This paper presents an analysis of the world energy and petroleum markets, carried out by means of an econometric simulation model. The model accepts a certain pricing path for OPEC crude oil together...
A project to establish the shares of industrial country markets held by the developing countries, changes in such shares in the 1970s, and reasons for variations among industry groups and countries aims...
A project to establish the shares of industrial country markets held by developing countries, changes in such shares in the 1970s, and reasons for variations among industry groups and countries aims to...
The second part of the 1970s were a period of recession in Sweden. One cause was a reduction in Sweden's competitiveness in world markets. In response, Sweden's industrial policy became tuned to maintaining...
To date, the work on decision making with respect to commercial policy has produced three principal models: the adding machine, the interest group, and the national policy. The explanatory power of these...
The rate of growth of agricultural production in Sub-Saharan African countries has been sluggish during the past two decades. The result has been that export growth has been unsatisfactory, food has emerged...
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...
This paper is a critique of the thesis propounded in W.A. Lewis' Nobel lecture that economic growth in developed countries is the main driving force of exports and growth in developing countries. The trade...
This paper reviews the first stage of global modeling in the World Bank. It summarizes the models and analytical methods which were developed for that purpose between 1973 and 1976. These were in turn...
This paper aims to test a model of the political economy of protection in two developing countries. The paper undertakes a preliminary analysis of the determinants of protection, using a national policy...
The main hypothesis tested in this paper is that the exports of a developing country, with an advanced manufacturing sector, will differ among destinations: the capital intensity of exports will be greater...
This paper attempts to show that developing countries other than those in the successful "newly industrialized" group can and have been successful in developing their exports of manufactured products...
The main hypothesis tested here is that the exports of a developing country, with an advanced manufacturing sector, will differ among destinations: the capital intensity of exports will be greater to the...
This paper presents the methodological background to the Global Modelling Framework used in the World Development Report exercises of the World Bank. It gives an overall view of this framework, discusses...
This paper attempts to elucidate some of the complex relationships between market borrowings by developing countries, their reserves strategies, and the costs of borrowings. It is concerned with the observed...
This paper examines the role of external finance in the economic adjustments undertaken by oil-importing developing countries in the 1970s. It emphasizes the fact that external financing provides a mechanism...
The terms of trade are a matter of particular concern to developing countries. The belief that developing countries' terms of trade are subject to secular decline and more volatile cyclical fluctuations...
This paper presents the results of some of the background analyses of the structure and patterns of international trade and of developments in commercial policy that were undertaken in connection with...
There are four important economic links between Germany and the developing countries--trade, foreign workers and the return flows of remittances, tourism, and capital flows. Germany also has one of the...