This article evaluates the effects of
government intervention in agricultural commodity markets
for a sample of developing countries. It also presents a
review of the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP175Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Lutz, E. ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
A general model is presented for
studying the connection between imperfect information and
imperfect competition, comparing the methodology involved in
generating monopolistic...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP137Date: January 31, 1980Author:
BRAVERMAN, A.
Nepal is one of the least developed
countries in the world, and serious attempts at development
have been under way only since the 1960s. The rural
development - I project...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN174Date: January 31, 1980Author:
AGR
This paper reports on investigations of
the social and private profitability of alternative ways of
growing rice in four Sahelian countries. Efforts were made
to ensure...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP199Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Humphreys, C. ;
Pearson, S.
A model that facilitates inferences
about lenders' subjective default probabilities is
presented. The models' underlying assumption is that
the probability of default...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP159Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Feder, Gershon ;
Just, R. ;
DRC ;
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
The factors that influence the
persistent and negative relation between number of children
and allocation of resources to investment in those children
are discussed....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP160Date: January 31, 1980Author:
BIRDSALL, N. ;
DEDPH
Whether sales or excise taxes are
regressive or progressive depends on how the question is
asked, and the implicit or explicit definition of what
incomes would be were...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP503Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Meerman, Jacob
The rules, procedures, and theoretical
premises of Yugoslavia's 1974 new constitution as they
apply to workers' self-management are described. One
feature of the constitutional...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP161Date: January 31, 1980Author:
ARDALAN, C.
The prediction of output response to
price changes in the agricultural sector of developing
countries is often an extremely important aspect of policy
formation since...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP167Date: January 31, 1980Author:
BARNUM, H. ;
SQUIRE, L.
This paper develops a multisector
Computable General Equilibrium model to simulate the effects
of trade on the distribution of income among socioeconomic
groups defined...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP170Date: January 31, 1980Author:
DE MELO, J. ;
ROBINSON, S.
With a view toward Portugal's entry
into the European Common Market, this paper reviews the
experience of the Portuguese economy during the
post-Revolutionary period,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP164Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Balassa, Bela
In recent years, decision makers in an
increasing number of countries have realized that energy
sector planning should be carried out on an integrated basis
within the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP165Date: January 31, 1980Author:
MUNASINGHE, M.
The central proposition of this paper is
that periodic shortfalls in aggregate food consumption in
the developing countries are primarily related to poor
harvests in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN186Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Reutlinger, S. ;
Knapp, K.
This paper contains a selection of case
studies presented at the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and
Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in Eastern Africa,
which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN137Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Deboeck, Guido J. ;
Rubin, Deborah [editors] ;
AGR
The relationship between economies with
indirect taxes and total factor incomes is discussed.
Comprehensive statistical studies (CSS) of budget incidence
assume ceteris...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP171Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Meerman, Jacob ;
Shome, P.
Using Peru as a case study, the
implications of spatial differences in living costs for
measures of poverty are examined. To obtain location
specific poverty lines that...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP153Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Vinod, Thomas
The Bihar Agricultural Research Project
will reorganize and strengthen Bihar's agricultural
extension services, and help upgrade and develop adaptive
research with the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN175Date: January 31, 1980
Using a 39 country sample, Burns and
Grebler show that there is a systematic nonlinear
relationship between investment in residential construction
and the per capita...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP183Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Renaud, Bernard
This paper analyzes the implications of
production risk for shadow price in the economic and social
evaluation of investment projects. The analysis shows how
income...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP184Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an island
country of 3 million people located in the tropics about 100
miles north of Australia. PNG's geography, topography
and early stage...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 2819Date: January 29, 1980
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