This paper surveys the literature on exchange rate crises, examining empirical regularities observed around the time of the crises and reviewing recent approaches to modelling exchange rate crises. It...
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 former is usually measured as a flow....
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 development projects in Hungary....
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 sector employs more than half 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. For much of the first twenty...
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 short and medium run outcome of a...
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. Rapid mortality decline is represented...
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 agriculture, manufacturing, services,...
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 of agricultural pricing and marketing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8517Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Kirchner, J. ;
Singh, I. ;
Squire, Lyn
This paper is intended as a guide to seaport planners in the preliminary assessment of projects involving bulk terminals. An overview of the bulk trades and bulk shipping provides the framework for assessing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP38Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Frankel, Ernst ;
Cooper, John ;
Yoo Whan Chang ;
Thara
This report looks at some key issues for China over the next 20 years, and some options for addressing them to achieve China's ultimate economic objective of catching up with developed countries while...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 5206Date: May 31, 1985
This paper presents a standard model for quantitative appraisal of housing financial intermediaries (HFI's) encountered in World Bank work. The model is applicable to the internal analysis of a particular...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD76Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Paine, Joseph Hamilton Thompson
This paper investigates the motive for choosing capital controls and special exchange rates, the principal forms and some of the experience. We look in particular at three institutional arrangements:...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8525Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Dornbusch, Rudiger
While the slow progress of both animal traction and motorization in sub - Saharan Africa is fairly well documented, this study was motivated by several unanswered questions that continue to persist in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU40Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Pingali, Prabhu ;
Bigot, Yves ;
Binswanger, Hans
The National Social Forestry Project for India will provide continuing assistance initiated under earlier credits to two states (Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat) to expand and improve their social forestry activities,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47935Date: May 30, 1985
In this issue : finding solutions to a wide range of problems : bus systems key to urban transport; jamaica's private bus system; urban paratranslt systems; high capacity bus lanes;projects, resources,...
This paper analyzes the two issues of quadrilateral compact and policy-based lending within the framework developed in two CPD working papers. Its primary purpose is to explore what the role of the Bank...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8540Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Sadeq, Sayeed
This study focuses on the pricing policy of Thailand broadly conceived. It shows that this policy has been important to the success of Thailand's development policy of the past 30 years, but that changed...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB4963Date: April 30, 1985
How do Indian villagers manage common property resources, such as canal irrigation water and grazing? The paper deals with the remarkable variation found between villages in one small area of South India....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU36Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Wade, Robert
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