Within the framework of a four-sector macroeconomic model, comparative statics are used to assess alternative ways of macroeconomic adjustments in the Thai economy. Fiscal policy interventions, manipulations...
There is a close interactive relationship between health and the level of income; the higher income level affords an individual access to better health. However, in many countries health inputs are provided...
The paper analyses the sources of growth in the period 1964-1973 for a group of semi-industrialized less developed countries. An analytical framework is developed, incorporating the possibility that marginal...
The purpose of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for consideration of child schooling as an input to the measurement of living standards and to suggest some of the implications of that framework...
This report reviews the types of indicators of nutrition and health status that would be appropriate for household surveys of the standard of living in developing countries. The data would serve the following...
This article, Projecting Debt Servicing Capacity of Developing Countries, was reprinted with permission from the December 1981 issue of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Many less developed...
The first of these essays, Analyzing the Food Shares in a Household Survey, reports results of one replicative study based on the 1969-70 socioeconomic survey of Sri Lanka. It discusses the basic presentation...
The first of these three papers points out some of the practical problems of survey design and implementation, which may feed back either on the formulation of survey objectives themselves or on the strategy...
Employment data plays an integral part of the data base necessary to measure levels of living. Insufficient and unequal access to adequate employment are among the major causes of poverty and inequality...
This document contains three papers which give an overview of the major LSMS objectives, efforts, and some problems which may be encountered. The first, Household Surveys as an Instrument for Assessing...
A model that facilitates inferences about lenders' subjective default probabilities is presented. The models' underlying assumption is that the probability of default is determined by factors not controlled...
The purpose of this chapter is to analyze some effects of the economic dependence between sharecroppers and landlords on technological progress in Northeast Brazil. The model takes into account risk and...
The weighting of the consumption increments accruing to people in various income groups that result from project implementation has been suggested. This paper takes the private valuation of the utility...
Two alternative formulations of self-dual quantity and price models are presented for the computation of market equilibrium with risk when farmers are risk averse and behave according to an E-V utility...
