Documents et rapports
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Economic integration in Eastern Europe (anglais)
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) was established by Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union in 1948 as a response to the Marshall Plan. But unlike the Marshall...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS636 Date du document: 31 mars 1991 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Trends in developing country exports, 1963-88 (anglais)
Certain experts have expressed the view that developed country imports from developing countries have a tendency to increase less rapidly than their gross domestic product. Additionally, the view has been...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS634 Date du document: 31 mars 1991 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Perestroyka and its implications for European socialist countries (anglais)
Perestroyka, introduced in the Soviet Union to reform the economy after the "period of stagnation" under Brezhnev, involves combining centralized planning with elements of a market economy. For it to succeed...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS428 Date du document: 31 mai 1990 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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EMENA manufactured exports and EEC trade policy (anglais)
This paper examines the implications for EMENA of EEC trade policy. Following an analysis of EEC trade agreements with EMENA countries, the paper has shown that EMENA's trade performance in the EEC has...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS282 Date du document: 30 septembre 1989 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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The effects of interest rates on savings in developing countries (anglais)
This paper provides evidence on the effects of interest rates on savings in developing countries. While the evidence is not conclusive, time-series estimates for individual countries as well as cross-section...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS56 Date du document: 30 septembre 1989 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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U.S. trade policy towards developing countries (anglais)
The United States has often been criticized for protectionist measures taken against developing country products. Yet, average agricultural protection has reemained practically nil in the U.S. over time...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS151 Date du document: 31 janvier 1989 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Reflections on perestroyka and the foreign economic ties of the USSR (anglais)
The exploitation of the Soviet Union's foreign trade potential would necessitate adopting a realistic exchange rate and increasing the foreign exchange retention quotas for direct and indirect exporters...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS149 Date du document: 31 janvier 1989 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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A conceptual framework for adjustment policies (anglais)
This paper begins by examining the existing conceptual framework for stabilization policies and inquires into the question as to an appropriate framework for adjustment policies. Next, the instruments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS139 Date du document: 31 janvier 1989 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Quantitative appraisal of adjustment lending (anglais)
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of adjustment programs in developing countries that received adjustment loans from the World Bank. Data have been provided for loan recipients and non-recipients...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS79 Date du document: 31 août 1988 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Temporary windfalls and compensation arrangements (anglais)
Sharp fluctuations in the export prices of a major staple commodity can have jarring effects on economic activity. To reduce these undesirable effects and at the same time, increase the government's share...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS28 Date du document: 30 juin 1988 Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Public enterprises in developing countries : issues of privatization (anglais)
This paper examines the reasons for the shift towards the privatization of public enterprises in developing countries and the conditions under which privatization will bring the desired results. It is...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD292 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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The international monetary system and exchange rate policies in the developing countries (anglais)
The paper reviews the proximate objectives the exchange rate regimes of developing countries may serve. These objectives include eschewing foreign exchange restrictions, maintaining realistic exchange...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD294 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Effects of exchange rate changes in developing countries (anglais)
This paper sets out to examine the economic effects of exchange rate changes in developing countries by the use of alternative definitions of the real exchange rate. The evidence presented in the paper...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD291 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Economic incentives and agricultural exports in developing countries (anglais)
The findings of this paper indicate that exports in general, and agricultural exports in particular, strongly respond to price incentives. This conclusion has been established by an econometric analysis...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD250 Date du document: 1 février 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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The interaction of domestic distortions with development strategies (anglais)
This paper provides evidence on the unfavorable effects factor market distortions have on the efficiency of resource allocation and on employment in developing countries. It further shows that the policy...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD249 Date du document: 1 février 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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The importance of trade for developing countries (anglais)
This paper indicates the benefits developing countries may derive through international trade. It reviews recent trends in world trade in major product groups; analyzes the economic performance of developing...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD248 Date du document: 1 février 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Intra-industry trade among exporters of manufactured goods (anglais)
This paper examines the determinants of intra-industry specialisation in manufactured goods in bilateral trade among countries whose manufactured exports exceeded $300 million and accounted for at least...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP404 Date du document: 1 janvier 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Next steps in the Hungarian economic reform (anglais)
Following a review of the macroeconomic situation, this paper makes recommendations for the efficient promotion of exports in Hungary. It further reviews the conditions existing in factor markets and suggests...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD254 Date du document: 1 décembre 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Economic prospects and policies in Mexico (anglais)
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. It...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD178 Date du document: 1 mai 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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China's economic reforms in a comparative perspective (anglais)
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 de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD177 Date du document: 1 avril 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela