In 1976 Argentine policymakers launched
a major program to remove controls on prices, interest
rates, and international transactions. Simultaneously, they
attempted...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP706Date: November 30, 1984Author:
Petrei, A. ;
Tybout, J.
The Bangladesh government has used a
variety of policies to influence the allocation of credit to
specific borrower groups like poor farmers, uses such as
housing, and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP672Date: October 31, 1984Author:
Virmani,Chhavi
Kerala does not conform to the
socioeconomic development pattern normally associated with a
rapid fertility decline. This report attempts to determine
the causes of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP700Date: October 31, 1984Author:
Zachariah, K.
Tunisia's recent sustained economic
growth is likely to be restrained in the 1980s by the lack
of any new major hydrocarbon discovery and no further
substantial gains...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP674Date: October 31, 1984
This paper discusses direct loan and
subsidy programs, one way in which governments support
export credits, and analyzes the costs and benefits of these
programs. It...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP659Date: October 31, 1984Author:
Fleisig, Heywood ;
Hill, Catherine
This paper provides a detailed
comparative historical review of the patterns of
agricultural mechanization by operation, emphasizing
developed and developing countries....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP673Date: October 31, 1984Author:
Binswanger,Hans P.
Technology exports reflect important
shifts in the global pattern of comparative advantage. They
reflect increasing industrial maturity and technological
experience...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP667Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Dahlman, C. ;
Sercovich, F.
Developing countries frequently offer
special incentives to investors as a way to promote
industrialization. Many of the incentives offered, however,
and many of the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP669Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Galenson, Alice
Data from the National Socio-economic
Survey for 1978 are used to give a profile of poverty in
Indonesia. Households are classified into the poor and
nonpoor categories...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP671Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Chernichovsky, D. ;
Meesook, O. ;
DEDPH
This paper reports findings from a
literature survey to learn about the performance of infant
industries in less developed countries. Remarkably little
direct evidence...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP666Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Bell, M. ;
Ross-Larson, B. ;
Westphal, L.
This essay attempts to clarify and
simplify the results of the literature on price
stabilization in order to provide a better sense of the
conditions under which commodity...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP668Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Schmitz, Andrew
The purpose of this paper is to estimate
the level of consumption of food and of nutrients for the
Indonesian population; to identify population groups with
nutrient...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP670Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Chernichovsky, D. ;
Meesook, O.
The first of these two studies analyzes
the effect of economic reforms and adjustment policies on a
consumer durables producer in 1980-82. The incentives
created by...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP652Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Byrd, William ;
Tidrack, Gene ;
Chen, Jiyuan ;
Xu, Lu
Investment in education is generally
recognized as essential for a country's long term
economic and social development. However, present
macroeconomic conditions have...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP661Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Tan, Jee-Peng ;
Mingat, Alain ;
Lee, Kiong Hock
This paper analyzes issues in the costs
and financing of education in developing countries. It
focuses primarily on sub - Saharan Africa, and within that
on Francophone...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP655Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Eicher, J.C.
Study of supply response for perennial
crops has frequently been limited by lack of data. This
study is based on new extensive time series for rubber in
Sri Lanka covering...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP657Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Hartley, Michael J. ;
Nerlove, Marc ;
Peters Jr., R. Kyle
Simple general equilibrium models are
built, linearized about their initial equilibrium, and then
used to analyze the economic effects of various changes in
policy....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP664Date: September 30, 1984Author:
Tower, E. ;
EGY
This paper presents estimates of housing
demand equation parameters separately for owners and renters
in Bogota and Cali, Colombia in 1978, and for Bogota renters
only...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP663Date: August 31, 1984Author:
Ingram, Gregory K. ;
DED
Since innovations in PHN affect the
personal rather than the economic life of the family,
adoption of innovations is more threatening to cultural
norms; and since the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP662Date: August 31, 1984Author:
Heaver,Richard A.
The general issues examined in this
report is the extent to which transport services that should
complement investments in rural roads can be presumed to
materialize...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP654Date: August 31, 1984Author:
Carapetis, S. ;
Beenhakker, H. ;
Howe, J. ;
TWD
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