This paper discusses the critical
factors that are preventing sustainable growth of the
Argentine economy. Three major constraints are identified:
(1) the unsettled...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8606Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Barandiaran,Edgardo E.
This paper suggests a framework and
provides an outline for a systematic analysis and evaluation
of a country's trade policies. The definition of the
area of trade policies...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8607Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Michaely,Michael
Road roughness is gaining increasing
importance as an indicator of road condition, both in terms
of pavement performance, and as a major determinant of road
user costs....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP46Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Gillespie, Thomas D. ;
Paterson,William D. O. ;
Sayers, Michael W.
Road roughness is gaining increasing
importance as an indicator of road condition, both in terms
of road pavement performance, and as a major determinant of
road user...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP45Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Sayers, Michael W ;
Gillespie, Thomas D ;
Queiroz, Cesar A.V
This paper provides a survey of project
appraisal techniques in theory and practice. It identifies
three levels of sophistication in the theoretical
literature. The...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8609Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Squire,Lyn
This paper develops a model of supply of
perennial crops which is an alternative to the traditional
Nerlovian model. It is argued that a cost-of-adjustment
investment...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8601Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Trivedi, Pravin K
This paper examines optimal foreign
borrowing in a certainty world with a lending constraint
that ensures that countries never have an incentive to
repudiate. We find...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8558Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Kharas, Homi J ;
Hisanobu Shishido
This press release, dated January 22,
1986, announces the first meeting of the consultative group
for Malawi was convened in Paris on January 21 and 22, 1986,
under...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152071Date: January 22, 1986
This press release, dated January 15,
1986, announces the signing of two loans, amounting to 106
million dollars, to enhance the economic growth prospects of
Ecuador....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152067Date: January 15, 1986
This Research and Implementation Project
under the title of the Study of the Substitution of Labor
and Equipment in Civil Construction, the Project was
implemented in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 43239Date: January 4, 1986
In this paper an analysis of long term
adjustment of the Brazilian labor market is carried out.
During the last years of the "miracle period,"
shortage of unskilled...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD151Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Macedo, Roberto
This report contains the laboratory
evaluations and conclusions on seven handpumps which were
tested in 1984 and 1985. The main objectives of laboratory
work related...
Type: PublicationReport#: TEC2Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Consumers' Association Testing and
Research Laboratories (CATR)
This paper uses data on the height,
weight, age and grade level of over 3000 children in five
quite different locations to measure the impact of the
nutritional variables...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP393Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Jamison, Dean
This study analyzes the performance of
the Chilean labor market during a period when important
structural economic changes were taking place in the
country. The basic...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD152Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Edwards, Alejandra Cox
This paper examines the effects of
external shocks on the real exchange rates of developing
countries, and the appropriate policy responses to
counteract these. The...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD146Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Khan, Mohsin S.
In this paper an analysis of the long
term adjustment of the Brazilian labor market is carried
out. During the last years of the "miracle
period", shortage of unskilled...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD157Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Bourguignon,Alain Jean-Francois
This paper maintains that it is unlikely
that the growth in demand for labor in agriculture will
substantially outpace population expansion. However, given
the absolute...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD153Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Lucas, Robert E.B.
Policy-makers and analysts typically use
differences between the school enrolment ratios of different
countries or regions to justify educational investment. The
authors...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP402Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Psacharopoulos, George ;
Arriagada, Ana Maria
Data on 350 primary school age children
from subsistence farm households in the Terai (southern
plains) region of Nepal are analyzed to assess the
relationship between...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP379Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Mook, Peter ;
Leslie, Joanne
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