Dominican Republic is an open economy with a relatively small domestic market. Towards the end of the 1970s, a number of external shocks in oil prices, terms of trade, and higher interest rates presented...
Countries at similar levels of income and of similar size have long been known to share similar patterns of economic structure and resource allocation. This finding should apply to foreign trade as well...
Rates of returns to schooling are usually estimated from cross-section national sample of census data on income and schooling. Reported estimates of rates of return average over 20 percent for primary...
Planning involves anticipating the future and formulating systematic programs of action to attain desired goals. This paper is concerned with national economic planning as attempted by most developing...
National samples and village studies examine the demographic characteristics of households at high risk of poverty. Study of the relationship between incidence of poverty and household size shows that...
The objective of this paper is two-fold. First, it clarifies the role of different assumptions made by previous authors in the determination of results regarding the neutrality or non-neutrality of social...
Since the early 1950s, most countries that adopted Soviet-style central planning have attempted to reform this system. Certain commonalities stand out: a thrust toward increasing the autonomy of enterprises...
Ce document tente d’évaluer les effets des distorsions des prix de marchandises et des facteurs sur la performance de croissance des pays en développement. L’approche compare la performance moyenne de...
The available evidence indicates that, in aggregate, the growth in world food production over the past two decades has more than kept pace with the growth in population. This paper analyzes recent trends...