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November 1999
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April 1999
February/March 1999
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Romesh Vaitilingam on 0117-983-9770 or mobile 07768-661095
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NOVEMBER 1999:
The Academic Economists at the Heart of International Economic Policy-Making:
	Stan Fischer of the IMF on Reforming the International Financial System
	Joe Stiglitz on the World Bank at the Millennium
Plus:
	The Well-Being of Europe's Children: Overlooked in the Rush Towards Integration?
	Forecasting Exchange Rates with 'State-of-the-Art' Economic Techniques
	An Effective 'Knowledge Bank': New Priorities for the World Bank
	Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: The Failure of IMF Programmes

OCTOBER 1999:
	Will EMU Grow Too Large for its Own Good?
	The Importance of the Stability Pact for Successful EMU
	Forecasting Exchange Rates: The Irrationality of Technical Traders
	Higher Education, Technological Progress and the Growth of Inequality
	The Positive Impact of Education-Led Growth on Income Equality
	US Equity Returns and the Expectation of Disaster

JULY 1999:
	How Effective are Active Labour Market Policies like the New Deal?
	Hospital Waiting Times: Changes Since the Health Service Reforms
	Cutting Social Security: The Benefits of International Coordination
	Why do Legal Disputes Often Take So Long to Reach Settlement?
	The Impact of Unpredicatable Corporate Tax Policies on Investment
	Explaining Rapid Economic Growth: Return to the 'Asian Miracle'
	The Significance of Microcredit as a Tool of Third World Development

JUNE 1999:
	Marriage and Employment: How People Form Long-Term Partnerships
	The Impact of Computers on Rising Income Inequality
On the Underground Economy:
	The Benefits of Measuring the Size of the Hidden Economy
	Why Countries Have Incentives to Misreport their National Accounts
	Can Broad Estimates of the Black Economy Really Help Policy-Makers

APRIL 1999:
	What Credit Policy for Enterprise?
	How the Minimum Wage Can Increase Employment
	Are Moderately Conservative Central Bankers Always Good for the Economy?
	Unemployment Benefits: The Impact on Jobs and Poverty
	What Policies Help Poor Countries Get Rich?

FEBRUARY/MARCH 1999:
	Inadequate Incentives for Companies to Provide Training
	In Defence of Inflexible Labour Markets
	The UK’s Low Pay Commission and the New National Minimum Wage
	Agent Technology: Major Economic Implications for E-Commerce
This issue also features work on:
	Experimental Economics: How Laboratory Results Can Influence Policy
	The Policy Implications of New Data on Income Mobility in the UK
Research results in the March 1999 issue include:
	Barry Eichengreen of UC, Berkeley on Kicking the Habit: The Benefits of Moving from Pegged Rates to Greater Exchange Rate Flexibility Before the Crunch
	Ed Lazear of Stanford on Culture, Language and the Globalization of Companies
	The Effect of Legal Rights on Marital Dissolution; The Impact of Computers of the Demand for Skilled Labour; IMF Conditionality as a Way to Assess Countries’ Commitment to Reform; Survival of the Fittest: Who Succeeds in Self-Employment?

JANUARY 1999:
	Pensions and the Economic Impact of an Ageing Population
	Night Shifts and Day Jobs: What Time of Day do People Work?
	The Effects of Monetary Integration on Economic Reform
	Interest Taxation in Europe: Can Tax Harmonisation Stop Tax Evasion?
	Globalisation: The Implications for Union Wage Bargaining Power