We introduce endogenous technological
change in a multi-sector recursive dynamic Computable
General Equilibrium (CGE) model. We consider the
optimisation problem of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: 191646Date: June 27, 2023Author:
Witajewski-Baltvilks,Jan Ignacy
This report provides the findings of an
investigation mission on Tarim Basin project to Xinjiang
conducted from November 5 to 18, 1995. The mission found
that this project...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: 165547Date: November 18, 1995
A significant amount of World Bank
lending has been for industrial sector development. This
has taken two forms-the first is direct lending to state
enterprises, and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: 29281Date: February 1, 1995Author:
Ahmed,Kulsum
This paper discusses the role of
technology in intensive growth, which involves reducing
costs, increasing productivity and introducing new and
better products. It makes...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP761Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Tidrick, Gene
When a country moves away from tight
restrictions on trade and investment toward a more open
system, it can gain significantly from increased efficiency
but may also...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP759Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Sheahan, John B
This paper examines the extent of
non-tariff barriers to sixteen industrial countries'
visible imports. Using three alternative measures it shows
that governmental commodity-specific...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP789Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Nogues, Julio J. ;
Olechowski, Andrzej ;
Winters, L.
This paper examines the prospects for
rural nonagricultural development in China in light of the
experience in other Asian developing countries. The paper
reviews the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP757Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Ho, Samuel P. S
This paper summarizes the results of
empirical research on changes in the structure of
expenditure, production, employment and investment in the
course of economic development,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP763Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Wood,Adrian J. B.
Although the electronics industry in
China has come a long way since 1949, Chinese authorities
acknowledge that it is at least 15-20 years behind the
levels of Japan...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP762Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Khanna, Anupan
This study compares China's
government finance sector with that of other low-income
countries and draws lessons from the structural differences
between the public sectors...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP760Date: February 28, 1986Author:
De Wulf, Luc
This paper examines some of the options
for urbanization in China in the light of international
experience. Identified are common features of the urban
sector across...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP758Date: February 1, 1986Author:
Henderson, John Vernon
The study begins by considering the
deployment of the capital surplus so as to place the
activities of Arab financial institutions in developing
countries in the proper...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP794Date: January 31, 1986Author:
SHERBINY, NAIEM AHMED
Part I of this report uses cross country
data to examine the relationship between income and broad
expenditure categories and the implications of this
relationship for...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP785Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Chaudhri, R. ;
Timmer, C.
This paper analyzes the contribution
made by IDA-financed technical assistants to institutional
development in macro-economic policy formulation in Togo
during 1983-85....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP786Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Kjellstrom, Sven B ;
d'Almeida, Ayite-Fily
The effects of OECD macroeconomic
policies on non-oil developing countries are analyzed by
examining the well-known theoretical channels of
interdependence and some...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP793Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Dornbusch,Rudiger
In Indonesia, and across the developing
world, policymakers are apprehensive about increasing
urbanization, fearing that it will concentrate population in
one or very...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP787Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Hamer, A. ;
Steer, A. ;
Williams, D. ;
WUD
International financing for developing
countries has failed to fulfill its potential not only
because bankers were lending too much or countries borrowing
too much,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP783Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Lessard, Donald R
Ownership security and land rights are
important incentives to increasing land productivity and
hence land value. This paper reviews the development of
formal and informal...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP790Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Chalamwong, Yongyuth ;
Feder, Gershon
Much of the existing literature on
Argentina has emphasized the liberal nature of the economic
reforms introduced during 1972-81. A major purpose of this
paper is to...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP765Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Nogues, Julio J
Since the introduction of the
stabilization program in Turkey in January 1980, export
growth has occupied a crucial role in Turkey's
development strategy. This represented...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP768Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Milanovic, Branko
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