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1205: Wage and employment decisions in the Russian economy: an analysis of developments in 1992

Simon Commander, Leonid Liberman and Ruslan Yemtsov

1204: Structural adjustment, economic performance, and aid dependency in Tanzania

Nisha Agrawal, Zafar Ahmed, Michael Mered, Roger Nord and Dec

1203: Determinants of value - added tax revenue: a cross section analysis

Zeljko Bogetic and Fareed Hassan

1202: Privatization and foreign investment in the developing world, 1988-92

Frank Sader

1201: Five criteria for choosing among poverty programs

Margaret E. Grosh

1200: The life cycle distributional consequence of pay-as-you-go and funded pension systems

Jane Falkingham and Paul Johnson

1199: Publicpension governance and performance: lessons for developing countries

Olivia Mitchell

1198: Enterprise reform in China: the evolving legal framework

Natalie G. Lichtenstein and Dec

1197: Determinants of inflation among franc zone countries in Africa

Bruno Boccara and Shantayanan Devarajan

1196: Corporate tax structure and production

Jeffrey Bernstein and Anwar Shah

1195: The enterprise sector and emergence of the Polish fiscal crisis, 1990-91

Mark Schaffer

1194: How fast has Chinese industry grown?

Thomas Rawski

1193: The Armenian labor market in transition: issues and options

Milan Vodopivec and Wayne Vroman

1192: Effects of tax reform on Argentina's revenues

Jacques Morisset and Alejandro Izquierdo

1191: Rent-sharing in the multi-fibre arrangement: the case of Mexico

Geoffrey J. Bannister

1190: The government's role in Japanese and Korean credit markets: a new institutional economics perspective

Yoon Je Cho and Thomas Hellmann

1189: Can Communist economies transform incrementally? China's experience

Alan Gelb, Gary Jefferson and Inderjit Singh

1188: Developmentalism, socialism, and free market reform: three decades of income distribution in Chile

Mario Marcel and Andres Solimano

1187: How should sovereign debtors restructure their debts? Fixed interest rates, flexible interest rates, or inflation - indexed

Andrew Warner

1186: Recent estimates of capital flight

Stijn Claessens and David Naude

1185: Reforming Hungarian agricultural trade policy: a quantitative evaluation

Morris Morkre and David Tarr

1184: Providing social benefits in Russia: redefining the roles of firms and government

Simon Commander and Richard Jackman

1183: Who would vote for inflation in Brazil?: an integrated framework approach to inflation and income distribution

Cheikh Kane and Jacques Morisett

1182: Corporate governance in Central and Eastern Europe: lessons from advanced market economies

Cheryl W. Gray and Rebecca J. Hanson

1181: Reforming health care: a case for stay well health insurance

Zeljko Bogetic and Dennis Heffley

1180: The financing and taxation of U.S. direct investment abroad

Harry Huizinga

1179: How the market transition affected export performance in the Central European economies

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Dec

1178: Productivity of public spending, sectoral allocation choices, and economic growth

John Baffes and Anwar Shah

1177: Environmental taxes and policies for developing countries

Neil Bruce and Gregory M. Ellis

1176: Cash social transfers, direct taxes, and income distribution in late socialism

Branko Milanovic

1175: OECD trade barriers faced by the successor states of the Soviet Union

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Alexander Yeats

1174: Asian trade barriers against primary and processed commodities

Raed Safadi and Alexander Yeats

1173: Morocco's free trade agreement with the European community: a quantitative assessment

Thomas Rutherford, Elisabet Rutstrom and David Tarr

1172: Liberalizing Indian agriculture: an agenda for reform

Garry Pursell and Ashok Gulati

1171: Finance and its reform: beyond laissez-faire

Gerard Caprio and Lawrence H. Summers

1170: Job search by employed workers: the effects of restrictions

Avner Bar-ilan and Anat Levy

1169: Costs and benefits of debt and debt service reduction

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

1168: How macroeconomic projections in policy framework papers for the African region compare with outcomes

Rashid Faruqee

1167: Unemployment and labor market dynamics in Russia

Simon Commander, Leonid Liberman and Ruslan Yemtsov

1166: The behavior of Russian firms in 1992: evidence from a survey

Simon Commander, Leonid Liberman and Cecilia Ugaz

1165: Social costs of the transition to capitalism: Poland, 1990-91

Branko Milanovic

1164: Power, distortions, revolt, and reform in agricultural land relations

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize, Klaus Deininger and Gershon Feder

1163: Domestic distortions and international trade

James Anderson and J. Peter Neary

1162: The Slovenian labor market in transition: issues and lessons learned

Milan Vodopivec and Samo Hribar-Milic

1161: Increasing women's participation in the primary school teaching force and teacher training in Nepal

Molly Maguire Teas

1160: Equity and bond flows to Asia and Latin America: the role of global and country factors

Punam Chuhan, Stijn Claessens and Nlandu Mamingi

1159: Stock market development and financial intermediary growth: a research agenda

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

1158: Population growth, externalities, and poverty

Nancy Birdsall and Charles Griffin

1157: Intertemporal and interspatial comparisons of income: the meaning of relative prices

Sultan Ahmad

1156: Tropical timber trade policies: what impact will eco-labeling have?

Panayotis N. Varangis, Carlos A. Primo Braga and Kenji Takeuchi

1155: The regulation and structure of nonlife insurance in the United States

Martin Grace and Michael M. Barth

1154: Options for pension reform in Tunisia

Dimitri Vittas

1153: North American free trade agreement: issues on trade in financial services for Mexico

Dimitri Vittas, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Alberto Musalem

1152: Population, health, and nutrition: annual operational review for fiscal 1992

Denise Vaillancourt and Stacye Brown

1151: Is growth bad for the environment? Pollution, abatement, and endogenous growth

Charles Marrewijk, Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg and Jos Verbeek

1150: Wealthier is healthier

Lant Pritchett and Lawrence H. Summers

1149: How labor markets and imperfect competition affect tariff policy

Martin Rama

1148: Economic instability and aggregate investment

Robert Pindyck and Andres Solimano

1147: Interest rates, growth, and external debt: the macroeconomic impact of Mexico's Brady deal

Stijn Claessens, Daniel Oks and Sweder van Wijnbergen

1146: Is poverty increasing in the developing world?

Shaohua Chen, Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion

1145: The simple(r) algebra of pension plans

Dimitri Vittas

1144: The foreign trade dimension of the market transition in Poland: the surprising export performance and its sustainability

Bartlomiej Kaminski

1143: Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform: some new facts

Lant Pritchett and Geeta Sethi

1142: Rent - seeking trade policy: a time series approach

Martin Rama

1141: Foreign direct investment in a macroeconomic framework: finance, efficiency, incentives, and distortions

Maxwell J. Fry

1140: How retail food markets responded to price liberalization in Russia after January 1992

Bruce Gardner and Karen M. Brooks

1139: Should sub-Saharan Africa expand cotton exports?

Jonathan R. Coleman and M. Elton Thigpen

1138: The economic impact of military expenditures

Daniel Landau

1137: Railway reform in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies

Philip W. Blackshaw, Louis S. Thompson, Dec and Esd

1136: The dynamic behavior of quota license prices: theory and evidence from the Hong Kong apparel quotas

Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan

1135: Inflation in Czechoslovakia, 1985-91

Zdenek Drabek, Kamil Janáček and Zdenek Tuma

1134: Bahrain - Managing a nonrenewable resource: savings and exchange-rate policies

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, Majd Nader and Dec

1133: Macroeconomic framework for an oil-based economy: the case of Bahrain

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Nader Majd

1132: An analysis of repressed inflation in three transitional economies

Andrew Feltenstein and Jiming Ha

1131: Prices and protocols in public health care

Jeffrey S. Hammer

1130: Poverty and policy

Michael Lipton and Martin Ravallion

1129: How policy changes affected cocoa sectors in sub-Saharan African countries

Jonathan R. Coleman, Takamasa Akiyama and Panos N. Varangis

1128: The international ocean transport industry in crisis: assessing the reasons and outlook

Hans Jurgen Peters

1127: How international economic links affect East Asia

Vikram Nehru

1126: The costs and benefits of Slovenian independence

Milan Cvikl, Evan Kraft and Milan Vodopivec

1125: Industrial development and the environment in Mexico

Adriaan Ten Kate

1124: A new database on human capital stock: sources, methodology and results

Vikram Nehru, Eric Swanson and Ashutosh Dubey

1123: Social development is economic development

Nancy Birdsall

1122: Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental relations in transition economics: toward a systematic framework of analysis

Richard Bird and Christine Wallich

1121: Measuring capital flight: a case study of Mexico

Harald Eggerstedt, Rebecca Brideau Hall and Sweder van Wijnbergen

1120: Policies for coping with price uncertainty for Mexican maize: policies for maize price variability in Mexico

Donald Larson

1119: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): its effect on South Asia

Raed Safadi and Alexander Yeats

1118: Trends in retirement systems and lessons for reform

Olivia Mitchell

1117: Portfolio investment flows to emerging markets

Sudarshan Gooptu

1116: Implications of agricultural trade liberalization for the developing countries

Antonio Salazar P. Brandao and Will Martin

1115: Looking at the facts: what we know about policy and growth from cross-country analysis

Ross Levine and Sara Zervos

1114: Does price uncertainty really reduce private investment? A small model applied to Chile

Anita George, Jacques Morisset and Dec

1113: The lucky few amidst economic decline: distributional change in Cote d'Ivoire as seen through panel data sets, 1985-88

Christiaan Grootaert and Ravi Kanbur

1112: Privatization, concentration, and pressure for protection: a steel sector study

Ying Qian and Ronald C. Duncan

1111: Foreign investment law in Central and Eastern Europe

Cheryl W. Gray and William Jarosz

1110: What would happen if all developing countries expanded their manufactured exports?

Will Martin

1109: Risk management and stable financial structures

Andrew Sheng and Yoon Je Cho

1108: Public output and private decisions: conceptual issues in the evaluation of Government activities and their implications for fiscal policy

Thanos Catsambas

1107: Financial reform lessons and strategies

Gerard Caprio, Izak Atiyas and James Hanson

1106: Improving women's access to higher education: a review of World Bank project experience

Halil Dundar and Jennifer Haworth