The World Bank's dialogue with its member countries regarding the financial sector usually focuses on: (1) interest rate policies, (2) directed credit programs, (3) the taxation of financial savings and...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8550Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Ghanem, Hafez ;
Ben-Zion, Uri
The purpose of this paper is to study the utilization patterns of traditional and modern health services in Indonesia. Particular attention is paid to to the relative impact on utilization of modern services,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8518Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Chernichovsky, Dov ;
Meesook, Oey Astra
This paper demonstrates that multilateral trade liberalization is in the mutual interests of the developed and the developing countries. For one thing, reducing their own protection lessens the economic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ERS4Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Balassa, Bela ;
Michalopoulos, Constantine
Capital controls are interventions in intertemporal trade. The effect of the imposition of capital controls on the real exchange rate, therefore hinges on the interaction of intertemporal and intratemporal...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8552Date: October 31, 1985Author:
van Wijbergen, Sweder
The Korean government, like many others in less developed countries, uses numerous carrots and sticks to influence the location choices of manufacturing firms. We develop an analytical model for comparing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD87Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Murry, Michael
The paper surveys recent work on tax reforms in dynamic economies where the level of capital and the factor prices are endogenous. The presentation emphasizes methodological issues. The framework for the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8513Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Chamley,Christophe P.
Local governments in anglophone Africa, faced with rapidly growing urban populations, are frequently ill-equipped in terms of financial and human resources to provide and maintain services. The success...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD71Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Kozlowski,Jane E.
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of thirty million US dollars for Oman to help finance a project that aims to develop the country's own capabilities for maintaining its roads...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156931Date: October 31, 1985
This paper reviews policy proposals in over thirty financial sector reports and studies carried out by the Bank, the IMF and the IFC. The paper first identifies financial sector policy instruments including...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8544Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Salice, Licia ;
Myers, Robert
The Industrial Location Policies Research Project (RPO 672-91) produced a series of UDD discussion papers in the following three categories: (1) descriptive studies on observed location pattern and policy...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD85Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Lee,Kyu Sik ;
Choe,Sang Chuel ;
Pahk,Kyuee-Ha
The emergence in Ghana of black market foreign exchange premia in excess of several hundred percent is ascribed to a basic inconsistency between past fiscal and exchange rate policy, which led to goods...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8556Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Pinto,Brian R.
Research to date on effective protection rates (EPRs) has neglected two important subjects: compilation and direct comparison of EPRs across countries, and exploitation of this data along with country-specific...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8553Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Conway,Patrick J.
This paper proposes methodologies for assessing affordability and cost effectiveness of nutrition projects and applies those methodologies to the Bank's four free-standing nutrition projects (Brazil, Colombia,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8514Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Ho, Teresa J.
In this paper, the potential effects of fertility change on maternal and child mortality in sub - Saharan Africa are estimated. Three aspects of both maternal and child mortality are examined: the current...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8515Date: October 31, 1985Author:
MAINE, DEBORAH ;
McNamara, Regina ;
Wray, Joe ;
Farah, Abdul-Aziz ;
Wallace, Marilyn
This paper selectively reviews the empirical literature on production and cost functions and summarizes the estimated values of parameters. The estimates taken from the literature are studied for systematic...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD66Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Reedy, Diane Erickson
This paper addresses issues concerning the demand for family planning in Sub-Saharan Africa from a cultural and anthropological perspective. The authors attempt to identify cultural factors which may underlie...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8516Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Caldwell, John C. ;
Caldwell, Pat
Conventional wisdom holds that LDC debt problems reflect, in part, the switch of foreign financing towards commercial loans. With no adequate supervision over the use of these funds, international finance...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8547Date: October 31, 1985Author:
Kharas, Homi ;
Levinsohn, J.
During the next two decades, China could add substantially to the major, though uneven, progress that has already been made toward its goal of catching up with the industrial countries. But to do so China...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152157Date: October 25, 1985
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred million US dollars for Ecuador to support a program of policy reforms in the agricultural sector on October 24, 1985.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156927Date: October 24, 1985
India Lease Development Limited, New Delhi (ILDL), is being established with the assistance of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as part of an effort to further deepen the institutional base...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156218Date: October 3, 1985
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