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Development Briefs were issued by the World Bank to inform the media, business, academic, and government policy communities about development policy analyses and results from the Bank's research activities. Development Briefs were discontinued in December 1995.

Winners and losers: Development Brief Number 64 (November 1995)
Unions can be bad---or good: Development Brief Number 63 (November 1995)
Trade increases most workers' welfare: Development Brief Number 62 (November 1995)
Will wages converge?: Development Brief Number 61 (November 1995)
Decentralization: Good results aren't automatic: Development Brief Number 60 (August 1995)
Making infrastructure dollars work: Development Brief Number 59 (August 1995)
Engendering economics: Development Brief Number 58 (August 1995)
Support for the aging: Development Brief Number 57 (August 1995)
Targeting Indonesia's poor: Development Brief Number 56 (May 1995)
Self-provision of water and power: Costly responses to public failure: Development Brief Number 55 (May 1995)
Sunk costs: Why exporters remain exporters: Development Brief Number 54 (May 1995)
Reverse linkages---everybody wins: Development Brief Number 53 (May 1995)
Speaking up: "Voice" and public accountability: Development Brief Number 52 (March 1995)
Hope for Latin America's indigenous poor: Development Brief Number 51 (March 1995)
EU's banarama---slipping: Development Brief Number 50 (March 1995)
A step backward in agricultural trade at the Uruguay Round?: Development Brief Number 49 (March 1995)
Better health and nutrition for women: Development Brief Number 48 (January 1995)
Economic consequences of the transition from civil war to peace: Development Brief Number 47 (January 1995)
Creating private enterprises and efficient markets: Development Brief Number 46 (January 1995)
The cost of air pollution abatement: Development Brief Number 45 (January 1995)
Redistributions across income levels in pay-as-you-go: Development Brief Number 44 (November 1994)
Redistribution across age cohorts in pay-as-you-go: Development Brief Number 43 (November 1994)
High costs = lower benefits or higher contributions: Development Brief Number 42 (November 1994)
Sharing the responsibility: public and private schemes: Development Brief Number 41 (November 1994)
Ah, yes: Governance!: Development Brief Number 40 (August 1994)
Russia's struggle with stabilization: Development Brief Number 39 (August 1994)
Property rights matter: Development Brief Number 38 (August 1994)
Stabilization loves political breakthroughs: Development Brief Number 37 (August 1994)
Brighter skies: Development Brief Number 36 (May 1994)
Social and public policy choices important for income equality: Development Brief Number 35 (May 1994)
Better macroeconomic policies boost Africa's growth: Development Brief Number 34 (May 1994)
African macroeconomic policy: improving, though not everywhere: Development Brief Number 33 (May 1994)
The future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: Development Brief Number 32 (March 1994)
Scope for fuel substitution: Development Brief Number 31 (March 1994)
Developing countries, firms, and risks: Development Brief Number 30 (March 1994)
Bank reforms can't wait: Development Brief Number 29 (March 1994)
Hunger is political economy: Development Brief Number 28 (January 1994)
Regionalism for East Asia?: Development Brief Number 27 (January 1994)
Investing in equipment pays off: Development Brief Number 26 (January 1994)
Unemployment in Eastern Europe: Development Brief Number 25 (January 1994)
Cooperation and contests: Development Brief Number 24 (October 1993)
East Asia's export push: Development Brief Number 23 (October 1993)
Early education push pays off for East Asia: Development Brief Number 22 (October 1993)
Building the institutional basis for shared growth: Development Brief Number 21 (October 1993)
Poverty and structural change in Côte d'Ivoire: Development Brief Number 20 (July 1993)
Building a technological base for development: Development Brief Number 19 (July 1993)
Paying more attention to ideas: Development Brief Number 18 (July 1993)
The macroeconomic effects of AIDS: Development Brief Number 17 (July 1993)
Aid at the end of the Cold War: Development Brief Number 16 (April 1993)
Rising portfolio flows: Short-lived or sustainable?: Development Brief Number 15 (April 1993)
Foreign direct investment---benefits beyond finance: Development Brief Number 14 (April 1993)
Better relations between business and government: Development Brief Number 13 (April 1993)
Financial regulation---good rules and bad: Development Brief Number 12 (February 1993)
Demand---and finance: Development Brief Number 11 (February 1993)
Housing markets and healthy economics: Development Brief Number 10 (February 1993)
Targeting the poor: Development Brief Number 9 (February 1993)
Energy efficiency in developing countries: Development Brief Number 8 (December 1992)
Unorthodox reform fails the poor in Peru: Development Brief Number 7 (December 1992)
Financial services promote growth: Development Brief Number 6 (December 1992)
How to reduce pollution at low cost: Development Brief Number 5 (December 1992)
The high costs of U.S. quantitative restrictions: Development Brief Number 4 (October 1992)
The plundering of agriculture in LDCs: Development Brief Number 3 (October 1992)
Educating girls has a high payoff: Development Brief Number 2 (October 1992)
Private beats public 11--1: Development Brief Number 1 (October 1992)

Development Briefs were discontinued in December 1995. Development Briefs were issued by the World Bank to inform the media, business, academic, and government policy communities about development policy analyses and results from the Bank's research activities. They were drawn from the work of individual Bank researchers and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its member countries--and should not therefore be attributed to the World Bank or its affiliates. Development Briefs are not copyrighted and may be reproduced with the appropriate attribution.