• Tariffs, employment and the current account : the role of the real wage resistance and the macroeconomics of protectionism
    Using a standard complete specialization model of a small open economy within a rigorous intertemporal optimization framework with contract-based wage rigidity, we show that permanent tariffs lead to a...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8537 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Van Wijnbergen,Sweder
  • Fiscal policy, monetary targets, and the price level in a centrally planned economy : an application to the case of China
    This paper applies a monetary model of a planned economy to China. A supply equation derives the change in broad money corresponding to government transactions at official prices. There is an unobserved...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8532 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Feltenstein, Andrew ; Farhadian, Ziba
  • Managing gas industry development
    In many developing countries where there exists substantial gas reserves the evaluation and consequent development of those reserves have not been promoted. The objective of this study is to investigate...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: EGY29 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Gillespie,Nancy S.
  • Financing shelter
    This paper is addressed to a broad audience. It reviews the lessons from experience in financing shelter in developing countries and indicates the direction that policies should take in view of current...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD78 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Renaud,Bertrand M.
  • Substantive upgrading of municipal responsibilities : financial management implications
    As part of the continuing process of urbanization, it will sometimes become necessary for a substantial upgrading of the service-delivery capability of a particular municipality. Sometimes, a new municipality...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD80 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Jones, David
  • Macroeconomic policy and trade liberalization
    Due to the critical linkages between macroeconomic policy and trade liberalization, this paper discusses how the two should be conducted simultaneously. To set the stage for this discussion, section 2...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8628 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Mussa, Michael
  • Financial analysis and cost recovery : water supply case study
    This paper has been developed from a presentation made by the author during an EDI course in Shanghai, China, in May 1985. Although very simple, it addresses several concepts which are important in our...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD79 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Jones,David C.
  • Taxation and aggregate savings : an econometric analysis for three sub-Saharan African countries
    This study examines the impact of taxation on aggregate savings in three Sub-Saharan countries: Malawi, Sudan and Senegal during the period 1965-81. It corrects several econometric problems with past...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8535 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Chhibber,Ajay
  • Accounting and reporting practices of public sector urban institutions (including municipalities and urban development authorities)
    In the past several years, the Bank has placed increasing emphasis on the need for better standards and practices, among our project entities, relating to accounting, auditing and financial reporting....
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD81 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Jones,David C.
  • Central African Republic - Country economic memorandum
    This is the Bank's first comprehensive economic report on the Central African Republic (CAR) since 1970. It covers economic developments in the CAR over the past fifteen years, with special emphasis on...
    Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report#: 5332 Date: August 31, 1985
  • Estimating benefits of infrastructures through the analysis of land value
    Investment in urban infrastructure such as roads, electricity, water supply, sewerage, and telecommunication requires careful cost-benefit analysis because financial profits of a project do not generally...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD82 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Yoshitsugo Kanemoto
  • On the appropriate timing and speed of economic liberalization in developing countries
    The welfare costs of intervention in international trade are firmly established theoretically and increasingly well documented empirically. The purpose of the present paper is to address some aspects of...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8542 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Edwards, S. ; van Wijnbergen, Sweder
  • Investment incentives in Zaire
    Since September 1983, the Zairian government has made a number of basic economic and financial reforms to liberalize the economy and to facilitate growth and development. Two proposals, including reform...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8534 Date: August 31, 1985 Author: Fitzgerald,Bruce
  • 1985 Annual report on operations evaluation (AROE)
    This report is the tenth in an annual series on the status of the operations evaluation system in the Bank. It provides a special focus on (i) recent evolution of the system in line with the directions...
    Type: Annual Report Report#: 5836 Date: August 30, 1985
  • Announcement of Korea to Launch One Hundred Twenty-Two Million US Dollars Water Supply Project on August 29, 1985
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of thirty-eight million US dollars to Korea for launching a project to improve water supply in two southern regions where economic development...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 156717 Date: August 29, 1985
  • A profile of the labor market in Israel
    This study carries out a description of the main trends and features of the Israeli labor market. In the first part, a detailed discussion of the complex evolution of the Israeli population is given, along...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD154 Date: August 1, 1985 Author: Ben-Porath, Yoram
  • The use of the exchange rate for stabilization purposes : the case of Chile
    The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of the pre-announced exchange rate policy in the recent macroeconomic evolution of Chile. Three effects of the policy are analyzed: that on inflation dynamics...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD132 Date: August 1, 1985 Author: Corbo,Vittorio
  • Dominican Republic - Economic prospects and policies to renew growth
    The Dominican Republic is confronting the worst economic crisis in its recent history. This memorandum examines its long-term prospects, its public finances, pricing policy in food crops, and the incentive...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB4735 Date: July 31, 1985
  • Primary commodity prices, the business cycle and the real exchange rate of the dollar
    An empirical stylized fact is that primary exporters terms of trade worsen when the dollar appreciates and improves when the dollar depreciates. In our theoretical analysis, we demonstrate that a depreciation...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8519 Date: July 31, 1985 Author: Fleisig, Heywood ; van Wijnbergen, Sweder
  • The proximate determinants of fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
    Rapid population growth has played an important role in producing the poor economic conditions that exist today in sub - Saharan Africa. However, in the past, few governments have expressed concern about...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8511 Date: July 31, 1985 Author: Bongaarts, John ; Frank, Odile ; Lesthaeghe, Ron
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