• Export incentives and export growth in developing countries : an econometric investigation
    This monograph reports the results of an econometric investigation of the effects of export incentives on exports in Greece and Korea. The estimates cover the period from the first half of the sixties...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD159 Date: February 1, 1986 Author: Balassa, Bala ; Fylaktos, Panagiotis ; Suh, Suk Tai ; Voloudakis, Evangelos
  • Cost and benefits of controlling parasitic diseases
    This paper is a review of the literature on the costs and benefits of control programs designed to combat major parasitic diseases, including protozoal and helminthic diseases. Over one hundred studies...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8517 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Barlow, Robin ; Grobar, Lisa M.
  • The international constraints on macroeconomic policies in interdependent economies
    This paper examines, within a theoretical framework, some of the constraints that the openness of the economy impose upon policy making. The openness of the economy imposes constraints on the effectiveness...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8626 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Frenkel, Jacob S.
  • Wage policy and the structure of wages and employment in Zambia
    The paper examines real wage trends in the government, parastatal and private sectors in Zambia and the evolution of the wage structure over time. Special attention is given to the management of wages...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8601 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Lindauer, David ; Meesook, Oey A ; Suebsaeng, Parita
  • Cost effectiveness of potential immunization interventions against diarrhoeal disease
    In this paper estimates are made of the costs per death averted and the costs per case prevented by three possible immunization interventions against diarrhoeal disease in children: measles, rotavirus...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8602 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Creese, Andrew L.
  • Agricultural trade and pricing policies : lessons from five countries
    The issues discussed in this paper are based on recent studies on agricultural pricing and trade policy in developing countries conducted by the Trade and Adjustment Policy Division of CPD in the context...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD2 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Bale, Malcolm D.
  • Rules of thumb for external borrowing
    During the perid 1983-85, most indebted LDC's undertook major adjustment efforts in order to achieve trade balance surpluses aimed at "repaying their debt." In Latin America, the results have been, on...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8618 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Cohen, Daniel
  • Argentina : in search of growth
    This paper discusses the critical factors that are preventing sustainable growth of the Argentine economy. Three major constraints are identified: (1) the unsettled political system, which has continuously...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8606 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Barandiaran, Edgardo E.
  • Liberalizing trade between developed and developing countries
    Despite repeated declarations made by developed country governments of their intention to resist protectionist pressures and to roll back protection in the world trading system, new measures have been...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP389 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Balassa, Bela ; Michalopoulos, Constantine
  • Guidelines for country economists for the review and evaluation of trade policies
    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 includes, however, the conduct...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8607 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Michaely, Michael
  • Guidelines for conducting and calibrating road roughness measurements
    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. This paper defines roughness measurement...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP46 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Gillespie, Thomas D. ; Paterson, William D. O. ; Sayers, Michael W.
  • The International Road Roughness Experiment (IRRE) : establishing correlation and a calibration standard for measurements
    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 costs. This need to measure roughness...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP45 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Gillespie, Thomas D ; Queiroz, Cesar A.V ; Sayers, Michael W
  • Project evaluation in theory and practice
    This paper provides a survey of project appraisal techniques in theory and practice. It identifies three levels of sophistication in the theoretical literature. The first, and simplest, is based on partial...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8609 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Squire, Lyn
  • A framework for studying the supply response of perennial crops
    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 model in which capital is heterogeneous...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8601 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Trivedi, Pravin K.
  • Optimal borrowing and overborrowing : some simple simulation lessons
    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 that the informational conditions...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8558 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Hisanobu Shishido ; Kharas, Homi J
  • Announcement of Meeting of the Consultative Group for Malawi on January 22, 1986
    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 the chairmanship of Mr. Jochen Kraske,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152071 Date: January 22, 1986
  • Announcement of Ecuador Signs Important Loans on January 15, 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. The loans were signed in Washington,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152067 Date: January 15, 1986
  • Study of the substitution of labor and equipment in civil construction (SOL) : project completion report : Study of the substitution of labor and equipment in civil construction (SOL) : project completion report
    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 several stages. Research work in the...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 43239 Date: January 4, 1986
  • The Brazilian labor market : an overview
    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 labor could well characterize the situation...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD151 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Macedo, Roberto
  • Handpump laboratory test results
    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 to handpumps are the following: (i)...
    Type: Publication Report#: TEC2 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Consumers' Association Testing and Research Laboratories (CATR)
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