Divided into five sections, this paper
surveys the main issues related to the definition and the
empirical computation of an index of the real exchange rate.
Section...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWA8603Date: September 30, 1986Author:
Faini, Riccardo
Just as technical change in agriculture
in the industrialized countries results from the
economy's land and labor endowments and by the
conditions of demand, so too...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU58Date: September 30, 1986Author:
Pinghali, Prabhu L ;
Binswanger, Hans P
As much of the world's poorest
population lives in rural areas, this paper explores the
thesis that agricultural development is the key to reducing
poverty in the third...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU57Date: September 30, 1986Author:
Binswanger, Hans P ;
Quizon, Jaime B
This is the Twelfth Annual Review of
Project Performance Results. The main purpose of the Review
is to assess the performance of World Bank supported
projects evaluated...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 6417Date: September 30, 1986
Several authors have argued that the
appropriate monetary policy variable in Barro-type
reduced-form output equations for small open economies is
domestic credit. The...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD181Date: September 1, 1986Author:
Montiel, Peter
Significant amounts of private capital
have flowed out of several of the large debtor countries.
This outflow, often called "capital flight,"
largely escapes taxation...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD183Date: September 1, 1986Author:
Eaton, Jonathan
The developing countries belonging to
GATT and eligible to participate in the upcoming
negotiations are a heterogeneous group. This paper examines
the various issues...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP126Date: September 1, 1986Author:
Fitchett,Delbert A.
It has been argued that the Islamic
prohibition against an ex ante fixed rate of return on
borrowed money will lead to an increase in uncertainty that
may reduce savings....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD184Date: September 1, 1986Author:
Ul Haque, Nadeem ;
Mirakhor, Abbas
It is widely accepted that fiscal
deficits financed by money creation are inherently
inflationary. In addition, the stylized facts show that all
hyperinflations were...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD182Date: September 1, 1986Author:
Kiguel, Miguel A.
The paper updates the 1977-78 study on
administrative and compliance costs in the U.K. It begins
by outlining the results of the 1977-78 study, and then
compares them...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD192Date: September 1, 1986Author:
Sandford, Cedric ;
Godwin, Michael
High marginal income tax rates can
distort the incentive to work and invest, and encourage tax
evasion. These incentive effects cannot be appropriately
summarized from...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD187Date: September 1, 1986Author:
Virmani, Arvind
This paper analyzes how housing demand
can be incorporated into a planning model which compares the
costs of alternative housing project designs. It discusses a
bid-rent...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD103Date: August 31, 1986Author:
Gross,David J.
In an attempt to counter the problem of
lower productivity on farms cultivated by squatters,
Thailand has started issuing certificates to squatters
awarding them usufruct...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU55Date: August 31, 1986Author:
Feder, Gershon ;
Onchan, Tongroj ;
Chalamwong, Yongyuth
This paper provides an important step
toward identifying areas where official aid flows could be
most effectively used to alleviate urbanization pressures in
the developing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD100Date: August 31, 1986Author:
Hewitt, Eleanor V
Having successfully weathered the
structural problems of the 1979-81 period, Korea has begun
far-sighted programs of reform which it hopes will
facilitate the industrial...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 6138Date: July 31, 1986
The Government of Indonesia, projecting
reduced revenues from petroleum exports, has adopted a goal
of increasing its nonoil exports and is seeking policy
measures in...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8622Date: July 31, 1986Author:
Fitzgerald,Bruce
There are substantial opportunities in
the developing world to capture scale and agglomeration
economies in the design and lay-out of major infrastructure
investments...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP407Date: July 31, 1986Author:
Schramm, Gunter
Distortive effects of government
intervention, especially in international trade, have
received considerable attention. But not much literature
exists on similar effects...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP398Date: July 31, 1986Author:
Psacharopoulos, George
Standard explanations of hyperinflation
have focused on the impact of a rapid expansion of the money
supply required to finance a given real fiscal deficit.
There are,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8635Date: July 31, 1986Author:
Kharas, Homi ;
Pinto, Brian
This report reviews and synthesizes
available evidence about adolescent fertility in sub -
Saharan Africa. Recent studies, primarily from West Africa,
suggest relatively...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8623Date: July 31, 1986Author:
Cherlin, Andrew ;
Riley, Nancy E.
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