Documents et rapports
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The effect of fiscal policies on the quality of growth (anglais)
In a recent report on middle-income countries, the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) found that countries and the World Bank Group have been relatively effective in the overarching priority of promoting...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 53855 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.,Thomas,Vinod,Wang,Yan
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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets (anglais)
Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4874 Date du document: 1 mars 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.
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The quality of growth : fiscal policies for better results (anglais)
The world faces unprecedented opportunities to reduce global poverty and improve human welfare. Strong global growth and better economic policies in recent years have substantially reduced poverty in many...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 59625 Date du document: 5 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.,Thomas,Vinod,Wang, Yan
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Political institutions, inequality, and agricultural growth : the public expenditure connection (anglais)
This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3902 Date du document: 1 avril 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Allcott,Hunt,Lederman,Daniel,Lopez,Ramon E.
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Why governments should stop non-social subsidies : measuring their consequences for rural Latin America (anglais)
The provision of public goods and the amelioration of market failure are the classical justifications for government intervention in the economy. In reality, (1) governments intervene in markets that are...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3609 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.
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The low-income countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States : progress and challenges in transition (anglais)
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the commonwealth of independent states (CIS-7) faced exceptional challenges in building new states, democratic institutions, and market economies. All of the CIS-7...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 99011 Date du document: 1 janvier 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khan,Mohammed Mohsin,Katsu,Shigeo,Otoo,Samuel K. E.,Sattar,Sarosh,Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T.,Helbling, Thomas,Mody,Ashoka,Sahay,Ratna,Lane, Philip R.,Pomfret,Richard W.,Betley,Mary,Falkingham,Jane C.,Cord,Louise J.,Lopez,Ramon E.,Huppi,Monika,Melo,Oscar A.,Jones Luong,Pauline,Vandycke,Nancy L.,Michalopoulos,Constantine,Kennedy, David,Fankhauser,Samuel,Raiser,Martin
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The tragedy of the commons in Cote d'Ivoire agriculture : empirical evidence and implications for evaluating trade policies (anglais)
Expansion of cultivated land diminishes the extent of forestlands or reduces the length of fallow periods and, hence, reduces the amount of natural vegetation. The increase in land under cultivation has...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77257 Date du document: 1 janvier 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.
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Microeconomic distortions : static losses and their effect on the efficiency of investment (anglais)
In the past decade the developing countries have tried much harder to achieve macroeconomic stability than they have to eliminate inefficiencies from microeconomic distortions. The author has pursued a...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS665 Date du document: 31 mai 1991 Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.
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How trade and macroeconomic policies affect economic growth and capital accumulation in developing countries (anglais)
The author of this report provides cross-country empirical evidence on the relationship between trade and macroeconomic policy and economic growth. He finds that countries following sustainable strategies...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS625 Date du document: 31 mars 1991 Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.
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Import dependency and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
One of the effects of structural adjustment programs in sub - Saharan Africa has been the reduction of imports in the face of scarce foreign exchange. This article takes the analysis of import demand beyond...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 14211 Date du document: 31 mai 1990 Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.,Thomas,Vinod
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Macroeconomic adjustment and the labor market in four Latin American countries (anglais)
Implicit in standard macroeconomics of adjustment is the assumption of well-integrated labor markets that are responsive to relative prices. But segmentation of the labor market is usually said to be an...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS335 Date du document: 31 décembre 1989 Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.,Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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Wage responsiveness and labor market disequilibrium (anglais)
The objectives of this paper are : (i) to empirically probe on the validity of the hypothesis that wages are relatively unresponsive to labor market disequlibrium; and (ii) to investigate whether the dramatically...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS85 Date du document: 30 septembre 1988 Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.,Riveros,Luis Alfredo