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  • Costs and returns to liberalization : the Jamaican case (anglais)

    In 1974, after two decades of a market-oriented economy, Jamaica changed its economic regime from liberal to populist. In 1980 there was a return to the liberal regime, accompanied by price decontrols...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD297 Date du document: 1 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Klinov,Ruth

  • Simulating alternative development strategies : some suggestions from Korea's experience (anglais)

    This paper reviews four stylized facts about Korea's development strategy including neutral incentives between sales on the domestic and external markets; large foreign aid flows early on in the choice...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD299 Date du document: 1 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lewis, Jeffrey D.,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Robinson,Sherman

  • Characteristics and operation of labor markets in Argentina (anglais)

    An adequate understanding of the characteristics and operation of labor markets in Argentina also requires an adequate understanding of the development strategies followed by the country and their consequences...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD272 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sanchez,Carlos E.

  • The effect of non-tariff barriers in footwear trade : preliminary evaluation (anglais)

    This paper analyzes economic aspects of non-tariff barriers to trade in the context of the quotas and voluntary export restraints that were imposed on footwear trade during 1977-81. The paper surveys the...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD298 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bark,Taeho,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • The labor market in Zimbabwe : historical trends and an evaluation of recent policy (anglais)

    The paper provides both an examination of recent labor market trends in Zimbabwe and an evaluation of recent policies. The first part supplies a labor market overview, an analysis of employment and wage...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD296 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fallon,Peter R.

  • The macroeconomic effects of foreign aid : issues and evidence (anglais)

    This paper reviews the debate on the macroeconomic effects of foreign aid. The paper starts with an analytical review of the meaning of a foreign exchange bottleneck and of the criticisms raised against...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD300 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • Factor substitution in production in industrialized and less developed countries (anglais)

    The paper develops and estimates a simple transcendental logarithmic model of production for three developing countries. The hypothesis of separability of imported inputs from the primary factors is tested...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD288 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Demekas, Dimitris G.,Klinov,Ruth

  • Korea's macroeconomic prospects and major policy issues for the next decade (anglais)

    The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Korea's macroeconomic prospects and major policy issues for the next decade. After reviewing the intial conditions, the report examines growth strategies, and prospects...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD276 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Corbo,Vittorio,Nam,Sang-Woo

  • Effects of exchange rate changes in developing countries (anglais)

    This paper sets out to examine the economic effects of exchange rate changes in developing countries by the use of alternative definitions of the real exchange rate. The evidence presented in the paper...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD291 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela

  • Public enterprises in developing countries : issues of privatization (anglais)

    This paper examines the reasons for the shift towards the privatization of public enterprises in developing countries and the conditions under which privatization will bring the desired results. It is...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD292 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela


  • Inter-industry and intra-industry specialization in manufactured goods (anglais)

    This paper examines the determinants of bilateral trade in manufacturing industries, including the factors affecting inter-industry as well as intra-industry specialization. The results provide support...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD293 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa, Bela,Bauwens, Luc

  • Implementing a computable general equilibrium model on GAMS : the Cameroon model (anglais)

    Applied general equilibrium models have become a major tool for the economic analysis of developed and developing countries. Although the theoretical background for these models is well established, the...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD290 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Condon,Timothy J.,Dahl, Hendrik,Devarajan,Shantayanan



  • The effects of labor regulation upon industrial employment in India (anglais)

    This paper reviews the effects of legislation and government institutions upon labor costs and employment in the Indian manufacturing sector. It specifically examines wage determination, industrial relations...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD287 Date du document: 1 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fallon,Peter R.


  • Welfare dominance : an application to commodity taxation (anglais)

    The paper suggests a method which enables the user to identify commodities that all individuals who can agree on certain weak assumptions with regard to the social welfare function will agree upon as worth...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD269 Date du document: 30 avril 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Slemrod, Joel,Yitzhaki,Shlomo

  • Causal role of minimum wages in six Latin American labor markets (anglais)

    Although Minimum Wage (MW) regulations are an old tradition in Latin America, controversy about their effects on inflation, unemployment, wage flexibility and international competitiveness has become central...

    Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD270 Date du document: 30 avril 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paldam,Martin,Riveros,Luis Alfredo