ontents of RDE: Volume 7

Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2003

Contents

Relative National Efficiency and Country Size: Evidence for Developing Countries
Chris Milner and Thomas Weyman-Jones

Conflict and Trade in a Predator/Prey Economy
Charles H. Anderton

Labor Market Interaction between Legal and Illegal Immigrants
Gil S. Epstein

Do Foreign Direct Investment and Gross Domestic Investment Promote Economic Growth
Jong Il Choe

Technology Adoption in the Presence of Constraints: The Case of Fertilizer Demand in Ethiopia
Andre Croppenstedt, Mulat Demeke and Meloria M. Meschi

Publicly-Provided Goods and Intrafamily Resource Allocation: Femal Child Survival in India
Suzanne M. Gleason

Transitional Dynamics and Indeterminacy of Equilibria in an Endogenous Growtel with a Public Input
Theodore Palivos, Chong K. Yip and Junxi Zhang

A Generalized Human Development Index
Satya R. Chakravarty

Public Investment and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Empirical Test
Miguel D. Ramirez and Nader Nazmi

The Penalties of Inefficient Infrastructure
Felix K. Rioja

Interactions between Agicultur and Industry: Theoretical Analysis of the Consequences of Discriminating Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jørn Rattsø and Ragnar Torvik

Government Spending, Taxation and Oil Revenues in Mexico
José A. Tijerina-Guajardo and José A. Pagán

Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2003

Contents

The Politics of Foreign Aid: A Median Voter Perspective
Wolfgang Mayer and Pascalis Raimondos-Møller

An African Growth Trap: Production Technology and the Time-Consistency of Agricultural Taxation, R&D and Investment
Margaret S. McMillan and William A. Masters

Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment and Tax Credits: Estimates for Costa Rica
Lisandro Abrego

Exports, Returns to Scale, and Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Taiwanese Manufacturing Industries
Amy R. Hwang

Labor Market Developments in Albania: An Analytical Overview
Elida Çuka, Harry Papapanagos, Natasha Polo and Peter Sanfey

Eco-Labeling and Stages of Development
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau and Ulrike Grote

Does Financial Depth Improve Aggregate Savings Performance? Further Cross-Country Evidence
Christopher J. Cook

Endogenous, Efficient Long-run Cyclical Unemployment, Endogenous Long-run Growth and Division of Labor
Julan Du

Does Investing in Technology Affect Exports? Evidence from Indian Firms
Rana Hasan and Mayank Raturi

Regime Switches, Biased Expectations and the Brazilian Experience
Marcelo F. Salomon

Human Capital, Study Effort and Persistent Income Inequality
Chengze Simon Fan

The Labor Market as a Smoothing Device: Labor Supply Responses to Crop Loss
Lisa A. Cameron and Christopher Worswick

Contents

Estimating the Impact of WTO and Domestic Reforms on the Indian Cotton and Textile Sectors: A General Equilibrium Approach
Aziz Elbehri, Thomas Hertel and Will Martin

Structural Change and Economic Growth in China
Shenggen Fan, Xiaobo Zhang and Sherman Robinson

Discarding Facts: The Economics of Caste
James G. Scoville

Toothless Tigers? East Asian Economic Growth from 1960-1990
Robin Grier

Transition Problems in Policy Reform: Agricultural Trade Liberalization in India
Servass Storm

Trade Liberalization and the Efficiency of Firms in Indian Manufacturing
Nigel L. Driffield and Uma S. Kambhampati

Interactions of Informal and Formal Agents in South Asian Rural Credit Markets
John Adams, Hans-Peter Brunner and Frank Raymond

Restoring Macro-economic Stability through Fiscal Adjustment: A Real-Financial CGE Analysis for India
C.W.M. Naastepad

Dynamics of Business Cycles in Asia: Differences and Similarities
Sunghyun Henry Kim, M. Ayhan Kose and Michael G. Plummer

Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Nonindustrial Countries: Does Colonial Heritage Matter for Africa?
Gregory N. Price

Environmental Protection and Urban Unemployment: Environmental Policy Reform in a Polluted Dualistic Economy
Ichiroh Daitoh

The Sri Lankan Unemployment Problem Revisited
Martín Rama

Contents

Economic Performance, Trade Restrictiveness and Efficiency
J. Christophe Bureau, Nancy H. Chau, Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Trade, Exchange Rate and Energy Pricing Reform in Iran: Potentially Large Efficiency Effects and Gains to the Poor
Jesper Jensen and David Tarr

The European Single Currency and MENA’s Exports to Europe
Lahcen Achy and Khalid Sekkat

Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy Facing Socio-political Instability
Chetan Ghate, Quan Vu Le and Paul J. Zak

Capital Flows, Vertical Multinationals, Wage Inequality and Welfare
Wen-Jung Liang and Chao-Cheng Mai

Food Aid Disincentives: The Tunisian Experience
Mesfin Bezuneh, Brandy Deaton and Segu Zuhair

Distinguishing between the Effects of Primary and Post-primary Education on Economic Growth
Chris Papageorgiou

Are Returns to Investment Lower for the Poor? Human and Physical Capital Interactions in Rural Vietnam
Dominique van de Walle

Psalm 137:1-7

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill .
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

Remember, O LORD , what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell.
"Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"

Ishitar Gate of Babylon, Pergammon Museum. Thanks to Sumerians (whose descendants include Iraqis) we learned to drink beer. Let us drink to that.