This paper examines the structure and
evolution of the Indian financial system over the past three
decades. The study concentrates on the "organized"
segment of the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP739Date: July 31, 1985Author:
Morris,Felipe
This paper specifies and estimates for
three developing countries two intertemporal models of total
imports. Imports are related alternatively to foreign
exchange receipts...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP740Date: July 31, 1985Author:
Winters,L. Alan
This paper discusses the sub-Saharan
Africa external debt problem. While no clear solutions a
discussion of the origin and development of the Africa debt
problem points...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP741Date: July 31, 1985Author:
Krumm,Kathie L.
This paper develops a theoretical
framework to evaluate the benefits and costs of energy
projects in oil-importing developing countries. The
framework is used to address...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP738Date: July 31, 1985Author:
Anand, Sudhir ;
Nalebuff, Barry
Increasing poverty and landlessness in
Bangladesh are compelling socio-economic change. Part I of
this paper provides background on the social, cultural, and
economic...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP731Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Scott, Gloria ;
Carr, Marilyn
This paper reports on research conducted
to increase understanding of developing country markets,
particularly housing demand behaviour. The objectives of the
paper...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP733Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Malpezzi, Stephen ;
Mayo, Stephen K. ;
Gross, David J.
The first of the two papers in this
report describes and provides representations of the
patterns of rapid fertility and rapid mortality decline in
developing countries....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP681Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Bulatao, R. ;
Elwan, A.
This paper addresses the key elements
and changes in population policies and programs, including
the strength of program effort, from 1972 to 1982. Using a
new scale...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP677Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Birdsall, Nancy ;
Boulier, Bryan ;
Mauldin, W. Parke
Structural adjustment lending is a
comparatively new instrument. Although the Bank has
substantially improved the design and implementation of
these operations, there...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP735Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Yagci, Fahrettin ;
Kamin, Steven ;
Rosenbaum, Vicki
The infant mortality rate has declined
dramatically in Peninsular Malaysia since World War II. This
study uses individual-level retrospective data on infant
mortality...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP683Date: May 31, 1985Author:
DaVanzo, Julie ;
Habicht, Jean-Pierre ;
Hill, Ken ;
Preston, Samuel
The paper analyzes the characteristics
of the 1983-84 world economic recovery and its effects on
developing countries' adjustment. It looks at the
conditions for medium-term...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP737Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Baneth, Jean ;
Grilli, Enzo
This paper arose out of the desire to
review the quantitative relationships between external
shocks, economic policies and performance across a sample of
developing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP708Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Sanderson, W. ;
Williamson, J.
Over half of the recent housing
construction in Bogota, Colombia has taken place in
initially unregulated subdivisions. The households involved
in the process are primarily...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP734Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Hamer, Andrew
This report introduces the reader to the
findings of a large-scale research project and only
highlights findings reported in greater depth in project
papers. Looking...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP732Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Hamer, A. ;
WUD
Evidence indicates that the situation of
urban housing in India has been poor over the past thirty
years and may have even deteriorated in many important
aspects over...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP730Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Gupta, D.
This paper: (i) presents a partial
survey of the literature on the economics of vocational
training to draw some lessons for evaluations; and (ii)
indicates how much...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP713Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Metcalf, D.
The purposes of this paper are two.
Firstly, a review is undertaken of the available literature
on the impact of price and exchange rate policies on
agriculture in sub...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP728Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Cleaver,Kevin M.
This paper presents an economy-wide
framework, called MISR2, that provides a general equilibrium
evaluation of these costs & hence of distortions. (MISR
is the Arabic...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP726Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Ahmed, S. ;
Bhattacharya, A. ;
Grais, W. ;
Pleskovic, B.
This paper examines the role that
education and training have played in Japan's
transformation from a preindustrial agrarian society in the
late 19th century to one...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP729Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Inoue, K.
Much has been made of the possible
impact of OECD macroeconomic policy on financial flows
available to developing countries. Specifically, the low
domestic savings rates...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP727Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Hakim, L. ;
Wallich, C.
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