ontents of RDE: Volume 8

Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2004

Contents

Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2004

Traded and Non-traded Goods and Real Wages
Hamid Beladi and Ravi Batra

Household Strategies of Coping with Shocks in Post-crisis Russia
Michael M. Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov

Can an Exhaustible Resource Economy be Sustainable?
Y. Hossein Farzin

Consequences of Imitation by Poor Countries on International Wage Inequalities and Global Growth
Hans Jarle Kind

The Effectiveness of Capital Controls: The Case of Brazil
William Miles

A Barrier to the Diffusion of Tacit Knowledge
Katsuya Takii

Using Quality of Interview Information to Assess Nonrandom Attrition Bias in Developing Country Panel Data
John A. Maluccio

Measuring the Impact of Various Income Sources on the Link between Inequality and Development: Implications for the Kuznets Curve
Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

A Simple Model of Resource Degradation and Agricultural Productivity in a Subsistence Economy
Kevin Sylwester

Strategies for Fiscal Reform in the Context of the EMU: The Case of Portugal
Alfredo M. Pereira and Pedro G. Rodrigues

The Effect of Inequality on Growth: Theory and Evidence from the Indian States
Sugata Ghosh and Sarmistha Pal

Volume 8, Issue 2, May 2004

Contents

Attachment to a National Money: Evidence on Currency Holding at Different Levels of Development
Philip N. Jefferson and Stephen A. O’Connell

Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and John Knight

Catching Up and Convergence: Long-run Growth in East Asia
Frank S. T. Hsiao and Mei-Chu W. Hsiao

International Trade and Gender Wage Discrimination: Evidence from East Asia
Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers and Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr.

Swidden Agriculture in Developing Countries
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

The Impact of Public Infrastructure on the Productivity of the Chilean Economy
Jose M. Albala-Bertrand and Emmanuel C. Mamatzakis

Ownership Structure and Technological Upgrading in International Joint Ventures
Ping Lin and Kamal Saggi

A Reexamination of the Time Path of Wage Differentials in Taiwan
Chun-Hung A. Lin and Peter F. Orazem

Reforming Food Subsidy Schemes: Estimating the Gains from Self-Targeting in India
Bhaskar Dutta and Bharat Ramaswami

Forum
On the Economics of Refugee Flows
Oded Stark

Contents

The East Asian Dollar Standard, Fear or Floating and Original Sin
Ronald McKinnon and Gunther Schnabl

Foreign Aid, Innovation and Technology Transfer in a North-South Model with Learning-by-Doing
Michael Benarroch and James D. Gaisford

Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Global Food Aid
Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements and Erwin R. Tiongson

The Enforcement of Property Rights and Underdevelopment
Era Dabla-Norris and Scott Freeman

Optimal Tariffs and Subsidies and Changes in Market Structure
Dominik Egli and Frank Westermann

Specialization, Transaction Efficiency and Firm Size: Some Empirical Evidence
Kit-Chun Lam and Pak-Wai Liu

R&D Induced Growth?
Marios Zachariadis

A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Demand- and Supply-Side Education Interventions: The Case of PROGRESA in Mexico
David P. Coady and Susan W. Parker

Income Distribution, Learning by Doing and Comparative Advantage
Anandi Mani and Jinyoung Hwang

A Re-examination of Economic Growth, Tax Policy and Distributive Politics
Yong Bao and Jang-Ting Guo

ARDL Approach to Test the Productivity Bias Hypothesis
Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee

Filial Obligations and Child Labor
Luis Felipe López-Calva and Koji Miyamoto

Contents

Progressive Lending as an Enforcement Mechanism in Microfinance Programs
Dominik Egli

Contractual Mix between Cash and Kind Wages of Casual Workers in an Agrarian Economy
Samar K. Datta, Jeffrey B. Nugent and Asher Tishler

Sectoral Selection and Informality: A Nicaraguan Case Study
Michael J. Pisani and José A. Pagan

Robust Poverty and Inequality Measurement in Egypt: Correcting for Spatial-price Variation and Sample Design Effects
Dean Jolliffe, Gaurav Datt and Manohar Sharma

Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance under Multiple Government Programs
Paul Makdissi and Quentin Wodon

Strategic Complementarity in Direct Investments
Toshihiro Matsumura

Wages and Other Determinants of Corruption
Luis A. Sosa

Exchange Rate Volatility and Macroeconomic Performance in Hong Kong
Mark Crosby

Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Account Liberalization: The Case of Korea
Soyoung Kim, Sunghyun Henry Kim and Yunjong Wang

Poverty, Growth and Redistribution: A Study of Iran
Ahmad Assadzadeh and Satya Paul

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