Rudimentary markets for capital - for raising money and investing - exist in even the remotest places around the world. However, prudent macroeconomic management, regulation, investor protection, and innovation...
India and China contain about 40 percent of the earth's people. They are at an early stage of economic development, and their increasingly massive energy requirements will depend heavily on coal, a potent...
The authors assess the economic effects in Egypt, under various conditions, of restricting carbon dioxide emissions. They use their model to assess the sensitivity of these effects to alternative specifications:...
Jute and jute products have been steadily losing markets to synthetic substitutes since the 1960s. One of the causes of this loss in market shares has traditionally been identified in the supply instability...
This paper discusses medium-term development prospects for Zambia. The analysis is carried out in terms of a modified dual economy model, suitably modified to capture a number of key aspects of the Zambian...
Dynamic multisector models are a familiar tool of the development planner. This paper discusses application of control theory to dynamic planning models. Optimal control theory offers itself as a possible...