Documents et rapports
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Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship : experimental evidence from a business plan competition (anglais)
Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public policy help identify them and facilitate their...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 122575 Date du document: 1 août 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.
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Hayek, local information, and commanding heights : decentralizing state-owned enterprises in China (anglais)
Hayek (1945) argues that local information is key to understanding the efficiency of alternative economic systems and whether production should be centralized or decentralized. The Chinese experience of...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 122574 Date du document: 1 août 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Huang,Zhangkai,Ma,Guangrong,Li,Lixing,Xu,Lixin Colin
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Educational expansion and the Kuznets effect (anglais)
The objective in this note is to show the change in wage dispersion in response to increases in the relative supply of educated workers in two low-income countries. We also measure the relative contributions...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP289 Date du document: 31 décembre 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knight, J.,Sabot, R.
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Segmented labor markets in LDCs (anglais)
This discussion is confined to the urban labor markets in developing countries and to manual workers. It outlines the process by which the urban market for workers of low skill tends to develop a sector...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP267 Date du document: 31 mai 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mazumdar,Dipak
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Sharecropping and the interlinking of agrarian markets (anglais)
One of the often noted features of less-developed agrarian economies is the existence of interlinkages among the land, labor, credit, and product markets. The landlord is often the supplier of credit;...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP229 Date du document: 30 septembre 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Braverman,Avishay,Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene
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The political economy of administered protection. And The industry country incidence of "less than fair value" cases in US import trade (anglais)
This paper examines the major instruments for administrative regulation of imports, the antidumping and countervailing duty procedures, or less-than-fair value cases, and the escape clause mechanism. It...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP246 Date du document: 30 juin 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hall, H.,Nelson, Michael D.
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Alternative trade strategies and employment in LDC's (anglais)
The 1970s have witnessed significant changes in the trade policies and strategies of many LDCs. In the 1950s and 1960s most of them adhered to policies of import substitution behind highly restrictive...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: UNN196 Date du document: 1 mai 1978 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Krueger,Anne O.
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The structuralist approach to development policy (anglais)
Structuralist methodology and development policy are examined and compared to other major development policy approaches. The structuralist approach focuses on various types of structural disequilibria...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP20 Date du document: 31 mai 1975 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chenery,Hollis B.
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Foreign assistance and development performance, 1960-1970 (anglais)
Foreign assistance and development performance for the period from 1960 to 1970 are discussed. Projections of feasible growth and aid requirements for a sample of 50 countries and estimates of the actual...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP9 Date du document: 31 mai 1973 Auteur: Chenery,Hollis B.
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Trade policies in developing countries (anglais)
The effects of developing countries' trade policies on their export performance and economic growth are investigated. A review of the research on the growth strategies of developing countries suggests...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP1 Date du document: 31 mai 1971 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balassa,Bela
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Measurement errors and the permanent income hypothesis : evidence from rural India (anglais)
An extension of Friedman's permanent income model by explicitly allowing for the distinction between pure measurement errors and transitory terms in the observed variables allows implementation of valid...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP100 Date du document: 30 juin 1970 Auteur: Bhalla,Surjit S.