The conventional earnings function is
adapted to explore the heterogeneity which characterizes the
urban labour market. Earnings equations for both male and
female workers...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP498Date: October 31, 1981Author:
MOHAN, R.
The purpose of this paper is neither to
advocate nor condemn fishermen's cooperative
organizations. As will be seen in the report, there are
sufficient individuals and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP490Date: October 31, 1981Author:
POLLNAC, R.
This paper presents a dynamic
simultaneous model of price and quantity adjustments in
world primary commodity markets. The model is formulated in
a disequilibrium framework...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP499Date: October 31, 1981Author:
HWA, E.
Much has been made of the perils to the
developing countries - and to the international banking
system - from the rapid expansion of their debt during the
1970s. This...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP488Date: August 31, 1981Author:
HOPE, N.
This paper summarizes and then
criticizes the conventional analysis of the interrelations
between financial markets in the industrialized countries
(the North) and capital...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP476Date: August 31, 1981Author:
BRYANT, R.
One of the main conclusions of this
paper is that trade theories can indeed, to a large extent,
explain the patterns of trade in services in spite of
varying and often...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP480Date: August 31, 1981Author:
Sapir, Andre ;
Lutz, Ernst
The main conclusion is that non-fuel
trade among developing countries, excluding capital-surplus
oil exporters, accounted for a remarkably stable share of
their total...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP479Date: August 31, 1981Author:
Havrylyshyn, Oli ;
Wolf, Martin
From an analysis of borrowing experience
by oil-importing developing countries, it is concluded that
in recent literature on private capital flows too much
emphasis...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP484Date: August 31, 1981Author:
FLEMING, A.
These four papers consider food policy
issues in three countries, Zambia, Bangladesh, and India,
from the viewpoints of short-term adjustments to the energy
crisis and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP473Date: August 31, 1981Author:
CLAY, E. ;
CHAMBERS, R. ;
SINGER, H.
This paper presents an analytical
framework for quantifying the relative importance of demand
management (absorption) and structural adjustment
(expenditure and output...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP477Date: August 31, 1981Author:
JASPERSEN, F. ;
WORLD DEV'T. REPORT CORE
External shocks, mainly adverse terms of
trade movements and slower world trade growth, in 1974-78
contributed to the slowdown in growth experienced by low-
and middle-income...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP486Date: August 31, 1981Author:
LIEBENTHAL, R.
An assessment of the political and
economic factors that are likely to determine, in the next
five years, the absorptive capacity for investment and
consumption in the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP483Date: August 31, 1981Author:
HABLUTZEL, R.
This paper is addressed to the
adjustment problems facing the world economy in the next
decade, with particular reference to the situation and
prospects of the non-oil...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP485Date: August 31, 1981Author:
JOSHI, V. ;
DPS
The analysis is intended to provide some
broad orders of magnitude as a cross-check upon detailed
country-by-country projections but is not to be viewed as a
substitute...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP474Date: August 31, 1981Author:
MANNE, A. ;
KIM, S.
Whether the developing countries will be
able to sustain reasonably satisfactory growth performance
under the adverse conditions of the 1980s will greatly
depend on...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP478Date: August 31, 1981Author:
FRANK, I.
This paper seeks to stress the multiple
nature of the private bank/developing country relationship.
It examines recent events in lending to developing
countries, with...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP482Date: August 31, 1981Author:
O'BRIEN, R. ;
DPS
This paper analyzes the adjustment
experience of the low-income Asian countries in the
aftermath of the oil price shock and in the face of other
changes in the international...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP487Date: August 31, 1981Author:
WALLICH, C.
This paper examines the adjustments
which have taken place since the oil price increase in
1973/74 in the use of energy in five major country groups.
Based on these...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP489Date: August 31, 1981Author:
CHOE, B. ;
LAMBERTINI, A. ;
POLLAK, P.
The main unifying feature of the
capital-importing oil exporters is the need to utilize
petroleum export revenues--available over the next 10 to 20
years to representative...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP475Date: August 31, 1981Author:
Gelb, Alan
The study puts together available data
on workers' remittances to developing countries and
analyzes the regional structure of and growth in these
flows. It is shown...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP481Date: August 1, 1981Author:
Swamy, Gurushri
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