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  Banking on the poor? : branch placement and non-farm rural development in Bangladesh

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  In Bangladesh, Grameen Bank puts banks in areas where gains from switching from farming to nonfarm enterprises favor the poor. Other banks put more weight on potential gains to the nonpoor. Ravallion and Wodon assess whether the placement of bank branches in Bangladesh responds to unexploited potential for nonfarm rural development.
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  Infrastructure project finance and capital flows : a new perspective

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Searching for sustainable microfinance : a review of five Indonesian initiatives

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
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  Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Aid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems.
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  Single - equation estimation of the equilibrium real exchange rate

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Are there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Financial sector adjustment lending : a mid - course analysis

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Trade liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa : case study of South Africa

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  A striking feature of South Africa's trade liberalisation is that, until 1995, it did not involve any import liberalisation. The focus of earlier liberalisation was the reduction of anti-export bias, and, on the import side, the replacement of QRs with equivalent tariffs and other duties. This distinguishes the process in South Africa from that which has happened in other African liberalisations.
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  Determinants of the real exchange rate in South Africa

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  The real exchange rate is a key policy variable in South Africa's open economy. A cointegration framework is used with single equation equilibrium correction models to investigate the short-run and long-run equilibrium determinants of the quarterly real exchange rate, 1970:1–1995:1.

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