1997 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / THE WORLD BANK
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| First printing January 1997 |
| Michael Bruno is senior vice president, Development Economics, and chief economist at the World Bank. Boris Pleskovic is deputy administrator, Research Advisory Staff, at the World Bank. |
| The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics is a forum for discussion and debate of important policy issues facing developing countries. The conferences emphasize the contribution that empirical and basic economic research can make to understanding development processes and to formulating sound development policies. Conference papers are written by researchers in and outside the World Bank. The conference series was started in 1989. |
| Conference papers are reviewed by the editors and are subject to an internal and external peer review process. Summaries are included of floor discussions, which attempt to convey the sense and substance of what was discussed, interventions by participants from the floor, and responses by panelists. These summaries have not been reviewed by the presenters, the discussants, or other participants. Participants' affiliations identified in this volume are as of the time of the conference, April 2526, 1996. |
| The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this volume are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated organizations, or to members of its Board of Executive Directors or the countries they represent. |
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| Meta de Coquereaumont, Paul Holtz, and Barbara Karni edited this volume. Pat McNees worked on the floor discussion. Mark Bock was responsible for composition and layout, and Wendy Guyette helped with coordination. All are with American Writing Corporation. |
| Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics is indexed in Human Resources Abstracts, the Index of Economic Articles, the Index of Social Science and Humanities Proceedings, the Index to International Statistics, the Public Affairs Information Service, Sage Public Administration Abstracts, the Standard Periodical Directory, and Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory and online by ABI/INFORM and DIALOG. |
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