This paper examines the impact of financial reform on the behavior of financial sector agents as well as on the corporate sector. Financial liberalization, along with trade reform, lay at the core of the...
The central objective of this research was to document the characteristics and problems of private sector manufacturers in Hungary so they can be supported as effectively as possible. The project has three...
The objective of the present volume is to present a way of thinking analytically about foreign corporations and industrial performance -- a way that strips some of the ideology or romanticism from debate...
The central objective of this research was to document the characteristics and problems of private sector manufacturers in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (CSFR) so that they can be supported as...
The central objective of this research was to document the characteristics and problems of private sector manufacturers in Poland so that they can be supported as effectively as possible. In doing so...
The technical assistance (TA) program of the Marshall Plan was the largest and most comprehensive program of assistance to civilian industry ever undertaken. The programs accelerated the postwar economic...
Ghana's Economic Recovery Program, launched in 1983, provided new opportunities and challenges to its indigenous private sector. Liberalization of markets opened up access to imports and other resources...
The three papers in this volume relate to different aspects of the problem of developing the financial system in low-income countries so that it is better able to facilitate widespread mobilization of...
This paper examines two questions: How does market structure affect profitability and what is the role of multinational firms? Using firm level data from Brazil in the mid-1970s, the report elaborates...
The objective of this paper is to present an analysis of the international commuter aircraft industry. The focus is on the difficulties faced by industrializing country firms to enter and consolidate their...
There is great concern about the prospects for the industrialization of sub - Saharan Africa. Much of the literature dealing with this question has typically employed a neoclassical view that assumes underlying...
This paper reports the Phase I findings of a World Bank/U.S. AID joint research project on foreign export catalysts in sub-Saharan African countries. It provides a perspective on a low-income country's...
The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework that allows a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the industrial restructuring problem. The paper utilizes this conceptual framework to...
This study looks at private manufacturing and commercial enterprises in the context of Senegal's Nouvelle Politique Industrielle enacted in 1986. It examines changes in firms' operations subsequent to...
Environmental economists generally advocate market-based instruments for pollution regulation, but environmental policy makers have favored quantitative controls. This paper argues that both sides have...
Competition in a period of rapid technological change is the subject of this report. The steel mill industry is of considerable interest to less developed countries and was chosen to investigate whether...
Many developing countries now actively solicit foreign investment, offering income tax holidays, import duty exemptions, and subsidies to foreign firms. One reason for subsidizing these firms is the positive...
This paper uses firm-level data from Colombia to examine whether firms with foreign equity participation (FDI firms) perform better than domestic firms during recovery from financial distress. The paper...
Diffusion of innovation proceeds at varying rates in different countries, creating differences in the productivity with which resources are used, and hence affecting the competitive position of nations...
The report looks at the changes that have been occurring in the textile industry over the past few decades on a global basis; it does not examine directly the consequences of these changes for individual...