Documents et rapports
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Labor market insurance and social safety nets (anglais)
This paper makes a distinction between social safety nets and welfare states and argues that while the former are needed because of the ubiquitousness of risk in human life, the case for the latter is...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13651 Date du document: 31 octobre 1994 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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The role of the public and private sectors in health financing (anglais)
This paper examines the role of the public and private sectors in health financing from a viewpoint that differs significantly from the technocratic health economics which has dominated current discussions...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 13307 Date du document: 30 juin 1994 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Participation, markets and democracy (anglais)
An emerging theme in development thinking and practice is the role of popular participation, and in particular of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), in both the promotion of democracy (seen as essential...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 12715 Date du document: 31 janvier 1994 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Sri Lanka and Malaysia - The political economy of poverty, equity, and growth (anglais)
Sri Lanka and Malaysia have similar land areas and resource endowments. Both countries were once colonies, and in both a large plantation and mining export sector coexists with a peasant rice economy...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 10436 Date du document: 29 février 1992 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.,Myint, Hla [editors],Bruton, Henry J.
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Foreign trade regimes and economic growth in developing countries (anglais)
This article surveys empirical studies of the static gains from a movement toward free trade and studies of the dynamic effects of growth in exports on per capita income. It also summarizes comparative...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 14123 Date du document: 31 juillet 1987 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.,Rajapatirana,Don Sarath
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The World Bank research observer 2 (2) (anglais)
Lessons from the Southern Cone policy reforms. Land rights systems and agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The relevance for developing countries of recent developments in macroeconomic theory...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17491 Date du document: 31 juillet 1987 Auteur: Corbo,Vittorio,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Feder,Gershon,Noronha,Raymond Joseph,Corden, W. Max,Lal,Deepak K.,Rajapatirana,Don Sarath,Wade,Robert
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The political economy of economic liberalization (anglais)
Two of the major policy problems facing governments of developing countries in the 1980s have been unsustainable external and internal disequilibria, and implementation of politically feasible stabilization...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 14162 Date du document: 31 janvier 1987 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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The World Bank economic review 1(2) (anglais)
Small manufacturing enterprises in developing countries. A valuation model for developing-country debt with endogenous rescheduling. The political economy of economic liberalization. Sites and services...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17557 Date du document: 31 janvier 1987 Auteur: Little, I. M. D.,Gennotte, Gerard,Kharas, Homi J.,Sadeq,Sayeed,Lal,Deepak K.,Mayo,Stephen K.,Gross,David J.,Braverman,Avishay,Hammer, Jeffrey S.,Gron,Anne,Khan, Mohsin S.,Lizondo, J. Saul
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The political economy of industrialization in primary product exporting economies : some cautionary tales (anglais)
This paper considers the long run development policies and outcomes of 5 land abundant export economies of Argentina, Peru, Ghana, Tanzania and Thailand. The discussion focuses on three 'political economy'...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD215 Date du document: 1 décembre 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Markets, mandarins and mathematicians (anglais)
This paper presents arguments against the intellectual imperialism of both the axiomatic, positivist Arrow-Debreu paradigm of the mathematicians as well as the libertarian a prioristic paradigm of the...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD216 Date du document: 30 novembre 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Foreign trade regimes and economic growth in developing countries (anglais)
This paper surveys empirical studies which seek to demonstrate the limited static gains from a movement towards free trade in Section I. Section II surveys statistical studies which have established the...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD217 Date du document: 30 septembre 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.,Rajapatirana,Don Sarath
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Stagflation, savings, and the state : perspectives on the global economy (anglais)
In June 1984, as this introduction is being written, the world economy seems to be recovering from the deepest global recession in fifty years. Will the recovery be sustained? Can there be a renewed period...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 33799 Date du document: 1 février 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.,Wolf,Martin H.
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Ideology and industrialization in India and East Asia (anglais)
This paper discusses Indian industrialization in historical and comparative perspective. It illustrates that Indian industrialization was impressive relative to both other developed and developing countries...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD218 Date du document: 1 janvier 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Government deficits, the real interest rate and LDC debt : on global crowding out (anglais)
This paper links the current problems of protectionism and debt in the global economy to certain longer-term trends and "structural" weaknesses of developed and developing countries exposed by the supply...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD104 Date du document: 1 juillet 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.,Van Wijnbergen,Sweder
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The political economy of the predatory state (anglais)
This paper builds on the insight of Brennan and Buchanan that most states in the past and present are best viewed as predatory, seeking to maximize the profits of government, rather than seeking to maximize...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD105 Date du document: 1 juin 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Trends in real wages in rural India 1880-1980 (anglais)
This paper charts long-term trends in rural real wages to see if the conclusions of an earlier study concerning a positive association between trends in rural real wages and in the changing balance between...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD103 Date du document: 1 juin 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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The real effects of stabilization and structural adjustment policies : an extension of the Australian adjustment model (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail des services de la Banque mondiale Numéro du rapport: SWP636 Date du document: 31 mars 1984 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.,DRD
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Indian export incentives (anglais)
Indian export incentives are analyzed within the framework of piecemeal "second-best" welfare economics, taking the extant import control system as a binding constraint. A condensed account of recent Indian...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP105 Date du document: 31 janvier 1979 Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.
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Distributional weights, shadow wages, and the accounting rate of interest : estimates for India (anglais)
A theoretical model is used to estimate an all-India unskilled industrial workers shadow to market wage ratio. The purposes are to derive distributional weights that permit evaluation of the interpersonal...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP108 Date du document: 1 octobre 1977 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lal,Deepak K.