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106: Energy issues in the developing world

Mohan Munasinghe and Robert J. Saunders

105: Securing access to international markets

Richard H. Snape

104: Economic effects of financial crises

Manuel Hinds

103: Industrial portfolio responses to macroeconomic shocks: an econometric model for developing countries

James Tybout and Taeho Bark

102: Effects of the multifibre arrangement on developing countries: a survey

Junichi Goto

101: Measuring the impact of minimum wage policies on the economy

Luis Riveros and Ricardo Paredes

100: Public infrastructure and private sector profitability and productivity in Mexico

Anwar Shah

99: Trade policies and the debt crisis

Sam Laird and Julio Nogues

98: Diversification in rural Asia

Agriculture and Rural Development Department

97: Export promoting subsidies and what to do about them

Richard H. Snape

96: The private sector and family planning in developing countries

Maureen Lewis and Genevieve Kenney

95: International trade and imperfect competition: theory and application to the automobile trade

Junichi Goto

94: The World Bank's population lending and sector review

George Simmons and Rushikesh Maru

93: The effects of education, health, and social security on fertility in developing countries

Susan H. Cochrane

92: A model of cocoa replanting and new planting in Bahia, Brazil, 1966-85

Pravin Trivedi

91: Israel's stabilization program

Nissan Liviatan

90: A framework for the analysis of mineral tax policy in sub-Saharan Africa

Robert F. Conrad and Zmarak M. Shalizi

89: Export quota allocations, export earnings and market diversifications

Taeho Bark and Jaime de Melo

88: Costs, payments and incentives in family planning programs

John A. Ross and Stephen L. Isaacs

87: Vocational and technical education in Peru

Peter Moock and Rosemary Bellew

86: External balance, fiscal policy, and growth in Turkey

Ritu Anand, Ajay Chhibber and Sweder van Wijnbergen

85: Wage responsiveness and labor market disequilibrium

Ramon Lopez and Luis Riveros

84: Black markets for foreign exchange, real exchange rates, and inflation: overnight versus gradual reform in sub-Saharan Africa

Brian Pinto

83: Welfare costs of U.S. quotas on textiles, steel, and autos

Jaime de Melo and David Tarr

82: Microeconomic theory of the household and nutrition programs

Dov Chernichovsky and Linda Zangwill

81: Reaching people at the periphery - Can the World Bank's population, health and nutrition operations do better?

Richard Heaver

80: Emerging issues of privatization and the public sector

Samuel Paul

79: Quantitative appraisal of adjustment lending

Bela Balassa

78: Economists, institutions, and trade restrictions: a review article

Joseph Finger

77: Incentive policies and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa

Bela Balassa

76: The shadow price of a tax inspector

Shlomo Yitzhaki and Yitzhak Vakneen

75: Welfare dominance and the design of excise taxation in Cote d'Ivoire

Shlomo Yitzhaki and Wayne Thirsk

74: Fiscal stabilization and exchange rate instability

Andrew Feltenstein and Stephen Morris

73: Taxation and output growth in Africa

Jonathon Skinner

72: The relative efficiency of public schools in developing countries

Emmanuel Jimenez, Marlaine Lockheed and Vicente Paqueo

71: School effects on student achievement in Nigeria and Swaziland

Marlaine Lockheed and Andre Komenan

70: Vocational education and economic environments: conflict or convergence?

Arvil V. Adams and Antoine Schwartz

69: Does local financing make primary schools more efficient: the Philippine case

Emmanuel Jimenez, Vicente Paqueo and Ma. Lourdes de Vera

68: Domestic lighting

Robert van der Plas

67: Price and tax policy for semi-subsistence agriculture in Ethiopia

Robert Weaver and Saad Ali Shire

66: Slowing the stork: better health for women through family planning

Anthony R. Measham and Roger W. Rochat

65: Interaction of infant mortality and fertility and the effectiveness of health and family planning programs

Howard Barnum

64: Cocoa and coffee pricing policies in Cote d'Ivoire

Takamasa Akiyama

63: Does Japan import less than it should?

Kenji Takeuchi

62: Universities in Arab countries

George I. Za'rour

61: Student performance and school costs in the Philippines'high schools

Emmanuel Jimenez, Vicente Paqueo and Ma. Lourdes de Vera

58: Macrofinancial indicators for 117 developing and industrial countries

Craig R. Neal

57: Financial distress of industrial firms on the Greek banking system

Dimitris Antoniades and Dimitris Kouzionis

56: The effects of interest rates on savings in developing countries

Bela Balassa

55: Financial liberalization in developing countries

Bela Balassa

54: Bank restructuring in Malaysia: 1985-88

Andrew Sheng

53: Venture capital and entrepreneurial development

Fernan Ibanez

52: Financial innovation and credit market development

V. V. Bhatt

51: On participating in the international capital market

V. V. Bhatt

50: Fiscal policy and stabilization in Brazil

Celso Luiz Martone

49: Public sector pricing policies: a review of Bank policy and practice

DeAnne Julius and Adelaida P. Alicbusan

48: Do taxes matter? A review of the effect of taxation on economic behavior and output

Jonathan Skinner

47: Considerations for the development of tax policy when capital is internationally mobile

Robert F. Conrad

46: The management of public expenditures: an evolving Bank approach

Robert Lacey

45: How much do state-owned public enterprises contribute to public sector deficits in developing countries - and why?

Govindan Nair and Anastasio Filippides

44: The size and growth of government spending

David L. Lindauer

43: Tax administration in developing countries: strategies and tools of implementation

Fiscal Affairs Department Imf

42: Government pay and employment policies and government performance in developing economies

David L. Lindauer

41: Urban property taxation in developing countries

William Dillinger

40: Financial deregulation and the globalization of capital markets

Eugene L. Versluysen

39: Fiscal policy in low-income Africa

Steven O'Connell

38: Intergovernmental grants in developing countries

Larry Schroeder

37: Black market premia, exchange rate unification, and inflation in sub-Saharan Africa

Brian Pinto

36: Social security finance in developing countries

Douglas J. Puffert

35: Improving the allocation and management of public spending

Stephen Lister

34: Fiscal issues in macroeconomic stabilization

Lance Taylor

33: Fiscal policy in commodity-exporting LDCs

John Cuddington

32: Municipal development funds and intermediaries

Kenneth Davey

31: Public finance and economic development

Bela Balassa

30: The adding up problem

Bela Balassa

29: The relative effectiveness of single-sex and coeducational schools in Thailand

Emmanuel Jimenez and Marlaine Lockheed

28: Temporary windfalls and compensation arrangements

Bela Balassa

27: Family background and student achievement

Marlaine Lockheed, Bruce Fuller and Ronald Nyirongo

26: Changing patterns in vocational education

John Middleton

25: Israel's vocational training

Adrian Ziderman

24: Vocational education and training: a review of World Bank investment

John Middleton and Terri Demsky

23: Cost - effective integration of immunization and basic health services in developing countries: the problem of joint costs

A. Over

22: Methodological problems in cross-country analyses of economic growth

Jean-Paul Azam and Sylviane Guillaumont

21: Effects of European VERs on Japanese autos

Jaime de Melo and Patrick Messerlin

20: Imports and growth in Africa

Ramon Lopez and Vinod Thomas

19: Cote d'Ivoire's vocational and technical education

Christiaan Grootaert

18: China's vocational and technical training

Harold Noah and John Middleton

17: Economic development and the debt crisis

Stanley Fischer

16: Antidumping laws and developing countries

Patrick Messerlin

15: Stimulating agricultural growth and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa

Vijay S. Vyas and Dennis Casley

14: The optimal currency composition of external debt

Stijn Claessens

13: Objectives and methods of a world health survey

Trudy Harpham and Ian Timaeus

12: Teacher-nonteacher pay differences in Cote d'Ivoire

Andre Komenan and Christiaan Grootaert

11: The selection and use of pesticides in Bank financed public health projects

Bernhard Liese and Norman Gratz

10: Optimal export taxes for exporters of perennial crops

Mudassar Imran and Ron Duncan

9: Can we return to rapid growth?

Andrea Boltho

8: Prospects for equitable growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa

Steven Haggblade and Peter B. Hazell

7: Institutional aspects of credit cooperatives

Avishay Braverman and J. Luis Guasch

6: Farm-nonfarm linkages in rural sub-Saharan Africa

Steven Haggblade, Peter B. Hazell and James Brown

5: Comparisons of real output in manufacturing

Bart van Ark and Angus Maddison

4: Inflationary rigidities and stabilization policies

Miguel A. Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

3: CGE models for the analysis of trade policy in developing countries

Jaime de Melo

2: Issues in adjustment lending

Vinod Thomas

1: Imports under a foreign exchange constraint

Cristian Moran