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405: Investments in solid waste management: opportunities for environmental improvement

Carl Bartone, Janis Bernstein and Frederick Wright

404: Chile's labor markets in an era of adjustment

Luis Riveros

403: Innovative agricultural extension for women: a case study in Cameroon

S. Tjip Walker

402: The GATT as international discipline over trade restrictions: a public choice approach

Joseph Finger

401: Policing unfair imports: the U.S. example

Joseph Finger and Tracy Murray

400: Macroeconomic constraints for medium term growth and distribution: a model for Chile

Andres R. Solimano

399: Macroeconomic adjustment, stabilization, and growth in reforming socialist economies: analytical and policy issues

Andres Solimano

398: Agricultural extension for women farmers in Africa

Katrine A. Saito and C. Jean Weidemann

397: Antidumping regulations or procartel law?: the European Community chemical cases

Patrick Messerlin

396: Strategic trade policy: how new? how sensible?

Warner Corden

395: How Gambians save and what their strategies imply for international aid

Parker Shipton

394: Threshold effects in international lending

Mark Spiegel

393: Debt for nature swaps

Michael Occhiolini

392: Institutional development in World Bank projects: a cross sectoral review

Samuel Paul

391: Wealth effects of voluntary debt reduction in Latin America

Daniel Oks

390: Price and monetary convergence in currency unions: the Franc and Rand zones

Patrick Honohan

389: Monetary cooperation in the CFA zone

Patrick Honohan

388: The distortionary effects of tariff exemptions in Argentina

Faezeh S. Foroutan

387: Productivity and externalities: models of export led growth

Jaime de Melo and Sherman Robinson

386: Argentina's labor markets in an era of adjustment

Luis Riveros and Carlos E. Sanchez

385: The principles of targeting

Timothy Besley and Ravi Kanbur

384: The rational expectations hypothesis in models of primary commodity prices

Christopher L. Gilbert

383: On the relevance of world agricultural prices

Yair Mundlak and Donald Larson

382: The Indonesian vegetable oils sector: modeling the impact of policy changes

Donald Larson

381: Trade in banking services: issues for multilateral negotiations

Alan Gelb and Silvia Sagari

380: Techniques for railway restructuring

Lee W. Huff and Louis S. Thompson

379: Some implications of policy games for high inflation economies

Miguel A. Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

378: How does the debt crisis affect investment and growth?: a neoclassical growth model applied to Mexico

Patricio Arrau

377: After the cold war: security for development

John Stremlau

376: The world economy in the mid 1990s: alternative patterns of trade and growth

Colin I. Bradford

375: Regional disparities, targeting, and poverty in India

Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion

374: Two sources of bias in standard partial equilibrium trade models

Samuel Laird and Alexander J. Yeats

373: Are better off households more unequal or less unequal ?

Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur

372: Long term outlook for the world economy: issues and projections for the 1990s

Shahrokh Fardoust and Ashok Dhareshwar

371: Tariff valuation bases and trade among developing countries: do developing countries discriminate against their own trade?

Refik Erzan and Alexander Yeats

370: Turkey: export miracle or accounting trick?

Ismail Arslan and Sweder van Wijnbergen

369: Cost recovery strategy for rural water delivery in Nigeria

Dale Whittington, Apia Okorafor, Augustine Okore and Alexander McPhail

368: Reforming state enterprises in socialist economies: guidelines for leasing them to entrepreneurs

Guttorm Schjelderup

367: The response of Japanese and U.S. steel prices to changes in the yen - dollar exchange rate

Panos Varangis and Ronald C. Duncan

366: Inflation, monetary balances and the aggregate production function: the case of Colombia

Robert Buckley, Anupam Dokeniya, Inu and Pre

365: Cost and benefits of rent control in Kumasi, Ghana

Stephen Malpezzi, A. Graham Tipple, Kenneth G. Willis, Inu and Pre

364: Financing urban services in Latin America: spatial distribution issues

Gian Carlo Guarda

363: Paying for urban services: a study of water vending and willingness to pay for water in Onitsha, Nigeria

Dale Whittington, Donald T. Lauria and Xinming Mu

362: Urban property taxation: lessons from Brazil

William Dillinger

361: Housing and labor market distortions in Poland: linkages and policy implications

Stephen K. Mayo, James I. Stein and Inu

360: Compounding financial repression with rigid urban regulations: lessons of the Korea housing market

Bertrand Renaud and Inu

359: A survey of recent estimates of price elasticities of demand for transport

Tae H. Oum, W.G. Waters and Jongsay Yong

358: The long term behavior of commodity prices

Pier Giorgio Ardeni and Brian Wright

357: Application of flexible functional forms to substitutability among metals in U.S. industries

Ying Qian

356: A framework for analyzing financial performance of the transport sector

Ian G. Heggie and Michael Quick

355: The evolution of credit terms: an empirical study of commercial bank lending to developing countries

Sule Ozler

354: How commodity prices respond to macroeconomic news

Dhaneshwar Ghura

353: How should tariffs be structured?

Arvind Panagariya

352: Voluntary export restraints and resource allocation in exporting countries

Jaime de Melo and L. Winters

351: The savings and loan problem in the United States

Stanley C. Silverberg

350: Legal process and economic development: a case study of Indonesia

Cheryl W. Gray

349: How Indonesia's monetary policy affects key variables

Sadiq Ahmed and Basant Kapur

348: Recent trends and prospects for agricultural commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa

Takamasa Akiyama and Donald Larson

347: Housing finance in developing countries: a transaction cost approach

Robert Buckley

346: India - India's growing conflict between trade and transport: issues and options

Hans Jurgen Peters

345: Private transfers and public policy in developing countries: a case study for Peru

Donald Cox and Emmanuel Jimenez

344: Policy distortions, size of government, and growth

William Easterly

343: Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence

William Easterly and Deborah L. Wetzel

342: Human capital and endogenous growth in a large scale life cycle model

Patricio Arrau

341: Cost of living differences between urban and rural areas in Indonesia

Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

340: Prudential regulation and banking supervision: building an institutional framework for Banks

Vincent P. Polizatto

339: Private investment and macroeconomic adjustment: an overview

Luis Serven and Andres Solimano

338: Bank lending for divestiture: a review of experience

Sunita Kikeri

337: Projecting mortality for all countries

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

336: Input tariffs and duty drawbacks in the design of tariff reform

Arvind Panagariya

335: Macroeconomic adjustment and the labor market in four Latin American countries

Ramon Lopez and Luis Riveros

334: An econometric method for estimating the tax elasticity and the impact on revenues of discretionary tax measures: applied to Malawi and Mauritius

Jaber Ehdaie

333: An option - pricing approach to secondary market debt: applied to Mexico

Stijn Claessens and Sweder van Wijnbergen

332: India - Effective incentives in India's agriculture: cotton, groundnuts, wheat and rice

Ashok Gulati, James Hanson and Garry Pursell

331: Asia region population projections: 1989-90 edition

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

330: Africa region population projections: 1989-90 edition

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

329: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region population projections: 1989-90 edition

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

328: Europe, Middle East, and North Africa (EMN) region population projections: 1989-90 edition

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

327: Making noisy data sing: a micro approach to measuring industrial efficiency

James Tybout

326: Do exporters gain from voluntary export restraints?

Jaime de Melo and L. Winters

325: Manufacturers'responses to infrastructure deficiencies in Nigeria: private alternatives and policy options

Kyu Sik Lee and Alex Anas

324: Ethical approaches to family planning in Africa

F. T. Sai and K. Newman

323: The old and the new in heterodox stabilization programs: lessons from the 1960s and the 1980s

Miguel A. Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

322: Earmarking government revenues: does it work ?

William McCleary

321: Economic and policy determinants of public sector deficits

Jorge Marshall and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

320: Protection facing exports from sub-Saharan Africa in the EC, Japan, and the United States

Refik Erzan and Peter Svedberg

319: Would general trade liberalization in developing countries expand South-South trade?

Refik Erzan

318: Sovereign debt buybacks as a signal of creditworthiness

Sankarshan Acharya and Ishac Diwan

317: Price and quality competitiveness of socialist countries'exports

Zdenek Drabek and Andrzej Olechowski

316: The macroeconomics of populism in Latin America

Rüdiger Dornbusch and Sebastian Edwards

315: Notes on patents, distortions, and development

Julio Nogues

314: Primary commodity prices and macroeconomic variables: a long run relationship

Theodosios Palaskas and Panos Varangis

313: Environmental management in development: the evolution of paradigms

Michael E. Colby

312: Improving public enterprise performance: lessons from South Korea

Mary M. Shirley

311: Macroeconomic performance before and after disinflation in Israel

Leonardo Leiderman and Nissan Liviatan

310: A framework for macroeconomic consistency for Zimbabwe

Ali Khadr and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

309: How to improve public sector finances in Honduras

Yalcin M. Baran

308: Harmonizing tax policies in Central America

Yalcin M. Baran

307: On the accuracy of economic observations: do Sub-Saharan trade statistics mean anything?

Alexander J. Yeats

306: A method for macroeconomic consistency in current and constant prices

Ali Khadr and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel