Documents et rapports
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The economics of rural organization : theory, practice, and policy (anglais)
Why have some rural development policies succeeded and others failed? The book sheds light on that question by defining a new branch of economics that explores economic relations in the rural sector of...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 11857 Date du document: 30 avril 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hoff, Karla,Braverman, Avishay,Stiglitz, Joseph
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The agricultural transition in central and eastern Europe and the former USSR (anglais)
Central and Eastern European countries and the states of the former USSR have embarked on an exhilarating but difficult political and economic transition. Changes in agriculture in Central and Eastern...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 11635 Date du document: 31 janvier 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Braverman, Avishay,Brooks, Karen M.,Csaki, Csaba
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Agricultural reform in developing countries : reflections for Eastern Europe (anglais)
The reform of formerly centrally planned economies involves freeing the price system, developing a competitive environment, and privatizing many of the state-owned or controlled assets and services, while...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS538 Date du document: 30 novembre 1990 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Guasch, J. Luis,Braverman, Avishay
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Credit rationing, tenancy, productivity, and the dynamics of inequality (anglais)
Why, when given the same resources, might productivity be lower on farms operated through sharecropping than on owner-run farms? The reason is that sharecropping, much less wage contracts, cannot overcome...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS176 Date du document: 31 mai 1989 Auteur: Braverman, Avishay,Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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Institutional aspects of credit cooperatives (anglais)
The most common form of government intervention in the rural sector has been massive lending at subsidized interest rates. Credit programs generally aim to reach small farmers. However, despite the expansion...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7 Date du document: 30 avril 1988 Auteur: Braverman, Avishay,Guasch, J. Luis
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The town - versus - country problem : optimal pricing in an agrarian economy (anglais)
A simple model of an LDC focuses on the relationship between the rural and urban sector and on the effects of pricing on migration and on incentives within the rural and the urban sectors. Within this...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: CPD8203 Date du document: 31 août 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Braverman, Avishay,Sah, Raaj Kumar,Stiglitz, Jos