Policy Research Working Paper Series

From The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roula I. Yazigi ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Track citations for all items by RSS feed
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

1880: Foreign aid and rent-seeking

Jakob Svensson

1879: Relative prices and inflation in Poland, 1989-97: the special role of administered price increases

Przemyslaw Wozniak

1878: Searching for sustainable microfinance: a review of five Indonesian initiatives

R. Marisol Ravicz

1877: What improves environmental performance? evidence from Mexican industry

Susmita Dasgupta, Hemamala Hettige and David Wheeler

1876: Industrial pollution in economic development: Kuznets revisited

Hemamala Hettige, Muthukumara Mani and David Wheeler

1875: How deposit insurance affects financial depth: a cross-country analysis

Robert Cull

1874: Health policy in poor countries: weak links in the chain

Deon Filmer, Jeffrey Hammer and Lant Pritchett

1873: Wage misalignment in CFA countries: are labor market policies to blame?

Martin Rama

1872: How integration into the Central African Economic and Monetary Community affects Cameroon's economy: general equilibrium estimates

David Tarr

1871: Just how big is global production sharing?

Alexander J. Yeats

1870: The evolution of poverty and inequality in Indian villages

Raji Jayraman and Peter Lanjouw

1869: Risk reduction and public spending

Shantayanan Devarajan and Jeffrey Hammer

1868: Government support to private infrastructure projects in emerging markets

Mansoor Dailami and Michael Klein

1867: Gender disparity in South Asia: comparisons between and within countries

Deon Filmer, Elizabeth King and Lant Pritchett

1866: Circumstance and choice: the role of initial conditions and policies in transition economies

Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer, Alan Gelb and Stoyan Tenev

1865: Pension reform in Latin America: quick fixes or sustainable reform?

Sri-Ram Aiyer

1864: Child mortality and public spending on health: how much does money matter?

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1863: Are the poor less well-insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1862: Spatial poverty traps?

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1861: Infrastructure project finance and capital flows: a new perspective

Dailami, Mansoor*Leipziger, Danny

1860: The health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India

Maureen Cropper, Nathalie B. Simon, Anna Alberini and P. K. Sharma

1859: Lessons from Sao Paulo's Metropolitan Busway Concessions Program

Jorge Rebelo and Pedro Benvenuto

1858: Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh

Ravallion, Martin*Wodon, Quentin

1857: Leasing to support small businesses and microenterprises

Joselito Gallardo

1856: Surviving success: policy reform and the future of industrial pollution in China

Susmita Dasgupta, Hua Wang and David Wheeler

1855: Stabilization, adjustment, and growth prospects in transition economies

Cevdet Denizer

1854: Regulatory tradeoffs in designing concession contracts for infrastructure networks

Claude Crampes and Antonio Estache

1853: Pension reform and private pension funds in Peru and Colombia

Monika Queisser

1852: Leading indicators of currency crises

Graciela Kaminsky, Saul Lizondo and Carmen Reinhart

1851: Transportation infrastructure investments and regional trade liberalization

Eric Bond

1850: Determinants of intra-industry trade between East and West Europe

Chonira Aturupane, Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman

1849: Regional integration and factor income taxation

Valeria De Bonis

1848: Regional integration and commodity tax harmonization

Valeria De Bonis

1847: Outsiders and regional trade agreements among small countries: the case of regional markets

Anju Gupta and Maurice Schiff

1846: Africa's role in multilateral trade negotiations

Zhen Kun Wang and L. Winters

1845: Employment, labor markets, and poverty in Ghana

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Dipak Mazumdar

1844: Child labor and schooling in Ghana

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Harold Coulombe

1843: Externalities and bailouts: hard and soft budget constraints in intergovernmental fiscal relations

David Wildasin

1842: Motorization and the provision of roads in countries and cities

Gregory K. Ingram and Zhi Liu

1841: Patterns of metropolitan development: what have we learned?

Gregory K. Ingram

1840: Efficient public sector downsizing

Martin Rama

1839: The effects of financial liberalization and new bank entry on market structure and competition in Turkey

Cevdet Denizer

1838: The limits and merits of participation

Paulo Vieira da Cunha and Maria Valeria Junho Pena

1837: How Estonia's economic transition affected employment and wages (1989-95)

Rivo Noorkoiv, Peter Orazem, Allan Puur and Milan Vodopivec

1836: Health and labor productivity: the economic impact of onchocercal skin disease

Aehyung Kim, Ajay Tandon and Asrat Hailu

1835: Cost-benefit analysis of the Global Dracunculiasis Eradication Campaign (GDEC)

Aehyung Kim, Ajay Tandon and Ruiz-Tiben, Ernesto

1834: The comparative advantage of government: a review

Pedro Belli

1833: Cost recovery and pricing of payment services

David B. Humphrey, Robert H. Keppler and Montes-Negret, Fernando

1832: Pension reform in Bolivia: innovative solutions to common problems

Hermann von Gersdorff

1831: How trade patterns and technology flows affect productivity growth

Wolfgang Keller

1830: Private ownership and corporate performance: some lessons from transition economies

Roman Frydman, Cheryl W. Gray, Marek Hessel and Andrzej Rapaczynski

1829: Economic reform and progress in Latin America and the Caribbean

Norman Loayza and Luisa Palacios

1828: The determinants of banking crises: evidence from industrial and developing countries

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache

1827: The determinants of agricultural production: a cross-country analysis

Yair Mundlak, Donald Larson and Rita Butzer

1826: Standards and conformity assessment as nontariff barriers to trade

Sherry M. Stephenson

1825: Current accounts in debtor and creditor countries

Kraay, Aart*Ventura, Jaume

1824: Winners and losers from utility privatization in Argentina: lessons from a general equilibrium model

Omar Chisari, Antonio Estache and Carlos Romero

1823: Antidumping in law and practice

Raj Krishna

1822: Intergovernmental fiscal transfer in nine countries: lessons for developingcountries

Jun Ma

1821: The"IPO-Plus": a new approach to privatization

Itzhak Goldberg, Gregory Jedrzejczak and Michael Fuchs

1820: Private pension funds in Argentina's newintegrated pension system

Dimitri Vittas

1819: The Argentine pension reform and its relevance for Eastern Europe

Dimitri Vittas

1818: What affects the Russian regional governments'propensity to subsidize?

Lev Freinkman and Michael Haney

1817: Should core labor standards be imposed through international trade policy?

Keith Maskus

1816: Returns to regionalism: an evaluation of nontraditional gains from regional trade agreements

Raquel Fernandez

1815: Unfair trade? Empirical evidence in world commodity markets over te past 25 years

Jacques Morisset

1814: Making education in China equitable and efficient

Shaikh I. Hossain

1813: Tackling health transition in China

Shaikh I. Hossain

1812: Managing guarantee programs in support of infrastructure investment

Michael Klein

1811: Agricultural development: issues, evidence, and consequences

Yair Mundlak, Donald Larson and Al Crego

1810: Inspections and emissions in India: puzzling survey evidence about industrial pollution

Sheoli Pargal, Muthukumara Mani and Mainul Huq

1809: Institutions in transition: reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries

Aymo Brunetti, Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder

1808: Economic transition and the distributions of income and wealth

Francisco Ferreira

1807: The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics

William Easterly

1806: An international statistical survey of government employment and wages

Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore* de Tommaso, Giulio*Mukh

1805: Regional economic integration and agricultural trade

Junichi Goto

1804: Financial sector adjustment lending: a mid-course analysis

Robert Cull

1803: Field adjustments in transition economies: social transfers and the efficiency of public spending - a comparison with OECD countries

Barbara Fakin and Alain de Crombrugghe

1802: Are there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?

Harry Huizinga

1801: Regional integration as diplomacy

Maurice Schiff and L. Winters

1800: Single-equation estimation of the equilibrium real exchange rate

John Baffes, Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Stephen O'Connell

1799: More for the poor is less for the poor: the politics of targeting

Jonah Gelbach and Lant Pritchett

1798: Poor areas, or only poor people?

Martin Ravallion and Quentin Wodon

1797: Formal and informal regulation of industrial pollution: comparative evidence from Indonesia and the United States

Sheoli Pargal, Hemamala Hettige, Manjula Singh and David Wheeler

1796: Cents and sociability: household income and social capital in rural Tanzania

Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett

1795: What educational production functions really show: a positive theory of education spending

Lant Pritchett and Deon Filmer

1794: Ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate performance: the case of Chinese stock companies

Xiaonian Xu and Yan Wang

1793: Wage and pension pressure on the Polish budget

Alain de Crombrugghe

1792: Tradeoffs from hedging oil pricerisk in Ecuador

Sudhakar Satyanarayan and Eduardo Somensatto

1791: Toward better regulation of private pension funds

Hemant Shah

1790: Interpreting the coefficient of schooling in the human capital earnings function

Barry Chiswick

1789: Competition law in Bulgaria after central planning

Bernard Hoekman and Simeon Djankov

1788: An economic analysis of woodfuel management in the Sahel: the case of Chad

Kenneth M. Chomitz and Charles Griffiths

1787: Trading arrangements and industrial development

Diego Puga and Anthony Venables

1786: The economics of customs unions in the Commonwealth of Independent States

Constantine Michalopoulos and David Tarr

1785: The causes of government and the consequences for growth and well-being

Simon Commander, Hamid R. Davoodi and Une J. Lee

1784: Analyzing the sustainability of fiscal deficitsin developing countries

John Cuddington

1783: Trade policy options for Chile: a quantitative evaluation

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

1782: Regional integration and the prices of imports: an empirical investigation

L. Winters and Won Chang

1781: Technology accumulation and diffusion: is there a regional dimension?

Pier Carlo Padoan