As the recessionary environment of the
1980s has given way to a greater degree of macroeconomic
stability in the Latin American and Caribbean region,
poverty reduction...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13662Date: January 31, 1993
Moderate inflation. External shocks,
purchasing power parity, and the equilibrium real exchange
rate. Estimating returns to scale with large, imperfect
panels: an application...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17645Date: January 31, 1993Author:
Dornbusch, Rudiger ;
Fischer, Stanley ;
Devarajan, Shantayanan ;
Lewis, Jeffrey D. ;
Robinson, Sherman ;
Levy, Brian ;
Westbrook, M. Daniel ;
Tybout, James R. ;
Krishna, Kala
There is a congruence of several forces
in the developing world that makes very timely the
formulation of a strategy to address energy efficiency and
conservation issues...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11987Date: January 31, 1993
This policy paper is based on the World
Bank Industry and Energy Department's ongoing policy
and research work, which: (a) examines experiences of
industrial countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11676Date: January 31, 1993
This study of Uruguay and Costa Rica
reveals two countries with striking similarities in initial
conditions, economic policies and outcomes. It portrays two
countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11644Date: January 31, 1993Author:
Rottenberg, Simon [editor]
If world poverty is to be reduced,
businesses and governments must continue to pursue economic
growth. But growth cannot continue without attention to the
environment....
Type: PublicationReport#: 11709Date: January 31, 1993Author:
Pearce, David W. ;
Warford, Jeremy J.
Central and Eastern European countries
and the states of the former USSR have embarked on an
exhilarating but difficult political and economic
transition. Changes in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11635Date: January 31, 1993Author:
Braverman, Avishay ;
Brooks, Karen M. ;
Csaki, Csaba
"While substantial progress has
been made over the past generation, the statistics on
poverty continue to shock." These were the opening
words by Mr. Sandstrom in his...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26524Date: January 12, 1993Author:
Sandstrom,Sven
The decade of the 1980s has witnessed a
fundamental change in the way governments and development
agencies think about the environment and development. The
two are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12721Date: January 1, 1993Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan [editor]
Among its responsibilities for providing
courses, seminars and institutional assistance to training
institutions, the EDI also prepares training materials. The
collection...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12254Date: January 1, 1993
This paper presents the analysis and
results of three simulation studies on economic growth and
pollution, undertaken for the 1992 World Development Report
(WDR) on...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP186Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Anderson, Dennis ;
Cavendish, William
The World Bank invests a considerable
proportion of its resources in efforts to increase food crop
production and to increase incomes of the poor, both
essential to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11394Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Miller del Rosso, Joy
This study explores what can be done to
overcome the current crisis of quality, relevance and
finance in African universities. It catalogues the
accomplishments of African...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP194Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Saint, William S.
Human capital investment is usually
modeled in an intertemporal optimization framework in which
households or individuals maximize the present value of
life-time utility....
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM93Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Lavy,Victor Chaim
The design of a well-functioning
intergovernmental fiscal system is the key to Russia's
macroeconomic stability, structural adjustment, provision of
a social safety...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11476Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Wallich, Christine I.
Many countries today are attempting to
move away from controlled and centrally planned economic
systems towards more liberal economic environments. Large
state-owned...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP187Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Kumar, Anjali
The purpose of this study is two-fold:
first, the study seeks to help Tanzanian decision makers
develop clear intervention strategies to cope with and
prevent further...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11540Date: December 31, 1992
Major regions of the world are moving
from a phase where water development dominated activities in
the water sector to one where sophisticated water management
and facilities...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP191Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Frederiksen, Harald D.
Private investment has been on the
rebound since the mid-1980s while public investment remains
at a ten-year low. Private investment levels are back to
their peak of...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD16Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Pfeffermann, Guy P. ;
Madarassy, Andrea
The field study carried out on
Pakistan's water users' associations (WUA)
examines one of the most interesting social experiments in
World Bank financed irrigation projects....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP173Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Byrnes, Kerry J.
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