Two recurring themes arise from this discussion. The first is that financial liberalisation looks to have been much more successful than appeared to be the case a decade ago. In 1991, the Reserve Bank devoted its entire Annual Conference to a stocktake of the benefits and costs of financial deregulation (see Macfarlane (1991)). While the various papers were able to point to some benefits, inclu...

We would like to thank Gary Fields and Andrew Foster for useful discussion and comments. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent, nor do they necessarily represent the views of the General Statistical Office of ...

We examined late-1990s trends in enlisted recruitment, retention, and reenlistment and officer retention in the Air Force compared with the other services to determine whether the Air Force faces personnel issues that differ in type and magnitude from those of the other services. We focused on the late 1990s because it is the period after the defense drawdown was completed and the end of Operat...

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Major advances have been achieved during the past 40 years in the epidemiology, etiology, pathology, endocrinology, immunology, diagnosis, and treatment of molar pregnancy (MP) and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). MP is now recognized as composing two distinct entities--complete and partial, with distinct histopathology, genetics, and clinical presentations. Proper management is depen...