Western Samoa is a small island country
in the South Pacific with a population of about 160,000
concentrated on two main islands. In company with some of
the other Pacific...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP754Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Yusuf, Shahid ;
Peters Jr., R. Kyle
This paper considers two issues: 1) how
to derive an estimate in dollars of Hungarian gross domestic
product (GDP), and 2) how to reconcile divergences between
official...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP775Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Hewett, Ed
This paper presents the results of a
survey and critical analysis of Cuban national accounts
data. The paper first reviews available Cuban data on the
Material Product...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP770Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Mesa-Lago, Carmelo ;
Perez-Lopez, Jorge
The paper presents estimates of GDP,
GNP, their components and rates of growth. These estimates
are based on published statistics, information available in
various published...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP776Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Fallenbuchl, Zbigniew
This paper examines the higher education
sector in Sub-Saharan African countries. It begins by
describing the growth and structure of the sector, the
amount of resources...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP780Date: November 1, 1985Author:
Hinchliffe, Keith
This paper explores several related
propositions about rural economic life and demographic
change. A central thesis is that the shrinking of the farm
labor force associated...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP685Date: September 30, 1985Author:
McGreevey, William Paul
International migration is a conspicuous
form of population interaction between richer and poorer
countries. This paper makes an assessment of the dimensions
of past...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP689Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Swamy, Gurushri
The paper analyzes the efficiency of
several tax-contract systems, such as the resource rent tax,
production share system, and royalty. Account is taken of
their incentive...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP752Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Virmani, Arvind
This paper reviews the recent experience
of strategic planning and management in large institutions,
primarily in the private sector. The main conclusions are:
(a) planing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP751Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Hanna, Nagy
This paper develops an analytical
framework to examine the Brazilian economy. A macro economic
projection model is developed based on a consistency
framework for 1980....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP750Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Meyers, Kenneth ;
McCarthy, F. Desmond
Policymakers in LDCs are currently
caught by the conflicting objectives of continuing to make
family planning programs widely available and at the same
time reducing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP684Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Lewis, Maureen A.
Direction and control of the financial
system has had a significant role in the government's
development strategy. The paper shows how this influenced
the evolution...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP747Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Virmani, Arvind
The paper describes an analytical
framework designed to address some of the important
agricultural pricing issues that frequently arise in many
African countries. The...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP743Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Singh, Inderjit ;
Squire, Lyn ;
Kirchner, James
This paper explores institutional issues
that frequently arise in rural roads projects or components.
It is based upon a review of experience with some 50 World
Bank-financed...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP748Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Cook, Cynthia C. ;
Beenhakker, Henri L. ;
Hartwig, R
This paper is part of a continuing
effort by the World Bank to analyze labor migration in the
Middle East and North Africa. It sets forth an approach to
simulating the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP736Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Serageldin, Ismail ;
Alonso, William ;
Hua, Chang-I ;
Takayama, T ;
Li, Bob
In an effort to understand the causes of
poverty and its perpetuation in an African rural economy,
this study analysed household data from the Rural Income
Distribution...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP715Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Chernikovsky, Dov ;
Lucas, Robert E. B. ;
Mueller, E
The objective of this paper is to relate
children's school enrollment and level of educational
attainment to their household socioeconomic characteristics
and the availability...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP746Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Chernikovsky, Dov ;
Meesook, Oey Astra
After sustained economic growth in
Colombia over two decades, the labor market in Bogota
exhibited considerable tightening up in the late 1970s.
Unemployment rates were...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP749Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Mohan,Rakesh
Is private access to land the main
insurance against rural poverty? Alternative forms of
insurance such as customary, cooperative, collective, or
common-property terms;...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP744Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Lipton,Michael
This paper analyzes the impact of oil
revenues on the agriculture-based economy of Cameroon, a
significant (100,000 barrels per day) but temporary (20
years' of reserves)...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP745Date: August 31, 1985Author:
Benjamin, Nancy C. ;
Devarajan, Shantayanan
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