This paper asks if there is anything
useful that economists can say about minimizing the real
costs of stabilization and the structural adjustment
entailed by reforming...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP636Date: March 31, 1984Author:
Lal, Deepak ;
DRD
This paper presents a three-sector
(agricultural, organized or formal nonagricultural, and
nonorganized or informal nonagricultural), time series
(1959-1979) model of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP637Date: March 31, 1984Author:
Krishna, Raj
The composition and characteristics of
the poor in Bogota, Colombia are examined in order to
identify the correlates of poverty. The poor are defined as
those who fall...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP635Date: March 31, 1984Author:
Mohan, R. ;
Hartline, N.
Much skepticism has been expressed about
the realism and the usefulness of measuring unemployment and
underemployment in dominantly agricultural and dualistic
Asian...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP638Date: March 31, 1984Author:
Krishna, Raj
The emphasis of this paper, which is
confined to federal taxes, is on tax reform with a view to
raising additional revenues and encouraging household and
business savings...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP632Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Jetha, Nizar ;
Akhtar, Shamshad ;
Rao, Govinda
The European Community is the major
player in global agricultural trade. Not only is it the
leading importer of agricultural goods, it is also the
dominant exporter...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP630Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Koester, Ulrich ;
Bale, Malcolm
Cotton ranks third in area and fourth in
value of output among India's principal agricultural
commodities. It is also the predominant input in the textile
industry,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP618Date: February 29, 1984Author:
HITCHINGS, J.
This paper presents an analysis of the
world energy and petroleum markets, carried out by means of
an econometric simulation model. The model accepts a certain
pricing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP633Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Choe, Boum-Jong ;
EPD
This paper examines recent trends in
trade in manufactured goods between the industrial and the
developing countries and indicates the implications of these
trends for...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP611Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Balassa,Bela
This paper is a simple description of
economic cost-benefit analysis coupled with a discussion of
its applicability to project appraisal in China. It is
concerned mainly...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP631Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Wood, Adrian ;
AEA
Development has proved a relatively slow
process. This paper is a preliminary attempt to identify and
explain factors that contribute to the temporal dimension of
development....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP626Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Eckaus,Richard S.
This paper describes a long-term optimal
growth model for Egypt, focusing on issues of investment
allocation, optimal saving and foreign borrowing, extraction
of natural...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP622Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Dervis, K. ;
Martin, R. ;
van Wijnbergen, Sweder
Korea's spectacular export growth
is a well-known, well-documented success story. Less well
known is the recent surge in Korea's exports of capital
goods and related...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP629Date: January 31, 1984Author:
WESTPHAL, L. ;
RHEE, Y. ;
KIM, L. ;
AMSDEN, A. ;
DRD ;
IND
This paper presents an economy-wide
framework (SIAM2) for policy analysis focusing on structural
adjustment in production and trade patterns. The framework
is designed...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP627Date: January 31, 1984Author:
AMRANAND, P. ;
GRAIS, W. ;
DRD
This paper examines the role of the
private sector and the potential for recovering costs in the
public sector in the provision of education and health
services in Indonesia,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP703Date: January 1, 1984Author:
Meesook,Oey Astra
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate
quantitatively the impact of alternative pricing policies,
aimed at reducing the deficits in the Grain Management Fund
and the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP621Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Braverman, A. ;
Ahn, C. ;
Hammer, J.
Planning involves anticipating the
future and formulating systematic programs of action to
attain desired goals. This paper is concerned with national
economic planning...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP576Date: December 31, 1983Author:
AGARWALA, R. ;
CPD
National samples and village studies
examine the demographic characteristics of households at
high risk of poverty. Study of the relationship between
incidence of poverty...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP623Date: November 30, 1983Author:
LIPTON, M. ;
CPD
The objective of this paper is two-fold.
First, it clarifies the role of different assumptions made
by previous authors in the determination of results
regarding the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP625Date: November 30, 1983Author:
Shome, P. ;
Squire, Lyn ;
CPD
This paper summarizes the experience of
several countries in setting-up food distribution programs,
from untargeted food subsidies schemes to targeted systems
like ration...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP617Date: November 30, 1983Author:
MATEUS, A. ;
EM 2
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