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605: Overview of contractual savings institutions

Dimitri Vittas and Michael Skully

604: Foreign trade and its relation to competition and productivity in Turkish industry

Faezeh Foroutan

603: The role of officially supported export credits in sub-Saharan Africa's external financing

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Refik Erzan

602: Firm output adjustment to trade liberalization: theory with application to the Moroccan experience

Mark Andrew Dutz

601: Europe, Middle East, and North Africa region population projections: 1990-91

Eduard Bos, Patience W. Stephens, My T. Vu and Rodolfo A. Bulatao

600: Latin America and the Caribbean region population projections: 1990-91

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

599: Asia region population projections: 1990-91 edition

Eduard Bos, Patience W. Stephens, My T. Vu and Rodolfo A. Bulatao

598: Africa region population projections: 1990-91

Patience W. Stephens, Eduard Bos, My T. Vu and Rodolfo A. Bulatao

597: Rent sharing in the multi-fibre arrangement: theory and evidence from US apparel imports from Hong Kong

Refik Erzan, Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan

596: The Mexican sugar industry: problems and prospects

Brent Borrell

595: Hungary: financial sector reform in a socialist economy

Mario I. Blejer and Silvia B. Sagari

594: Size rationalization and trade exposure in developing countries

Mark Roberts and James Tybout

593: Risk management in sub-Saharan Africa

Stijn Claessens and Ying Qian

592: Official credits to developing countries: implicit transfers to the banks

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

591: Global indicators of nutritional risk

Rae Galloway

590: The domestic financial market and the trade liberalization outcome: the evidence from Sri Lanka

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Sarath Rajapatirana

589: To prescribe or not to prescribe: on the regulation of pharmaceuticals in less developed countries

Jeffrey S. Hammer

588: Obstacles to developing small and medium-sized enterprises: an empirical assessment

Brian Levy

587: Quantifying the magnitude and severity of absolute poverty in the developing world in the mid-1980s

Martin Ravallion, Gaurav Datt, Dominique van de Walle and Elaine Chan

586: The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh

Martin Ravallion

585: Financial innovation and money demand: theory and empirical implementation

Patricio Arrau and Jose De Gregorio

584: Whither Hungary and the European communities?

Alfred Tovias and Sam Laird

583: World Bank lending for education research, 1982-89

Marlaine Lockheed and Alastair G. Rodd

582: Adjustment programs and Bank support: rationale and main results

Vittorio Corbo and Stanley Fischer

581: How successful is World Bank lending for structural adjustment?

Patrick Conway

580: Do natural resource-based industrialization strategies convey important (unrecognized) price benefits for commodity-exporting developing countries?

Alexander J. Yeats

579: Chile's experience with stabilization, revisited

Vittorio Corbo and Andres Solimano

578: The Bank's use of technical assistance for institutional development

Beatrice Buyck

577: Africa's rising inflation: causes, consequences, and cures

Ajay Chhibber

576: Lessons from tax reform: an overview

Wayne Thirsk

575: Household saving in developing countries: first cross-country evidence

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Steven B. Webb and Giancarlo Corsetti

574: Public policies and saving in developing countries

Vittorio Corbo and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

573: Malaysian labor markets under structural adjustment

Dipak Mazumdar

572: Capital positions of Japanese banks

Edward Kane, Haluk Unal and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

571: Credit's effect on productivity in Chinese agriculture: a microeconomic model of disequilibrium

Gershon Feder, Lawrence J. Lau, Justin Lin and Xiaopeng Luo

570: Debt concentration and secondary market prices

Raquel Fernandez and Sule Ozler

569: Domestic purchase requirements for import license allocations in Mali

Wendy Takacs

568: Higher wages for relief work can make many of the poor worse off: recent evidence from Maharashtra's"Employment Guarantee Scheme"

Martin Ravallion, Gaurav Datt and Shubham Chaudhuri

567: Macroeconomic management and the division of powers in Brazil: perspectives for the nineties

Antulio Bomfim and Anwar Shah

566: Measuring outward orientation in developing countries: can it be done?

Lant Pritchett

565: Issues in socialist economy reform

Stanley Fischer and Alan Gelb

564: Costs and benefits of agricultural price stabilization in Brazil

Avishay Braverman, Ravi Kanbur, Antonio Salazar P. Brandao, Jeffrey Hammer, Mauro de Rezende Lopes and Alexandra Tan

563: Empirical investment equations in developing countries

Martin Rama

562: Anticipated real exchange-rate changes and the dynamics of investment

Luis Serven

561: The labor market and the transition of socialist economies

Milan Vodopivec

560: The persistence of job security in reforming socialist economies

Milan Vodopivec

559: Fiscal policy and private investment in developing countries: recent evidence on key selected issues

Ajay Chhibber and Mansoor Dailami

558: Alternative instruments for smoothing the consumption of primary commodity exporters

Kenneth Kletzer, David M Newbery and Brian Wright

557: The new fiscal federalism in Brazil

Anwar Shah

556: Taxing choices in deficit reduction

John Baffes and Anwar Shah

555: The macroeconomics of price reform in socialist countries: a dynamic framework

Simon Commander and Fabrizio Coricelli

554: Korea's labor markets under structural adjustment

Dipak Mazumdar

553: Money, inflation, and deficit in Egypt

Marcelo Giugale and Hinh Dinh

552: Selected World Bank poverty studies: a summary of approaches, coverage, and findings

Nancy Gillespie

551: Australia's antidumping experience

Gary Banks

550: Firms'responses to relative price changes in Cote d'Ivoire: the implications for export subsidies and devaluations

John Newman, Victor Lavy, Raoul Salomon and Philippe De Vreyer

549: Intertemporal substitution in a monetary framework: evidence from Chile and Mexico

Patricio Arrau

548: Deposit insurance in developing countries

Samuel H. Talley and Ignacio Mas

547: Does high technology matter? An application to United States regional growth

Andrea Boltho and Robert King

546: The transition to export-led growth in South Korea: 1954-1966

Stephan Haggard, Byung-Kook Kim and Chung-In Moon

545: Health and development: what can research contribute?

Nancy Birdsall

544: How support services can expand manufactured exports: new methods of assistance

Donald B. Keesing and Andrew Singer

543: Development assistance gone wrong: why support services have failed to expand exports

Donald B. Keesing and Andrew Singer

542: The metals price boom of 1987-89: the role of supply disruptions and stock changes

Boum-Jong Choe

541: Pricing average price options for the 1990 Mexican and Venezuelan recapture clauses

Stijn Claessens and Sweder van Wijnbergen

540: Venture capital operations and their potential role in LDC markets

Silvia Sagari and Gabriela Guidotti

539: Maternal health in Jamaica: health needs, services, and utilization

Chris Naschak Feifer

538: Agricultural reform in developing countries: reflections for Eastern Europe

Avishay Braverman and J. Luis Guasch

537: Commodity exports and real income in Africa

Arvind Panagariya and Maurice Schiff

536: The link between poverty and malnutrition: a household theoretic approach

Maurice Schiff and Alberto Valdes

535: Shared investment in general training: the role of information

Eliakim Katz and Adrian Ziderman

534: Risk facing U.S. commercial banks

Menahem Prywes

533: Government revenue from financial repression

Alberto Giovannini and Martha de Melo

532: Privatization in Turkey

Sven B. Kjellstrom

531: The World Bank's role in shaping Third World population policy

Fred T. Sai and Lauren A. Chester

530: The menu approach to developing country external debt: an analysis of commercial banks'choice behavior

Ishac Diwan and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

529: The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s

Monika Huppi and Martin Ravallion

528: Monetary policy instruments for developing countries

Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

527: Voluntary choices in concerted deals: mechanics and attributes of the menu approach

Ishac Diwan and Kenneth Kletzer

526: Rural poverty in India, 1973-86

Nanak Kakwani and Kalinidhi Subbarao

525: School effects on achievement in secondary mathematics and Portuguese in Brazil

Marlaine Lockheed and Barbara Burns

524: The Kuwaiti NGOs: their role in aid flows to developing countries

Nural Abdulhadi

523: EC Bananarama 1992

Brent Borrell and Maw-Cheng Yang

522: A survey of the costs of world sugar policies

Brent Borrell and Ronald C. Duncan

521: World Bank treatment of the social impact of adjustment programs

Helena Ribe and Soniya Carvalho

520: Trade reform, policy uncertainty, and the current account

Sweder van Wijnbergen

519: Taxes, outward orientation, and growth performance in Korea

Irene Trela and John Whalley

518: Industrial organization and trade liberalization: evidence from Korea

Jaime de Melo and David Roland-Holst

517: Do wage distortions justify protection in the U.S. auto and steel industries?

Jaime de Melo and David Tarr

516: International capital mobility and the costs of U.S. import restraints

Jaime de Melo and David Roland-Holst

515: Stock markets in developing countries: key issues and a research agenda

Mansoor Dailami and Michael Atkin

514: Restrictive labor practices in seaports

Alan S. Harding

513: The business cycle associated with exchange-rate-based stabilization

Miguel Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

512: Social security reform: the capital accumulation and intergenerational distribution effect

Patricio Arrau

511: The macroeconomic underpinnings of adjustment lending

Fred Jaspersen and Karim Shariff

510: Public expenditure reviews for education: the Bank's experience

Antoine Schwartz and Gail Stevenson

509: The childbearing family in sub-Saharan Africa: structure, fertility, and the future

Odile Frank

508: A RMSM-X (Revised Minimum Standard Model) for Chile

Luis Servern

507: Poverty in Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia in the years of crisis, 1978-87

Branko Milanovic

506: Changes in food consumption patterns in the Republic of Korea

Merlinda D. Ingco