Documents et rapports
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Goals for development : history, prospects and costs (anglais)
The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education, gender equality, the environment, and other aspects of human welfare. At existing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2819 Date du document: 30 avril 2002 Auteur: Devarajan, Shantayanan,Miller, Margaret J.,Swans
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Aid dependence reconsidered (anglais)
When foreign aid undermines institutional development aid recipients can exhibit the symptoms of aid "dependence" - benefiting from aid in the short term but damaged by it in the long term. The authors...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2144 Date du document: 31 juillet 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Azam, Jean-Paul,Devarajan, Shantayanan,O'Connell
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The whys and why nots of export taxation (anglais)
The authors review the arguments for taxing imports, considering two cases: one in which a country has market power in the export commodity, and one in which it does not. They conclude that for countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1684 Date du document: 30 novembre 1996 Auteur: Devarajan, Shantayanan,Go, Delfin,Schiff, Mauric
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What do governments buy? The composition of public spending and economic performance (anglais)
The authors develop a simple analytical framework that shows how the composition of public spending affects economic growth. Distinguishing between productive and unproductive government spending (that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1082 Date du document: 28 février 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devarajan, Shantayanan,Swaroop, Vinaya,Heng-fu Z
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Do the benefits of fixed exchange rates outweigh their costs? The Franc Zone in Africa (anglais)
The authors develop a simple, formal framework for clarifying the tradeoffs involved in choosing between a fixed and flexible exchange rate system. They apply this framework to the countries of Africa's...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS777 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Devarajan, Shantayanan,Rodrik, Dani
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Membership in the CFA zone : Odyssean journey or Trojan horse? (anglais)
For most of the 13 African members of the CFA Franc Zone, the 1980s have been a decade of slow or negative growth in per capita gross domestic product, worsening balance of payments, debt crises, financial...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS482 Date du document: 31 août 1990 Auteur: Devarajan, Shantayanan,de Melo, Jaime
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Revenue - neutral tariff reform : theory and an application to Cameroon (anglais)
This paper addresses the issue of revenue constrained partial tariff reform. This is an increasingly important issue, as more & more countries are caught between the conflicting demands of restoring price...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: CPD8625 Date du document: 31 mai 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dahl, Henrik,Devarajan, Shantayanan,van Wijnberg
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Growth without adjustment : Thailand, 1973-82 (anglais)
This paper examines Thailand's curiously successful adjustment experience using a six sector general equilibrium model which is calibrated to reproduce the actual behaviour of the economy from 1973-82...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: CPD8605 Date du document: 31 décembre 1985 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devarajan, Shantayanan,Sierra, Hector