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1705: The Polish experience with bank and enterprise restructuring

Fernando Montes-Negret and Luca Papi

1704: Citizen complaints as environmental indicators: evidence from China

Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler

1703: Population aging and financing of government liabilities in New Zealand

Hana Polackova

1702: Inflation in nontradables and the macroeconomic policy mix: a model with policy application to transition economies

Hana Polackova

1701: Monitoring environmental standards: do local conditions matter?

Catherine Dion, Paul Lanoie and Benoit Laplante

1700: Child nutrition, child health, and school enrollment: a longitudinal analysis

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman, Victor Lavy and Rekha Menon

1699: The maturity structure of debt: determinants and effects on firms'performance - evidence from the United Kingdom and Italy

Fabio Schiantarelli and Alessandro Sembenelli

1698: Regulatory structure and risk and infrastructure firms: an international comparison

Ian Alexander, Colin Mayer and Helen Weeds

1697: Strategies to develop mortgage markets in transition economies

Dwight M. Jaffee and Bertrand Renaud

1696: South-North migration and trade: a survey

Maurice Schiff

1695: Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1694: What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

1693: Famines and economics

Martin Ravallion

1692: Regulating market risk in banks: a comparison of alternative regulatory regimes

Constantinos Stephanou

1691: Integrating the unofficial economy into the dynamics of post-socialist economies: a framework of analysis and evidence

Daniel Kaufmann and Aleksander Kaliberda

1690: Stock markets, banks, and economic growth

Ross Levine and Sara Zervos

1689: Is economic analysis of projects still useful?

Pedro Belli

1688: Risk, taxpayers, and the role of government in project finance

Michael Klein

1687: Regionalism versus multilateralism

L. Winters

1686: Institutions, financial markets, and firms'choice of debt maturity

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

1685: Macroeconomic crises and poverty monitoring: a case study for India

Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion

1684: The whys and why nots of export taxation

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Maurice Schiff and Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput

1683: High real interest rates, guarantor risk, and bank recapitalizations

Philip L. Brock

1682: Is the"Japan Problem"real? How problems in Japan's financial sector could affect developing regions

Shigeru Otsubo*Masahiko Tsutsumi

1681: India in the global economy

Milan Brahmbhatt, T.G. Srinivasan and Kim Murrell

1680: Brazil's efficient payment system: a legacy of high inflation

Robert Listfield and Fernando Montes-Negret

1679: Trade and the accumulation and diffusion of knowledge

Pier Carlo Padoan

1678: Financial development and economic growth: views and agenda

Ross Levine

1677: Reforming Indonesia's pension system

Chad Leechor

1676: The evolution of payments in Europe, Japan, and the U.S.: lessons for emerging market economies

David B. Humphrey, Sato Setsuya, Tsurumi Masayoshi and Jukka M. Vesala

1675: Nations, conglomerates, and empires: the tradeoff between income and sovereignty

Branko Milanovic

1674: How can China provide income security for its rapidly aging population?

Barry Friedman, Estelle James, Cheikh Kane and Quei

1673: Indonesian labor legislation in a comparative perspective: a study of six APEC countries

Reema Nayar

1672: Controlling industrial pollution: a new paradigm

Shakeb Afsah, Benoit Laplante and David Wheeler

1671: Financial constraints, uses of funds, and firm growth: an international comparison

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

1670: Assessing the welfare impacts of public spending

Dominique van de Walle

1669: International capital flows: do short-term investment and direct investment differ?

Punam Chuhan, Gabriel Perez-Quiros and Helen Popper

1668: Small is beautiful: preferential trade agreements and the impact of country size, market share, efficiency, and trade policy

Maurice Schiff

1667: Dealing with commodity price uncertainty

Panos Varangis and Donald Larson

1666: Is growth in Bangladesh's rice production sustainable?

John Baffes and Madhur Gautam

1665: How important are labor markets to the welfare of the poor in Indonesia?

Andrew D. Mason and Jacqueline Baptist

1664: Pensions in Germany

Monika Queisser

1663: Internal finance and investment: another look

Cherian Samuel

1662: From learning to partnership: multinational research and development cooperation in developing countries

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Carlo Carraro

1661: Determinants of public expenditure on infrastructure: transportation and communication

Susan Randolph, Zeljko Bogetic and Dennis Hefley

1660: Mind your P's and Q's: the cost of public investment is not the value of public capital

Lant Pritchett

1659: Unemployment insurance in Algeria: implications for a labor market in transition

Elizabeth Ruppert

1658: Decentralized structures for providing roads: a cross-country comparison

Frannie Humplick and Azadeh Moini-Araghi

1657: Is there an optimal structure for decentralized provision of roads?

Frannie Humplick and Azadeh Moini-Araghi

1656: The investment decision: a re-examination of competing theories using panel data

Cherian Samuel

1655: Uncertainty and the price for crude oil reserves

Timothy J. Considine and Donald Larson

1654: Indonesia's palm oil subsector

Donald Larson

1653: Grants and debt forgiveness in Africa: a descriptive analysis

Leonardo Hernandez and Saori N. Katada

1652: Intra-industry trade, foreign direct investment, and the reorientation of Eastern European exports

Bernard Hoekman and Simeon Djankov

1651: Bank-led restructuring in Poland: bankruptcy and its alternatives

Cheryl W. Gray and Arnold Holle

1650: Bank-led restructuring in Poland: an empirical look at the bank conciliation process

Cheryl W. Gray and Arnold Holle

1649: Economic regulation of water companies

Michael Klein

1648: The lender of last resort function under a currency board: the case of Argentina

Gerard Caprio, Michael Dooley, Danny Leipziger and Carl Walsh

1647: The Baltics - Banking crises observed

Alex Fleming, Lily Chu and Marie-Renee Bakker

1646: Budgetary institutions and expenditure outcomes: binding governments to fiscal performance

Ed Campos and Sanjay Pradhan

1645: How prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment

Nlandu Mamingi

1644: Pricing industrial pollution in China: an econometric analysis of the levy system

Hua Wang and David Wheeler

1643: The consequences of doubling the minimum wage: the case of Indonesia

Martin Rama

1642: Banking reform in transition countries

Stijn Claessens

1641: Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania

Luisa Ferreira

1640: Labor regulations and industrial relations in Indonesia

Alejandra Cox Edwards

1639: Income insecurity and underemployment in Indonesia's informal sector

Franck Wiebe

1638: Private pension funds in Hungary: early performance and regulatory issues

Dimitri Vittas

1637: The benefits of growth for Indonesian Workers

Nisha Agrawal

1636: Open economies work better! Did Africa's protectionist policies cause its marginalization in world trade?

Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats

1635: Restructuring of enterprise social assets in Russia: trends, problems, possible solutions

Lev Freinkman and Irina Starodubrovskaya

1634: Japanese multinationals in Asia: capabilities and motivations

Susmita Dasgupta, Ashoka Mody and Sarbajit Sinha

1633: Essentials for sustainable urban transport in Brazil's large metropolitan areas

Jorge M. Rebelo

1632: Evaluating Bolivia's choices for trade integration

Sarath Rajapatirana

1631: Bank regulation and the network paradigm: policy implications for developing and transition economies

Patrick Honohan and Dimitri Vittas

1630: Water pollution abatement by Chinese industry: cost estimates and policy implications

Susmita Dasgupta, Minul Huq, David Wheeler and Chonghua Zhang

1629: Form of ownership and financial constraints: panel data evidence from leverage and investment equations

Fabio Schiantarelli and Alessandro Sembenelli

1628: Globalization: a new role for developing countries in an integrating world

Shigeru Otsubo

1627: Tradable water rights: a property rights approach to resolving water shortages and promoting investment

Paul Holden and Mateen Thobani

1626: Partners or predators?: the impact of regional trade liberalization on Indonesia

Jeffrey D. Lewis and Sherman Robinson

1625: Restructuring and taxation in transition economies

Simon Commander and Andrei Tolstopiatenko

1624: Structural adjustment, ownership transformation, and size in Polish industry

Luca Barbone, Marchetti, Jr., Domenico and Stefano Paternostro

1623: Environmental degradation and the demand for children: searching for the vicious circle

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

1622: Capital control liberalization and stock market development

Ross Levine and Sara Zervos

1621: The sustainability of African debt

Daniel Cohen

1620: Bank insolvencies: cross-country experience

Gerard Caprio and Daniela Klingebiel

1619: Capital flows to Latin America: Is there evidence of contagion effects?

Sara Calvo and Carmen Reinhart

1618: Analytical aspects of the debt problems of heavily indebted poor countries

Stijn Claessens, Enrica Detragiache, Ravi Kanbur and Peter Wickham

1617: Why is unemployment low in the former Soviet Union?: enterprises restructuring and the structure of compensation

Simon Commander and Andrei Tolstopiatenko

1616: Transient poverty in rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

1615: Issues in measuring and modeling poverty

Martin Ravallion

1614: Growth, globalization, and gains from the Uruguay Round

Thomas W. Hertel, Christian F. Bach, Betina Dimaranan and Will Martin

1613: Does public capital crowd out private capital?: evidence from India

Luis Serven

1612: Stock market and investment: the signaling role of the market

Cherian Samuel

1611: Economic analysis for health projects

Jeffrey S. Hammer

1610: Foreign aid's impact on public spending

Tarhan Feyzioglu, Vinaya Swaroop and Min Zhu

1609: The public sector in the Caribbean: issues and reform options

Vinaya Swaroop

1608: Fiscal decentralization, public spending, and economic growth in China

Tao Zhang and Heng-Fu Zou

1607: Population aging and pension systems: reform options for China

F. Desmond McCarthy and Kangbin Zheng

1606: The benefits of alternative power tariffs for Nigeria and Indonesia

Alex Anas and Kyu Sik Lee