Documents et rapports
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Trade increases most workers' welfare (anglais)
The note addresses the immediate gains of trade liberalization to workers' welfare, allowing cheaper imports, and enabling most workers to become more productive, as their products increase in value. One...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21703 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Will wages converge? (anglais)
The note questions whether the twenty first century will be able to usher in, an era of converging incomes; the stakes are high, but the risks of progress may leave some out, namely from as much as the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21702 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Unions can be bad - or good (anglais)
The note questions whether economic analyses, and country experiences allow generalizations, such as those from supporters of labor unions, who see these as a collective voice which enhance productivity...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21704 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Winners and losers (anglais)
The note focuses on the results of transition, particularly from failed development strategies, and, regardless of whether benefits will occur in the long run. It is the poor, and workers who are especially...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21705 Date du document: 30 novembre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Decentralization : good results aren't automatic (anglais)
Pushing responsibility, and taxing power down to regional governments, and municipalities, can increase efficiency, and accountability. But to achieve these gains, the necessary social, and institutional...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21701 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tanzi, Vito
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Making infrastructure dollars work (anglais)
Investments in infrastructure can return major benefits - increasing growth, and decreasing poverty. But only when they work, and many don't - wasting time, and money, dashing hopes, fueling cynicism...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21700 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ostrom,Elinor
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Support for the aging (anglais)
Government of all types conclude that improvident citizens leave them no choice - they must get involved in pension schemes. That leads to debate over what sort of plan is best. The answer is that no single...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21698 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Diamond,Peter A
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Engendering economics (anglais)
The note examines gender issues, as a term indispensable in discussions of economic development, and, explores research focused on the causes, and cures of gender bias. It identifies the approach that...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21699 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Folbre, Nancy
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Self-provision of water and power: costly responses to public failure (anglais)
If private companies in developing countries, cannot get a reliable supply of power, water, telephone service, or transport, they will provide it themselves. In Nigeria, an inefficient public monopoly...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21696 Date du document: 31 mai 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kyu SiLee,Anas, Alex,Gi-Taik Oh
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Sunk costs : why exporters remain exporters (anglais)
The note reviews the different, and sometimes conflicting, answers to the question of what works to stimulate exports. It reveals that some researchers have concluded that the effect of changes in markets...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21695 Date du document: 31 mai 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Roberts, Mark J.,Tybout, James R.
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Reverse linkages - everybody wins (anglais)
As developing countries increasingly become part of the global economy, they benefit not just themselves, but also industrial countries, and these gains to industrial countries from reverse linkages, are...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21694 Date du document: 31 mai 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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EU's bananarama - slipping (anglais)
The note reviews the banana world trade, specifying the European Union (EU) consumes almost forty percent of the bananas in the world market; interestingly, Latin America, as the most efficient, lowest-cost...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21691 Date du document: 31 mars 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borrell,Brent William
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A step backward in agricultural trade at the Uruguay Round? (anglais)
The worldwide liberalization of agricultural trade, intended by last year's Uruguay Round agreement, may not be as great as expected. The aim of the Uruguay Round - to reverse protectionism, and remove...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21690 Date du document: 31 mars 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ingeo, Merlinda D.
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Hope for Latin America's indigenous poor (anglais)
The note addresses the impending needs of indigenous populations in Latin America, where even small improvements in their education would yield large gains in relative wealth. Inequities remain, with the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21692 Date du document: 31 mars 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Psacharopoulos, George,Patrinos, Harry A.
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Speaking up : "Voice" and public accountability (anglais)
The note spells out the fact that public accountability is eroding in developing countries, and, addresses the seemingly, lack of alternatives to accepting the poor, and declining effectiveness. It explores...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21693 Date du document: 31 mars 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Delepierre,Samuel Paul Robert
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Better health and nutrition for women (anglais)
Many of the leading causes of death, and disability among women in developing countries, can be prevented or treated through highly cost-effective interventions, and special attention is warranted to reaching...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21689 Date du document: 31 janvier 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tinker, Anne,Daly, Patricia,Green, Cynthia,Saxen
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The cost of air pollution abatement (anglais)
Estimates of air pollution abatement costs based on comprehensive U.S. census data, provide a practical basis for decisions by developing countries, on which industries to target, and which emissions charges...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21686 Date du document: 31 janvier 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hartman, Raymond S.,Wheeler, David,Singh, Manjul
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Economic consequences of the transition from civil war to peace (anglais)
Evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - sheds light on why, when a civil war ends, it takes time to claim a peace dividend. The note suggests there is rarely a substantial peace dividend...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21688 Date du document: 31 janvier 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Azam, Jean-Paul,Bevan, David,Collier, Paul,Derco
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Creating private enterprises and efficient markets (anglais)
The note focuses on privatization, as one of the bright spots on the, generally bleak, Russian economic landscape. Reformers have been able to implement a "corporatization" program; persuade "insider"...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 21687 Date du document: 31 janvier 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lieberman, Ira W.,Nellis, John,Karlova, Enna,Muk
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Redistribution across age cohorts in pay-as-you-go (anglais)
As the resources of fewer workers are stretched to support a larger old population, pay-as-you-go schemes will inevitably yield rapidly diminishing payoffs to future generations, unless productivity rises...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 24793 Date du document: 30 novembre 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed