This book is divided into seven chapters. Chapter one is an overview. Chapter two reviews South Asia's recent track record with regard to the quantity and quality of job creation. It traces the relationship...
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have witnessed dramatic changes in outputs, the nature of jobs, standards of living, patterns...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have witnessed dramatic changes in outputs, the nature of jobs, standards of living, patterns...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have witnessed dramatic changes in outputs, the nature of jobs, standards of living, patterns...
This paper decomposes changes in inequality, which has in general been increasing in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, both by income source and socio-economic...
Russian oligarchs : a quantitative assessment; by Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky. What do firms disclose and why? Enforcing corporate governance and transparency in Central and Eastern Europe; by...
Russian oligarchs : a quantitative assessment; by Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky. What do firms disclose and why? Enforcing corporate governance and transparency in Central and Eastern Europe; by...
Tariffs on imports protect domestic producers and raise public revenue. The World Development Report 1987 finds that effective rates of protection to manufacturing in developing countries typically...
This paper lays out an analytical framework which is general enough to encompass two prominent approaches to trade policy analysis in developing countries. These are (1) the Ramsey-Samuelson-Diamond-Mirrlees...
These notes outline a framework for the economic analysis of tax and public sector pricing reform in Bangladesh. The proposals put forward here lay down a general structure based on the application...
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In this issue: Feature article: World Bank research on adjustment to external shocks; by Pradeep K. Mitra. Completed research: Linkage of commodity and country models. Improved technology for animal-powered ...
This paper develops a modeling framework which is used to examine adjustment to external shocks in thirteen semi-industrial countries. The approach offers a unified treatment of trade adjustment as...
This paper argues that the interlinking of labor, output, and credit contracts often observed in rural economies can be regarded as an attempt to improve allocative efficiency in the face of moral hazard...