Documents et rapports
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Providing Policy Makers with Timely Advice : The Timeliness-Rigor Trade-off (anglais)
Policy makers bemoan the lack of research findings to guide urgent decisions, whereas researchers’ professional code puts rigor first. This article argues that provisional assessments, produced early in...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 140523 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bell,Clive L.G.,Squire,Lyn
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Providing policy makers with timely advice : the timeliness-rigor trade-off (anglais)
Policy makers bemoan the lack of research findings to guide urgent decisions, whereas researchers' professional code puts rigor first. This article argues that provisional assessments, produced early in...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7610 Date du document: 18 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bell,Clive L.G.,Squire,Lyn
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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality ? - Some empirical evidence (anglais)
The objective of the paper is to answer an often asked question: If tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality? The authors consider two types of wage inequality: between occupations...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3571 Date du document: 1 avril 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Milanovic,Branko L.,Squire,Lyn
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The power of partnerships (anglais)
Moving in, moving on. SHARE pays dividends; by Patricia Overend. Competition, compassion, and confidence - three keys to Scotland's success; by Henry McLeish, and Gerry Rice. Present at the unraveling...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 22258 Date du document: 31 mars 2001 Auteur: Overend,Patricia M.,Mcleish, Henry,Rice, Gerry,Kim,Yongbeom,Woicke,Peter Lutz,Wright, Rob,Moline,Ann,Millett,Karin C.,Goepfert,Peter,Salome,Bernard M.,Eyre, Dana,Ruhl,Onno,Squire,Lyn,Kinley,David H.,Fretwell,David Herbert,Little, Rick,Waugh, John,Nishimura,Ikuo,Fitz Gerald, Maurice,Sierra, Kathy
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Transition 11 (3-4) (anglais)
World Bank's new approach helps business in transition economies; by Lars Jeurling. Are foreign investors and multinationals engaging in corrupt practices in transition economies? by Joel Hellman, Geraint...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 20807 Date du document: 31 juillet 2000 Auteur: Hischler, Richar [editor],Jeurling,Lars A.,Hellman,Joel,Jones,Geraint Paul,Kaufmann,Daniel,Caves, Richard E.,Dowell, Glen,Hart, Stuart,Yeung, Bernard,Alcacer, Juan,Shen,Xiaofang,Giszpenc,Noemi Lea,Squire,Lyn,Shleifer,Andrei,Treisman,Daniel,Bruszt, Laszlo,Laszlo,Csaba,Sutela, Pekka,Berglof,John Erik Anshelm,Friebel,Guido,Guriev,Sergei M.,Yudaeva,Ksenia,Kozlov,Konstantin,Melentieva, N.,Ponomareva,Natalia Antonovna,Easterly,William R.,Olson, Mancur
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The World Bank research observer 12 (1) (anglais)
Producer turnover and productivity growth in developing countries. Mark J. Roberts and James R. Tybout Housing and income distribution in Russia: Zhivago's legacy. Robert M. Buckley and Eugene N. Gurenko...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 16355 Date du document: 28 février 1997 Auteur: Buckley,Robert M.,Carnoy,Martin,Gurenko,Eugene Nikolay,Hammer,Jeffrey S.,Harberger, Arnold C.,Roberts,Mark John,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Squire,Lyn,Suthiwart-Narueput,Sethaput,Tybout,James R.,West, Edwin G.
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Beyond rate of return : reorienting project appraisal (anglais)
Traditional approaches to project appraisal fail in practice to address two fundamental questions: whether a project belongs in the public or the private sector; and what effect any external assistance...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76596 Date du document: 1 février 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Squire,Lyn,Suthiwart-Narueput,Sethaput
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Impact of labor market regulations (anglais)
This article investigates the impact of labor market regulations in a setting with incomplete compliance. It takes as its starting point the limited evidence regarding the distortionary costs of labor...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77239 Date du document: 1 janvier 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Squire,Lyn,Suthiwart-Narueput,Sethaput
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Transition 7 (9-10) (anglais)
How to catch up with the industrial world - achieving rapid growth in Europe's transition economies (Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew M. Warner). How democracy fosters growth: a new empirical approach (Jose...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17838 Date du document: 30 septembre 1996 Auteur: SACHS, JEFFREY D.,Warner,Andrew M.,Mousaco,Jose Maria Tavares,Wacziarg,Romain,Bruno,Michael P.,Squire,Lyn,Open Media Research Institute,Oxford Analytica,Wolfensohn,James D.,Goran, Vladimir,Gray,Cheryl W.,Holle,Arnold L.,Vernikov, Andrei,Hirschler,Richard
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The World Bank research observer 11 (1) (anglais)
Introduction. Lyn Squire Household responses to public health services : cost and quality tradeoffs. Harold Alderman and Victor Lavy The impact of health and nutrition on education. Jere R. Behrman Macroeconomic...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 15407 Date du document: 29 février 1996 Auteur: Alderman,Harold H.,Behrman,Jere R.,Corbo,Vittorio,Demery,Lionel,Hernández, Leonardo,Lavy,Victor Chaim,Mody, Asboka,Patro, Dilip K.,Schmidt-Hebbel,Klaus,Servén, Luis,Sewell, David 0.,Solimano, Andrés,Squire,Lyn
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Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in Africa : an emerging picture (anglais)
The view that macroeconomic adjustment disproportionately hurts the poor in Africa has become commonplace. The popular media and the nongovernmental aid community frequently express this view in critiques...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76554 Date du document: 1 février 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Demery,Lionel,Squire,Lyn
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Equity and growth in developing countries : old and new perspectives on the policy issues (anglais)
The "stylized fact" that distribution must get worse with economic growth in poor countries before it can get better turns out not to be a fact at all. Growth's effects on inequality can go either way...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1563 Date du document: 31 janvier 1996 Auteur: Bruno,Michael P.,Ravallion,Martin,Squire,Lyn
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Reviving project appraisal at the World Bank (anglais)
The authors focus on two broad questions: 1) what is the proper role for project evaluation in today's world, where countries have reduced major economic distortions and are reconsidering the role of the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1496 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Auteur: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Squire,Lyn,Suthiwart-Narueput,Sethaput
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The impact of labor market regulations (anglais)
The authors investigate the impact of labor market regulations in settings where compliance is incomplete. They review some stylized facts about labor market behavior, present an analytical model that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1418 Date du document: 28 février 1995 Auteur: Squire,Lyn,Suthiwart-Narueput,Sethaput
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External finance in the Middle East : trends and prospects (anglais)
This report examines recent financial flows to and from the Middle East with two objectives in mind: first, to assess the levels and types of recent flows in order to understand their past contributions...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 20956 Date du document: 31 décembre 1993 Auteur: Diwan,Ishac,Underwood,John M.,Squire,Lyn
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Economic development and cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)
This report presents the results of work undertaken by the World Bank at the request of the Multilateral Working Group on Regional Economic Development. It provides an overview of economic development...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 12742 Date du document: 30 novembre 1993 Auteur: Diwan,Ishac,Squire,Lyn,MNA
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Economic and social development in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)
Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa face serious economic and social problems following a decade of stagnation, if not deterioration in living standards -- unemployment is high and rising...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 12737 Date du document: 31 octobre 1992 Auteur: Diwan,Ishac,Squire,Lyn,MNA
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Introduction : poverty and adjustment in the 1980s (anglais)
One of the most important debates of the 1980s has centered on the impact of structural adjustment programs on the poor. Some argue that the poor suffered severely during the 1980s and that much of their...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 9771 Date du document: 31 mai 1991 Auteur: Squire,Lyn
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The World Bank economic review 5(2) (anglais)
Introduction: poverty and adjustment in the 1980s. Poverty in Eastern Europe in the years of crisis, 1978 to 1987: Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in selected industrial...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17597 Date du document: 31 mai 1991 Auteur: Squire,Lyn,Milanovic,Branko L.,Pissarides,Christopher A.,Ahmad,S. Ehtisham-Uddin,Yan Wang,Sahn,David E.,Sarris,Alexander H,Behrman,Jere R.,Deolalikar,Anil Bapu,Bourguignon,Francois Jean,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Suwa,Akiko,Newman, John,Jorgensen,Steen Lau,Pradhan,Menno Prasad
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World Bank policy research bulletin 2 (2) (anglais)
Poverty and adjustment in the 1980s. New research. Books. Journals. Policy and research series. Discussion, technical, and related papers. Working papers. Calendar.
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17802 Date du document: 30 avril 1991 Auteur: Squire,Lyn