Documents et rapports
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Financial regulation : changing the rules of the game (anglais)
This paper is a brief history of financial regulation. The removal and relaxation of controls on credit and interest rates in the 1980s and the growing emphasis on prudential controls is highlighted. Three...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS803 Date du document: 30 novembre 1991 Auteur: Long, Millard,Vittas, Dimitri
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Policy research working papers : catalog of numbers 401 to 800 (anglais)
This paper contains a numerical listing of working papers produced by the Policy, Planning, and External Affairs Complex. Each citation contains a brief abstract, and the contact point for the paper.
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 14491 Date du document: 30 novembre 1991 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Growth in open economies (anglais)
The author surveys recent growth models that try to explain the diversity among countries in rates of economic growth. The author finds that these models can generate differences in growth rates only in...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS799 Date du document: 30 novembre 1991 Auteur: Rebelo,Sergio T.
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Agricultural pricing systems and transportation policy in Africa (anglais)
When agricultural production is taxed, the system of producer prices, transport logistics, and decisions on investments in transport for exports must be considered together. Many African states raise revenue...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS774 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Gersovitz,Mark
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Optimal user charges and cost recovery for roads in developing countries (anglais)
The optimal charge for road use is equal to variable costs for road maintenance, together with the costs road users impose on other road users and on the rest of society. One persistent question raised...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS780 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Heggie, Ian G.,Fon, Vincy
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Reforming and privatizing Hungary's road haulage (anglais)
The Volan units (previously unitary but now formally dismembered) provide public transport services for both passengers and freight, and make up the largest enterprise in Hungary's road transport industry...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS790 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Bennathan, Esra,Gutman, Jeffrey,Thompson, Louis
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Reducing labor redundancy in state owned enterprises (anglais)
This paper focuses on what determines labor redundancy in selected modes of transport (rails, ports, and buses) in six countries: Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Yugoslavia. It also analyzes...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS792 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Svejnar, Jan,Terrell, Katherine
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Enforcement of Canadian "unfair" trade laws : the case for competition policies as an antidote for protection (anglais)
Canada was the first country to enact comprehensive antitrust legislation (in 1889) and to institute an antidumping system (in 1904). Canada's original "unfair" trade legislation reflected a desire to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS776 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Dutz,Mark Andrew
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African financing needs in the 1990s (anglais)
This paper discusses the magnitude of external resources that sub-Saharan Africa may require during the 1990s. There can be no firm projections because requirements are affected both by the growth and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS764 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Culagovski, Jorge,Gabor, Victor,Germany, Maria C
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The economic effects of widespread application of antidumping duties to import pricing (anglais)
Dumping accurs when a firm charges a price in the foreign market below its price in the domestic market when it supplies the indentical good to both markets. Provisions within the GATT allow member countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS782 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Conway, Patrick,Dhar, Sumana
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Decollectivization and the agricultural transition in Eastern and Central Europe (anglais)
The agricultural transition is an essential part of stabilization and adjustment in Eastern and Central Europe because agricultural sectors are large and food is important. The supply response that many...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS793 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Brooks,Karen Mcconnell
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Intrahousehold inequality and the theory of targeting (anglais)
The two literatures on targeting and on intrahousehold inequality have developed rapidly over the past 15 years, but largely independent of each other. The literature on targeting concerns itself with...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS789 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Haddad, Lawrence,Kanbur, Ravi
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A dynamic bargaining model of sovereign debt (anglais)
This paper models a dynamic bargaining game between a highly indebted country and its commercial bank consortium, to analyze the determinants of the resulting re-scheduling agreements and the net transfer...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS778 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Fernandez-Arias,Eduardo
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Chemicals from Poland : a tempest in a teacup (anglais)
In the early 1980s, the Polish chemical industry got caught up in a battle waged by the European Community's chemical industry to preserve the EC market for itself. The Polish share of that market was...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS784 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Olechowski,Andrzej
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How expectations affect reform dynamics in developing countries (anglais)
Reform is often flawed by delayed implementation and, after initial acceptance, sudden reversals in public reaction. In recent years, many attribute these delays and reversals to reform dynamics because...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS788 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Daveri,Francesco
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The Korean consumer electronics industry : reaction to antidumping actions (anglais)
Antidumping actions by importing countries do not protect their consumers. What protects domestic consumers is competition. It is Korean consumers who are paying for the development of the Korean electronics...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS781 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Bark,Taeho
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Do the benefits of fixed exchange rates outweigh their costs? The Franc Zone in Africa (anglais)
The authors develop a simple, formal framework for clarifying the tradeoffs involved in choosing between a fixed and flexible exchange rate system. They apply this framework to the countries of Africa's...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS777 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Devarajan, Shantayanan,Rodrik, Dani
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Using field visits to improve the quality of family planning, health, and nutrition programs : a supervisor's manual (anglais)
Most health professionals who have worked in rural areas have had the experience of being supervised badly: the flying visit by a superior who inspects the records, delivers a critical speech, and disappears...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS797 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Heaver,Richard A.
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Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds (anglais)
Analysis of decade-long growth rates in all countries shows a striking regularity: episodes of rapid growth are limited largely to a middle range of initial income; neither very poor nor very rich countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS795 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Easterly,William R.
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The origins and evolution of antidumping regulation (anglais)
Antidumping has about it the aura of a special measure to undo a special problem. Within this view, the explosion of antidumping actions in the 1980s was simply a good thing carried too far: the appropriate...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS783 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael