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

Arye L. 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

J. 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 E. 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

447: Analyzing the effects of U.S. agricultural policy on Mexican agricultural markets using the MEXAGMKTS model

Gerald T. O'Mara

446: MEXAGMKTS: a model of crop and livestock markets in Mexico

Gerald T O'Mara and Merlinda Ingco

445: Pricing, cost recovery, and production efficiency in transport: a critique

Rachel Kranton

444: The political economy of inflation and stabilization in middle-income countries

Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman

443: The inflation - stabilization cycles in Argentina and Brazil

Miguel Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

442: Indian women, health, and productivity

Meera Chatterjee

441: Inefficient private renegotiation of sovereign debt

Kenneth Kletzer

440: Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective

William Easterly and Patrick Honohan

439: Indicative planning in developing countries

Bela Balassa

438: Yugoslavia - How redistribution hurts productivity in a socialist economy

Milan Vodopivec

437: Institutional development work in the World Bank: a review of 84 bank projects

Cheryl W. Gray, Lynn S. Khadiagala and Richard J. Moore

436: Commodity price forecasts and futures prices

Boum-Jong Choe

435: Rational expectations and commodity price forecasts

Boum-Jong Choe

434: Tax sensitivity of foreign direct investment: an empirical assessment

Anwar Shah and Joel Slemrod

433: The pervasive effects of high taxation of capital goods in India

Francois Ettori

432: Policy choices in the newly industrializing countries

Bela Balassa

431: Recent developments in marketing and pricing systems for agricultural export commodities in sub-Saharan Africa

Panos Varangis, Takamasa Akiyama and Elton Thigpen

430: Rural - urban growth linkages in India

Peter B. Hazell and Steven Haggblade

429: Ghana's cocoa pricing policy

Merrill J. Bateman, Alexander Meeraus, David M Newbery, William Asenso Okyere and Gerald T. O'Mara

428: Perestroyka and its implications for European socialist countries

Bela Balassa

427: Exchange reform, parallel markets, and inflation in Africa: the case of Ghana

Ajay Chhibber and Nemat Shafik

426: Growth oriented adjustment programs: a statistical analysis

Riccardo Faini, Jaime de Melo and Senhadji-Semlali,

425: Earmarking government revenues in Colombia

William A. McCleary and Evamaria Uribe Tobon

424: Mexico's external debt restructuring in 1989-90

Sweder van Wijnbergen

423: Relative price changes and the growth of the public sector

M. Shahbaz Khan

422: Civil service reform and the World Bank

Barbara Nunberg and John Nellis

421: Taxation of financial intermediation: measurement principles and application to five African countries

Christophe Chamley and Patrick Honohan

420: Making Bank irrigation investments more sustainable

Gerald T. O'Mara

419: The design and sequencing of trade and investment policy reform: an institutional analysis

Brian Levy

418: Does devaluation hurt private investment? The Indonesian case

Ajay Chhibber and Nemat Shafik

417: Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms

William Easterly, E. C Hwa, Piyabha Kongsamut and Jan Zizek

416: Improving data on poverty in the Third World: the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study

Paul Glewwe

415: How good ( or bad ) are country projections?

Norman Hicks and Michel Vaugeois

414: Supporting safe motherhood: a review of financial trends: summary

L. M. Howard

413: Supporting safe motherhood: a review of financial trends: full report

L. M. Howard

412: Exchange rate policy in developing countries

Warner Corden

411: Institutional dimensions of poverty reduction

Lawrence Salmen

410: The cost of capital and investment in developing countries

Alan Auerbach

409: Financial policy and corporate investment in imperfect capital markets: the case of Korea

Mansoor Dailami

408: Methodological issues in evaluating debt - reducing deals

Stijn Claessens and Ishac Diwan

407: Public enterprise reform: a challenge for the World Bank

Ahmed Galal

406: Township, village, and private industry in China's economic reform

William Byrd and Alan Gelb