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747: Credit policies in Japan and Korea: a review of the literature

Dimitri Vittas and Bo Wang

746: The impact of regulation on financial intermediation

Dimitri Vittas

745: The meaning of"unfair"in US import policy

Joseph Finger

744: Stainless steel in Sweden: antidumping attacks, good international citizenship

Gunnar Fors

743: Antidumping enforcement in the European Community

Angelika Eymann and Ludger Schuknecht

742: The cost of the district hospital: a case study from Malawi

A.J. Mills

741: When does rent-seeking augment the benefits of price and trade reform on rationed commodities?: estimates for automobiles and color televisions in Poland

David Tarr

740: The onchocerciasis control program in West Africa: a long-term commitment to success

Bernard H. Liese, John Wilson, Bruce Benton and Douglas Marr

739: Managing financial risks in Papua New Guinea: an optimal external debt portfolio

Jonathan R. Coleman and Ying Qian

738: Tax competition and tax coordination: when countries differ in size

Ravi Kanbur and Michael Keen

737: External shocks, adjustment policies, and investment: illustrations from a forward-looking CGE model of the Philippines

Delfin Go

736: Wages and employment in the transition to a market economy

Simon Commander, Fabrizio Coricelli and Karsten Staehr

735: Traditional medicine in sub-Saharan Africa: its importance and potential policy options

Jocelyn DeJong

734: Curricular content, educational expansion, and economic growth

Aaron Benavot

733: The consulting profession in developing countries: a strategy for development

Syed S. Kirmani and Warren C. Baum

732: Stabilization programs in Eastern Europe: a comparative analysis of the Polish and Yugoslav programs of 1990

Fabrizio Coricelli and Roberto de Rezende Rocha

731: Efficiency wage theory, labormarkets, and adjustment

Luis Riveros and Lawrence Bouton

730: Wage and employment policies in Czechoslovakia

Luis Riveros

729: Is export diversification the best way to achieve export growth and stability? A look at three African countries

Ridwan Ali, Jeffrey Alwang and Paul B. Siegel

728: Does better access to contraceptives increase their use? Key policy and methodological issues

Susan H. Cochrane and Laura Gibney

727: The effects of debt subsidies on corporate investment behavior

Mansoor Dailami and E. Han Kim

726: Perspectives on the design of intergovernmental fiscal relations

Anwar Shah

725: How structure of production determines the demand for human capital

Indermit S. Gill and Shahidur Khandker

724: Fiscal issues in adjustment: an introduction

Riccardo Faini and Jaime de Melo

723: Improving women's and children's nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: an issues paper

Olayinka Abosede and Judith S. McGuire

722: Is rice becoming an inferior good? Food demand in the Philippines

Merlinda D. Ingco

721: The demand for money in developing countries: assessing the role of financial innovation

Patricio Arrau, Jose De Gregorio, Carmen Reinhart and Peter Wickham

720: The outlook for commercial bank lending to sub-Saharan Africa

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Francis Nyirjesy

719: How trade and economic policies affect agriculture: a framework for analysis applied to Tanzania and Malawi

Ramon Lopez, Ridwan Ali and Bjorn Larsen

718: Impact of investment policies on German direct investment in developing countries: an empirical investigation

Andrea Gubitz

717: Does financial liberalization really improve private investment in developing countries?

Jacques Morisset

716: Financing training: issues and options

Christopher Dougherty and Jee-Peng Tan

715: Promoting girls'and women's education: lessons from the past

Rosemary Bellew and Elizabeth King

714: Women in forestry in India

Ravinder Kaur

713: The determination of wages in socialist economies: some microfoundations

Simon Commander and Karsten Staehr

712: Foreign direct investment in developing countries: patterns, policies, and prospects

Thomas L. Brewer

711: Financial reform in socialist economies in transition

Millard Long and Silvia B. Sagari

710: Urban property tax reform: guidelines and recommendations

William Dillinger

709: An empirical macroeconomic model for policy design: the case of Chile

Luis Servén and Andres Solimano

708: Nongovernmental organizations and health delivery in sub-Saharan Africa

Jocelyn DeJong

707: Population, health, and nutrition: fiscal 1990 sector review

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706: Successful nutrition programs in Africa: what makes them work?

Eileen Kennedy

705: What causes differences in achievement in Zimbabwe's secondary schools?

Levi Martin Nyagura and Abby Rubin Riddell

704: Costs and finance of higher education in Pakistan

Rosemary Bellew and Joseph DeStefano

703: The political economy of fiscal policy and inflation in developing countries: an empirical analysis

Sebastian Edwards and Guido Tabellini

702: Should price reform proceed gradually or in a"big bang?"

Sweder van Wijnbergen

701: Education and adjustment: a review of the literature

Andrew Noss

700: Trade liberalization and the transition to a market economy

Oleh Havrylyshyn and David Tarr

699: Regulation and deregulation in industrial countries: some lessons for LDCs

Ralph Bradburd and David R. Ross

698: Tax policy options to promote private capital formation in Pakistan

Andrew Feltenstein and Anwar Shah

697: Volatility reversal from interest rates to the real exchange rate: financial liberalization in Chile, 1975-82

Paul McNelis and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

696: Macroeconomics of public sector deficits: the case of Chile

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Jorge Marshall

695: Long term prospects in Eastern Europe: the role of external finance in an era of change

Ishac Diwan and Fernando Saldanha

694: Labor markets in an era of adjustment: an overview

Susan Horton, Ravi Kanbur and Dipak Mazumdar

693: Report on adjustment lending II: lessons forEastern Europe

Vittorio Corbo

692: Health financing in the poor countries: cost recovery or cost reduction?

Joseph Brunet-Jailly

691: Can debt-reduction policies restore investment and economic growth in highly indebted countries? A macroeconomic framework applied to Argentina

Jacques Morisset

690: The terms-of-trade effects from the elimination of state trading in Soviet - Hungarian trade

Gabor Oblath and David Tarr

689: Do tax policies stimulate investment in physical and research and development capital?

John Baffes and Anwar Shah

688: Macroeconomics of public sector deficits: the case of Zimbabwe

Felipe Morandé and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

687: Brazilian frozen concentrated orange juice: the folly of unfair trade cases

Carlos Alberto Primo Braga and Simao Davi Silber

686: Lending for learning: twenty years of World Bank support for basic education

Adriaan Verspoor

685: Children and intra-household inequality: a theoretical analysis

Ravi Kanbur

684: The value of intra-household survey data for age-based nutritional targeting

Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur

683: Vocational schooling, occupational matching, and labor market earnings in Israel

Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman

682: Intertemporal substitution, risk aversion, and private savings in Mexico

Patricio Arrau and Sweder van Wijnbergen

681: Political economy arguments for uniform tariffs

Arvind Panagariya and Dani Rodrik

680: On hunger and public action

Martin Ravallion

679: Poverty alleviation in Mexico

Santiago Levy

678: Economic growth: a review of the theoretical and empirical literature

David Renelt

677: On economic transformation in East - Central Europe: a historical and international perspective

Andres Solimano

676: Higher education in the Republic of Yemen: the University of Sana'a

Viswanathan Selvaratnam and Omporn L. Regel

675: Are buybacks back? Menu-driven debt-reduction schemes with heterogenous creditors

Ishac Diwan and Mark Spiegel

674: Distributional effects of adjustment policies: simulations for two archetypes economies

François Bourguignon, Jaime de Melo and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

673: The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: the case of Pakistan

Nadeem U. Haque and Peter Montiel

672: The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: the case of Ghana

Roumeen Islam and Deborah L. Wetzel

671: Lessons from the heterodox stabilization programs

Miguel A. Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

670: Inflation adjustments of financial statements: application of international accounting standard 29: financial reporting in hyperinflationary economies

Yaaqov Goldschmidt and Jacob Yaron

669: Are high real interest rates bad for world economic growth?

Nemat Shafik and Jalaleddin Jalali

668: Inflation tax and deficit financing in Egypt

Hinh Dinh and Marcelo Giugale

667: VERs under imperfect competition and foreign direct investment: a case study of the U.S. - Japan auto VER

Jaime de Melo and David Tarr

666: Agriculture and the transition to the market

Karen M. Brooks, Jose Luis Guasch, Avishay Braverman and Csaba Csaki

665: Microeconomic distortions: static losses and their effect on the efficiency of investment

Ramon Lopez

664: Should employee participation be part of privatization?

Barbara W. Lee

663: Bank holding companies: a better structure for conducting universal banking?

Samuel H. Talley

662: Trends in social indicators and social sector financing

Jacques van der Gaag, Elene Makonnen and Pierre Englebert

661: The Bretton Woods agencies and sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s: facing the tough questions

Richard E. Feinberg

660: The development of the Colombian cut flower industry

Jose Mendez

659: Inflation and growth in the transition from socialism: the case of Bulgaria

Andres Solimano

658: Cote d'Ivoire - Fiscal policy with fixed nominal exchange rates

Christophe Chamley and Hafez Ghanem

657: Distributional aspects of debt adjustment

Ishac Diwan and Thierry Verdier

656: Relative deprivation and migration: theory, evidence, and policy implications

Oded Stark and J. Edward Taylor

655: Interest rate policy in Egypt: its role in stabilization and adjustment

Mansoor Dailami and Hinh Dinh

654: Reflections on credit policy in developing countries: its effect on private investment

Mansoor Dailami and Marcelo Giugale

653: The effects of option hedging on the costs of domestic price stabilization schemes

Donald Larson and Jonathan Coleman

652: Demographic response to economic shock

Kenneth Hill

651: Taxation of financial assets in developing countries

Christophe Chamley

650: Administrative valuation of Soviet agricultural land: results using Lithuanian production data

Karen Brooks

649: An observation on the bias in clinic-based estimates of malnutrition rates

Margaret E. Grosh, Kristin Fox and Maria Jackson

648: Who paid the bill? Adjustment and poverty in Brazil, 1980-95

M. Louise Fox and Samuel A. Morley