Educational planning is a relatively
recent phenomenon in the history of education. It has been
practiced, malpracticed, or simply paid lip service in most
countries,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP401Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Psacharopoulos, George
This paper investigates import behavior
in selected Sub-Saharan countries. Using time series data,
estimates are made of disaggregated import elasticities. The
results...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWA8604Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Agbonyitor, Alberto D.K.
This paper on the Bank's approach
to subsidies is written primarily as an explanation for
policy practitioners and as a contribution to the
discussions of policy issues...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8644Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Myers, Robert ;
Brondolo, John
During the post World War II years,
Peru's per capita income growth rates went down from
around 3 percent during the 1960s and 1970s to 0.5 percent
between 1970 and...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8640Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Nogues,Julio
This paper addresses the questions of
whether lending rates which are administratively set, should
be made uniform across sectors or whether they should
differ. Secondly,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8643Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Ghanem, Hafez ;
Lamdany, Ruben
The focal point of this study addresses
public educational spending problems for primary education
in Brazil and presents some possible solutions. Brazilian
investment...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB6120Date: November 30, 1986
Although transactions in factor markets
such as land, labor and credit were severely constrained by
government policies in the past, recent reforms in rural
areas have...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU61Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Lin, Justin Yifu
Low levels of student achievement and
school quality persist in developing countries. The
importance of school quality, in raising literacy and
influencing economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP2Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Fuller, Bruce
The move towards closer cooperation
between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
naturally leads to questions of how the two institutions
design adjustment...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ERS8Date: October 31, 1986Author:
Khan, Mohsin S ;
Montiel, Peter ;
Haque, Nadeem U
This paper evaluates new hesitations in
adopting an export promoting (EP) trade strategy. It reviews
past experience with trade strategies and distinguishes
between...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ERS7Date: October 31, 1986Author:
Bhagwati,Jagdish N.
This paper discusses the adjustment
measures that middle-income highly indebted countries must
undertake to resume growth. It briefly discusses measures
undertaken...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8636Date: October 31, 1986Author:
Choksi,Armeane M.
Is there a latent demand for family
limitation in some very poor countries in which the use of
birth control has been at very low levels, even where family
planning...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8628Date: October 31, 1986Author:
Freedman, Deborah S. ;
Freedman, Ronald
The southward enlargement of the
European Community (EC) is causing considerable concern
among agricultural policymakers inside and outside the EC
and especially within...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11811Date: October 31, 1986Author:
Bale, Malcolm D.
High interest rates have become a global
concern in both the industrialized and developing countries.
In some developing countries they have reached real levels
far...
Type: PublicationReport#: IAF18Date: October 31, 1986Author:
Hanson, James A ;
de Rezende Rocha, Roberto
This paper argues that aid has unwanted
side effects that require explicit policy attention. It
shows that aid exerts upward pressure on the real exchange
rate, leads...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD199Date: October 1, 1986Author:
Van Wijbergen, Sweder
Recent inflationary experience in
countries like Israel, Argentina and Brazil cannot be
explained using traditional views on the relation between
macroeconomic policy...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD198Date: October 1, 1986Author:
Van Wijnbergen, Sweder
Thirteen African nations are engaged in
two monetary unions with France often referred to as the CFA
Zone. Despite the acknowledged benefits of Zone membership
such...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD188Date: October 1, 1986Author:
Devarajan, Shantayana ;
De Melo, Jaime
These notes outline a framework for the
economic analysis of tax and public sector pricing reform in
Bangladesh. The proposals put forward here lay down a
general structure...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8639Date: September 30, 1986Author:
Mitra,Pradeep K.
Although rent control has often been
treated as the single most important shelter policy issue by
project officers and Bank management, amazingly little work
has been...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD102Date: September 30, 1986Author:
Malpezzi, Stephen ;
Rydell, C Peter ;
WUD
Easing the debt problem requires
high-debt countries to generate significant trade and
savings surpluses. If this has to be achieved quickly these
surpluses can only...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP399Date: September 30, 1986Author:
Selowsky, Marcelo ;
van der Tak, Herman
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