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2669: The impact of NAFTA and options for tax reform in Mexico

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Duanjie Chen

2668: Comparative life expectancy in Africa

F. Desmond McCarthy and Holger Wolf

2667: Trade reform and household welfare: the case of Mexico

Elena Ianchovichina, Alessandro Nicita and Isidro Soloaga

2666: Measuring pro-poor growth

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

2665: Measuring aggregate welfare in developing countries - How well do national accounts and surveys agree?

Martin Ravallion

2664: Does piped water reduce diarrhea for children in rural India ?

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

2663: Agglomeration economies and productivity in Indian industry

Somik Lall, Zmarak Shalizi and Uwe Deichmann

2662: Markups, entry regulation, and trade - Does country size matter?

Bernard Hoekman, Hiau Looi Kee and Marcelo Olarreaga

2661: The regulation of entry

Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Andrei Shleifer and Florencio Lopez de Silanes

2660: Short and long-run integration: do capital controls matter ?

Graciela Kaminsky and Sergio Schmukler

2659: Firm entry and exit, labor demand, and trade reform: evidence from Chile and Colombia

Pablo Fajnzylber, William Maloney and Eduardo Ribeiro

2658: How comparable are labor demand elasticities across countries?

Pablo Fajnzylber and William Maloney

2657: Middle-income countries - development challenges and growing global role

Peter Fallon, Vivian Hon, Zia Qureshi and Dilip Ratha

2656: The ability of banks to lend to informationally opaque small businesses

Allen Berger, Leora Klapper and Gregory Udell

2655: Measuring services trade liberalization and its impact on economic growth: an illustration

Aaditya Mattoo, Randeep Rathindran and Arvind Subramanian

2654: Thirst for reform ? private sector participation in providing Mexico City's water supply

Luke Haggarty, Penelope Brook and Ana Maria Zuluaga

2653: The impact of farm credit in Pakistan

Shahidur Khandker and Rashidur R. Faruqee

2652: Demand for World Bank lending

Dilip Ratha

2651: China's growth and poverty reduction - trends between 1990 and 1999

Shaohua Chen and Yan Wang

2650: Sources of China's economic growth, 1952-99: incorporating human capital accumulation

Yan Wang and Yudong Yao

2649: The impact of the AIDS epidemic on the health of the elderly in Tanzania

Martha Ainsworth and Julia Dayton

2648: Methodologies to measure the gender dimensions of crime and violence

Elizabeth Shrader

2647: The politics of monetary sector cooperation among the Economic Community of West African States members

Chibuike U. Uche

2646: Foreign direct investment and integration into global production and distribution networks: the case of Poland

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Beata K. Smarzynska

2645: Inequality convergence

Martin Ravallion

2644: Local institutions, poverty, and household welfare in Bolivia

Christiaan Grootaert and Deepa Narayan

2643: Dollarization and semi-dollarization in Ecuador

Paul Beckerman

2642: Does the exchange rate regime affect macroeconomic performance: evidence from transition economics

Ilker Domac, Kyle Peters and Yevgeny Yuzefovich

2641: Is Russia restructuring ? new evidence on job creation and destruction

Harry G. Broadman and Francesca Recanatini

2640: Where has all the foreign investment gone in Russia?

Harry G. Broadman and Francesca Recanatini

2639: Public policy toward nongovernmental organizations in developing countries

William Jack

2638: On financing global and international public goods

Todd Sandler

2637: Technical efficiency gains from port reform: the potential for yardstick competition in Mexico

Antonio Estache, Marianela Gonzalez and Lourdes Trujillo

2636: Processes, information, and accounting gaps in the regulation of Argentina's private railways

Javier Campos, Antonio Estache and Lourdes Trujillo

2635: Optimal use of carbon sequestration in a global climate change strategy: is there a wooden bridge to a clean energy future ?

Franck Lecocq and Kenneth Chomitz

2634: Chile's regional arrangements and the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas: the importance of market access

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

2633: Bank privatization in Argentina: a model of political constraints and differential outcomes

George Clarke and Robert Cull

2632: Human capital and growth: the recovered role of education systems

Sebastien Dessus

2631: Pension reform in Hungary: a preliminary assessment

Roberto Rocha and Dimitri Vittas

2630: Parallel imports of pharmaceutical products in the European Union

Mattias Ganslandt and Keith Maskus

2629: Bridging the digital divide - how enterprise ownership and foreign competition affect Internet access in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

George Clarke

2628: Monopoly power and distribution in fragmented markets: the case of groundwater

Hanan Jacoby, Rinku Murgai and Saeed Rehman

2627: With the help of one's neighbors - externalities in the production of nutrition in Peru

Harold Alderman, Jesko Hentschel and Ricardo Sabates

2626: Mandatory severance pay: its coverage and effects in Peru

Donna MacIsaac and Martin Rama

2625: Australia's experience with local content programs in the auto industry - lessons for India and other developing countries

Garry Pursell

2624: Are incentives everything? payment mechanisms for health care providers in developing countries

Varun Gauri

2623: Trade liberalization in China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin

2622: Community programs and women's participation: the Chinese experience

David Coady, Xinyi Dai and Limin Wang

2621: Does Indonesia have a"low-pay"civil service?

Deon Filmer and David L. Lindauer

2620: Who owns the media?

Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLeish, Tatiana Nenova and Andrei Shleifer

2619: Do Banks provision for bad loans in good times? empirical evidence and policy implications

Michele Cavallo and Giovanni Majnoni

2618: Globalization and the challenge for developing countries

Shahid Yusuf

2617: Shanghai rising in a globalizing world

Shahid Yusuf and Weiping Wu

2616: Reforming land and real estate markets

Ahmed Galal and Omar Razzaz

2615: Trade, growth, and poverty

David Dollar and Aart Kraay

2614: South-South regional integration and industrial growth: the case of the Andean Pact

Dorsati H. Madani

2613: Foreign direct investment and poverty reduction

Michael Klein, Carl Aaron and Bita Hadjimichael

2612: Contractual savings, capital markets, and firms'financing choices

Alberto R. Musalem, Gregorio Impavido and Thierry Tressel

2611: Trade and production fragmentation: Central European economies in European Union networks of production and marketing

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng

2610: Crisis and contagion in East Asia: nine lessons

Masahiro Kawai, Richard S. Newfarmer and Sergio Schmukler

2609: Financial dependence and international trade

Thorsten Beck

2608: Financial development and international trade: is there a link?

Thorsten Beck

2607: The economic control of infectious diseases

Mark Gersovitz and Jeffrey Hammer

2606: Exchange rate risk management: evidence from East Asia

George Allayannis, Gregory W. Brown and Leora Klapper

2605: The macroeconomic impact of bank capital requirements in emerging economies - past evidence to assess the future

Maria Chiuri, Giovanni Ferri and Giovanni Majnoni

2604: Eliminating excessive tariffs on exports of least developed countries

Bernard Hoekman, Francis Ng and Marcelo Olarreaga

2603: How the quality of institutions affects technological deepening in developing countries

George Clarke

2602: Sugar policy and reform

Donald Larson and Brent Borrell

2601: The WTO agreement and telecommunications policy reform

Peter Cowhey and Mikhail Klimenko

2600: Rent-sharing, hold-up, and manufacturing wages in Cote d'Ivoire

Jean-Paul Azam and Catherine Ris

2599: State ownership and labor redundancy - estimates based on enterprise-level data from Vietnam

Patrick Belser and Martin Rama

2598: Weightless machines and costless knowledge - an empirical analysis of trade and technology diffusion

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Isidro Soloaga

2597: Measuring the impact of minimum wages: evidence from Latin America

William Maloney, Jairo Nunez, Wendy Cunningham, Norbert Fiess, Claudio Montenegro, Edmundo Murrugarra, Mauricio Santamaria and Claudia Sepulveda

2596: Shaping future GATS rules for trade in services

Aaditya Mattoo

2595: Unrestricted market access for Sub-Saharan Africa - How much is it worth and who pays?

Elena Ianchovichina, Aaditya Mattoo and Marcelo Olarreaga

2594: Committing to civil service reform: the performance of pre-shipment inspection under different institutional regimes

Noel Johnson

2593: Changing trade patterns after conflict resolution in the South Caucasus

Evgeny Polyakov

2592: Management of oil windfalls in Mexico: historical experience and policy options for the future

Stephen Everhart and Robert Duval-Hernandez

2591: Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change

David Ellerman

2590: Household welfare and poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso: empirical evidence from household surveys

Hippolyte Fofack, Celestin Monga and Hasan Tuluy

2589: Implementing the market approach to enterprise support - an evaluation of ten matching grant schemes

David A. Phillips

2588: The regulation and supervision of banks around the world - a new database

James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine

2587: Growth is good for the poor

David Dollar and Aart Kraay

2586: On the urbanization of poverty

Martin Ravallion

2585: Law, politics, and finance

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

2584: Structural adjustment and forest resources - the impact of World Bank operations

Kiran D. Pandey and David Wheeler

2583: How the location of roads and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand

Maureen Cropper, Jyotsna Puri and Charles Griffiths

2582: Development financing during a crisis: securitization of future receivables

Suhas Ketkar and Dilip Ratha

2581: Securities clearance and settlement systems - a guide to best practices

Mario Guadamillas and Robert Keppler

2580: On"indirect"trade-related research and development spillovers

Olivier Lumenga-Neso, Marcelo Olarreaga and Maurice Schiff

2579: Public health and education spending in Ghana in 1992-98: issues of equity and efficiency

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Xiao Ye

2578: How accession to the European Union has affected external trade and foreign direct investment in Central European economies

Bartlomiej Kaminski

2577: Developing rainfall-based index insurance in Morocco

Jerry Skees, Stephanie Gober, Panos Varangis and Le

2576: Trade policy, standards, and development in Central America

Gary Hufbauer, Barbara Kotschwar and John Wilson

2575: The quality of bureaucracy and capital account policies

Chong-En Bai and Shang-Jin Wei

2574: How adverse selection affects the health insurance market

Paolo Belli

2573: The gender implications of public sector downsizing: the reform program of Vietnam

Martin Rama

2572: Nonfarm income, inequality, and poverty in rural Egypt and Jordan

Richard Adams

2571: Stock market responses to bank restructuring policies during the East Asian crisis

Daniela Klingebiel, Randy Kroszner, Luc Laeven and Pieter van Oijen

2570: Asymmetries in union relative wage effects in Ghanaian manufacturing - an analysis applying quantile regressions

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Dorte Verner