Documentos e informes
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Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship : experimental evidence from a business plan competition (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 122575 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckenzie,David J.
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Hayek, local information, and commanding heights : decentralizing state-owned enterprises in China (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 122574 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Huang,Zhangkai,Ma,Guangrong,Li,Lixing,Xu,Lixin Colin
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Educational expansion and the Kuznets effect (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP289 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 1983 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Knight, J.,Sabot, R.
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Segmented labor markets in LDCs (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP267 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1983 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mazumdar,Dipak
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Sharecropping and the interlinking of agrarian markets (Inglés)
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;...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP229 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1982 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP246 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1982 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hall, H.,Nelson, Michael D.
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Alternative trade strategies and employment in LDC's (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: UNN196 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 1978 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Krueger,Anne O.
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The structuralist approach to development policy (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP20 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1975 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chenery,Hollis B.
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Foreign assistance and development performance, 1960-1970 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP9 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1973 Autor: Chenery,Hollis B.
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Trade policies in developing countries (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP1 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1971 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Balassa,Bela
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Measurement errors and the permanent income hypothesis : evidence from rural India (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: REP100 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1970 Autor: Bhalla,Surjit S.