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311: Macroeconomic performance before and after disinflation in Israel

Leonardo Leiderman and Nissan Liviatan

310: A framework for macroeconomic consistency for Zimbabwe

Ali Khadr and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

309: How to improve public sector finances in Honduras

Yalcin M. Baran

308: Harmonizing tax policies in Central America

Yalcin M. Baran

307: On the accuracy of economic observations: do Sub-Saharan trade statistics mean anything?

Alexander J. Yeats

306: A method for macroeconomic consistency in current and constant prices

Ali Khadr and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

305: World Bank work with nongovernmental organizations

Lawrence F. Salmen and A. Paige Eaves

304: The new political economy: positive economics and negative politics

Merilee S. Grindle

303: Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes?

Martin Ravallion

302: Improving support services for rural schools: a management perspective

Sherry Keith

301: Myths of the West: lessons from developed countries for development finance

Colin Mayer

300: How the 1981-83 Chilean banking crisis was handled

Mauricio Larrain

299: The external effects of public sector deficits

Carlos Rodríguez

298: Evaluating global macroeconomic models: a case study of MULTIMOD

Ahmad Jamshidi

297: Effects of the multifibre arrangement on developing countries'trade: an empirical investigation

Refik Erzan, Junichi Goto and Paula Holmes

296: How serious is the neglect of intrahousehold inequality ?

Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur

295: Developing country experience in trade reform

Vinod Thomas

294: Irreversibility, uncertainty, and investment

Robert Pindyck

293: Central bank losses: origins, conceptual issues, and measurement problems

Mario O. Teijeiro

292: Is the new political economy relevant to developing countries ?

Ronald Findlay

291: How can Indonesia maintain creditworthiness and noninflationary growth ?

Sadiq Ahmed and Ajay Chhibber

290: Risk - adjusted rates of return for project appraisal

Avinash Dixit and Amy Williamson

289: Inflation and seigniorage in Argentina

Miguel A. Kiguel and Pablo Neumeyer

288: School effects and costs for private and public schools in the Dominican Republic

Emmanuel Jimenez, Marlaine Lockheed and Ed Luna

287: The consistency of government deficits with macroeconomic adjustment: an application to Kenya and Ghana

Thanos Catsambas and Miria Pigato

286: Poverty and undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s

Martin Ravallion and Monika Huppi

285: Enhancing the contribution of land reform to Mexican agricultural development

John Richard Heath

284: The role of groups and credit cooperatives in rural lending

Monika Huppi and Gershon Feder

283: Experiences of financial distress in Thailand

Tipsuda Sundaravej and Prasarn Trairatvorakul

282: EMENA manufactured exports and EEC trade policy

Bela Balassa

281: Tariff policy and taxation in developing countries

Bela Balassa

280: Adjustment policies in East Asia

Bela Balassa

279: What determines the rate of growth and technological change?

Paul Romer

278: Inflation and the company tax base: methods to minimize inflation - induced distortions

Anand Rajaram

277: The effect of formal credit on output and employment in rural India

Shahidur Khandker and Hans Binswanger-Mkhize

276: Improving rural wages in India

Shahidur Khandker

275: Revised estimates and projections of international migration: 1980-2000

Fred Arnold

274: Efficiency and equity in social spending: how and why governments misbehave

Nancy Birdsall and Estelle James

273: Population, health and nutrition: FY88 annual sector review

Population and Human Resources Department

272: Women's changing participation in the labor force: a world perspective

T. Schultz

271: How industry - labor relations and government policies affect Senegal's economic performance

Katherine Terrell and Jan Svejnar

270: Fuelwood stumpage: financing renewable energy for the world's other half

Keith Openshaw and Charles Feinstein

269: Women in development: issues for economic and sector analysis

Women in Development Division

268: Shortcomings in the market for developing country debt

John Wakeman-Linn

267: Issues in income tax reform in developing countries

Cheryl W. Gray

266: Policy changes that encourage private business investment in Colombia

Mansoor Dailami

265: Do African countries pay more for imports ?

Alexander J. Yeats

264: Two irrigation systems in Colombia: their performance and transfer of management to users'associations

Herve Plusquellec

263: How has instability in world markets affected agricultural export producers in developing countries?

Peter Hazell, Mauricio Jaramillo and Amy Williamson

262: Adjustment and external shocks in Ireland

Dermot McAleese and F. Desmond McCarthy

261: Inflation, external debt, and financial sector reform: a quantitative approach to consistent fiscal policy

Sweder van Wijnbergen, Robert Rocha and Ritu Anand

260: Growth, debt, and sovereign risk in a small, open economy

Jagdeep S. Bhandari, Nadeem Ul Haque and Stephen J Turnovsky

259: Dealing with debt: the 1930's and the 1980's

Barry Eichengreen and Richard Portes

258: Understanding voluntary organizations: guidelines for donors

L. David Brown and David C. Korten

257: Growth, external debt and the real exchange rate in Mexico

Sweder van Wijnbergen

256: Cash debt buybacksand the insurance value of reserves

Sweder van Wijnbergen

255: The external debt difficulties of low income Africa

Charles Humphreys and John Underwood

254: Future financing needs of the highly indebted countries

Ishrat Husain and Saumya Mitra

253: Public debt, North and South

Helmut Reisen

252: Do the secondary markets believe in life after debt?

Vassilis Hajivassiliou

251: Patents, appropriate technology, and North-South trade

Ishac Diwan and Dani Rodrik

250: The Baker Plan: progress, shortcomings, and future

William Cline

249: The determinants of hospital costs: an analysis of Ethiopia

Ricardo Bitran-Dicowsky and David W. Dunlop

248: Private investment, government policy, and foreign capital in Zimbabwe

Mansoor Dailami and Michael Walton

247: Macroeconomic policies for structural adjustment

Carlos Rodríguez

246: Causes of adult deaths in developing countries: a review of data and methods

Richard Hayes, Thierry Mertens, Geraldine Lockett and Laura Rodrigues

245: Developing a partnership of indigenous peoples, conservationists, and land use planners in Latin America

Peter Poole

244: Do Caribbean exporters pay higher freight costs?

Alexander J. Yeats

243: Kuwait - Averting financial crisis

Fawzi H. Al-Sultan

242: A multi level model of school effectiveness in a developing country

Marlaine Lockheed and Nicholas T. Longford

241: The effect of job training on Peruvian women's employment and wages

Ana-Maria Arriagada

240: The public role in private post-secondary education: a review of issues and options

Ake Blomqvist and Emmanuel Jimenez

239: The choice between unilateral and multilateral trade liberalization strategies

Julio Nogues

238: The distributional consequences of a tax reform on a VAT for Pakistan

Ehtisham Ahmad and Stephen Ludlow

237: The curricular content of primary education in developing countries

Aaron Benavot and David Kamens

236: Education and earnings in Peru's informal nonfarm family enterprises

Peter Moock, Philip Musgrove and Morton Stelcner

235: Borrowing, resource transfers, and external shocks to developing countries: historical and counterfactual

Steven B. Webb and Heidi S. Zia

234: A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis

William Easterly

233: Public enterprise reform in adjustment lending

John Nellis

232: Women and food security in Kenya

Nadine R. Horenstein

231: The World Bank revised minimum standard model (RMSM): concepts and issues

Doug Addison

230: Unemployment, migration, and wages in Turkey 1962-85

Bent Hansen

229: The effect of demographic changes on saving for life cycle motives in developing countries

Steven B. Webb and Heidi S. Zia

228: Recent economic performance of developing countries

Robert Lynn and F. Desmond McCarthy

227: Institutional reforms in sector adjustment operations: the World Bank's experience

Samuel Paul

226: Inflation and the costs of stabilization: country experiences, conceptual issues, and policy lessons

Andres Solimano

225: Targeting assistance to the poor using household survey data

Paul Glewwe and Oussama Kanaan

224: The economics of the government budget constraint

Stanley Fischer

223: Overvalued and undervalued exchange rates in an equilibrium optimizing model

Jose Saul Lizondo

222: The labor market and economic stabilization inZambia

Christopher Colclough

221: How does uncertainty about the real exchange rate affect exports?

Ricardo Caballero and Vittorio Corbo

220: Building capacity for policy analysis

Samuel Paul, David Steedman and Francis X. Sutton

219: Rural credit in developing countries

Avishay Braverman and J. Luis Guasch

218: Public finance, trade, and development: the Chilean experience

Vittorio Corbo

217: Public sector management issues in structural adjustment lending

Barbara Nunberg

216: Price and quality effects of VERs - revisited: a case study of Korean footwear exports

Jaime de Melo and L. Winters

215: Adjustment and income distribution: a counterfactual analysis

Francois Bourguinon, William Branson and Jaime de Melo

214: Adjustment and the labor market

Peter R. Fallon and Luis Riveros

213: Conditionality and debt relief

Stijn Claessens and Ishac Diwan

212: How private investment reacts to changing macroeconomic conditions: the case of Chile in the 1980s

Andres Solimano