This paper reviews policy proposals in over thirty financial sector reports and studies carried out by the Bank, the IMF and the IFC. The paper first identifies financial sector policy instruments including...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8544Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Salice, Licia ;
Myers, Robert
The Industrial Location Policies Research Project (RPO 672-91) produced a series of UDD discussion papers in the following three categories: (1) descriptive studies on observed location pattern and policy...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD85Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Lee,Kyu Sik ;
Choe,Sang Chuel ;
Pahk,Kyuee-Ha
The emergence in Ghana of black market foreign exchange premia in excess of several hundred percent is ascribed to a basic inconsistency between past fiscal and exchange rate policy, which led to goods...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8556Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Pinto,Brian R.
Research to date on effective protection rates (EPRs) has neglected two important subjects: compilation and direct comparison of EPRs across countries, and exploitation of this data along with country-specific...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8553Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Conway,Patrick J.
This paper proposes methodologies for assessing affordability and cost effectiveness of nutrition projects and applies those methodologies to the Bank's four free-standing nutrition projects (Brazil, Colombia,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8514Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Ho, Teresa J.
In this paper, the potential effects of fertility change on maternal and child mortality in sub - Saharan Africa are estimated. Three aspects of both maternal and child mortality are examined: the current...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8515Date: October 31, 1985Author:
MAINE, DEBORAH ;
McNamara, Regina ;
Wray, Joe ;
Farah, Abdul-Aziz ;
Wallace, Marilyn
This paper selectively reviews the empirical literature on production and cost functions and summarizes the estimated values of parameters. The estimates taken from the literature are studied for systematic...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD66Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Reedy, Diane Erickson
This paper addresses issues concerning the demand for family planning in Sub-Saharan Africa from a cultural and anthropological perspective. The authors attempt to identify cultural factors which may underlie...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8516Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Caldwell, John C. ;
Caldwell, Pat
Conventional wisdom holds that LDC debt problems reflect, in part, the switch of foreign financing towards commercial loans. With no adequate supervision over the use of these funds, international finance...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8547Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Kharas, Homi ;
Levinsohn, J.
During the next two decades, China could add substantially to the major, though uneven, progress that has already been made toward its goal of catching up with the industrial countries. But to do so China...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152157Date: October 25, 1985
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred million US dollars for Ecuador to support a program of policy reforms in the agricultural sector on October 24, 1985.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156927Date: October 24, 1985
India Lease Development Limited, New Delhi (ILDL), is being established with the assistance of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as part of an effort to further deepen the institutional base...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156218Date: October 3, 1985
This paper describes the data base used for the Korea industrial location policy research project and provides documentation and guidelines for future users. The data base consists of a sample survey of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD86Date: October 1, 1985Author:
Pahk,Kyuee-Ha
The paper sets out, using the example of a small comparative static model of Thailand for 1980, an approach to macro-economic model building which is based on having two versions of a social accounting...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD150Date: October 1, 1985Author:
Drud,Arne ;
Grais,Wafik ;
Pyatt,Frank Graham
In this paper the Kenyan labor force and employment at around 1980 are examined. Then the author examines the main changes that have taken place since 1965 regarding labor supply and demand, discussing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD156Date: October 1, 1985Author:
Fallon,Peter R.
The paper shows that although the outward oriented newly industrializing countries (NIC's) suffered cosiderably external shocks than the inward oriented NIC's and two socialist countries, Hungary and Yugoslavia,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD147Date: October 1, 1985Author:
Balassa,Bela
This paper updates evidence on the returns to investment in education by adding estimates for new countries and refining existing estimates to bring the total number of country cases to over 60. The new...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP362Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Psacharopoulos,George
Public educational expenditures in many LDCs are generally biased towards the formalized vocational sub-sectors. Taking South Korea as an example, vocational education within the traditional school system...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: EDT6Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Lee,Chingboon
This handbook is designed to guide Bank staff on the selection and use of consulting firms' services. Its contents cover both consulting services financed by the Bank (the majority of cases) and also...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 7867Date: September 30, 1985
As a result of an increase in natural gas development the need for an effective approach to determine the feasibility of gas exploration has to be developed. In the past the Bank has used the Gas Utilization...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY24Date: September 30, 1985Author:
Julius,Deanne S.
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