This paper argues for policies that are
sensitive to contexts and alternatives. A simple analytic
frame is offered to replace general and possibly
incompatible intentions...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP423Date: October 31, 1980Author:
EMMERSON, D.
This essay contains the Graham Memorial
Lecture which the author delivered at Princeton University
on April 17, 1980. It will be further presented at the
Sino-American...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP438Date: October 31, 1980Author:
BALASSA, B.
This study examines the experience of a
sample of 22 LDCs relating to exchange rate changes under
generalized currency floating with a view to drawing some
implications...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP436Date: October 31, 1980Author:
BAUTISTA, B.
This work in progress report is part of
an inquiry being undertaken by the World Bank in conjunction
with scholars from twelve industrial countries into the
penetration...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP426Date: October 31, 1980Author:
GLENDAY, G. ;
JENKINS, G. ;
EVANS, J.
The project seeks to establish the
shares of industrial country markets held by the developing
countries, changes in such shares in the 1970s, and why they
vary among...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP432Date: October 31, 1980Author:
VERREYDT, E. ;
WAELBROECK, J.
The paper provides estimates of the
balance-of-payments effects of external shocks, in the form
of the deterioration of the terms of trade and the slowdown
in world...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP437Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Balassa, Bela
The objective of this paper is to
clarify the notions of labor market segmentation as they
exist in the literature and then to examine the extent to
which labor market...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP434Date: October 31, 1980Author:
FIELDS, G.
The project seeks to establish the
shares of industrial country markets held by the developing
countries, changes in such shares in the 1970s, and why they
vary among...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP428Date: October 31, 1980Author:
GRILLI, E.
A careful analysis of the data for two
states of India shows that the incidence of unemployment was
markedly higher among those whose usual activity was casual
labour....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP417Date: October 31, 1980Author:
VISARIA, P.
This paper postulates that debt crises
might result either from solvency problems or liquidity
problems. A solvency problem would mean that the real
interest rate on...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP421Date: October 31, 1980Author:
ALIBER, R.
Residential lots developed illegally by
entrepreneurs and sold with rudimentary or no public
services account for between onethird and one-half of the
residential land...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP435Date: October 31, 1980Author:
CARROLL, A.
The paper concentrates on a model of
linkage between land, labor and credit transactions in the
context of sharecropping. The proof follows from the result
that the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP433Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Braverman, Avishay ;
Srinivasan, T. N.
This paper focuses on the ways in which
home industries can expand along lines of comparative
advantage, improving their efficiency and utilization of
domestic resources,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP424Date: October 31, 1980Author:
DE VRIES, B.
The purpose of this paper is to simulate
output and employment changes that occur in the United
States footwear industry over the next decade under various
economic...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP430Date: October 31, 1980Author:
MUTTI, J. ;
BALE, M.
This work in progress report is part of
an inquiry being undertaken by the World Bank in conjunction
with scholars from twelve industrial countries into the
penetration...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP431Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Tharakan P.T,Rohit
The present work investigates various
procedures for estimating purchasing power parities (PPPs),
which are more economical in their requirements. Two
approaches are...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP418Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Ahmad, S.
The models tested here are of the
gravity flow variety. They are tested in two basic forms,
one constrained and one unconstrained. It is very clear from
this analysis...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP416Date: September 30, 1980Author:
ARNOLD, F. ;
COCHRANE, S.
With the input-output tables of the U.N.
world model, by themselves and in conjunction with data
derived from regression equations for production in an
average country,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP419Date: September 30, 1980Author:
STERN, J. ;
LEWIS, J.
This working paper brings together
country-level analyses of the demographic aspects of
migration in English-speaking West Africa. They are written
by Bank staff and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP414Date: September 30, 1980Author:
Zachariah, K.C. ;
Conde, Julien ;
Nair, N.
This working paper brings together
country-level analyses of the demographic aspects of
migration in French speaking West Africa. Migration patterns
across and within...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP415Date: September 1, 1980Author:
Zachariah,K. C.
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