This study explicity considers the possibilities of international trade in evaluating the impact of incentives in agriculture. Specifically, the study estimates three standard coefficients (ratios): (a)...
India was a rather marginal participant in world trade during the early years after independence. Since 1980, however, the structure and orientation of Indian export trades have undergone fundamental changes...
Protectionism and industrial regulation are two topics in which the interplay of politics and economics is so strong that one wonders why the intellectual merger between the two approaches in the New Political...
Voluntary development organizations have demonstrated substantial comparatiave advantage in developing countries - especially in their ability to innovate, adapt to local conditions, and reach and work...
This paper examines the adjustment policies applied by two East Asian newly industrializing economies, Korea and Taiwan, in the period following the quadrupling of oil prices in 1973. As an introduction...
Economists have stressed that the efficiency costs of taxation are not the obvious costs to taxpayers of handing over payments to the government. Instead, the efficiency costs stem from the efforts of...
Intertemporal equilibrium optimizing models have recently become the standard framework for analyzing such macroeconomic issues as terms of trade, fiscal or trade policy, international transfers, supply...
In this paper, the authors discuss the possibility that the North and South may have differing technological needs. Just as the North would like to develop drugs against cancer and heart disease, and the...
The recent rise in domestic public nonmonetary debt and in domestic bond yields is imposing a heavier burden on governments in countries like Brazil and Mexico than foreign debt does. This is a relatively...
Structural adjustment is an economy wide adjustment effort aimed at allocating resources better. The author contends that functioning markets and a low, stable inflation rate are two macroeconomic preconditions...
The paper presents and applies an integrated framework to assess the consistency between fiscal deficits and other macroeconomic targets, in particular output growth and the rate of inflation. The model...
Under base scenario assumptions, the authors estimate that the Baker 17 countries will require about $ 18 to $ 20 billion of net new disbursements annually to reverse recent investment trends and bring...
Using panel data econometric techniques to examine the case for external debt relief, this report explores the relations between measures of creditworthiness and debt discounts on the secondary markets...
The objective of this study is to analyze transportation costs incurred by Caribbean countries on their major export products to determine whether there is evidence of freight rate discrimination against...
This paper contains a numerical listing of working papers produced by Policy, Planning, and Research. Each citation contains a brief abstract, and the contact point for the paper.
Given the dual role played by the Government as resource owner and tax collector in many sub - Saharan economies, it is important to separate "resource factor payments" from taxes through the use of different...
The interaction of fertility and infant mortality is well established. Lower infant mortality can lead to lower fertility by reducing the need for replacement births. Conversely, birth spacing improves...