This study analyzes the performance of the Chilean labor market during a period when important structural economic changes were taking place in the country. The basic facts discussed in the paper derive...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD152Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Cox Edwards,Alejandra C.
This paper examines the effects of external shocks on the real exchange rates of developing countries, and the appropriate policy responses to counteract these. The paper first discusses the principal...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD146Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Khan, Mohsin S.
In this paper an analysis of the long term adjustment of the Brazilian labor market is carried out. During the last years of the "miracle period", shortage of unskilled labor could well characterize the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD157Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Bourguignon,Alain Jean-Francois
This paper maintains that it is unlikely that the growth in demand for labor in agriculture will substantially outpace population expansion. However, given the absolute size of employment in organized...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD153Date: January 1, 1986Author:
Lucas,Robert E. B.
This paper attempts to project the growth of urbanization in India and to assess the economic implications of this growth. The relatively smooth and steady growth of urbanization in India since the turn...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP385Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Mohan, R.
Decreases in world import-demand for U.S. grain exports do not stem so much from the strength of the U.S. dollar and high U.S. loan rates as they do from other factors which exist in the importing country...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8505Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Mitchell,Donald O.
The Commodities Studies and Projections Division has recently completed the construction of global models of grains (wheat, rice and coarse grains) and soybeans markets. This paper describes in broad...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8507Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Mitchell,Donald O.
This year's "Report on the World Bank Research Program" has two parts. Part I comprises a review of various aspects of the research program conducted in the past year. Part II provides narratives of research...
Type: Report on the World Bank Research ProgramReport#: 5961Date: December 31, 1985
The author, an active participant in urban and regional planning in Korea, summarizes the rationale behind the industrial decentralization policies pursued by the Korean government and illustrates key...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP386Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Won-Yong Kwon
This paper examines the joint implications of private sector stockholding and futures market trading for commodity price dynamics. Speculative private sector stockholding links commodity prices over periods...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8504Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Gilbert,Christopher L.
This paper examines Thailand's curiously successful adjustment experience using a six sector general equilibrium model which is calibrated to reproduce the actual behaviour of the economy from 1973-82....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8605Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Devarajan, Shantayanan ;
Sierra, Hector
A number of efforts have been made to produce peat and introduce it as an alternative source of energy in Burundi. Increasing the share of peat in the energy market essentially involves competition with...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM46Date: December 31, 1985
A model of employment location, which was developed and applied to Bogota, Colombia, in an earlier World Bank research project, was estimated with a fresh set of data obtained from a sample survey of manufacturing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD90Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Lee,Kyu Sik
Nigeria & Indonesia provide an interesting contrast with regard to performance & policy during & after the oil boom. Roughly a decade after the first oil shock, Nigeria finds itself faced with several...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8555Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Pinto,Brian R.
The nature of the Bank's education portfolio is gradually changing. As a result of this change there has been a shift away from the earlier emphasis on the infrastructure sectors as a model for project...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: EDT12Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Verspoor,Adriaan M.
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of seven million eight hundred US dollars for Malawi to continue its efforts to expand its industrial base to increase productivity in the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157001Date: December 23, 1985
This paper presents U.S. dollar estimates of the per capita product of the German Democratic Republic for 1975 and 1980. The system of national accounts and valuation practices of the GDR are described....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP773Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Collier, Irwin L
The main purpose of this study is to identify the locational forces that influence the manufacturing industry in the Seoul region where more than 45 percent of industrial establishments are located and...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD89Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Byung-Nak Song ;
Choe,Sang Chuel
This paper analyzes the available data on local finances for Seoul and its satellite cities. The paper documents the trends of revenues and expenditures for 1973-1982 to study the fiscal performance of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD88Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Dong Hoon Chun ;
Kyung-Hwan Kim ;
Lee,Kyu Sik
This paper assesses past foreign borrowing by Nigeria against two criteria: first whether the real marginal benefits exceeded the real marginal costs of foreign borrowing; and second whether government...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8604Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Myers, R
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