By examining the specific policy and
administrative instruments that successful East Asian
countries used to carry out their outward-looking
development strategies,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP725Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Rhee, Yung Whee
This essay reviews and generalizes the
recent experience of the World Bank in studies undertaken on
pricing and trade policy in agriculture in developing
countries....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP724Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Bale,Malcolm D.
Both population growth and savings have
traditionally taken a certain place of pride among models of
growth and development. The purpose of this paper is to
examine...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP687Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Hammer, J.
Married women wanting no more children,
who are exposed to the risk of pregnancy and are not using
contraception, are defined as having unmet need for
contraception...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP678Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Boulier, B.
This paper addresses income distribution
issues and explores various policy options to eliminate
extreme poverty in a particular typology of middle income
developing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP335Date: March 1, 1985Author:
SELOWSKY, M.
This paper presents an overview of the
principal issues, problems, and policy options in financing
health services in developing countries. The shortcomings of
existing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP721Date: February 28, 1985Author:
De Ferranti,David
It is well known that there is a strong
relationship between urbanization and economic development
in many countries of the world. Urbanization provides many
benefits...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP722Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Yoon Joo Lee ;
DED
The purpose of this paper is to reaffirm
certain notions that have provided the foundations of
development economics, but which now are coming increasingly
under attack:...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP712Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Yusuf, S. ;
Peters, R.
This paper compares China's
transport indicators with those of other countries and
attempts to define prospects for the future development of
transport in China. The...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP723Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Yenny, Jacques ;
Uy, Lily
Lowering fertility will require both a
reduction in desired family size and provision of family
planning services that respond to clients' needs. This
paper addresses...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP676Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Ainsworth,Martha
Exchange rate policies of nine countries
in Africa during the post-independence period are examined.
Governments in these countries did not look upon the
exchange rate...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP720Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Gulhati, R. ;
Bose, S. ;
Atukorala, V.
This survey looks at the technological
development of the newly industrializing countries to draw
some important lessons for firms and governments in other
developing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP717Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Dahlman, C. ;
Ross-Larson, B. ;
Westphal, L.
This survey looks at the relationship
between economic performance and the environment for
technological change in centrally planned economies to draw
some lessons about...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP718Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Poznanski, K.
From data on population program
expenditures in 46 countries, estimates are derived for
total expenditures in the major regions of the developing
world in 1980. In all,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP679Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Bulatao,Rodolfo Andres
The most dire consequences of rapid
population growth are thought by some to emerge in places
where the size of the human population exceeds the carrying
capacity of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP690Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Mahar, D. ;
Muscat, R. ;
Goodland, R. ;
Kirchner, J. ;
L
This paper provides a theoretical
framework to understand the way in which exchange controls
modify the behavior of the different agents in the economy,
leading to the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP711Date: January 31, 1985Author:
May, E.
The impact of dropping taxation of rice
exports in Thailand on family welfare and rice production is
analyzed in this paper. Models of household production and
consumption...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP714Date: January 31, 1985Author:
O'Mara, G. ;
Le-Si, V.
Because of decline in fertility,
population growth has been declining in Brazil and Colombia
since the mid-1960s and in Mexico since the mid-1970s. The
paper examines...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP692Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Merrick,Thomas W.
The paper analyzes several aspects of
the operation and effects of the T&V extension system.
Specific questions related to the supply of, and demand for,
extension agents...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP719Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Feder, Gershon ;
Slade, Roger ;
Sundaram, A.
This paper examines whether and how
international economic relations between the industrialized
and the developing countries might accommodate the growing
North-South...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP694Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Sapir, A.
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