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  Endogenous distortions in product and labor markets

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Product and labor market distortions move in the same direction in response to economic and social changes. Conditionality by foreign agencies should target product market distortions.
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  Growth and poverty in rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Higher agricultural yields reduced absolute poverty in rural India, both by raising smallholder productivity and by increasing real agricultural wages. But gains to the poor were far smaller in the short run than in the long run.Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time.
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  The significance of credits and subsidies in Russian agricultural reform

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Federal transfers to Russia's agro industrial complex fell from 10 percent of GDP in 1992 to 3 percent of GDP in 1993, and were slated to be only 2 percent of GDP in 1994.
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  Government's role in Pakistan agriculture : major reforms are needed

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The proper role of Pakistan's government in the agriculture sector should be to encourage the development of a smoothly functioning market, through institutional and regulatory reform that facilitates market efficiency and private sector activities.
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  Central America and the North American Free Trade Agreement /How Does the North American Free Trade Agreement Affect Central America? / Edward E.Leamer ... [et al.]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  NAFTA seems like a very troubling agreement for Central America, especially in apparel and textiles. Losses from NAFTA depend on the economic size of Mexico. Central America can gain from NAFTA provided Mexico is "big enough" to satisfy completely U.S. import demands and Central America can redirect its products from U.S.
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  Rural nonfarm employment : a survey

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Although governments in some countries are implementing projects to support small scale and rural enterprises, more commonly the rural non farm sector operates in a policy environment that is biased against it.
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  Stock market development and financial intermediaries : stylized facts

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The three most developed stock markets are in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the most underdeveloped markets are in Colombia, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
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  Environmental regulation and development : a cross - country empirical analysis

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 1995

  Paper develops comparative indices of environmental policy and performance for thirty-one countries, using a quantified analysis of reports prepared for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
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  Estimating the world at work

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  What is the work status of the world's working age population?
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  Agricultural trade liberalization in the Uruguay Round : one step forward,one step back?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The Uruguay Round appears to have made import protection in agriculture more transparent, but at the expense of significant liberalization in most countries.

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