysis

Richard Adams and Harold Alderman

835: Commodity stabilization funds

Patricio Arrau and Stijn Claessens

834: Scenarios for growth in the 1990s

Shahrokh Fardoust and Jian-Ping Zhou

833: Stabilization and growth recovery in Mexico: lessons and dilemmas

Daniel Oks

832: Sustainability and the economics of assuring assets for future generations

Richard B. Norgaard

831: Real overvaluation, terms of trade shocks, and the cost to agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi

830: Fixed parity of the exchange rate and economic performance in the CFA zone: a comparative study

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Nader Majd

829: Regulation of securities markets: some recent trends and their implications for emerging markets

Terry M. Chuppe and Michael Atkin

828: How the macroeconomic environment affects human resource development

Arvil Van Adams, Robert Goldfarb and Terence Kelly

827: Free trade agreements with the United States: what's in it for Latin America?

Refik Erzan and Alexander Yeats

826: Do workers in the informal sector benefit from cuts in the minimum wage?

Ariel Fiszbein

825: The empty opportunity: local control of secondary schools and student achievement in the Philippines

Marlaine Lockheed and Qinghua Zhao

824: Back of the envelope estimates of environmental damage costs in Mexico

Sergio Margulis

823: How private enterprise organized agricultural markets in Kenya

Steven M. Jaffee

822: Paternalism and the alleviation of poverty

Nancy Jesurun-Clements

821: Wages and unemployment in Poland: recent developments and policy issues

Fabrizio Coricelli and Ana Revenga

820: Taxation in decentralizing socialist economies: the case of China

Christopher Heady and Pradeep K. Mitra

819: Financial indicators and growth in a cross section of countries

Robert King and Ross Levine

818: Do rules control power? GATT articles and arrangements in the Uruguay Round

Joseph Finger and Sumana Dhar

817: How does Brady-type commercial debt restructuring work?

Mohua Mukherjee

816: Economic consequences of German reunification: 12 months after the big bang

Gerhard Pohl

815: Governance and economy: a review

D. Brautigam

814: Finance, growth, and public policy

Mark Gertler and Andrew Rose

813: Price stabilization for raw jute in Bangladesh

Takamasa Akiyama and Panos Varangis

812: Alternative forms of external finance: a survey

Stijn Claessens

811: Comparative resource allocations to human resource development in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

P. T. Knight and S. S. Wasty

810: Poverty and income distribution during adjustment: issues and evidence from the OECD project

François Bourguignon, Jaime de Melo and Christian Morrisson

809: Openness and growth: a time series, cross-country analysis for developing countries

Ann Harrison

808: The new trade protection: price effects of antidumping and countervailing measures in the United States

Ann Harrison

807: Moderate inflation

Rüdiger Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer

806: Measuring commercial bank efficiency: use and misuse of bank operating ratios

Dimitri Vittas

805: Privatization in the Soviet Union: the beginnings of a transition

Sergei Shatalov

804: Global trends in raw materials consumption

Boum-Jong Choe

803: Financial regulation: changing the rules of the game

Millard Long and Dimitri Vittas

802: Strengthening the Bank's population work in the nineties

Steven W. Sinding

801: Unraveling the mysteries of China's foreign trade regime: a view from Jiangsu Province

Arvind Panagariya

800: The legal framework for private sector development in a transitional economy: the case of Poland

Cheryl W. Gray, Rebecca J. Hanson, Michael A. Heller, Peter Ianachkov, Daniel T. Ostas and Youssef Djehane

799: Growth in open economies

Sergio Rebelo

798: Agriculture's decline in Indonesia: supply or demand determined

Will Martin and Peter Warr

797: Using field visits to improve the quality of family planning, health, and nutrition programs: a supervisor's manual

Richard Heaver

796: Excess liquidity and monetary overhangs

Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

795: Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds

William Easterly

794: How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda

William Easterly, Robert King, Ross Levine and Rebe

793: Decollectivization and the agricultural transition in Eastern and Central Europe

Karen M. Brooks

792: Reducing labor redundancy in state owned enterprises

Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

791: Measuring real exchange rate instability in developing countries: empirical evidence and implications

Lant Pritchett

790: Reforming and privatizing Hungary's road haulage

Esra Bennathan, Jeffrey Gutman and Louis Thompson

789: Intrahousehold inequality and the theory of targeting

Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur

788: How expectations affect reform dynamics in developing countries

Francesco Daveri

787: Private investment under macroeconomic adjustment in Morocco

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Tobias Müller

786: Fiscal policyfor managing Indonesia's environment

Sadiq Ahmed

785: How did the Asian countries avoid the debt crisis?

Ishrat Husain

784: Chemicals from Poland: a tempest in a teacup

Andrzej Olechowski

783: The origins and evolution of antidumping regulation

Joseph Finger

782: The economic effects of widespread application of antidumping duties to import pricing

Patrick Conway and Sumana Dhar

781: The Korean consumer electronics industry: reaction to antidumping actions

Taeho Bark

780: Optimal user charges and cost recovery for roads in developing countries

Ian G. Heggie and Vincy Fon

779: Special programme of research, development and research training in human reproduction

Janet Nassim

778: A dynamic bargaining model of sovereign debt

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

777: Do the benefits of fixed exchange rates outweigh their costs? The Franc Zone in Africa

Shantayanan Devarajan and Dani Rodrik

776: Enforcement of Canadian"unfair"trade laws: the case for competition policies as an antidote for protection

Mark A. Dutz

775: The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis

William Easterly and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

774: Agricultural pricing systems and transportation policy in Africa

Mark Gersovitz

773: Are Ghana's roads paying their way? Assessing road use cost and user charges in Ghana

Reuben Gronau

772: Macroeconomic adjustment to oil shocks and fiscal reform: simulations for Zimbabwe, 1988-1995

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

771: Macroeconomic structure and policy in Zimbabwe, analysis and empirical model: 1965-1988

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

770: Privatization in Eastern and Central Europe: objectives, constraints, and models of divestiture

Farid Dhanji and Branko Milanovic