This paper analyses UMOA's (Union Monetaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest) operations and its impact on the adjustment process. Importantly the currency of the union is pegged to the French franc, contributing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8506Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Krumm,Kathie L.
Constraints in the supply of concessional external funds for development in sub - Saharan Africa have focused attention on public domestic resource mobilization efforts. Taxation has been and remains the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8548Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Shalizi, Zmarak ;
Ghandi, Vasant ;
Ehdaie, Jaber
This paper discusses the sub - Saharan African debt problem and is based on work done by the author in mid-1984 for the sub - Saharan Africa Development Report 1984. While this paper offers no clear solutions,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8505Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Krumm,Kathie L.
This is a study of local finances in non-metropolitan cities in Korea. It provides an overview of the local government finance system and analyzes the fiscal performances of all cities other than Seoul...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD64Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Kim,Sarah K.
This paper is concerned with whether the introduction of diversified curricula into secondary schools has resulted in any differences between those groups of students who enrolled in diversified schools...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP363Date: January 31, 1985
This report describes the determinants of the magnitude, composition and uses of interhousehold transfers, and assesses the way in which transfers affect, and in turn are affected by, the squatter upgrading...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD56Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Kaufmann, D. ;
Bamberger,J. Michael
In this paper a model that analyzes the interaction between changes in commodity export prices, money creation inflation and real exchange rates in developing countries is developed. According to the model,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8515Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Edwards, S.
This is a comprehensive but easily understood handbook for urban policy makers, managers and evaluation practitioners in developing countries. It provides guidance on all stages of the design and implementation...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD67Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Bamberger, M. ;
Hewitt, E.
This report introduces the reader to the findings of a large-scale research project and only highlights findings reported in greater depth in project papers. Looking at a system of cities across the stages...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD29Date: January 31, 1985Author:
Hamer, A.
The World Bank is contributing a further 3 million dollars to the World Food Program (WFP) to help speed up the delivery of emergency food supplies to drought-stricken areas of sub-Saharan Africa. The...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152665Date: January 28, 1985
This Tanzania Transport Sector Memorandum discusses the background of Tanzanias transportation sector, as well as issues that hamper its efficient functioning. The combination of a large territory and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4042Date: January 4, 1985
This Tanzania Transport Sector Memorandum discusses the background of Tanzanias transportation sector, as well as issues that hamper its efficient functioning. The combination of a large territory and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4042Date: January 4, 1985
This Tanzania Transport Sector Memorandum discusses the background of Tanzanias transportation sector, as well as issues that hamper its efficient functioning. The combination of a large territory and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4042Date: January 4, 1985
This paper describes and illustrates the use of an algorithm that computes optimal taxes and public production in an economy where the government's tax powers are restricted. The special features of the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP382Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Heady, Christopher J. ;
Mitra,Pradeep K.
Household data from a one percent sample of the 1970 Brazilian census are used to analyze the effect of public inputs, i.e. the supply of schooling, on children's school attainment in Brazil. The household...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP368Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Birdsall,Nancy M.
This paper develops and employs an estimating procedure to measure the net effect of economic policies in providing incentives for domestic market production and sales, as reflected through observed price...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP369Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Tyler,William G.
This paper traces the perceptions of the agricultural sector held by economists over the last three centuries, with particular emphasis on how the evolution of these ideas has influenced the state of thinking...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP78Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Throsby, C. D.
This report is based on the work of an economic mission to Grenada during January 1985. The main issues identified in the report include the need for: (i) a comprehensive fiscal reform to improve incentives...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75938Date: January 1, 1985
The purpose of this report is to examine the strategies, procedures, objectives and data used by port managers when designing or revising their port tariffs. This report was written to complement earlier...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 13998Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Arnold,John H.
In a study of 43 developing countries in the 1973-78 period of external shocks, the author has shown that intercountry differences in the rate of economic growth are affected by differences in investment...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP372Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Balassa,Bela
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