• Urban sub-Saharan Africa in macroeconomic perspective : selected issues and options
    This paper argues in favor of harnessing the human and financial resources of the African city as part of any strategy to ensure greater, and more widespread, economic development. The urban sector can...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD96 Date: April 30, 1986 Author: Hamer,Andrew M.
  • The costs of land information systems
    In most developing countries, the inadequacy of land information poses a severe constraint on land transactions, land consolidation, property taxation and public planning of all kinds. Reliable cost data...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD99 Date: April 30, 1986 Author: Bernstein,Janis D.
  • Efficiency of tax-contract policies for natural resource rent collection
    The efficiency of natural resource tax-contract systems is of interest to both resource owners and firms wishing to explore for and extract resources. The present paper considers the small country case...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD163 Date: April 1, 1986 Author: Virmani,Arvind
  • Devaluation and the real exchange rate
    This paper examines the short-term and long-term effects of a nominal devaluation on the real exchange rate. It is shown that in the absence of supporting policies that limit increases in prices and factor...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD170 Date: April 1, 1986 Author: Khan, Mohsin S. ; LIZONDO, JOSE SAUL
  • Bangladesh - Preinvestment evaluation of small scale uses of natural gas
    This report presents the results of a study sponsored by the United Development Program (UNDP) / World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) to explore the economic viability of rural...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 48198 Date: April 1, 1986
  • Efficiency of practical resource rent tax system : threshold rates and income taxes
    An abstract pure profit or rent tax for a known resource is easy to define and analyze. The challenge is to (a) design a tax-contract system which is relatively efficient in extracting rents when the...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD164 Date: April 1, 1986 Author: Virmani,Arvind
  • Implications of a VAT in India : the deductability system
    The paper presents a practical methodology for assessing the impact of domestic indirect tax reform. The methodology is based on a simple extension of the input-output framework to take account of partial...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD165 Date: April 1, 1986 Author: Virmani,Arvind
  • China's economic reforms in a comparative perspective
    The paper makes recommendations for simultaneously establishing macroeconomic equilibrium and extending the reform effort in China. As to the latter, recommendations are made: (a) for increasing the decision-making...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD177 Date: April 1, 1986 Author: Balassa,Bela
  • Recent experiences with exchange auctions
    This paper synthesizes, updates and expands upon an earlier CPD Discussion Paper on the experiences with exchange auctions. One response to foreign exchange crises in a limited number of cases in the 1980s...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8629 Date: March 31, 1986 Author: Krumm,Kathie L.
  • The effects of fiscal policy in Korea
    This paper investigates whether a neoclassical model can explain output and investment in the Republic of Korea. The model disaggregates government purchases into defense purchases, nondefense consumption...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8619 Date: March 31, 1986 Author: Evans, Paul
  • The Bank's role in developing financial packages for adjustment : recent experiences in Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, and Costa Rica
    In 1985 the Bank, along with the IMF and the commercial lenders, played an important role in developing financial packages for adjustment policies and financial flows. This paper reviews the experience...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8603 Date: March 31, 1986 Author: Pierdicchi, Maria
  • A framework for analysis of bilateral trade and countertrade : the case of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) countries
    The theory of international trade has paid little attention to the issues that arise when bilateralism is an important element of a country's trade relations. Such a lacuna impedes the ability of the...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8616 Date: March 31, 1986 Author: Murrell,Peter
  • Fiscal deficit reduction programs in developing countries : stabilization versus growth in the presence of credit rationing
    Many developing countries have recently implemented or are contemplating fiscal deficit reduction programs. The dual objective of achieving short-run stabilization and restoring medium-term growth, while...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8620 Date: March 31, 1986 Author: Cuddington,John T. ; Johansson, Per
  • Financial liberalization reforms : a review of Turkey
    The purpose of this paper is to review the financial liberalization attempt in Turkey over the 1980-84 period. The major reforms included: liberalization of interest rates, a reduction in taxes on finance,...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8613 Date: March 31, 1986 Author: Cavaglia,Stefano F.
  • The structure of labor markets in LDCs : overview for South Korea, 1953-1984
    South Korea is a prime example of an economy which has experienced sudden modernization and profound structural change. General economic policy has been oriented towards maintaining international competitiveness...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD162 Date: March 1, 1986 Author: Richardson, Ray ; Kim, Byung Whan
  • Public policy and the evolution of the labour market in Sri Lanka
    This paper examines the evolution of labor market conditions in the recent economic development of Sri Lanka, with special attention to the effects of various government policies. Three facts about the...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD161 Date: March 1, 1986 Author: Fields,Gary S.
  • A description of adjustment to external shocks : country groups
    This paper develops a modelling framework to examine adjustment to external shocks including terms of trade movements, recession in the industrial countries and increases in interest rates. The framework...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP383 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Mitra, P. ; DRD
  • Annual review of project performance results (Vol. 2 of 3) : Sector reviews
    The report presents an overview and trend analysis of the results of project evaluations made in the last six years (804 projects) and a detailed discussion of performance by sector of the same period...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB5859 Date: February 28, 1986
  • Annual review of project performance results (Vol. 1 of 3) : Overview
    The report presents an overview and trend analysis of the results of project evaluations made in the last six years (804 projects) and a detailed discussion of performance by sector of the same period...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB5859 Date: February 28, 1986
  • Annual review of project performance results (Vol. 3 of 3) : Annexes and tables
    The report presents an overview and trend analysis of the results of project evaluations made in the last six years (804 projects) and a detailed discussion of performance by sector of the same period...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB5859 Date: February 28, 1986
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