In most developing countries, the
inadequacy of land information poses a severe constraint on
land transactions, land consolidation, property taxation and
public planning...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD99Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Bernstein,Janis D.
This report presents the results of a
study sponsored by the United Development Program (UNDP) /
World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
(ESMAP) to explore...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 48198Date: April 1, 1986
The efficiency of natural resource
tax-contract systems is of interest to both resource owners
and firms wishing to explore for and extract resources. The
present paper...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD163Date: April 1, 1986Author:
Virmani,Arvind
This paper examines the short-term and
long-term effects of a nominal devaluation on the real
exchange rate. It is shown that in the absence of supporting
policies that...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD170Date: April 1, 1986Author:
Khan, Mohsin S. ;
Lizondo, J. Saul
An abstract pure profit or rent tax for
a known resource is easy to define and analyze. The
challenge is to (a) design a tax-contract system which is
relatively efficient...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD164Date: April 1, 1986Author:
Virmani,Arvind
The paper presents a practical
methodology for assessing the impact of domestic indirect
tax reform. The methodology is based on a simple extension
of the input-output...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD165Date: April 1, 1986Author:
Virmani,Arvind
The paper makes recommendations for
simultaneously establishing macroeconomic equilibrium and
extending the reform effort in China. As to the latter,
recommendations...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD177Date: April 1, 1986Author:
Balassa, Bela
This paper synthesizes, updates and
expands upon an earlier CPD Discussion Paper on the
experiences with exchange auctions. One response to foreign
exchange crises in...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8629Date: March 31, 1986Author:
Krumm,Kathie L.
This paper investigates whether a
neoclassical model can explain output and investment in the
Republic of Korea. The model disaggregates government
purchases into defense...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8619Date: March 31, 1986Author:
Evans, Paul
In 1985 the Bank, along with the IMF and
the commercial lenders, played an important role in
developing financial packages for adjustment policies and
financial flows....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8603Date: March 31, 1986Author:
Pierdicchi, Maria
The theory of international trade has
paid little attention to the issues that arise when
bilateralism is an important element of a country's
trade relations. Such...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8616Date: March 31, 1986Author:
Murrell,Peter
Many developing countries have recently
implemented or are contemplating fiscal deficit reduction
programs. The dual objective of achieving short-run
stabilization and...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8620Date: March 31, 1986Author:
Cuddington,John T. ;
Johansson, Per
The purpose of this paper is to review
the financial liberalization attempt in Turkey over the
1980-84 period. The major reforms included: liberalization
of interest...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8613Date: March 31, 1986Author:
Cavaglia,Stefano F.
South Korea is a prime example of an
economy which has experienced sudden modernization and
profound structural change. General economic policy has been
oriented towards...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD162Date: March 1, 1986Author:
Richardson, Ray; Kim, Byung Whan
This paper examines the evolution of
labor market conditions in the recent economic development
of Sri Lanka, with special attention to the effects of
various government...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD161Date: March 1, 1986Author:
Fields, Gary S.
This paper develops a modelling
framework to examine adjustment to external shocks including
terms of trade movements, recession in the industrial
countries and increases...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP383Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Mitra, P. ;
DRD
This review of Bank research on
nutrition was conducted as part of the Nutrition Lending
Review, completed in 1984. It provides a synopsis of 54
documents covering various...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8609Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Ahmad,Nazir K.
There is widespread interest in the use
of fees to collect revenues for health services in
developing countries. Much of the argument for the use of
fees has been made...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8610Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Akin,John S.
The paper constructs a two-period model
of an open economy and uses the model to analyze the welfare
implications of fixed and floating exchange regimes. The
parameters...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8610Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Feltenstein, Andrew ;
Lebow, David ;
Sibert, Anne
This study begins by formulating some
simple guidelines for the reduction of recurrent government
expenditure while minimizing the adverse effects of such a
reduction...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8614Date: February 28, 1986Author:
Khan, A. R.
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