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1426: Russian unemployment: its magnitude, characteristics, and regional dimensions

Simon Commander and Ruslan Yemtsov

1425: On the intersectoral migration of agricultural labor

Donald Larson and Yair Mundlak

1424: Terms-of-trade shocks and optimal investment: another look at the Laursen-Metzler effect

Luis Servén

1423: The role of commercial banks in enterprise restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

Millard Long and Izabela Rutkowska

1422: Efficiency in Bulgaria's schools: a nonparametric study

Zeljko Bogetic and Sajal Chattophadyay

1421: Distribution of income and the income tax burden in Bulgaria

Zeljko Bogetic and Fareed M. A. Hassan

1420: Legislative frameworks used to fosterpetroleum development

William T. Onorato

1419: Industry structure and regulation

Martin C. Stewart-Smith

1418: The impact of labor market regulations

Lyn Squire and Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput

1417: Uncertainty and global warming: an option - pricing approach to policy

Andrea Baranzini, Marc Chesney and Jacques Morisset

1416: Informal regulation of industrial pollution in developing countries: evidence from Indonesia

Sheoli Pargal and David Wheeler

1415: China's GDP in U.S. dollars based on purchasing power parity

Ren Ruoen and Chen Kai

1414: The World Bank and legal technical assistance: initial lessons

The World Bank Legal Department

1413: Endogenous distortions in product and labor markets

Martin Rama and Guido Tabellini

1412: Foreign technology imports and economic growth in developing countries

Xiaoming Zhang and Heng-Fu Zou

1411: Income inequality, welfare, and poverty: an illustration using Ukranian data

Nanak Kakwani

1410: Macroeconomic effects of terms-of-trade shocks: the case of oil-exporting countries

Nikola Spatafora

1409: Restructuring Uganda's debt: the commercial debt buy - back operation

Kapil Kapoor

1408: Macroeconomic management and intergovernmental relations in China

Jun Ma

1407: Pakistan's agriculture sector: is 3 to 4 percent annual growth sustainable?

Rashid Faruqee

1406: Structural breaks and long-run trends in commodity prices

Javier Leon and Raimundo Soto

1405: Growth and poverty in rural India

Martin Ravallion and Gaurav Datt

1404: The Republic of Korea's small and medium size enterprises and their support systems

Jeffrey Nugent

1403: Small and medium-size enterprise support policies in Japan

Motoshige Itoh and Shujiro Urata

1402: Indonesia's small and medium-size exporters and their support systems

Albert Berry and Brian Levy

1401: Colombia's small and medium-size exporters and their support systems

Berry, Albert*Escandon, Jose

1400: Technical and marketing support systems for successful small and medium-size enterprises in four countries

Brian Levy, Albert Berry, Motoshige Itoh, Linsu Kim, Jeffrey Nugent and Shujiro Urata

1399: How important to India's poor is the urban - rural composition of growth?

Martin Ravaillon and Gaurav Datt

1398: The cost of air pollution abatement

Raymond Hartman, David Wheeler and Manjula Singh

1397: Are private capital flows to developing countries sustainable?

Uri Dadush, Ashok Dhareshwar and Ron Johannes

1396: A typology of foreign exchange auction markets in sub-Saharan Africa: dynamic models for auction exchange rates

Janine Aron and Ibrahim Elbadawi

1395: A typology of foreign auction markets in sub-Saharan Africa

Janine Aron and Ibrahim Elbadawi

1394: Macroeconomic reform and growth in Africa: adjustment in Africa revisited

Lawrence Bouton, Christine Jones and Miguel Kiguel

1393: The interface of trade, investment, and competition policies: issues and challenges for Latin America

J. Luis Guasch and Sarath Rajapatirana

1392: Some economic consequences of the transition from civil war to peace

Jean-Paul Azam, David Bevan, Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon, Jan Willem Gunning and Sanjay Pradhan

1391: Where in the world is population growth bad?

Jeff Kling and Lant Pritchett

1390: Regional integration and the Baltics: which way?

Piritta Sorsa

1389: Ruble overhang and ruble shortage: were they the same thing?

Patrick Conway

1388: Does voice matter?: for public accountability, yes

Samuel Paul

1387: Fiscal decentralization and the size of the government: an extension with evidence from cross-country data

Jaber Ehdaie

1386: EU Bananarama III

Brent Borrell

1385: Fiscal federalism: dimensions of tax reform in developing countries

Robin Boadway, Sandra Roberts and Anwar Shah

1384: Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental finances in the Republic of Albania

David Sewell and Christine Wallich

1383: Rural demand for drought insurance

Madhur Gautam, Peter Hazell and Harold Alderman

1382: Saving, investment, and growth in developing countries: an overview

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Luis Servén and Andres Solimano

1381: Welfare economics, political economy, and policy reform in Ghana

Ravi Kanbur

1380: Transfers and the transition from socialism: key tradeoffs

Kathie Krumm, Branko Milanovic and Michael Walton

1379: Financing infrastructure in developing countries: lessons from the Railway Age

Barry Eichengreen

1378: Mexico after the debt crisis: is growth sustainable?

Oks, Daniel* van Wijnbergen, Sweder

1377: Macroeconomic adjustment to capital inflows: Latin American style versus East Asian style

Vittorio Corbo and Leonardo Hernandez

1376: How trade, aid, and remittances affect international migration

Maurice Schiff

1375: Policy lessons from a simple open - economy model

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Jeffrey D. Lewis, Sherman Robinson and Pekka Sinko

1374: Infrastructure finance: issues, institutions, and policies

Anand Chandavarkar

1373: Firm behavior and the labor market in the Hungarian transition

Simon Commander, Janos Kollo and Cecilia Ugaz

1372: Administrative charges in pensions in Chile, Malaysia, Zambia, and the United States

Salvador Valdés

1371: The evolution of trade treaties and trade creation: lessons for Latin America

Sarath Rajapatirana

1370: Is East Asia less open than North America and the European Economic Community? No

Sumana Dhar and Arvind Panagariya

1369: Economic policy reform, government debt guarantees, and financial bailouts

Philip L. Brock and Decvp

1368: Sustained inflation in response to price liberalization

Patrick Conway

1367: The economics of cash shortage

Patrick Conway

1366: Distributive concerns when replacing a pay-as-you-go system with a fully funded system

Salvador Valdés

1365: The macroeconomics of adjustment in sub-Saharan African countries: results and lessons

Ishrat Husain

1364: Why do some economies adjust more successfully than others? lessons from seven African countries

Ishrat Husain

1363: Brazil's sugarcane sector: a case of lost opportunity

Brent Borrell, Jose R. Bianco and Malcolm D. Bale

1362: Regulation, institutions and commitment: the Jamaican telecommunications sector

Pablo Spiller and Cezley I. Sampson

1361: External shocks and performance responses during systemic transition: the case of Ukraine

F. Desmond McCarthy, Chandrashekar Pant, Kangbin Zheng and Giovanni Zanalda

1360: Are portfolio flows to emerging markets complementary or competitive?

Sudarshan Gooptu

1359: When method matters: toward a resolution of the debate about Bangladesh's poverty measures

Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen

1358: Patterns of behavior in biodiversity preservation

Andrew Metrick and Martin Weitzman

1357: Does participation improve project performance: establishing causality with subjective data

Isham, Jonathan*Narayan, Deepa*Pritchett, Lant

1356: Central bank independence: a critical view

Ignacio Mas

1355: Export incentives: the impact of recent policy changes

Sanjay Kathuria

1354: The effects of fiscal consolidation in the OECD

Warwick McKibbin

1353: Nontariff measures and developing countries: has the Uruguay Round leveled the playing field?

Patrick Low and Alexander Yeats

1352: Trade and growth in Ecuador: a partial equilibrium view

Jesko Hentschel

1351: NAFTA's Implications for East Asian exports

Braga, Carlos A. Primo*Safadi, Raed*Yeats, Alexa

1350: Economic parameters of deforestation

Joachim von Amsberg and Dec

1349: The new regionalism and the threat of protectionism

Andrew Hughes Hallet, Carlos A. Primo Braga and Dec

1348: Quality change and other influences on measures of export prices of manufactured goods

Robert Lipsey

1347: Antitrust-based remedies and dumping in international trade

Bernard Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis

1346: Linking competition and trade policies in Central and Eastern European countries

Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis and Dec

1345: The decentralization of public services: lessons from the theory of the firm

Jaques Cremer, Antonio Estache, Paul Seabright and Dec

1344: Which foreign investors worry about foreign exchange risk in South Asia and why?

Bond, Eric*Estache, Antonio*DEC

1343: Strategic interdependence in the East-West gas trade: a hierarchical Stackelberg game approach

Wafik Grais, Kangbin Zheng and Dec

1342: Winners and losers in transition: returns to education, experience, and gender in Slovenia

Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

1341: Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades: can it be sustained ?

Sadiq Ahmed

1340: Opportunity cost and prudentiality: an analysis of futures clearinghouse behavior

Herbert L. Baer, Virginia G. France and James Moser

1339: China's emergence: prospects, opportunities, and challenges

Andrea Boltho, Uri Dadush, Dong He and Shigeru Otsubo

1338: Commodity exports and the adding up problem in developing countries: trade, investment, and lending policy

Maurice Schiff

1337: The countrywide effects of aid

Howard White, Joke Luttik and Dec

1336: Modernizing payment systems in emerging economies

Robert Listfield and Fernando Montes-Negret

1335: Labor regulations and the informal economy

Norman Loayza

1334: Taxation, public services, and the informal sector in a model of endogenous growth

Juan Braun and Norman Loayza

1333: A test of the international convergence hypothesis using panel data

Norman Loayza and Dec

1332: Poverty and household size

Peter Lanjouw, Martin Ravallion and Dec

1331: Russian Federation - The myth of monopoly: a new view of industrial structure in Russia

Annette Brown, Barry W. Ickes and Randi Ryterman

1330: Revenue uncertainty and the choice of tax instrument during the transition in Eastern Europe

Delfin Go

1329: The regulation and supervision of domestic financial conglomerates

David H. Scott and Ext

1328: The use of New York cotton futures contracts to hedge cotton price risk in developing countries

Panos Varangis, Elton Thigpen, Sudhakar Satyanarayan and Dec

1327: Is the debt crisis history? Recent private capital inflows to developing countries

Michael Dooley, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Kenneth Kletzer and Dec