The effects of plant turnover and learning on productivity growth are econometrically measured using a large panel of Chilean establishments covering the period 1979-86.

The consensus of dozens of Bank and outside experts on issues and measures essential to government reform in six Eastern European economies changing to a market economy - and on how external agencies can best aid the reform process.

Inconsistencies in definitions of "manufactures" used to compile output and trade statistics produce a discrepancy of $60 billion in estimates of developing country exports. Clearly, international organizations must resolve these discrepancies.

Has the economic crisis of the 1980s in Sub-Saharan Africa increased mortality or at least reduced its rate of decline? Nationally, no. But the urban poor suffered more, the rural nonpoor less.

Africa's external financing problem is much more than a structural imbalance between imports and exports. Debt relief measures will be an important source of financing.