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    In search of price rigidities : recent sectoral evidence from Argentina

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Monetary and exchange rate policies have different effects on relative prices among economic sectors --- and thus significantly influence the real side of the economy.The hypothesis that the price adjustment to nominal shocks is instantaneous has been part of the monetarist approach explaining the inflationary process in Argentina.But Morisset and Revoredo argue that monetary and exchange ra
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    Workers in transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The outlook is bright for transition economies that are fully embracing market based reform, including appropriate, coherently applied labor policies. In other transition economies, a mix of paternalism and populism could produce partial, timid reform that makes them increasingly unproductive and corrupt.
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    Governance and the returns to investment : an empirical investigation

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    There is a strong statistical link between a country's civil liberties and the performance of its aid financed government investment projects.
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    From plan to market : patterns of transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Among the findings from this analysis of patterns of transition: Liberalization is essential to stabilization despite an initial spurt in prices.
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    In search of owners: lessons of experience with privatization and corporate governance in transition economies

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Although each approach to privatization has its advantages, well designed voucher privatization may best meet the objectives of feasibility, governance, fairness, and institution building.Gray reviews the goals of privatization and evaluates various methods used to achieve them in different transition settings.
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    The Latvian banking crisis : lessons learned

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    In the spring of 1995, Latvia experienced the largest banking crisis in the former Soviet Union to date, involving the loss of about 40 percent of the banking system's assets and liabilities. Fleming and Talley outline the Latvian authorities' strategy for developing the banking system and identify how and why it unraveled.
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    Banking reform in transition - countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The institutional capacity of banks in transition economies improves faster when a new or parallel private banking system is allowed to emerge than it does when the government tries simply to reform existing state-owned banks.
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    Payments and finance problems in the CIS

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Solving payments problems that have recently constrained interstate trade among member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) requires stabilization measures that improve the prospects of currency convertibility among CIS countries and stronger institutional arrangements, to permit payments and settlements through correspondent bank accounts.Payments problems constrained inte
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    The Polish experience with bank and enterprise restructuring

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Poland's program tackled simultaneously bank and enterprise restructuring and dealt decisively with the bad debt stock and flow problem with measures to improve incentives and institutional skills. Among transition economies, Poland was a pioneer in bank and enterprise restructuring.
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    When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor.

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