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2260: Regional integration agreements - a force for convergence or divergence?

Anthony Venables

2259: Predicting currency fluctuations and crises - do resident firms have an informational advantage?

Daniel Kaufmann, Gil Mehrez and Sergio Schmukler

2258: Market access bargaining in the Uruguay Round - Rigid or relaxed reciprocity?

Joseph Finger, Ulrich Reincke and Adriana Castro

2257: Infrastructure, geographical disadvantage, and transport costs

Nuno Limão and Anthony Venables

2256: Geographical disadvantage - a Heckscher-Ohlin-von Thunen model of international specialization

Anthony Venables and Nuno Limão

2255: Risk and efficiency in East Asian banks

Luc Laeven

2254: Does"grease money"speed up the wheels of commerce?

Daniel Kaufman and Shang-Jin Wei

2253: Revenue recycling and the welfare effects of road pricing

Ian Parry and Antonio Bento

2252: Productivity growth, capital accumulation, and the banking sector - some lessons from Malaysia

Ejaz Ghani and Vivek Suri

2251: Will the Euro create a bonanza for Africa?

Daniel Cohen, Nicolai Kristensen and Dorte Verner

2250: Universal service obligations in utility concession contracts and the needs of the poor in Argentina's privatization

Omar Chisari and Antonio Estache

2249: Argentina's transport privatization and re-regulation: ups and downs of a daring decade-long experience

Antonio Estache, Jose C. Carbajo and Ginés de Rus

2248: Privatization and regulation of transport infrastructure in the 1990s - successes...and bugs to fix for the next millennium

Antonio Estache

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