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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 Servén 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

305: World Bank work with nongovernmental organizations

Lawrence F. Salmen and A. Paige Eaves

304: The new political economy: positive economics and negative politics

Merilee S. Grindle

303: Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes?

Martin Ravallion

302: Improving support services for rural schools: a management perspective

Sherry Keith

301: Myths of the West: lessons from developed countries for development finance

Colin Mayer

300: How the 1981-83 Chilean banking crisis was handled

Mauricio Larrain

299: The external effects of public sector deficits

Carlos Rodríguez

298: Evaluating global macroeconomic models: a case study of MULTIMOD

Ahmad Jamshidi

297: Effects of the multifibre arrangement on developing countries'trade: an empirical investigation

Refik Erzan, Junichi Goto and Paula Holmes

296: How serious is the neglect of intrahousehold inequality ?

Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur

295: Developing country experience in trade reform

Vinod Thomas

294: Irreversibility, uncertainty, and investment

Robert Pindyck

293: Central bank losses: origins, conceptual issues, and measurement problems

Mario O. Teijeiro

292: Is the new political economy relevant to developing countries ?

Ronald Findlay

291: How can Indonesia maintain creditworthiness and noninflationary growth ?

Sadiq Ahmed and Ajay Chhibber

290: Risk - adjusted rates of return for project appraisal

Avinash Dixit and Amy Williamson

289: Inflation and seigniorage in Argentina

Miguel A. Kiguel and Pablo Neumeyer

288: School effects and costs for private and public schools in the Dominican Republic

Emmanuel Jimenez, Marlaine Lockheed and Ed Luna

287: The consistency of government deficits with macroeconomic adjustment: an application to Kenya and Ghana

Thanos Catsambas and Miria Pigato

286: Poverty and undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s

Martin Ravallion and Monika Huppi

285: Enhancing the contribution of land reform to Mexican agricultural development

John Richard Heath

284: The role of groups and credit cooperatives in rural lending

Monika Huppi and Gershon Feder

283: Experiences of financial distress in Thailand

Tipsuda Sundaravej and Prasarn Trairatvorakul

282: EMENA manufactured exports and EEC trade policy

Bela Balassa

281: Tariff policy and taxation in developing countries

Bela Balassa

280: Adjustment policies in East Asia

Bela Balassa

279: What determines the rate of growth and technological change?

Paul Romer

278: Inflation and the company tax base: methods to minimize inflation - induced distortions

Anand Rajaram

277: The effect of formal credit on output and employment in rural India

Shahidur Khandker and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

276: Improving rural wages in India

Shahidur Khandker

275: Revised estimates and projections of international migration: 1980-2000

Fred Arnold

274: Efficiency and equity in social spending: how and why governments misbehave

Nancy Birdsall and Estelle James

273: Population, health and nutrition: FY88 annual sector review

Population and Human Resources Department

272: Women's changing participation in the labor force: a world perspective

T. Schultz

271: How industry - labor relations and government policies affect Senegal's economic performance

Katherine Terrell and Jan Svejnar

270: Fuelwood stumpage: financing renewable energy for the world's other half

Keith Openshaw and Charles Feinstein

269: Women in development: issues for economic and sector analysis

Women in Development Division

268: Shortcomings in the market for developing country debt

John Wakeman-Linn

267: Issues in income tax reform in developing countries

Cheryl W. Gray

266: Policy changes that encourage private business investment in Colombia

Mansoor Dailami

265: Do African countries pay more for imports ?

Alexander J. Yeats

264: Two irrigation systems in Colombia: their performance and transfer of management to users'associations

Herve Plusquellec

263: How has instability in world markets affected agricultural export producers in developing countries?

Peter Hazell, Mauricio Jaramillo and Amy Williamson

262: Adjustment and external shocks in Ireland

Dermot McAleese and F. Desmond McCarthy

261: Inflation, external debt, and financial sector reform: a quantitative approach to consistent fiscal policy

Sweder van Wijnbergen, Robert Rocha and Ritu Anand

260: Growth, debt, and sovereign risk in a small, open economy

Jagdeep S. Bhandari, Nadeem Ul Haque and Stephen J Turnovsky

259: Dealing with debt: the 1930's and the 1980's

Barry Eichengreen and Richard Portes

258: Understanding voluntary organizations: guidelines for donors

L. David Brown and David C. Korten

257: Growth, external debt and the real exchange rate in Mexico

Sweder van Wijnbergen

256: Cash debt buybacksand the insurance value of reserves

Sweder van Wijnbergen

255: The external debt difficulties of low income Africa

Charles Humphreys and John Underwood

254: Future financing needs of the highly indebted countries

Ishrat Husain and Saumya Mitra

253: Public debt, North and South

Helmut Reisen

252: Do the secondary markets believe in life after debt?

Vassilis Hajivassiliou

251: Patents, appropriate technology, and North-South trade

Ishac Diwan and Dani Rodrik

250: The Baker Plan: progress, shortcomings, and future

William Cline

249: The determinants of hospital costs: an analysis of Ethiopia

Ricardo Bitran-Dicowsky and David W. Dunlop

248: Private investment, government policy, and foreign capital in Zimbabwe

Mansoor Dailami and Michael Walton