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1605: Why manufacturing firms produce some electricity internally

Kyu Sik Lee, Alex Anas, Satyendra Verma and Michael Murray

1604: Costs of infrastructure deficiencies in manufacturing in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Thailand

Kyu Sik Lee, Alex Anas and Gi-Taik Oh

1603: Infrastructure bottlenecks, private provision, and industrial productivity: a study of Indonesian and Thai cities

Alex Anas, Kyu Sik Lee and Michael Murray

1602: Program-based pollution control management: the Indonesian PROKASIH program

Shakeb Afsah, Benoit Laplante and Nabiel Makarim

1601: The domestic benefits of tropical forests: a critical review emphasizing hydrological functions

Kenneth M. Chomitz and Kanta Kumari

1600: Is commodity-dependence pessimism justified? Critical factors and government policies that characterize dynamic commodity sectors

Nanae Yabuki and Takamasa Akiyama

1599: Economic implications for Turkey of a customs union with the European Union

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford and David Tarr

1598: Logistical constraints on international trade in the Maghreb

Francois Amiot and Ovadia Salama

1597: Egypt and the Uruguay Round

Bernard Hoekman and Arvind Subramanian

1596: Agrarian structure in Poland: the myth of large-farm superiority

Johan Van Zyl, Bill Miller and Andrew Parker

1595: In search of owners: lessons of experience with privatization and corporate governance in transition economies

Cheryl W. Gray

1594: Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?

Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion

1593: Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation

Saeed Qureshi, Ijaz Nabi and Rashid Faruqee

1592: The stockmarket as a source of finance: a comparison of U.S. and Indian firms

Cherian Samuel

1591: Competition in network industries

Michael Klein

1590: The Latvian banking crisis: lessons learned

Alex Fleming and Samuel Talley

1589: The analysis of emerging policy issues in development finance

Sudarshan Goopu

1588: Social insurance in the transition to a market economy: theoretical issues with application to Moldova

Deborah Mabbett

1587: Payments and finance problems in the Commonwealth of Independent States

Constantine Michalopoulos

1586: Did external barriers cause the marginalization of sub-Saharan Africa in world trade?

Azita Amjadi, Ulrich Reinke and Alexander Yeats

1585: Public finances and economic transition

Luca Barbone and Hana Polackova

1584: Price support at any price? Costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland

Witold M. Orlowski

1583: Trade preferential agreements in Latin America: an ex-ante assessment

Michael Michaely

1582: Stock market development and long-run growth

Ross Levine and Sara Zervos

1581: Where has all the education gone?

Lant Pritchett

1580: Indonesia's cocoa boom: hands-off policy encourages smallholder dynamism

Takamasa Akiyama and Akihiko Nishio

1579: Different strategies of transition to a market economy: how do they work in practice?

Marek Dabrowski

1578: Stock market and investment: the governance role of the market

Cherian Samuel

1577: The peace dividend: military spending cuts and economic growth

Malcolm Knight, Norman Loayza and Delano Villanueva

1576: Rural poverty in Ecuador: a qualitative assessment

Jesko Hentschel, William F. Waters and Anna Kathryn Vandever Webb

1575: Inflation, growth, and central banks: theory and evidence

Jose De Gregorio

1574: Bank regulation: the case of the missing model

Gerard Caprio

1573: North-South customs unions and international capital mobility

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Mark Spiegel

1572: Averting the old-age crisis: technical annex

Robert Palacios

1571: Export prospects of Middle Eastern countries: a post-Uruguay Round analysis

Alexander Yeats

1570: Protecting the old and promoting growth: a defense of averting the old age crisis

Estelle James

1569: Improving water resource management in Bangladesh

Rashid Faruqee and Yusuf A. Choudhry

1568: Determinants of diarrheal disease in Jakarta

Anna Alberini, Gunnar Eskeland, Alan Krupnick and Gordon McGranahan

1567: Population growth, factor accumulation, and productivity

Lant Pritchett

1566: Liquidity, banks, and markets: effects of financial development on banks and the maturity of financial claims

Douglas Diamond

1565: Housing finance in transition economies: the early years in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Bertrand M. Renaud

1564: From plan to market: patterns of transition

Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer and Alan Gelb

1563: Equity and growth in developing countries: old and new perspectives on the policy issues

Michael Bruno, Martin Ravallion and Lyn Squire

1562: Catching up with Eastern Europe? The European Union's Mediterranean free trade initiative

Bernard Hoekman and Simeon Djankov

1561: Income inequality and aggregate saving: the cross-country evidence

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Luis Serven

1560: Trade and fluctuations

Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura

1559: Have transport costs contributed to the relative decline of sub-Saharan African exports? Some preliminary empirical evidence

Azita Amjadi and Alexander J. Yeats

1558: In search of price rigidities: recent sector evidence from Argentina

Jacques Morisset and Cesar Revoredo-Giha

1557: Electricity demand in Asia and the effects on energy supply and the investment environment

Masayasu Ishguro and Takamasa Akiyama

1556: Workers in transition

Michael Rutkowski

1555: Capital markets, financial intermediaries, and corporate governance: an empirical assessment of the top ten voucher funds in the Czech Republic

Roland Egerer

1554: Rationing can backfire: the day without a car in Mexico City

Gunnar Eskeland and Tarhan Feyzioglu

1553: Spatial correlations in panel data

John Driscoll and Aart Kraay

1552: Unemployment insurance and duration of unemployment: evidence from Slovenia's transition

Milan Vodopivec

1551: Sequencing social security, pension, and insurance reform

Dimitri Vittas

1550: Governance and returns on investment: an empirical investigation

Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann and Lant Pritchett

1549: The forgotten rationale for policy reform: the productivity of investment projects

Jonathan Isham and Daniel Kaufmann

1548: The relationship between farm size and efficiency in South African agriculture

Johan van Zyl, Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Colin Thirtle

1547: Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture (an error correction approach)

Colin Thirtle, Robert Townsend and Johan van Zyl

1546: Concessions of busways to the private sector: the Sao Paulo metropolitan region experience

Jorge M. Rebelo and Pedro P. Benvenuto

1545: International commodity control: retrospect and prospect

Christopher L. Gilbert

1544: Economic performance in small open economies: the Caribbean experience, 1980-1992

F. Desmond McCarthy and Giovanni Zanalda

1543: The combined incidence of taxes and public expenditures in the Philippines

Shantayanan Devarajan and Shaikh I. Hossain

1542: The development of industrial pensions in the United States in the twentieth century

Samuel H. Williamson

1541: Deposit insurance

Eugene White

1540: Thrift deposit institutions in Europe and the United States

Dimitri Vittas

1539: The rise of securities markets: what can government do?

Richard Sylla

1538: Contingent liability in banking: useful policy for developing countries?

Anthony Saunders and Berry Wilson

1537: Before main banks: a selective historical overview of Japan's prewar financialsystem

Frank Packer

1536: Free banking: the Scottish experience as a model for emerging economies

Randall Kroszner

1535: Financial history: lessons of the past for reformers of the present

Gerard Caprio and Dimitri Vittas

1534: The evolution of central banking

Forrest Capie

1533: Universal banking and the financing of industrial development

Charles W. Calomiris

1532: Regulation and bank stability: Canada and the United States, 1870-1980

Michael Bordo

1531: Some new evidence on determinants of foreign direct investment in developing countries

Harinder Singh and Kwang W. Jun

1530: Poverty, inequality, and social policy in transition economies

Branko Milanovic

1529: Interest rates, credit, and economic adjustment in Nicaragua

Ulrich Lachler

1528: Developing commercial law in transition economies: examples from Hungary and Russia

Cheryl W. Gray and Kathryn Hendley

1527: Foreign direct investment, other capital flows, and current account deficits: what causes what?

Maxwell J. Fry, Stijn Claessens, Peter Burridge and Marie-Christine Blanchet

1526: Do we face a global"capital shortage"?

Zia Qureshi

1525: Is Ethiopia's debt sustainable?

Ejaz Ghani and Hyoungsoo Zang

1524: Employment and wage effects of trade liberalization: the case of Mexican manufacturing

Ana Revenga

1523: Does more for the poor mean less for the poor? The politics of tagging

Jonah Gelbach and Lant Pritchett

1522: Divergence, big time

Lant Pritchett

1521: Political regimes, trade, and labor policies in developing countries

Arup Banerji and Hafez Ghanem

1520: Regulating telecommunications in developing countries: outcomes, incentives, and commitment

Ahmed Galal and Bharat Nauriyal

1519: Payment systems in Latin America: a tale of two countries - Colombia and El Salvador

Robert Listfield and Fernando Montes-Negret

1518: Sustainability of private capital flows to developing countries: Is a generalized reversal likely?

Leonardo Hernandez and Heinz Rudolph

1517: Inflation crises and long-run growth

Michael Bruno and William Easterly

1516: Contractual savings for housing: How suitable are they for transitional economies?

Michael J. Lea and Bertrand Renaud

1515: Indonesia - Labor market policies and international competitiveness

Nisha Agrawal

1514: The impact of minimum wages in Mexico and Colombia

Linda A. Bell

1513: The World Trade Organization, the European Union, and the Arab World: trade policy priorities and pitfalls

Bernard Hoekman

1512: The World Bank primer on reinsurance

Donald A. McIsaac and David Babbel

1511: Default risk and the effective duration of bonds

David Babbel, Craig Merrill and William Panning

1510: Hungary's bankruptcy experience, 1992-93

Cheryl Gray, Sabine Schlorke and Miklos Szanyi

1509: Saving in transition economies: the summary report

Patrick Conway

1508: Small and medium-size enterprises in economic development: possiblities for research and policy

Sidney Winter

1507: Coping with too much of a good thing: policy responses for large capital inflows in developing countries

Morris Goldstein

1506: Restructuring regulation of the rail industry for the public interest

Ioannis Kessides and Robert Willig