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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

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