How should Tajikistan adapt to ongoing and future climate change, in particular given the many pressing development challenges it currently faces? The paper argues that for developing countries like Tajikistan...
This paper examines fiscal outcomes in Eastern and Central European countries before and during the global crisis of 2008-2010. These outcomes are evaluated in the context of overall changes in fiscal...
Despite the purported surge in internal migration following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, data from the 2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants...
In December 1999, the Boards of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund approved a new approach to their relations with low-income countries. The approach was centered around the development...
World Bank's Ukraine team on unchartered territories - learning from past mistakes: interview with Country Director Luca Barbone. Voices of the people: comments on the Bank's country assistance strategy...
This paper presents a model of forester, and government behavior applicable to the Central African context. The aim of the model is to gain insights on the role of different fiscal instruments at the disposal...
The paper presents an overview of social security reform issues in Africa, based on the examination of a number of case studies for both Francophone, and Anglophone Africa. A number of conclusions drawn...
This volume is intended as a potential tool for Central and Eastern European policy makers inside and outside the public sphere who are trying to craft a new model of government for the transition and...
The authors argue that significant adjustment took place in Polish industry after Poland's 1990 reforms. They analyze data on two- and three-digit manufacturing industries, disaggregated by firm ownership...
This note presents estimates of marginal effective tax rates on capital income for Argentina, following the methodology developed by King and Fullerton (1984). It is shown that the tax system is relatively...