Documents et rapports
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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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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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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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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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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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Excess liquidity and monetary overhangs (anglais)
The term "excess liquidity" may refer to the share of liquid assets in bank portfolios (the result of a retrenchment in bank lending, or a "credit crunch") or to money holdings of the nonbank public. Excess...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS796 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Caprio, Gerard,Honohan, Patrick
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Private investment under macroeconomic adjustment in Morocco (anglais)
A significant domestic counterpart of Morocco's vigorous external adjustment in the eighties was a decline in fixed capital formation, of which the private sector bore a sizable share. The authors focus...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS787 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Schmidt-Hebbel,Klaus,Muller, Tobias
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How did the Asian countries avoid the debt crisis? (anglais)
Economic stability, sound macroeconomic policies, and appropriate microeconomic incentives hold down a country's external debt burden. Most of the Asian countries pursued prudent macroeconomic policies...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS785 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Husain, Ishrat
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Special programme of research, development and research training in human reproduction (anglais)
The Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction is one of the few organizations engaged in contraceptive research and development that focusses on the needs of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS779 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Nassim,Janet
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Fiscal policy for managing Indonesia's environment (anglais)
The objective of this paper is to examine the role of fiscal policy in the management of Indonesia's environment. The aim is to develop a framework that will allow an examination of possible fiscal instruments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS786 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Ahmed,Sadiq
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Measuring real exchange rate instability in developing countries : empirical evidence and implications (anglais)
Exchange rate policy has received renewed attention because of its prominent role in adjustment programs. Several analysts have examined the impact of real exchange rate uncertainty on the performance...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS791 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pritchett,Lant Hayward
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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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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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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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Agriculture's decline in Indonesia : supply or demand determined (anglais)
Agriculture's share in an economy invariably declines as per capita income rises and as the economy develops. The literature on its causes has focused on the relative price effects arising from demand...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS798 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Martin, Will,Warr, Peter G.