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Comparative investment behavior in China's industrial enterprises (anglais)

During China's first decade of reform, the industrial investment system the subject of this report, was substantially reformed relative to the 1970s. Still, there continued to be widespread concern that...

Can Communist economies transform incrementally? China's experience (anglais)

The authors try to answer important questions. How important is the phasing of political and economic liberalization and the active (versus passive) role of the state in reform? What lessons can be learned...

Can communist economies transform incrementally ? the experience of China (anglais)

China : industrial policies for an economy in transition (anglais)

This report focuses on the industrial policies that are required to support China as it moves from a centrally planned economy to a mixed planned and market economy. The rationale for the report is twofold...

China : industrial policies for an economy in transition (chinois)

This report focuses on the industrial policies that are required to support China as it moves from a centrally planned economy to a mixed planned and market economy. The rationale for the report is twofold...

Lessons from China's economic reform (anglais)

The purpose of this paper is to summarize key lessons of China's economic reforms - both important successes and failures of the experiment - that may bear upon choices facing reformers in Eastern Europe...

Enterprise adjustment in transition economies : Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland (anglais)

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the adjustments of industrial enterprises to economic reforms in transition economies -- Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The paper has four main...

China and Central and Eastern Europe : is there a professional schizophrenia on socialist reform? (anglais)

Since China's reform have been successful - at least in terms of sustained and high rates of growth - it is useful to look at its experience, and to draw lessons from it for Central and Eastern Europe...

Industrial restructuring in socialist economies in transition : some preliminary observations (anglais)

There are two types of industrial restructuring that have to be undertaken during the process of transition of socialist to market economies: industrial restructuring at the firm level and restructuring...

The great ascent : the rural poor in South Asia (anglais)

Poverty is the grim reality for some 400 million people - mostly small farmers and agricultural laborers - in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To remedy the problem, South Asian governments and international...

Land and Labor in South Asia (anglais)

This paper explores the relationship of land and labor to rural poverty in South Asia. The first half of the paper discusses the unequal distribution of land among the rural population, revealing how large...

Tenancy in South Asia (anglais)

Although many people argue that tenurial systems in South Asia hinder technological innovation in agriculture and prevent the benefits of such innovation from reaching the tenant, the author of this paper...

Small farmers in South Asia : their characteristics, productivity and efficiency (anglais)

Many households rely for their livelihood on farming small but viable holdings in South Asia. Raising the productivity of these households is thus a central part of any strategy to reduce rural poverty...

A survey of agricultural household models : recent findings and policy implications (anglais)

Semicommercial farms that produce multiple crops make up a large part of the agricultural sector in developing economies. These farms or agricultural households combine two fundamental units of microeconomic...

The World Bank economic review 1(1) (anglais)

Special exchange rates for capital account transactions. Growth and equity in developing countries: a reinterpretation of the Sri Lankan experience. A new method for estimating the effects of fuel taxes:...

Agricultural household models : extensions, applications, and policy (anglais)

This book presents the basic model of an agricultural household that underlies most of the case studies undertaken so far. The model assumes that households are price-takers and is therefore recursive...

Agricultural pricing and marketing policies in an African context : a framework for analysis (anglais)

The paper describes an analytical framework designed to address some of the important agricultural pricing issues that frequently arise in many African countries. The paper contains a description of producer...

A note on the economics of agricultural mechanization (anglais)

The details of field crop technology are examined from a microeconomic perspective to yield information on the economic implications of farm mechanization. The data were obtained as part of a larger special...