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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

505: Creating the reform resistant dependent economy: the CMEA international trading relationship

Arye Hillman and Adi Schnytzer

504: Applying tax policy models in country economic work: Bangladesh, China, and India

Henrik Dahl and Pradeep Mitra

503: Household production, time allocation, and welfare in Peru

John Dagsvik and Rolf Aaberge

502: Patents and pharmaceutical drugs: understanding the pressures on developing countries

Julio Nogues

501: Tax systems in the reforming socialist economies of Europe

Cheryl W. Gray

500: Projecting fertility for all countries

Eduard Bos and Rodolfo Bulatao

499: Taxing foreign income in capital-importing countries: Thailand's perspective

Jack Mintz and Chad Leechor

498: The build, operate, and transfer ("BOT") approach to infrastructure projects in developing countries

Mark Augenblick and B. Scott Custer

497: The measurement of budgetary operations in highly distorted economies: the case of Angola

Carlos Elbirt

496: Issues in evaluating tax and payment arrangements for publicly owned minerals

Robert Conrad, Zmarak Shalizi and Janet Syme

495: The changing role of the state: institutional dimensions

Arturo Israel

494: Alleviating transitory food crisis in Africa: international altruism and trade

Victor Lavy

493: Tax reform in Malawi

Zmarak Shalizi and Wayne Thirsk

492: Automotive air pollution: issues and options for developing countries

Asif Faiz, Kumares Sinha, Michael Walsh and Amiy Varma

491: How well do India's social service programs serve the poor?

Nirmala Murthy, Indira Hirway and P. R. Panchmukhi

490: The coordinated reform of tariffs and domestic indirect taxes

Pradeep Mitra

489: Health insurance in Zaire

Donald S. Shepard, Taryn Vian and Eckhard F. Kleinau

488: Prepaid financing of primary health care in Guinea-Bissau: an assessment of 18 village health posts

Per Eklund and Knut Stavem

487: Industrial organization implications of QR trade regimes: evidence and welfare costs

Timothy Condon and Jaime de Melo

486: A RMSM-X model for Turkey

Luc Everaert, Fernando Garcia-Pinto and Jaume Ventura

485: Do labor market distortions cause overvaluation and rigidity of the real exchange rate?

Ramon Lopez and Luis Riveros

484: Stock markets, growth, and policy

Ross Levine

483: An evaluation of the main elements in the leading proposals to phase out the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

Refik Erzan and Paula Holmes

482: Membership in the CFA zone: Odyssean journey or Trojan horse?

Shantayanan Devarajan and Jaime de Melo

481: The effects of trade reforms on scale and technical efficiency: new evidence from Chile

James Tybout, Jaime de Melo and Vittorio Corbo

480: An evaluation of neutral trade policy incentives under increasing returns to scale

Jaime de Melo and David Roland-Holst

479: Conversion factors: a discussion of alternate rates and corresponding weights

Michael Hee

478: Interrelations among child mortality, breastfeeding, and fertility in Egypt, 1975-80

John Marcotte and John B. Casterline

477: Private participation in the delivery of Guinea's water supply services

Thelma Triche

476: Health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa: a survey and analysis

Ronald J. Vogel

475: Does divestiture matter: a framework for learning from experience

Ahmed Galal

474: Methods for measuring the effect of adjustment policies on income distribution

Anne Maasland

473: Adjustment, investment, and the real exchange rate in developing countries

Riccardo Faini and Jaime de Melo

472: Gains in the education of Peruvian women, 1940 to 1980

Elizabeth King and Rosemary Bellew

471: The determinants of farm investment and residential construction in post-reform China

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

470: What do alternative measures of comparative advantage reveal about the composition of developing countries'exports?

Alexander J. Yeats

469: Modeling economic behavior in Peru's informal urban retail sector

Barry Smith and Morton Stelcner

468: Does the structure of production affect demand for schooling in Peru?

Indermit S. Gill

467: Structural adjustment and living conditions in developing countries

Nanak Kakwani, Elene Makonnen and Jacques van der Gaag

466: Is there an intra household Kuznets curve? Some evidence from the Philippines

Ravi Kanbur and Lawrence Haddad

465: How integrated are tropical timber markets?

Panos Varangis

464: Does a woman's education affect her husband's earnings? Results for Israel in a dual labor market

Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman

463: Redefining government's role in agriculture in the nineties

John Nash, Odin Knudsen, James Bovard, Bruce Gardner and L. Winters

462: An alternative view of tax incidence analysis for developing countries

Anwar Shah and John Whalley

461: Labor market participation, returns to education, and male - female wage differences in Peru

Shahidur Khandker

460: Does food aid depress food production? The disincentive dilemma in the African context

Victor Lavy

459: Policies for economic development

Stanley Fischer and Vinod Thomas

458: Does Japanese direct foreign investment promote Japanese imports from developing countries?

Kenji Takeuchi

457: Financing health services in Africa: an assessment of alternative approaches

Germano Mwabu

456: Improving the supply and use of essential drugs in sub-Saharan Africa

S. D. Foster

455: A formal estimation of the effect of the MFA on clothing exports from LDCs

Junichi Goto

454: Asset and liability management in the developing countries: modern financial techniques - a primer

Toshiya Masuoka

453: Do steel prices move together?: a cointegration test

Ying Qian

452: Modeling investment behavior in developing countries: an application to Egypt

Nemat Shafik

451: Productivity, imperfect competition, and trade liberalization in Cote d'Ivoire

Ann Harrison

450: Portfolio effects of debt-equity swaps and debt exchanges with some applications to Latin America

Daniel Oks

449: Analyzing the effects of U.S. macroeconomic policy on U.S. agriculture using the USAGMKTS model

Richard Just

448: A model of U.S. corn, sorghum, and soybean markets and the role of government programs (USAGMKTS)

Richard Just