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1807: The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics

William Easterly

1806: An international statistical survey of government employment and wages

Salvatore Schiavo-Campo, Giulio de Tommaso and Mukh

1805: Regional economic integration and agricultural trade

Junichi Goto

1804: Financial sector adjustment lending: a mid-course analysis

Robert Cull

1803: Field adjustments in transition economies: social transfers and the efficiency of public spending - a comparison with OECD countries

Barbara Fakin and Alain de Crombrugghe

1802: Are there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?

Harry Huizinga

1801: Regional integration as diplomacy

Maurice Schiff and L. Winters

1800: Single-equation estimation of the equilibrium real exchange rate

John Baffes, Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Stephen O'Connell

1799: More for the poor is less for the poor: the politics of targeting

Jonah Gelbach and Lant Pritchett

1798: Poor areas, or only poor people?

Martin Ravallion and Quentin Wodon

1797: Formal and informal regulation of industrial pollution: comparative evidence from Indonesia and the United States

Sheoli Pargal, Hemamala Hettige, Manjula Singh and David Wheeler

1796: Cents and sociability: household income and social capital in rural Tanzania

Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett

1795: What educational production functions really show: a positive theory of education spending

Lant Pritchett and Deon Filmer

1794: Ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate performance: the case of Chinese stock companies

Xiaonian Xu and Yan Wang

1793: Wage and pension pressure on the Polish budget

Alain de Crombrugghe

1792: Tradeoffs from hedging oil pricerisk in Ecuador

Sudhakar Satyanarayan and Eduardo Somensatto

1791: Toward better regulation of private pension funds

Hemant Shah

1790: Interpreting the coefficient of schooling in the human capital earnings function

Barry Chiswick

1789: Competition law in Bulgaria after central planning

Bernard Hoekman and Simeon Djankov

1788: An economic analysis of woodfuel management in the Sahel: the case of Chad

Kenneth M. Chomitz and Charles Griffiths

1787: Trading arrangements and industrial development

Diego Puga and Anthony Venables

1786: The economics of customs unions in the Commonwealth of Independent States

Constantine Michalopoulos and David Tarr

1785: The causes of government and the consequences for growth and well-being

Simon Commander, Hamid R. Davoodi and Une J. Lee

1784: Analyzing the sustainability of fiscal deficitsin developing countries

John Cuddington

1783: Trade policy options for Chile: a quantitative evaluation

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

1782: Regional integration and the prices of imports: an empirical investigation

L. Winters and Won Chang

1781: Technology accumulation and diffusion: is there a regional dimension?

Pier Carlo Padoan

1780: High-level rent-seeking and corruption in African regimes: theory and cases

Jacqueline Coolidge and Susan Rose-Ackerman

1779: Water allocation mechanisms: principles and examples

Ariel Dinar, Mark Rosegrant and Ruth Meinzen-Dick

1778: How government policies affect the relationship between Polish and world wheat prices

Szczepan Figiel, Tom Scott and Panos Varangis

1777: Aid, policies, and growth

Craig Burnside and David Dollar

1776: From prices to incomes: agricultural subsidization without protection?

John Baffes and Jacob Meerman

1775: Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?

Martin Ravallion

1774: The demand for base money and the sustainability of public debt

Valeriano F. Garcia

1773: The costs and benefits of regulation: implications for developing countries

J. Luis Guasch and Robert Hahn

1772: What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data

Alexander Pfaff

1771: Government employment and pay: a global and regional perspective

Salvatore Schiavo-Campo, Giulio de Tommaso and Amitabha Mukherjee

1770: Poverty and social transfers in Hungary

Christiaan N. Grootaert

1769: Information, incentives, and commitment: an empirical analysis of contracts between government and state enterprises

Mary M. Shirley and Lixin Xu

1768: Is there a quantity-quality tradeoff as enrollments increase? Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India

Duraisamy P, Estelle James, Julia Lane and Jee-Peng Tan

1767: Pension reform: is there a tradeoff between efficiency and equity?

Estelle James

1766: New systems for old age security - theory, practice, and empirical evidence

Estelle James

1765: Explaining agricultural and agrarian policies in developing countries

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Klaus Deininger

1764: A reversal of fortune for Korean women: explaining the 1983 upward turn in relative earnings

Yana Rodgers

1763: China and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

Yushu Feng

1762: Strategies for pricing publicly provided health services

Paul J. Gertler and Jeffrey Hammer

1761: Bending the rules: discretionary pollution control in China

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler

1760: Credibility of rules and economic growth: evidence from a worldwide survey of the private sector

Aymo Brunnetti, Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

1759: Institutional obstacles to doing business: region-by-region results from a worldwide survey of the private sector

Aymo Brunetti, Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

1758: The restructuring of large firms in Slovakia

Simeon Djankov and Gerhard Pohl

1757: Using economic policy to improve environmental protection in Pakistan

Rashid Faruqee

1756: World crude oil resources: evidence from estimating supply functions for 41 countries

G. C. Watkins and Shane Streifel

1755: Survey responses from women workers in Indonesia's textile, garment, and footwear industries

Mari Pangestu and Medelina K. Hendytio

1754: Research on land markets in South Asia: what have we learned?

Rashid Faruqee and Kevin Carey

1753: Can capital markets create incentives for pollution control?

Paul Lanoie, Benoit Laplante and Maite Roy

1752: Ghana's labor market (1987-92)

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Saji Thomas

1751: Using tariff indices to evaluate preferential trading arrangements: an application to Chile

Eric Bond

1750: Regional integration and foreign direct investment: a conceptual framework and three cases

Magnus Blomstrom and Ari Kokko

1749: Applying economic analysis to technical assistance projects

Gary McMahon

1748: Has agricultural trade liberalization improved welfare in the least-developed countries? Yes

Merlinda D. Ingco

1747: Protection and trade in services: a survey

Bernard Hoekman and Carlos A. Primo Braga

1746: The role of long term finance: theory and evidence

Gerard Caprio and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

1745: How foreign investment affects host countries

Magnus Blomstrom and Ari Kokko

1744: Moving to greener pastures: multinationals and the pollution-haven hypothesis

Gunnar Eskeland and Ann Harrison

1743: How China's government and state enterprises partitioned property and control rights

Lixin Xu

1742: Transport costs and"natural"integration in Mercosur

Azita Amjadi and L. Winters

1741: Privatization, public investment, and capital income taxation

Harry Huizinga and Søren Nielsen

1740: When is foreign aid policy credible: aid dependence and conditionality

Jakob Svensson

1739: Safe and sound banking in developing countries: we're not in Kansas anymore

Gerard Caprio

1738: Some aspects of poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90

Gaurav Datt and Dileni Gunewardena

1737: Ownership and corporate governance: evidence from the Czech Republic

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov and Gerhard Pohl

1736: Creating incentives for private infrastructure companies to become more efficient

Ian Alexander and Colin Mayer

1735: Competition policy and the global trading system: a developing country perspective

Bernard Hoekman

1734: Are markets learning?: behavior in the secondary market for Brady bonds

Luca Barbone and Lorenzo Forni

1733: The usefulness of private and public information for foreign investment decisions

Ashoka Mody and Yuko Kinoshita

1732: Agricultural trade and rural development in the Middle East and North Africa: recent developments and prospects

Dean A. DeRosa

1731: Pension reform, growth, and the labor market in Ukraine

Michelle Riboud and Hoaquan Chu

1730: Have trade policy reforms led to greater openness in developing countries: evidence from readily available trade data

Shuby Andriamananjara and John Nash

1729: Does Mercosur's trade performance raise concerns about the effects of regional trade arrangements?

Alexander James Yeats

1728: Regional labor markets during deregulation in Indonesia: have the Outer Islands been left behind?

Chris Manning

1727: The economics of the informal sector: a simple model and some empirical evidence from Latin America

Norman Loayza

1726: Roads, population pressures, and deforestation in Thailand, 1976-89

Maureen Cropper, Charles Griffiths and Muthukumara Mani

1725: Access to long term debt and effects of firm's performance: lessons from Ecudaor

Fidel Jaramillo and Fabio Schiantarelli

1724: Debt maturity and firm performance: a panel study of Indian companies

Fabio Schiantarelli and Vivek Srivastava

1723: The productivity effects of decentralized reforms - an analysis of the Chinese industrial reforms

Lixin Xu

1722: Uncertainty, instability, and irreversible investment: theory, evidence, and lessons for Africa

Luis Servén

1721: EU (European Union) accession of central and eastern Europe: bridging the income gap

Luca Barbone and Juan Zalduendo

1720: The distribution of foreign direct investment in China

Harry G. Broadman and Xiaolun Sun

1719: Shifting responsibility for social services as enterprises privatize in Belarus

David Sewell

1718: Does environmental regulation matter? Determinants of the location of new manufacturing plants in India in 1994

Muthukumara Mani, Sheoli Pargal and Mainul Huq

1717: Do labor market regulations affect labor earnings in Ecuador?

Donna MacIsaac and Martin Rama

1716: Reforming pensions in Zambia: an analysis of existing schemes and options for reform

Monika Queisser, Clive Bailey and John Woodall

1715: The evolution of poverty and welfare in Nigeria, 1985-92

Sudharshan Canagarajan, John Ngwafon and Saji Thomas

1714: Fiscal federalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Dayton challenge

William Fox and Christine Wallich

1713: Why did Colombian private savings decline in the early 1990s?

Alejandro Lopez

1712: Demand elasticities in international trade: are they really low?

Shekhar Shah, Deepak Mishra and Arvind Panagariya

1711: Issues in comparing poverty trends over time in Cote de'Ivoire

Jones, Christine*Xiao Ye

1710: Why paper mills clean up: determinants of pollution abatement in four Asian countries

Raymond S. Hartman, Mainul Huq and David R. Wheeler

1709: Poverty comparisons with non-compatible data: theory and illustrations

Jean Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw

1708: Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing?

William Easterly, Norman Loayza and Peter Montiel