This paper examines recent changes in
the external debt of the developing countries and the
adjustment policies followed by these countries following
the first oil shock,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD149Date: July 1, 1985Author:
Balassa,Bela
This paper examines the choices between
outward and inward orientation, when the former provides
similar incentives to sales in domestic and in foreign
markets and the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD148Date: July 1, 1985Author:
Balassa, Bela
This literature review was prepared as a
background paper in support of ongoing research activities
on the role of interhouse transfers as survival and
development strategies...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD69Date: July 1, 1985Author:
Clark, Mari H.
This document presents some sylized
facts on the nature of, and preconditions for, decentralized
urban development, with special reference to tradeable goods
and services....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD75Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Hamer, A.
Extensive fuel peat reserves exist in
developing countries, but much is yet to be done in defining
the type, fuel value and reserves. This study presents a
review of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP41Date: June 30, 1985
This report documents the situation in
Thailand's transport sector towards the end of the
Fifth Development Plan (1982-86) and highlights issues that
merit attention...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4950Date: June 30, 1985
Education, experience and the processing
of information play key roles in a decision maker's
choice of adopting various innovations. Before a decision
maker decides...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU42Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Fischer, Alastair
Optimal allocation of textile and
apparel export quotas among various companies in an
exporting country necessitates appropriate policies to
maximize efficiency and...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8524Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Rottenberg, Simon
This memorandum presents an overview of
the present situation and main problems in Ghana's
transport sector brought on by more than a decade of
political turmoil and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 5737Date: June 30, 1985
This document presents stylized facts on
the determinants of location behaviour, city size, and
decentralized development. Given hypotheses about spatial
outcomes of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD73Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Hamer, A.
In Indonesia, and across the developing
world, policymakers are apprehensive about increasing
urbanization, fearing that it will concentrate population in
one or very...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD74Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Hamer, A. ;
Steer, A. ;
Williams, D.
This paper surveys the literature on
exchange rate crises, examining empirical regularities
observed around the time of the crises and reviewing recent
approaches to...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8539Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Goldberg,Linda S.
This paper analyzes the relationship
between changes in the terms of trade and other exogenous
shocks and national welfare. The latter is a wealth concept
while the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8528Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Kharas, Homi Hisan Shishido
The World Bank has approved a
participation, totaling 50 million dollars, in two
syndicated commercial loans, amounting to about $415
million, which will support three...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152101Date: June 11, 1985
A striking feature of the Egyptian labor
market is the importance of the public sector,
administration, public service and public enterprises.
Outside agriculture the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD160Date: June 1, 1985Author:
Hansen, Bent
The paper analyzes the labor market
performance in Pakistan taking as a departure point the
existence of two broad economic periods since the
independence of the country....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD158Date: June 1, 1985Author:
Ahamd, Ehtisham; Stern, Nicholas
The paper systematically examines the
major devaluations of the l960-80 period to determine the
influence of different policies--fiscal, credit and
commercial--on the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8518Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Chuhan, P.
The first of the two papers in this
report describes and provides representations of the
patterns of rapid fertility and rapid mortality decline in
developing countries....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP681Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Bulatao, R. ;
Elwan, A.
This paper assesses alternative foreign
borrowing strategies for Thailand using a medium-term
dynamic optimization model. The model has five sectors:
rubber, other...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8529Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Kharas, Homi ;
Hisanobu Shishido
This is the second in a series of papers
describing analytical tools for examining agricultural
pricing in East Africa. It documents a multi-market model
for the analysis...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8517Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Kirchner, J. ;
Singh, I. ;
Squire, Lyn
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