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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 José Sánchez

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

1905: Child labor in Cote d'Ivoire: incidence and determinants

Christiaan Grootaert

1904: Ecuador's rural nonfarm sector as a route out of poverty

Peter Lanjouw

1903: Taxing capital income in Hungary and the European Union

Jean-Jacques Dethier and Christoph John

1902: When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

1901: Reaching poor areas in a federal system

Martin Ravallion

1900: Determinants of commercial bank interest margins and profitability: some international evidence

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Harry Huizinga

1899: Determinants of emerging market bond spread: do economic fundamentals matter?

Hong-Ghi Min

1898: Does membership in a regional preferential trade arrangement make a country more or less protectionist?

Faezeh Foroutan

1897: Development of natural gas and pipeline capacity markets in the United States

Andrej Juris

1896: Congestion pricing and network expansion

Thomas-Olivier Nasser

1895: The emergence of markets in the natural gas industry

Andrej Juris

1894: Applying a simple measure of good governance to the debate on fiscal decentralization

Jeff Huther and Anwar Shah

1893: Regulatory controversies of private pension funds

Dimitri Vittas

1892: The role of non-bank financial intermediaries (with particular reference to Egypt)

Dimitri Vittas

1891: The housing market in the Russian Federation: privatization and its implications for market development

Alla K. Guzanova

1890: Market development in the United Kingdom's natural gas industry

Andrej Juris

1889: Development strategy reconsidered: Mexico, 1960-94

Toru Yanagihara and Yoshiaki Hisamatsu

1888: What do doctors want? developing incentives for doctors to serve in Indonesia's rural and remote areas

Kenneth M. Chomitz, Gunawan Setiadi, Azrul Azwar, Nusye Ismail and Widiyarti

1887: The structure of derivatives exchanges: lessons from developed and emerging markets

George Tsetsekos and Panos Varangis

1886: Country funds and asymmetric information

Jeffrey Frankel and Sergio Schmukler

1885: Aid, taxation, and development: analytical perspectives on aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

Christopher Adam and Stephen O'Connell

1884: Fiscal aspect of evolving federations: issues for policy and research

David Wildasin

1883: Intersectoral resource allocation and its impact on economic development in the Philippines

Fumihide Takeuchi and Takehiko Hagino

1882: Interregional resource transfer and economic growth in Indonesia

Toshihiko Kawagoe

1881: The Asian miracle and modern growth theory

Richard Nelson and Howard Pack

1880: Foreign aid and rent-seeking

Jakob Svensson

1879: Relative prices and inflation in Poland, 1989-97: the special role of administered price increases

Przemyslaw Wozniak

1878: Searching for sustainable microfinance: a review of five Indonesian initiatives

R. Marisol Ravicz

1877: What improves environmental performance? evidence from Mexican industry

Susmita Dasgupta, Hemamala Hettige and David Wheeler

1876: Industrial pollution in economic development: Kuznets revisited

Hemamala Hettige, Muthukumara Mani and David Wheeler

1875: How deposit insurance affects financial depth: a cross-country analysis

Robert Cull

1874: Health policy in poor countries: weak links in the chain

Deon Filmer, Jeffrey Hammer and Lant Pritchett

1873: Wage misalignment in CFA countries: are labor market policies to blame?

Martin Rama

1872: How integration into the Central African Economic and Monetary Community affects Cameroon's economy: general equilibrium estimates

Ferdinand Bakoup and David Tarr

1871: Just how big is global production sharing?

Alexander J. Yeats

1870: The evolution of poverty and inequality in Indian villages

Raji Jayraman and Peter Lanjouw

1869: Risk reduction and public spending

Shantayanan Devarajan and Jeffrey Hammer

1868: Government support to private infrastructure projects in emerging markets

Mansoor Dailami and Michael Klein

1867: Gender disparity in South Asia: comparisons between and within countries

Deon Filmer, Elizabeth King and Lant Pritchett

1866: Circumstance and choice: the role of initial conditions and policies in transition economies

Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer, Alan Gelb and Stoyan Tenev

1865: Pension reform in Latin America: quick fixes or sustainable reform?

Sri-Ram Aiyer

1864: Child mortality and public spending on health: how much does money matter?

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1863: Are the poor less well-insured? Evidence on vulnerability to income risk in rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1862: Spatial poverty traps?

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1861: Infrastructure project finance and capital flows: a new perspective

Mansoor Dailami and Danny Leipziger

1860: The health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India

Maureen Cropper, Nathalie Simon, Anna Alberini and P. K. Sharma

1859: Lessons from Sao Paulo's Metropolitan Busway Concessions Program

Jorge Rebelo and Pedro Benvenuto

1858: Banking on the poor? Branch placement and nonfarm rural development in Bangladesh

Martin Ravallion and Quentin Wodon

1857: Leasing to support small businesses and microenterprises

Joselito Gallardo

1856: Surviving success: policy reform and the future of industrial pollution in China

Susmita Dasgupta, Hua Wang and David Wheeler

1855: Stabilization, adjustment, and growth prospects in transition economies

Cevdet Denizer

1854: Regulatory tradeoffs in designing concession contracts for infrastructure networks

Claude Crampes and Antonio Estache

1853: Pension reform and private pension funds in Peru and Colombia

Monika Queisser

1852: Leading indicators of currency crises

Graciela Kaminsky, Saul Lizondo and Carmen Reinhart

1851: Transportation infrastructure investments and regional trade liberalization

Eric Bond

1850: Determinants of intra-industry trade between East and West Europe

Chonira Aturupane, Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman

1849: Regional integration and factor income taxation

Valeria De Bonis

1848: Regional integration and commodity tax harmonization

Valeria De Bonis