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2005: Fiscal federalism and macroeconomic governance: for better or for worse?

Anwar Shah

2004: What can be expected from African regional trade arrangements? some empirical evidence

Alexander J. Yeats

2003: Thailand's corporate financing and governance structures

Pedro Alba, Stijn Claessens and Simeon Djankov

2002: Accounting for toxicity risks in pollution control: does it matter?

Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante and Craig Meisner

2001: Measuring the dynamic gains from trade

Romain Wacziarg

2000: GATT experience with safeguards - making economic and political sense of the possibilities that the GATT allows to restrict imports

Joseph Finger

1999: Heterogeneity among Mexico's micro-enterprises - an application of factor and cluster analysis

Wendy Cunningham and William Maloney

1998: The structure and determinants of inequality and poverty reduction in Ghana, 1988-92

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah, Dipak Mazumdar and Xiao Ye

1997: On measuring literacy

Kaushik Basu and James Foster

1996: Namibia's social safety net: issues and options for reform

Kalanidhi Subbarao

1995: What macroeconomic policies are"sound?"

Mansoor Dailami and Nadeem Ul Haque

1994: Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data - or tears: with an application to educational enrollments in states of India

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1993: Financial safety nets and incentive structures in Latin America

Philip L. Brock

1992: The present outlook for trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization

John Croome

1991: Reducing air pollution from urban passenger transport: a framework for policy analysis

Mark Heil and Sheoli Pargal

1990: The East Asia crisis and corporate finances: the untold micro story

Michael Pomerleano

1989: Contingent government liabilities: a hidden risk for fiscal stability

Hana Polackova

1988: The informal sector, firm dynamics, and institutional participation

Alec R. Levenson and William Maloney

1987: Political economy and political risks of institutional reform in the water sector

Ariel Dinar, Trichur K. Balakrishnan and Joseph Wambia

1986: Putting auction theory to work: the simultaneous ascending auction

Paul Milgrom

1985: The optimality of being efficient: designing auctions

Lawerence M. Ausubel and Peter Cramton

1984: NAFTA, capital mobility, and Mexico's financial system

Thomas Charles Glaessner and Daniel Oks

1983: Pension reform in small developing countries

Thomas Charles Glaessner and Salvador Valdés

1982: Analyzing financial sectors in transition: with special reference to the Former Soviet Union

Alan Roe, Paul Siegelbaum and Tim King

1981: Evaluating public expenditures when governments must rely on distortionary taxation

James Anderson and Will Martin

1980: The effect of household wealth on educational attainment: demographic and health survey evidence

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1979: Banking on crises: expensive lessons from recent financial crises

Gerard Caprio

1978: Behavioral responses to risk in rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1977: Economic reforms in Egypt: emerging patterns and their possible implications

Rania A. Al-Mashat and David Grigorian

1976: Capital flows to Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Stijn Claessens, Daniel Oks and R Polastri

1975: Acting globally while thinking locally: is the global environment protected by transport emission control programs?

Gunnar Eskeland and Jian Xie

1974: Volatility and the welfare costs of financial market integration

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

1973: The economic analysis of sector investment programs

Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput

1972: Why privatize?: the case of Argentina's public provincial banks

George Clarke and Robert Cull

1971: Promoting better logging practices in tropical forests

Marco Boscolo and Jeffrey Vincent

1970: Trade liberalization and endogenous growth in a small open economy: a quantitative assessment

Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

1969: Protecting the poor in Vietnam's emerging market economy

Dominique van de Walle

1968: The economic and law of rent control

Kaushik Basu and Patrick Emerson

1967: Agriculture and the macroeconomy

Maurice Schiff and Alberto Valdes

1966: Sulfur dioxide control by electric utilities: what are the gains from trade?

Curtis Carlson, Dallas Burtraw, Maureen Cropper and Karen Palmer

1965: Manufacuring firms in developing countries - how well do they do, and why?

James Tybout

1964: Public investment and economic growth in Mexico

Ulrich Lachler and David Aschauer

1963: Commodity risk management and development

Donald Larson, Panos Varangis and Nanae Yabuki

1962: The political economy of privatization: an empirical analysis of bank privatization in Argentina

George Clarke and Robert Cull

1961: Protecting the environment and the poor - a public goods framework applied to Indonesia

Gunnar Eskeland

1960: Calm after the storms: income distribution in Chile, 1987-94

Francisco Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

1959: Is there a credit crunch in East Asia?

Wei Ding, Ilker Domac and Giovanni Ferri

1958: Total strangers or soul mates? - antidumping and competition policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

J. Luis Guash and Sarath Rajapatirana

1957: Bidding for concessions

Michael Klein

1956: Benefit incidence and the timing of program capture

Peter Lanjouw and Martin Ravallion

1955: Appraising workfare programs

Martin Ravallion

1954: Politicians and firms in seven central and eastern European countries

Stijn Claessens and Simeon Djankov

1953: Trade policies and incentives in Indian agriculture: methodology, background statistics, and protection and incentive indicators, 1965-95

Garry Pursell and Anju Gupta

1952: Enterprise isolation programs in transition economies: evidence from Romania

Simeon Djankov

1951: The impact of policy announcements and news on capital markets: crisis management in Argentina during the Tequila Effect

Eduardo J. J. Ganapolsky and Sergio Schmukler

1950: Free trade and deep integration: antidumping and antitrust in regional agreements

Bernard Hoekman

1949: Education and earnings inequality in Mexico

Ulrich Lachler

1948: Comparative advantage and the cross-section of business cycles

Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura

1947: Patterns of economic growth: hills, plateaus, mountains, and plains

Lant Pritchett

1946: Estonia: the challenge of financial integration

Carlos Cavalcanti and Daniel Oks

1945: Evaluating a targeted social program when placement is decentralized

Martin Ravallion and Quentin Wodon

1944: Detecting price links in the world cotton market

John Baffes and Issam Mohamed

1943: The implications of hyperbolic discounting for project evaluation

Maureen Cropper and David Laibson

1942: Poverty correlates and indicator-based targeting in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Christiaan Grootaert and Jeanine Braithwaite

1941: Are labor markets in developing countries dualistic?

William Maloney

1940: The structure of labor markets in developing countries: time series evidence on competing views

William Maloney

1939: Second thoughts on second moments: panel evidence on asset-based models of currency crises

Arturo Galindo and William Maloney

1938: What explains the success or failure of structural adjustment programs?

David Dollar and Jakob Svensson

1937: Aid, the incentive regime, and poverty reduction

Craig Burnside and David Dollar

1936: Determinants of transient and chronic poverty: evidence from rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1935: Explaining the increase in inequality during the transition

Branko Milanovic

1934: WTO accession for countries in transition

Constantine Michalopoulos

1933: The 1997 pension reform in Mexico

Grandolini, Gloria Grandolini and Luis Cerda

1932: Air pollution and health effects - a study of respiratory illness among children in Santiago, Chile

Bart D. Ostro, Gunnar Eskeland, Tarhan Feyzioglu and Jose Miguel Sanchez

1931: The cost and performance of paid agricultural extension services: the case of agricultural technology transfer in Nicaragua

Ariel Dinar and Gabriel Keynan

1930: The main determinants of inflation in Albania

Ilker Domac and Carolos Elbirt

1929: A database of world infrastructure stocks, 1950-95

David Canning

1928: Combining census and survey data to study spatial dimensions of poverty

Jesko Hentschel, Jean Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw and Javier Poggi

1927: Revenue-productive income tax structures and tax reforms in emerging market economies - evidence from Bulgaria

Fareed M. A. Hassan

1926: Do budgets really matter? - evidence from public spending on education and health in Uganda

Emmanuel Ablo and Ritva Reinikka

1925: Half a century of development economics: a review based on the"Handbook of Development Economics"

Jean Waelbroeck

1924: Voucher privatization with investment funds: an institutional analysis

David Ellerman

1923: When vintage technology makes sense: matching imports to skills

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Isidro Soloaga and Wendy Takacs

1922: Regional groupings among microstates

Soamiely Andriamananjara and Maurice Schiff

1921: Making voice work: the report card on Banglalore's public service

Samuel Paul

1920: Education and earnings in a transition economy (Vietnam)

Peter R. Moock, Harry Patrinos and Meera Venkataraman

1919: The empirical effects of performance contracts: evidence from China

Mary Shirley and Lixin Xu

1918: How does foreign entry affect the domestic banking market?

Stijn Claessens, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

1917: Financial liberalization and financial fragility

Asli Demirguc-Kent and Enrica Detragiache

1916: The size, origins, and character of Mongolia's informal sector during the transition

James Anderson

1915: Distortionary effects of state trading in agriculture: issues for the next round of negotiations

Merlinda Ingco and Francis Ng

1914: Distinguishing between types of data and methods of collecting them

Jesko Hentschel

1913: The 1994 currency crisis in Turkey

Oya Celasun

1912: Pay and grade differentials at the World Bank

Deon Filmer, Margaret Grosh, Elizabeth King and Dominique van de Walle

1911: The internationalization of financial services in Asia

Stijn Claessens and Tom Glaessner

1910: Capital outflow from the agricultural sector in Thailand

Junichi Yamada

1909: Capital markets responses to environmental performance in developing countries

Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante and Nlandu Mamingi

1908: How dirty are"quick and dirty"methods of project appraisal?

Dominique van de Walle and Dileni Gunewardena

1907: Development expenditures and the local financing constraint

Albert D. K. Agbonyitor

1906: Developing countries'participation in the World Trade Organization

Constantine Michalopoulos