The central purpose of the paper is to analyze various forms of government intervention in the loan market in terms of their effect on efficiency. This provides the essential basis for evaluating and judging...
The savings potential of social security has long been recognized. Surpluses generated by the system can provide additional resources for development efforts. Chile is an interesting case, as it is representative...
The past decade has been witness to a dramatic, qualitative change in the environment in which international capital movements between the developed and less developed world take place. This paper presents...
This paper comprises the introductory section, apparently in a draft stage, to Domestic Finance Study No. 71 dated October 1981, entitled The Nature of Credit Markets in Less Developed Countries: A Framework...
Conventional wisdom seems to claim that Low Developing Countries (LDC) debt rescheduling problems are reflections of the failure of borrowers to invest their loans in appropriate productive activities...
The growing volume of private commercial loans to LDCs has heightened concern about the ability of countries to service their accumulated external obligations on schedule, and reawakened interest in analyzing...
An analysis of local government structure and finance in Karachi reveals a number of problems due largely to inadequate amounts of public sector resources available to local governments and to the fragmentation...
In all societies, commercial banks are instrumental in transferring surplus monetary resources from savers to users. A study of the Indian commercial banking system reveals that concerns about profitability...
The experience of the Philippines in its assertion of citizenship jurisdiction is examined, and the proposal for an LDC tax on nonresidents is evaluated. The Philippine experience indicates that a surtax...
The extent to which formal and informal financial institutions are meeting the credit requirements of small, low income farmers in Mexico was investigated. Agricultural production in Mexico has shown a...
The impact of branch expansion of resource mobilization, credit allocation to small farmers, and small industry in India is assessed. The Indian banking system was expected to accomplish a wider geographical...
Alternative systems of Indian financial intermediation, the instruments used and their relative attractiveness to borrowers and lenders, and their mode of operations and transaction costs are examined...
The experiences of five Asian countries whose social security schemes have evolved sufficiently to have exerted considerable impact on the savings and investment process are examined. Social security institutions...
The relationship between economies with indirect taxes and total factor incomes is discussed. Comprehensive statistical studies (CSS) of budget incidence assume ceteris paribus conditions for technology...
The role of transfer payments in defining aggregate counterfactual incomes and the Browning (1978) model of income transfer are discussed. It is not possible to make a calculation of total tax burdens...
The establishment of development banks in a number of LDCs and the influence of financial innovations on the role of development banks are examined. Central Banks play a critical role in initiating the...
Tanzania is attempting to establish a self-reliant socialist socioeconomic structure in order to ensure each family initially a minimum level of living and later a progressively rising minimum. In order...
The performance of Bolivia's three major public enterprises, the Bolivian Mining Corporation (COMIBOL), the Bolivian Petroleum Company (YPFB), and the National Smelting Corporation (ENAF), is described...
Two development ideologies in India, Sarvodaya and Socialist, are compared. The major objective of each was to remove poverty and unemployment through socioeconomic development in an environment of freedom...
The major elements of a technology policy that promotes financial institutions are identified, and the cruicial role of the Technical Consultancy Service Centers (TCSC) and the Financial System (FS) is...