The main thrust of this paper is analyzing what constitutes reasonable borrowing and debt servicing for low-income aid-dependent countries. Other types of debtors and of debt will only be discussed as...
The author examines the methodologies for project evaluation that, in principle, have been adopted and stylized by the World Bank. The paper discusses the Bank's formally adopted methods and those actually...
An export-oriented development strategy has long formed a main thrust of the World Bank's advice to developing countries. This paper sets out to examine whether one of the essential preconditions for successful...
Developing countries sometimes still resist free trade because of the alleged protectionism of industrial countries -- a myth belied by facts, says the author. Import growth in the industrial countries...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following issues: Kim Jaycox on the reorganization; women in development and the safe motherhood conference, by Barber B. Conable; the Caribbean connection...
The paper analyzes the characteristics of the 1983-84 world economic recovery and its effects on developing countries' adjustment. It looks at the conditions for medium-term non-inflationary growth in...
The seminar was intended to fill in some gaps in the management of debt for member countries of the West African Monetary Union (WAMU), and examine ways of improving collaboration between the Central Bank...