This paper examines the distribution of
welfare in Cote d'Ivoire in 1985 as measured by per
capita consumption expenditures. The data employed are from
the 1985 Cote...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM29Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Glewwe, Paul
This paper reviews the health status of
the Peruvians and the financing and spending patterns of
Peruvian health institutions. Between 1975-85, declining
income per...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM31Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Suarez-Berenguela, Ruben M
The relative efficiency of private and
public schools: the case of Thailand. Terms of trade,
tariffs, and labor market adjustment in developing
countries. The impact...
This paper is the first of a series that
assesses the impact of education on labor market outcomes in
Peru using data from the Peruvian Living Standards Survey
that...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM38Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Stelcner, Morton ;
Arriagada, Ana-Maria ;
Moock, Peter
This paper has been undertaken as a
survey of the agricultural trade policies of one of the
world's major importers of agricultural commodities.
Drawing on material...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP28Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Fitchett, Delbert A
Despite the improvements in health
achieved in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last twenty years,
health status in the region remains the worst in the world.
This study,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP82Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Vogel,Ronald J.
The purpose of these guidelines is to
provide information for adapting the Living Standards
Measurement Study questionnaires to local conditions. The
attempt in preparing...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM34Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Ainsworth, Martha ;
van der Gaag, Jacques
Fiscal deficits and external debts have
placed public sector employment and compensation under
scrutiny as developing countries confront the economic
crises of recent...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM41Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Stelcner, Morton ;
van der Gaag, Jacques ;
Vijverberg, Wim
The following two papers present an
analysis of wage determinants in Cote d'Ivoire, using
the standard Mincerian framework. The data used stem from
the Cote d'Ivoire...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM33Date: May 31, 1988Author:
van der Gaag, Jacques ;
Vijverberg, Wim
This paper examines the distribution of
welfare in Peru in 1985-86 as measured by (adjusted) per
capita consumption expenditures. The data employed are from
the 1985-86...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM42Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Glewwe, Paul
This paper presents a review of the
literature about the labor market, the informal sector of
the labor market and returns to education in Peru. After
summarizing some...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM32Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Suarez-Berenguela, Ruben M
Development projects sometimes require
that people be involuntarily resttled from areas where they
live and work to other locations. Adequate policy and
purposive implementation...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP80Date: April 30, 1988Author:
Cernea,Michael M.
Urban transport services are grossly
inadequate to meet the needs of the existing urban
population in West Africa. In many countries infrastructure
dates back to the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP81Date: April 30, 1988Author:
Barrett, Richard
Many governments in developing
countries, donors, and nongovernmental organizations have
been trying to use their resources in ways that steer the
benefits towards poor...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP25Date: April 30, 1988Author:
Lipton, Michael
This book is designed to show how
economic and political considerations interact and must be
taken into account in policymaking. It looks at the national
economy of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11229Date: April 30, 1988Author:
Clark, Paul G. ;
Levy, Brian ;
Lewis, Stephen R. ;
McFarland, Earl ;
Nelson, Joan ;
Sheahan, John B.
This paper estimates reduced form
equations, derived from an economic model of household
production, to analyze the level of household and community
level variables...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM40Date: April 30, 1988Author:
Strauss, John
The taxation of road transport has two
purposes: to charge road users for the costs they impose on
the road and on other users, and to raise revenue for the
government....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP26Date: April 30, 1988Author:
Newberry, David M ;
Hughes, Gordon A ;
Paterson, William D. O ;
Bennathan, Esra
This paper provides a methodology for
the ex ante evaluation of the welfare effects of proposals
to use user fees to finance improved access to social
services in developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM45Date: April 30, 1988Author:
Gertler, Paul ;
van der Gaag, Jacques
Sector work in education, as in other
sectors, is concerned with the examination and analysis of a
country's development problems, policies, institutions,
and investment...
This collection of papers explores the
theory, history, economics, evaluation, and applications of
the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater. Ways to use
water...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11205Date: March 31, 1988Author:
O'Mara, Gerald [editor]
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