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564: Costs and benefits of agricultural price stabilization in Brazil Downloads
Avishay Braverman, Ravi Kanbur, Antonio Salazar P. Brandao, Jeffrey Hammer, Mauro de Rezende Lopes and Alexandra Tan
563: Empirical investment equations in developing countries Downloads
Martin Rama
562: Anticipated real exchange-rate changes and the dynamics of investment Downloads
Luis Servén
561: The labor market and the transition of socialist economies Downloads
Milan Vodopivec
560: The persistence of job security in reforming socialist economies Downloads
Milan Vodopivec
559: Fiscal policy and private investment in developing countries: recent evidence on key selected issues Downloads
Ajay Chhibber and Mansoor Dailami
558: Alternative instruments for smoothing the consumption of primary commodity exporters Downloads
Kenneth Kletzer, David M Newbery and Brian Wright
557: The new fiscal federalism in Brazil Downloads
Anwar Shah
556: Taxing choices in deficit reduction Downloads
John Baffes and Anwar Shah
555: The macroeconomics of price reform in socialist countries: a dynamic framework Downloads
Simon Commander and Fabrizio Coricelli
554: Korea's labor markets under structural adjustment Downloads
Dipak Mazumdar
553: Money, inflation, and deficit in Egypt Downloads
Marcelo Giugale and Hinh Dinh
552: Selected World Bank poverty studies: a summary of approaches, coverage, and findings Downloads
Nancy Gillespie
551: Australia's antidumping experience Downloads
Gary Banks
550: Firms'responses to relative price changes in Cote d'Ivoire: the implications for export subsidies and devaluations Downloads
John Newman, Victor Lavy, Raoul Salomon and Philippe De Vreyer
549: Intertemporal substitution in a monetary framework: evidence from Chile and Mexico Downloads
Patricio Arrau
548: Deposit insurance in developing countries Downloads
Samuel H. Talley and Ignacio Mas
547: Does high technology matter? An application to United States regional growth Downloads
Andrea Boltho and Robert King
546: The transition to export-led growth in South Korea: 1954-1966 Downloads
Stephan Haggard, Byung-Kook Kim and Chung-In Moon
545: Health and development: what can research contribute? Downloads
Nancy Birdsall
544: How support services can expand manufactured exports: new methods of assistance Downloads
Donald B. Keesing and Andrew Singer
543: Development assistance gone wrong: why support services have failed to expand exports Downloads
Donald B. Keesing and Andrew Singer
542: The metals price boom of 1987-89: the role of supply disruptions and stock changes Downloads
Boum-Jong Choe
541: Pricing average price options for the 1990 Mexican and Venezuelan recapture clauses Downloads
Stijn Claessens and Sweder van Wijnbergen
540: Venture capital operations and their potential role in LDC markets Downloads
Silvia Sagari and Gabriela Guidotti
539: Maternal health in Jamaica: health needs, services, and utilization Downloads
Chris Naschak Feifer
538: Agricultural reform in developing countries: reflections for Eastern Europe Downloads
Avishay Braverman and J. Luis Guasch
537: Commodity exports and real income in Africa Downloads
Arvind Panagariya and Maurice Schiff
536: The link between poverty and malnutrition: a household theoretic approach Downloads
Maurice Schiff and Alberto Valdes
535: Shared investment in general training: the role of information Downloads
Eliakim Katz and Adrian Ziderman
534: Risk facing U.S. commercial banks Downloads
Menahem Prywes
533: Government revenue from financial repression Downloads
Alberto Giovannini and Martha de Melo
532: Privatization in Turkey Downloads
Sven B. Kjellstrom
531: The World Bank's role in shaping Third World population policy Downloads
Fred T. Sai and Lauren A. Chester
530: The menu approach to developing country external debt: an analysis of commercial banks'choice behavior Downloads
Ishac Diwan and Asli Demirguc-Kunt
529: The sectoral structure of poverty during an adjustment period: evidence for Indonesia in the mid-1980s Downloads
Monika Huppi and Martin Ravallion
528: Monetary policy instruments for developing countries Downloads
Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan
527: Voluntary choices in concerted deals: mechanics and attributes of the menu approach Downloads
Ishac Diwan and Kenneth Kletzer
526: Rural poverty in India, 1973-86 Downloads
Nanak Kakwani and Kalinidhi Subbarao
525: School effects on achievement in secondary mathematics and Portuguese in Brazil Downloads
Marlaine Lockheed and Barbara Burns
524: The Kuwaiti NGOs: their role in aid flows to developing countries Downloads
Nural Abdulhadi
523: EC Bananarama 1992 Downloads
Brent Borrell and Maw-Cheng Yang
522: A survey of the costs of world sugar policies Downloads
Brent Borrell and Ronald C. Duncan
521: World Bank treatment of the social impact of adjustment programs Downloads
Helena Ribe and Soniya Carvalho
520: Trade reform, policy uncertainty, and the current account Downloads
Sweder van Wijnbergen
519: Taxes, outward orientation, and growth performance in Korea Downloads
Irene Trela and John Whalley
518: Industrial organization and trade liberalization: evidence from Korea Downloads
Jaime de Melo and David Roland-Holst
517: Do wage distortions justify protection in the U.S. auto and steel industries? Downloads
Jaime de Melo and David Tarr
516: International capital mobility and the costs of U.S. import restraints Downloads
Jaime de Melo and David Roland-Holst
515: Stock markets in developing countries: key issues and a research agenda Downloads
Mansoor Dailami and Michael Atkin
514: Restrictive labor practices in seaports Downloads
Alan S. Harding
513: The business cycle associated with exchange-rate-based stabilization Downloads
Miguel Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan
512: Social security reform: the capital accumulation and intergenerational distribution effect Downloads
Patricio Arrau
511: The macroeconomic underpinnings of adjustment lending Downloads
Fred Jaspersen and Karim Shariff
510: Public expenditure reviews for education: the Bank's experience Downloads
Antoine Schwartz and Gail Stevenson
509: The childbearing family in sub-Saharan Africa: structure, fertility, and the future Downloads
Odile Frank
508: A RMSM-X (Revised Minimum Standard Model) for Chile Downloads
Luis Servern
507: Poverty in Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia in the years of crisis, 1978-87 Downloads
Branko Milanovic
506: Changes in food consumption patterns in the Republic of Korea Downloads
Merlinda D. Ingco
505: Creating the reform resistant dependent economy: the CMEA international trading relationship Downloads
Arye Hillman and Adi Schnytzer
504: Applying tax policy models in country economic work: Bangladesh, China, and India Downloads
Henrik Dahl and Pradeep Mitra
503: Household production, time allocation, and welfare in Peru Downloads
John Dagsvik and Rolf Aaberge
502: Patents and pharmaceutical drugs: understanding the pressures on developing countries Downloads
Julio Nogues
501: Tax systems in the reforming socialist economies of Europe Downloads
Cheryl W. Gray
500: Projecting fertility for all countries Downloads
Eduard Bos and Rodolfo Bulatao
499: Taxing foreign income in capital-importing countries: Thailand's perspective Downloads
Jack Mintz and Chad Leechor
498: The build, operate, and transfer ("BOT") approach to infrastructure projects in developing countries Downloads
Mark Augenblick and B. Scott Custer
497: The measurement of budgetary operations in highly distorted economies: the case of Angola Downloads
Carlos Elbirt
496: Issues in evaluating tax and payment arrangements for publicly owned minerals Downloads
Robert Conrad, Zmarak Shalizi and Janet Syme
495: The changing role of the state: institutional dimensions Downloads
Arturo Israel
494: Alleviating transitory food crisis in Africa: international altruism and trade Downloads
Victor Lavy
493: Tax reform in Malawi Downloads
Zmarak Shalizi and Wayne Thirsk
492: Automotive air pollution: issues and options for developing countries Downloads
Asif Faiz, Kumares Sinha, Michael Walsh and Amiy Varma
491: How well do India's social service programs serve the poor? Downloads
Nirmala Murthy, Indira Hirway and P. R. Panchmukhi
490: The coordinated reform of tariffs and domestic indirect taxes Downloads
Pradeep Mitra
489: Health insurance in Zaire Downloads
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 Downloads
Per Eklund and Knut Stavem
487: Industrial organization implications of QR trade regimes: evidence and welfare costs Downloads
Timothy Condon and Jaime de Melo
486: A RMSM-X model for Turkey Downloads
Luc Everaert, Fernando Garcia-Pinto and Jaume Ventura
485: Do labor market distortions cause overvaluation and rigidity of the real exchange rate? Downloads
Ramon Lopez and Luis Riveros
484: Stock markets, growth, and policy Downloads
Ross Levine
483: An evaluation of the main elements in the leading proposals to phase out the Multi-Fibre Arrangement Downloads
Refik Erzan and Paula Holmes
482: Membership in the CFA zone: Odyssean journey or Trojan horse? Downloads
Shantayanan Devarajan and Jaime de Melo
481: The effects of trade reforms on scale and technical efficiency: new evidence from Chile Downloads
James Tybout, Jaime de Melo and Vittorio Corbo
480: An evaluation of neutral trade policy incentives under increasing returns to scale Downloads
Jaime de Melo and David Roland-Holst
479: Conversion factors: a discussion of alternate rates and corresponding weights Downloads
Michael Hee
478: Interrelations among child mortality, breastfeeding, and fertility in Egypt, 1975-80 Downloads
John Marcotte and John B. Casterline
477: Private participation in the delivery of Guinea's water supply services Downloads
Thelma Triche
476: Health insurance in sub-Saharan Africa: a survey and analysis Downloads
Ronald J. Vogel
475: Does divestiture matter: a framework for learning from experience Downloads
Ahmed Galal
474: Methods for measuring the effect of adjustment policies on income distribution Downloads
Anne Maasland
473: Adjustment, investment, and the real exchange rate in developing countries Downloads
Riccardo Faini and Jaime de Melo
472: Gains in the education of Peruvian women, 1940 to 1980 Downloads
Elizabeth King and Rosemary Bellew
471: The determinants of farm investment and residential construction in post-reform China Downloads
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? Downloads
Alexander J. Yeats
469: Modeling economic behavior in Peru's informal urban retail sector Downloads
Barry Smith and Morton Stelcner
468: Does the structure of production affect demand for schooling in Peru? Downloads
Indermit S. Gill
467: Structural adjustment and living conditions in developing countries Downloads
Nanak Kakwani, Elene Makonnen and Jacques van der Gaag
466: Is there an intra household Kuznets curve? Some evidence from the Philippines Downloads
Ravi Kanbur and Lawrence Haddad
465: How integrated are tropical timber markets? Downloads
Panos Varangis
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