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1269: Union - nonunion wage differentials in the developing world: a case study of Mexico

Alexis Panagides, Harry Patrinos and Dec

1268: The reform of mechanisms for foreign exchange allocation: theory and lessons from sub-Saharan Africa

Eliana La Ferrara, Gabriel Castillo and John Nash

1267: The tax base in transition: the case of Bulgaria

Zeljko Bogetic and Arye Hillman

1266: An efficient frontier for international portfolios with commodity assets

Sudhakar Satyanarayan, Panos Varangis and Dec

1265: Parallel exchange rates in developing countries: lessons from eight case studies

Miguel A. Kiguel and Stephen O'Connell

1264: A rock and a hard place: the two faces of U.S. trade policy toward Korea

Joseph Finger and Dec

1263: The effects of barriers on equity investment in developing countries

Stijn Claessens, Moon-Whoan Rhee and Dec

1262: Flexibility in Sri Lanka's labor market

Martin Rama and Dec

1261: A political - economy analysis of free trade areas and customs unions

Arvind Panagariya, Ronald Findlay and Dec

1260: When is a life too costly to save?: evidence from U.S. environmental regulations

George Van Houtven, Maureen Cropper and Dec

1259: The reform of fiscal systems in developing and emerging market economies: a federalism perspective

Robin Boadway, Sandra Roberts and Anwar Shah

1258: Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill?

Richard Bird

1257: Old age security in transitional economies

Louise Fox

1256: World fossil fuel subsidies and global carbon emissions in a model with interfuel substitution

Bjorn Larsen

1255: Intrahousehold resource allocation: an overview

Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman and Dec

1254: What are OECD trade preferences worth to sub-Saharan Africa?

Alexander J. Yeats and Dec

1253: Can competition policy control"301"?

Joseph Finger, K.C. Fung and Dec

1252: On the dangers of decentralization

Remy Prud'homme and Dec

1251: Excise taxes

John F. Due

1250: Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four

William Easterly and Dec

1249: Competitiveness and environmental standards: some exploratory results

Sorsa, Piritta*DEC

1248: Do domestic firms benefit from foreign direct investment? Evidence from panel data

Brian Aitken, Ann Harrison and Dec

1247: Complex transactions under uncertainty: Brazil's machine tool industry

Andrew Stone and Dec

1246: Determinants of cross-country income inequality: an augmented Kuznets hypothesis

Branko Milanovic and Dec

1245: The adding-up problem: strategies for primary commodity exports in sub-Saharan Africa

Takamasa Akiyama, Donald Larson and Dec

1244: Difficulties of transferring risk-based capital requirements to developing countries

Edward Kane

1243: Are institutional investors an important source of portfolio investment in emerging markets?

Punam Chuhan and Dec

1242: Financial policies in socialist countries in transition

Boris Pleskovic

1241: Regulation, institutions, and commitment in the British telecommunications sector

Pablo Spiller, Ingo Vogelsang and Dec

1240: Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93

William Easterly, Paulo Viera da Cunha and Dec

1239: Principles of regulatory policy design

David Sappington and Dec

1238: Structural adjustment in the 1980s: Kenya

Gurushri Swamy and Dec

1237: Assessing Bank performance and the impact of financial restructuring in a macroeconomic framework: a new application

Yavuz Boray and Hector Sierra

1236: The impact of two tier producer and consumer food pricing in India

Maurice Schiff

1235: Eastern Europe's experience with banking reform: is there a role for banks in the transition?

Alfredo Thorne and Dec

1234: Price formation, nominal anchors, and stabilization policies in Hungary: an empirical analysis

Andres Solimano, David E. Yuravlivker and Dec

1233: Hedging cotton price risk in Francophone African countries

Sudhakar Satyanarayan, Elton Thigpen, Panos Varangis and Dec

1232: Will GATT enforcement control antidumping?

Joseph Finger, K.C. Fung and Dec

1231: Making a market: mass privatization in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Nemat Shafik and Dec

1230: Unemployment in Mexico: its characteristics and determinants

Ana Revenga, Michelle Riboud and Dec

1229: The structure, regulation, and performance of pension funds in nine industrial countries

E Davis and Dec

1228: Competition, competition policy, and the GATT

Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis and Dec

1227: Designing water institutions: market failures and institutional response

Marie Leigh Livingston and Dec

1226: Forecasting volatility in commodity markets

Kenneth F. Kroner, Devin P. Kneafsey, Stijn Claessens and Dec

1225: Intra - Sub - Saharan African trade: is it too little?

Faezeh Foroutan and Lant Pritchett

1224: Devaluation in low-inflation economies

Miguel A. Kiguel and Nita Ghei

1223: How robust is a poverty profile?

Martin Ravallion and Benu Bidani

1222: Trade reform in ten sub-Saharan African countries: achievements and failures

Faezeh Foroutan

1221: Does results and development (R&D) contribute to economic growth in developing countries?

Nancy Birdsall and Changyong Rhee

1220: Developing countries and the Uruguay Round: negotiations on services

Bernard Hoekman and Dec

1219: Decentralizing water resource management: economic incentives, accountability, and assurance

K. Easter, Bob Hearne and Dec

1218: Implementation of trade reform in sub-Saharan Africa: how much heat and how much light?

John Nash and Dec

1217: Unitary versus collective models of the household: time to shift theburden of proof?

Pierre Chiappori, Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott and Ravi Kanbur

1216: Regulation, institutions, and commitment: privatization and regulation in the Argentine telecommunications sector

Alice Hill, Manuel Abdala and Dec

1215: How much do distortions affect growth?

William Easterly and Dec

1214: Trade, aid, and investment in sub-Saharan Africa

Ishrat Husain and Dec

1213: Japanese foreign direct investment: recent trends, determinants, and prospects

Kwang W. Jun, Frank Sader, Haruo Horaguchi, Hyuntai Kwak and Dec

1212: The links between economic policy and research: three examples from Ghana and some general thoughts

Ravi Kanbur

1211: Savings investment correlations and capital mobility in developing countries

Nlandu Mamingi

1210: The taxation of natural resources: principles and policy issues

Robin Boadway and Frank Flatters

1209: Should East Asia go regional? No, no and maybe

Arvind Panagariya

1208: Primary school achievement in English and mathematics in Zimbabwe: a multi-level analysis

Levi M. Nyagura and Abby Riddell

1207: Characteristics and performance of settlement programs: a review

Bill Kinsey and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

1206: Empirical perspectives on national index funds

Ishac Diwan, Vihang Errunza and Lemma W. Senbet

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 Summers

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

Avner Bar-ilan and Anat Levy