This paper develops a modelling framework to examine adjustment to external shocks including terms of trade movements, recession in the industrial countries and increases in interest rates. The framework...
This paper has examined the progress made in health and education in developing countries during the last two decades. It has further indicated that a more rational allocation of expenditures would bring...
This approach for analysis of distributional and other change in incomes in fast growing cities in the developing world is based on data from Bogota and Cali. Among the distinguishing features is the utilization...
Most studies of commodity price stabilization assume that all agents behave competitively. However, many commodities suitable for stockpiling are produced by countries with a significant share of the world...
The SAM for Malaysia addresses a number of conceptual issues and their practical solution which do not seem to have been treated elsewhere. This SAM is a large one, with a level of detail more nearly that...
This paper attempts a comprehensive review of the development of the handloom, powerloom, and factory sectors of the Indian textile industry. Estimates of production in the three sectors are made. The...
This paper asks if there is anything useful that economists can say about minimizing the real costs of stabilization and the structural adjustment entailed by reforming various inefficient microscopic...
Korea's spectacular export growth is a well-known, well-documented success story. Less well known is the recent surge in Korea's exports of capital goods and related services. These exports include those...
This paper presents an economy-wide framework (SIAM2) for policy analysis focusing on structural adjustment in production and trade patterns. The framework is designed to allow the analyst to draw medium-run...
This study provides an empirical analysis of the sources of Turkey's growth and structural change since the 1950s, and considers the prospects for its transition from and inward-looking development strategy...
By 1978, Turkey was in the midst of the most serious foreign exchange and economic crisis it had experienced in three decades. This paper presents an analysis of the 1978-80 crisis period in Turkey and...
This paper explores the use of multisector models as tools for analyzing the relationship between alternative development strategies, growth, and structural change in a developing country. The paper first...
This discussion of commodity stock-piling originated from the political call for commodity price stabilization. It has two main objectives. The first is to characterize the competitive stockpiling rule...
The methodology and findings of the estimation of non-sampling error have wide applicability. This paper distinguished between enumerator error and respondent error and presents a model to measure the...
The emergence of rapidly growing metropolitan centers of unprecedented size in many LDCs has prompted a search for ways to promote the growth of alternative secondary cities. The sources of industrial...
Infant/child mortality data might be appropriate for describing the well-being of households, as it can be used to estimate differences between socioeconomic groups and to analyze correlates of mortality...
The central purpose of the paper is to analyze various forms of government intervention in the loan market in terms of their effect on efficiency. This provides the essential basis for evaluating and judging...
This paper argues that the interlinking of labor, output, and credit contracts often observed in rural economies can be regarded as an attempt to improve allocative efficiency in the face of moral hazard...
This paper highlights the complexity in appraising and evaluating the impact of a health project. The two major disciplines involved are health and economics. Measuring health and its progress--is essential...
The central purpose of the paper is to analyze various forms of government intervention in the loan market in terms of their effect on efficiency. This provides the essential basis for evaluating and judging...