Documents et rapports
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Technology transfer, competition, and trade liberalization for low-risk pest management (anglais)
The purpose of this paper is to suggest ways in which pesticide regulations in developing countries can be redesigned to promote low-risk pest management systems. The term 'low-risk pest management' encompasses...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 47757 Date du document: 1 novembre 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Benbrook, Charles,Gisselquist,David P.
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Georgia : trade policy for a successful transition (anglais)
Most of the substantive analysis and recommendations of this report are based on the findings of a mission to Georgia in October 1994. However, between that time and the time of the follow-up mission in...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 25427 Date du document: 29 février 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Import barriers for agricultural inputs (anglais)
This paper describes tariff, and non-tariff import barriers on seeds, and fertilizers in World Bank client countries, showing that such barriers block private introduction of new agricultural technology...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 22145 Date du document: 31 mai 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gisselquist,David P.
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The fiscal implications of trade policy reform : theory and evidence (anglais)
Trade interventions in developing countries frequently have multiple objectives - protecting import competing industries, raising revenue, and altering the distribution of income. The protective and revenue...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 12743 Date du document: 30 novembre 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Greenaway, David,Milner, Chris,DEC
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Integration and trade policy in the former Soviet Union (anglais)
This paper examines several issues bearing on future trade policy and economic integration arrangements of the republics of the former Soviet Union. It looks particularly at the relation between trade...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 22144 Date du document: 30 juin 1992 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Corden, W. Max
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Regional integration among developing countries : survey of past performance and agenda for future policy action (anglais)
Experience with regional integration among developing countries over the past twenty-five years has been far from satisfactory. Most integration schemes were based on the European Economic Community model...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 22143 Date du document: 31 décembre 1991 Auteur: Langhammer, Rolf J.,Hiemenz, Ulrich
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Why and how to stabilize producer prices for export crops in developing countries (anglais)
Traditionally, most developing countries have attempted to stabilize the prices paid to producers of agricultural export products. In trying to stabilize domestic producer prices, countries have followed...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 22142 Date du document: 31 mai 1990 Auteur: Guillaumont,Patrick,Guillaumont, Silviane
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How developing countries might influence the talks on agriculture in the GATT's Uruguay Round (anglais)
This paper considers how developing countries, might attempt to influence the next stage of negotiations on agriculture in the Uruguay Round, and, sketches the industrial countries' objectives, and constraints...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 22140 Date du document: 31 décembre 1989 Auteur: Winters,L. Alan
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Alternative transitional measures to liberalize quantitative trade restrictions : implications for developing countries (anglais)
Many developing countries use quantitative trade restrictions to protect the balance of payments or specific domestic import-competing industries. At the same time many countries are searching for ways...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 22138 Date du document: 30 avril 1989 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Takacs,Wendy E.
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The four successful exceptions : official export promotion and support for export marketing in Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, China (anglais)
In their export success and in having consistently favorable policy regimes for manufactured exports the four economies considered here -- Hong Kong, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan, China...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 9291 Date du document: 30 septembre 1988 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Keesing, Donald B.,UNDP
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Growth in imports and income : considerations for Africa (anglais)
A question that African policymakers have faced in the 1980s is how to make economic growth more import efficient. Given depressed income levels in Africa, an immediate problem is encouraging growth without...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 22141 Date du document: 31 août 1988 Auteur: Lopez-Rivera,Ramon,Thomas,Vinod