Public enterprises have grown to represent a significant share of modern sector employment in many African economies, yet little is known about public enterprise compensation and employment policies and...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8631Date: May 31, 1986Author:
Lindauer,David L.
This paper uses an intertemporal disequilibrium framework to analyze the rapid increase in personal savings that has taken place in China since 1979. A theoretical model of savings behavior under rationing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8627Date: May 31, 1986Author:
Feltenstein, Andrew ;
Lebow, David ;
van Wijnbergen,
The idea that external liberalization can spur economic growth is gaining wider acceptance among policy makers, expecially those in developing nations. Yet the record on liberalization as an effective...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8623Date: May 31, 1986Author:
Mcculloch,Rachel
This paper addresses the issue of revenue constrained partial tariff reform. This is an increasingly important issue, as more & more countries are caught between the conflicting demands of restoring price...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8625Date: May 31, 1986Author:
Dahl, Henrik ;
Devarajan, Shantayanan ;
van Wijnberg
Over the past fifty years, various studies have attempted to document the alleged loss of literacy and numeracy skills afflicting dropouts from primary schools in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). These...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD171Date: May 1, 1986Author:
Hartley,Michael John ;
Swanson,Eric Valdeman
This paper was originally presented at the Conference on "Industrial Organization, Trade and Investment in North America: U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico," held in Merida, Mexico on December 16-18, 1985. ...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD178Date: May 1, 1986Author:
Balassa,Bela
In 1984 the Korean Ministry of Transport hired consultants from the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) to evaluate the regulations governing its trucking industry. Its objective...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51346Date: May 1, 1986Author:
Smith,Graham ;
Michell, Tony ;
Shin, Buyong
In 1979, and after two decades of following inward-oriented policies, Peru started to reduce its trade barriers. This tendency was intensified during 1980 by the government of Fernando Belaunde Terry....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD168Date: May 1, 1986Author:
Nogues,Julio
This paper presents a detailed analysis of fertility in 10 sub - Saharan African countries for which World Fertility Survey data are available. These data and similar data from other developing countries...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8513Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Cochrane, Susan H. ;
Farid, Samir M.
Recent research on rent control has demonstrated that rent control differs greatly in its effects from place to place, depending on the specific provisions of the rent control laws, their enforcement,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD91Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Tewari, Vinod ;
Kumar, T. Krishna
There is increasing awareness that the efficiency of public enterprises in developing countries must be improved. What has been developed in this paper is an analytical checklist or, if one prefers, the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD94Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Gardner, Donald
Increasingly, World Bank and other financing for projects is channelled through financial intermediaries. Examples of these range from government departments to more formal financial and/or banking institutions....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD95Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Jones, David
Although in the past much emphasis has been placed by borrowers, lenders and project approval entities on the technical design and implementation of water and sanitation projects, the author maintains...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD98Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Jones, David
The introduction of competitive practices in the performance of routine maintenance operations is gaining strength in many countries. In some cases, the move to contracting has been motivated by the rapid...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TRP1Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Harral, Clell G ;
Henriod, Ernesto E ;
Graziano, Pet
This paper examines public land development agencies in developing countries and the key determinants of their success. The objective of the paper is to provide operational tools to evaluate the performance...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD93Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Van Meurs,Arianna K.
This paper provides a survey of recent research on the economic problems associated with urbanization in Africa. The paper also analyzes African nations' current policies, and the impact of their macroeconomic...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD97Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Becker, Charles ;
deBodisco, Christopher ;
Morrison,Andrew R.
This paper documents for a number of African countries the evidence on trends in wage levels and structures over time and raises some policy issues. It finds that there has been a severe erosion in the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8624Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Lindauer, David ;
Meesook, Oey ;
Suebsaeng, Parita
Contractual savings schemes are frequently mentioned as desirable instruments for the mobilization of financial savings for housing, but comparative data about the characteristics of this special form...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD92Date: April 30, 1986Author:
Chretien,Michel
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