Establishing secure property rights in
transition economies amounts to solving two problems:
inefficiency structures of control rights over assets and
poor contract...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14422Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Shleifer, Andrei
This volume contains two comments on
Jefferson and Rawski's "How Industrial Reform
Worked in China: the Role of Innovation, Competition, and
Property Rights," followed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14425Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Hussain, Athar ;
Stern, Nicholas H. ;
Burki, Shahid Javed
This volume of Proceedings of the World
Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics 1994
contains two comments on Elster's "The Impact of
Constitutions on Economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14429Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Przeworski, Adam ;
Bardhan, Pranab
Quality of health care is a
multidimensional and multifaceted concept interwoven with
value judgments about what constitutes good quality. This
lack of linearity partly...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP258Date: March 31, 1995Author:
De Geyndt,Willy L.
The papers in this volume were presented
at the sixth World Bank Annual Conference on Development
Economics, held April 28-29, 1994, in Washington, D.C. The
conference...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14441Date: March 31, 1995
Drawing on the general assumption that
information is imperfect, this article addresses three main
issues: First, why do some migrants return even though the
intercountry...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14436Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Stark, Oded
Road transport is the dominant mode of
transport in sub-Saharan Africa, carrying close to 90
percent of the region's passenger and freight
transport, and providing the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP275Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Heggie, Ian G.
Why are the ambitions of economic
development practitioners and reformers so often
disappointed? One answer is that development policymakers
and reformers are congenital...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14426Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Williamson, Oliver E.
This volume of Proceedings of the World
Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics 1994
contains two comments on Flanagan's "Labor Market
Response to a Change in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14439Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Layard, Richard ;
Pencavel, John
This paper describes the status of
accounting and auditing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the
importance of having an auditing profession which is seen to
maintain...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP276Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Johnson, Sonia R.
This report finds that the Bank's
implementation of its poverty reduction strategy remains
robust. The Bank's operations support a wide range of
activities that are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14020Date: March 31, 1995
This volume contains two papers
commenting on Balcerowicz and Gelb's
article-"Macropolicies in Transition to a Market
Economy: A Three-Year Perspective," presented at...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14419Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Aslund, Anders ;
Kornai, Janos
Very large urban centers are a
conspicuous feature of many developing economies, yet the
subject of the size distribution of cities (as opposed to
such issues as rural-urban...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14430Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Krugman, Paul
Environmental concerns must be
integrated into the development process, but African
countries still face many challenges as they work to achieve
development that is...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP277Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Convery,Frank J.
The development experience of the past
forty years has been an astonishing success: life expectancy
and education levels have increased dramatically, and
average per...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14000Date: March 31, 1995Author:
The World Bank
In recent decades Europe has experienced
periods of push and pull migration. Whereas pull migration
has been seen as economically beneficial, there is concern
that push...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14434Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Zimmerman, Klaus F.
This report finds that the Bank's
implementation of its poverty reduction strategy remains
robust. The Bank's operations support a wide range of
activities that are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14021Date: March 31, 1995
The most important question about
Russian economic reform is how to avoid a collapse of
Russia's nascent democracy in the face of highly
unstable political and economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14420Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Commodity prices rose during the first
quarter, reversing the decline of the fourth quarter of
1994. The revised World Bank index of nonfuel primary
commodity prices...
Type: PublicationReport#: 85990Date: March 1, 1995
There is a strong relationship between
agricultural stagnation and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
Much, though not all, of the solution for poverty
alleviation depends...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP280Date: February 28, 1995Author:
Cleaver, Kevin M. ;
Donovan, W. Graeme
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