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- 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
- 769: Entry-exit, learning, and productivity change: evidence from Chile

- Lili Liu
- 768: Going to market: privatization in Central and Eastern Market Europe

- Manuel Hinds and Gerhard Pohl
- 767: Framework for macroeconomic analysis applied to Kenya

- Colin A. Bruce and David Ndii
- 766: Economic crisis, structural adjustment, and health in Africa

- Francois Diop, Kenneth Hill and Ismail Sirageldin
- 765: Withholding taxes and international bank credit terms

- Harry Huizinga
- 764: African financing needs in the 1990s

- Jorge Culagovski, Victor Gabor, Maria Cristina Germany and Charles P. Humphreys
- 763: A valuation formula for LDC debt

- Daniel Cohen
- 762: Debt, debt relief, and growth: a bargaining approach

- Daniel Cohen and Thierry Verdier
- 761: Uncertainty and the discrepancy between rate of return estimates at project appraisal and project completion

- Gerhard Pohl and Dubravko Mihaljek
- 760: How conflicting definitions of"manufactures"distort output and trade statistics

- Alexander J. Yeats
- 759: The Profamilia Family Planning Program, Colombia: an economic perspective

- Jesus Amadeo, Dov Chernichovsky and Gabriel Ojeda
- 758: Is there excess co-movement of primary commodity prices? A co-integration test

- Theodosios Palaskas and Panos N. Varangis
- 757: Managing the transition: enhancing the efficiency of Eastern European governments

- Eric Rice
- 756: Taxes versus quotas: the case of cocoa exports

- Arvind Panagariya and Maurice Schiff
- 755: Hedging crude oil imports in developing countries

- Stijn Claessens and Panos Varangis
- 754: Estimating returns to scale with large imperfect panels

- James Tybout and M. Daniel Westbrook
- 753: The CMEA system of trade and payments: the legacy and the aftermath of its termination

- Martin Schrenk
- 752: Inflation and stabilization in Yugoslavia

- Roberto de Rezende Rocha
- 751: A consumption-based direct tax for countries in transition from socialism

- McLure, Charles E.,
- 750: Reforming and privatizing Poland's road freight industry

- Esra Bennathan, Jeffrey Gutman and Louis Thompson
- 749: Hedging commodity price risks in Papua New Guinea

- Stijn Claessens and Jonathan Coleman
- 748: European trade patterns after the transition

- Oleh Havrylyshyn and Lant Pritchett
- 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

- Phn
- 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
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