Policy Research Working Paper Series
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- 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 Hertel, Christian F. Bach, Betina Dimaranan and Will Martin
- 1613: Does public capital crowd out private capital?: evidence from India

- Luis Servén
- 1612: Stock market and investment: the signaling role of the market

- Cherian Samuel
- 1611: Economic analysis for health projects

- Jeffrey 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
- 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
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