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- 2247: Does deposit insurance increase banking system stability ? An empirical investigation

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache
- 2246: Infrastructure's contribution to aggregate output

- David Canning
- 2245: Opportunities for improving environmental compliance in Mexico

- Susmita Dasgupta
- 2244: True world income distribution, 1988 and 1993 - first calculations, based on household surveys alone

- Branko Milanovic
- 2243: Designing pro-poor water and sewer concessions: early lessons from Bolivia

- Kristin Komives
- 2242: Confronting competition - investment response and constraints in Uganda

- Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson
- 2241: How land registration affects financial development and economic growth in Thailand

- Frank F.K. Byamugisha
- 2240: The effects of land registration on financial development and economic growth - a theoretical and conceptual framework

- Frank F.K. Byamugisha
- 2239: The EU factor in the trade policies of Central European countries

- Bartlomiej Kaminski
- 2238: A review of the role and impact of export processing zones

- Dorsati Madani
- 2237: Reforming tax systems - the World Bank record in the 1990s

- Luca Barbone, Arindam Das-Gupta, Luc De Wulf and Anna Hansson
- 2236: Valuing water for Chinese industries: a marginal productivity assessment

- Hua Wang and Somik Lall
- 2235: Beyond capital ideals: restoring banking stability

- Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan
- 2234: The green revolution and the productivity paradox: evidence from the Indian Punjab

- Rinku Murgai
- 2233: User's guide to an early warning system for macroeconomic vulnerability in Latin American countries

- Santiago Herrara and Conrado Garcia
- 2232: Market access advances and retreats: the Uruguay Round and beyond

- Joseph Finger and Ludger Schuknecht
- 2231: What's behind MERCOSUR's common external tariff?

- Marcelo Olarreaga, Isidro Soloaga and L. Winters
- 2230: Bankruptcy reorganization through markets: Auction-based Creditor Ordering by Reducing Debts (ACCORD)

- Donald B. Hausch and S. Ramachandran
- 2229: Do school facilities matter?: the case of the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES)

- Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady
- 2228: Fiscal contingency planning for banking crises

- Patrick Honohan
- 2227: The Sri Lankan unemployment problem revisited

- Martin Rama
- 2226: Money, politics and a future for the international financial system

- Michael Klein
- 2225: How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief

- William Easterly
- 2224: Growth forecasts using time series and growth models

- Aart Kraay and George Monokroussos
- 2223: Integrated financial supervision: lessons of Northern European experience

- Michael Taylor and Alex Fleming
- 2222: Labor market integration in the presence of social capital

- Maurice Schiff
- 2221: The dynamics of poverty and the effectiveness of Poland's safety net (1993-96)

- Wlodzimierz Okrasa
- 2220: A Quantitative evaluation of Vietnam's accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area

- Emiko Fukase and Will Martin
- 2219: The effect of the United States'granting Most Favored Nation status to Vietnam

- Emiko Fukase and Will Martin
- 2218: Who avoids and who escapes from poverty during transition? - evidence from Polish panel data, 1993-96

- Wlodzimierz Okrasa
- 2217: Border, border, wide and far, how we wonder what you are

- David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei
- 2216: Corruption and trade tariffs, or a case for uniform tariffs

- Roberta Gatti
- 2215: Implementation of Uruguay Round commitments: the development challenge

- Joseph Finger and Philip Schuler
- 2214: Trade policy and market access issues for developing countries: implications for the Millennium Round

- Constantine Michalopoulos
- 2213: Fiscal solvency and sustainability in economic management

- Hinh Dinh
- 2212: Is African manufacturing skill-constrained?

- Howard Pack and Christina Paxson
- 2211: Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization

- Bernard Hoekman and Peter Holmes
- 2210: The slippery slope: explaining the increase in extreme poverty in urban Brazil, 1976-96

- Francisco Ferreira and Ricardo Paes de Barrios
- 2209: Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?

- Shang-Jin Wei
- 2208: Ethnic partition as a solution to ethnic war - an empirical critique of the theoretical literature

- Nicholas Sambanis
- 2207: Jamaica's food stamp program - impacts on poverty and welfare

- Kene Ezemenari and Kalanidhi Subbarao
- 2206: Household childcare choices and women's work behavior in Russia

- Michael Lokshin
- 2205: Foreign-owned capital and endogenous tariffs

- Marcelo Olarreaga
- 2204: Corruption under moral hazard

- Gunnar Eskeland and Henrik Thiele
- 2203: Market versus administrative reallocation of agricultural land in a period of rapid industrialization

- Michael Carter and Yang Yao
- 2202: Specialization without regret - transfer rights, agricultural productivity, and investment in an industrializing economy

- Michael Carter and Yang Yao
- 2201: Financial development and industrial capital accumulation

- Biagio Bossone
- 2200: The role of trust in financial sector development

- Biagio Bossone
- 2199: Managing risks of capital mobility

- Mansoor Dailami
- 2198: How the Chinese system of charges and subsidies affects pollution control efforts by China's top industrial polluters

- Hua Wang
- 2197: Production sharing in East Asia: who does what for whom, and why?

- Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats
- 2196: Governance matters

- Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton
- 2195: Aggregating governance indicators

- Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton
- 2194: Does democracy facilitate the economic transition: an empirical study of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

- Jean-Jacques Dethier, Hafez Ghanem and Edda Zoli
- 2193: Children's growth and poverty in rural Guatemala

- Michele Gragnolati
- 2192: Districts, spillovers, and government overspending

- Reza Baqir
- 2191: Can no antitrust policy be better than some antitrust policy?

- Aaditya Mattoo
- 2190: The credit channel at work - lessons from the Republic of Korea's financial crisis

- Giovanni Ferri and Tae Soo Kang
- 2189: Alternative frameworks for providing financial services

- Stijn Claessens and Daniela Klingebiel
- 2188: Financial liberalization and the capital account: Thailand, 1988-97

- Pedro Alba, Leonardo Hernandez and Daniela Klingebiel
- 2187: Who determines Mexican trade policy?

- Jean-Marie Grether, Jaime de Melo and Marcelo Olarreaga
- 2186: Contagion, bank lending spreads, and output fluctuations

- Pierre-Richard Agénor, Joshua Aizenman and Hoffmais
- 2185: Financial sector inefficiencies and coordination failures: implications for crisis management

- Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman
- 2184: Financial services and the World Trade Organization - liberalization commitments of the developing and transition economies

- Aaditya Mattoo
- 2183: Market discipline and financial safety net design

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga
- 2182: The integration of transition economies into the world trading system

- Constantine Michalopoulos
- 2181: Privatization and regulation of the seaport industry

- Lourdes Trujillo and Gustavo Nombela
- 2180: Regulating privatized infrastructures and airport services

- Ofelia Betancor and Robert Rendeiro
- 2179: How child labor and child schooling interact with adult labor

- Ranjan Ray
- 2178: Nonfarm income, inequality, and land in Rural Egypt

- Richard Adams
- 2177: Fiscal adjustment and contingent government liabilities: case studies of the Czech Republic and Macedonia

- Hana Brixi, Hafez Ghanem and Roumeen Islam
- 2176: Fiscal risks and the quality of fiscal adjustment in Hungary

- Hana Brixi, Anita Papp and Allen Schick
- 2175: Sector growth and the dual economy model - evidence from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zimbabwe

- Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Dorte Verner
- 2174: Prospective deficits and the asian currency crisis

- Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo
- 2173: The intriguing relation between adult minimum wage and child labor

- Kaushik Basu
- 2172: The East Asian crisis: investigating causes and policy responses

- Warwick McKibbin and Will Marin
- 2171: Productivity growth and convergence in agriculture and manufacturing

- Will Martin and Devashish Mitra
- 2170: The distributional consequences of monetary policy: evidence from Malaysia

- Ilker Domac
- 2169: Corruption, public finances, and the unofficial economy

- Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton
- 2168: Wage and productivity gaps - evidence from Ghana

- Dorte Verner
- 2167: Bonds and bridges: social and poverty

- Deepa Narayan
- 2166: Seeking votes - the political economy of expenditures by the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES), 1991-95

- Norbert Schady
- 2165: The Russian city in transition - the first six years in ten Volga capitals

- Martha de Melo and Gur Ofer
- 2164: Challenging El Salvador's rural health care strategy

- Maureen Lewis, Gunnar Eskeland and Ximena Traa-Valerezo
- 2163: Coverage under old-agesecurity programs and protection for the uninsured - What are the issues?

- Estelle James
- 2162: Quantifying the fiscal effects of trade reform

- Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go and Hongyi Li
- 2161: Will the real"natural trading partner"please stand up?

- Maurice Schiff
- 2160: Protecting the poor from macroeconomic shocks

- Francisco Ferreira, Giovanna Prennushi and Martin Ravallion
- 2159: Provincial bank privatization in Argentina: the why, how, and"so what"?

- George Clarke and Robert Cull
- 2158: The effect of foreign entry on Argentina's domestic banking sector

- George Clarke, Robert Cull, Laura D'Amato and Andrea Molinari
- 2157: How regional blocs affect excluded countries - the price effects of MERCOSUR

- Won Chang and L. Winters
- 2156: How has regionalism in the 1990s affected trade?

- Isidro Soloaga and L. Winters
- 2155: Lending booms, reserves, and the sustainability of short-term debt - inferences from the pricing of syndicated bank loans

- Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody
- 2154: Inter-industry labor mobility in Taiwan, China

- Howard Pack and Christina Paxson
- 2153: Themystery of the vanishing benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation

- Martin Ravallion
- 2152: Comparing the performance of public and private water companies in the Asia and Pacific region: what a stochastic costs frontier shows

- Antonio Estache and Martín Rossi
- 2151: A few things transport regulators should know about risk and the cost of capital

- Ian Alexander, Antonio Estache and Adele Oliveri
- 2150: Who wants to redistribute? Russia's tunnel effect in the 1990's

- Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin
- 2149: Income gains to the poor from workfare - estimates for Argentina's TRABAJAR Program

- Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion
- 2148: Social capital, houshold welfare, and poverty in Indonesia

- Christiaan Grootaert
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