Documents et rapports
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The political economy of fiscal policy and economic management in oil exporting countries (anglais)
Despite massive oil rent incomes since the early 1970s, the economic performance of oil-exporting countries-with notable exceptions-is poor. While there is extensive literature on the management of oil...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2899 Date du document: 31 octobre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eifert, Benn,Gelb, Alan,Borje Tallroth, Nils
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The World Bank economic review 10(3) (anglais)
Patterns of transition from plan to market. Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer, and Alan Gelb Hungary's bankruptcy experience, 1992-1993. Cheryl W. Gray, Sabine Schlorke, and Miklos Szanyi Why and when do...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 16038 Date du document: 30 septembre 1996 Auteur: De Melo, Martha,Denizer, Cevdet,Gelb, Alan,Gray,
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From plan to market : patterns of transition (anglais)
In analyzing the transitional experience of countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU), the authors find strong common patterns for countries at similar stages of reform...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1564 Date du document: 31 janvier 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: de Melo, Martha,Denizer, Cevdet,Gelb, Alan
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Shocks and adjustment by firms in transition : a comparative study (anglais)
This paper provides a description of how forty three firms in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia have been adjusting to the transformation of economic system since 1990. It is based on the information...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 21959 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estrin, Saul,Gelb, Alan,Singh, Inderjit
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Shocks and adjustment by firms in transition : a comparative study (anglais)
This paper provides a description of how 43 firms in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia have been adjusting to the transformation of economic system since 1990. It is based on the information derived...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 18498 Date du document: 23 septembre 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estrin, Saul,Gelb, Alan,Singh, Inderjit
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Stabilization loves political breakthroughs (anglais)
The note deliberates on the advantages of political breakthroughs to achieve stabilization, analyzing three elements of economic transition: macroeconomic stabilization; liberalization of prices, and markets;...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21682 Date du document: 31 août 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcerowicz, Leszek,Gelb, Alan,Bruno, Michael,Pl
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Enterprise reform and restructuring in transition economies (anglais)
The paper focuses on the problems with public enterprise reform in three countries, namely China, Poland, and the Czech Republic. These countries highlight the central reform issues, bringing out some...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 18494 Date du document: 28 février 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Singh, Inderjit,Gelb, Alan
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Restructuring, viability, and privatization : a comparative study of enterprise adjustment in transition (anglais)
The growing literature on economic reform in the former socialist bloc highlight macroeconomic stabilization, enterprise adjustment, and institutional reform as the foundations of successful transition...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 21954 Date du document: 31 août 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estrin, Saul,Gelb, Alan,Singh, Inderjit
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Mongolia - Privatization and system transformation in an isolated economy (anglais)
The authors examine the process of economic transformation in Mongolia, a huge, isolated, sparsely populated country. After identifying factors that led to formulation of a radical adjustment program in...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1063 Date du document: 31 décembre 1992 Auteur: Denizer, Cevdet,Gelb, Alan
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Issues in socialist economy reform (anglais)
This paper examines issues involving the design and sequence of economic reform in formerly socialist economies that have made the political decision to move to a private market economy. They also examine...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS565 Date du document: 31 décembre 1990 Auteur: Fischer, Stanley,Gelb, Alan
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Township, village, and private industry in China's economic reform (anglais)
Next to the decollectivization of agriculture, the most striking economic transformation in China since 1978 has been the rapid growth of rural nonstate industry. Firms in this sector (referred to as TVPs)...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS406 Date du document: 30 avril 1990 Auteur: Byrd, William,Gelb, Alan
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Trade in banking services : issues for multilateral negotiations (anglais)
When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was instituted in 1948, its mandate excluded such industries as banking, insurance and telecommunciaitons. These services sectors were highly regulated and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS381 Date du document: 31 mars 1990 Auteur: Gelb, Alan,Sagari, Silvia
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Financial sector reforms in adjustment programs (anglais)
The typical financial sector reform package involves policy changes to increase the power of centralized decision making in some areas and to reduce it in others. For regulation and supervision, reforms...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS169 Date du document: 31 mars 1989 Auteur: Gelb, Alan,Honohan,Patrick Thomas
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Lewis through a looking glass : public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth (anglais)
This paper argues that the labor transfer process outlined by the Lewis model (1954) can give rise to surplus labour - in the sense than the marginal product of labour is less that the wage - in the public...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS133 Date du document: 30 novembre 1988 Auteur: Gelb, Alan,Sabot, Richard H.,Knight, John B.