Nontraditional agricultural exports (
NTAE ) offer a proven opportunity for agricultural growth in
economies which are increasingly dampened by saturated local
and world...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP60Date: December 20, 1989Author:
Raine, Martin F.
Ecuador's Amazon region has several
unique features, among which are the extreme fragility of
the region's natural resources, its rich biological
diversity, its significant...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP54Date: December 5, 1989
This paper is an econometrically
estimated portfolio model for Brazil that analyzes the
allocation of private financial wealth among four assets :
currency and demand...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP61Date: November 30, 1989Author:
De Almeida Coutinho,Rui Manuel
This paper is an attempt to assemble
World Bank and other published references on poverty and
income distribution in Latin America. The publications are
divided into...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP53Date: November 30, 1989
This paper reviews targeted nutrition
programs in selected countries of the Latin America and
Caribbean region in an effort to answer three questions : 1)
how many children...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP49Date: October 31, 1989Author:
Mateus,Abel M.
This study attempts to provide a
quantitative documentation of education in Asia, emphasizing
comparative analysis using data for 11 to 15 countries. The
study found...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP51Date: October 31, 1989Author:
Jee-Peng Tan ;
Mingat, Alain
This article explores the causes of
China's recent inflationary experience and identifies
the linkages between inflationary pressures and
decentralization of investment...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP52Date: October 31, 1989Author:
Yenal,Oktay
This report examines policies and
approaches that can improve the share of benefits of
groundwater exploitation to poverty target groups in East
India, Bangladesh and...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP44Date: August 31, 1989Author:
Kahnert,Friedrich A. K.
This note presents estimates of marginal
effective tax rates on capital income for Argentina,
following the methodology developed by King and Fullerton
(1984). It is...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP50Date: August 31, 1989Author:
Barbone,Luca ;
Mckee, Michael
This paper addresses the extent in which
the systemic problems in Poland have influenced the level of
economic efficiency of industrial activities. It also looks
at...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP48Date: August 31, 1989Author:
Konovalov,Vladimir
Since the 1950's, Sri Lanka has had
a significant chronic unemployment problem. Most of the
problem is concentrated among young people who are looking
for their first...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP42Date: July 31, 1989Author:
Dickens, William T. ;
Lang, Kevin
This paper describes how Turkey is
coping with the so-called internal transfer problem. A
successful positive net external debt transfer in countries
where most of the...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP46Date: July 31, 1989Author:
Thorne,Alfredo Eduardo
This paper discusses the medium-term
macroeconomic scenario (1989-94) recently prepared by the
Tunisian government and presents an evaluation of its
critical aspects....
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP45Date: July 31, 1989Author:
Akin-Karasapan, Aysegul ;
Parks, James ;
Razmara, Se
This paper examines Indonesia's
adjustment to a series of external shocks since 1981,
focusing on the Government's policy initiatives and
economic performance. The paper...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP39Date: June 30, 1989Author:
El Mahi,Ahmed Murtada El Sadiq
The report draws attention to the
problem of cash buy backs. This is due to the non existence
of terms of trade contingent instruments in international
capital markets...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP40Date: June 30, 1989Author:
Van Wijnbergen,Sweder
This paper sets out the underlying
concepts and issues in direct tax policy, discussing
different notions of income and problems of definition and
implementation, as...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP36Date: June 30, 1989
The power to tax is a great power. Even
when total revenues are held constant, changes in the tax
structure can extinguish some industries and make others
flourish,...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP35Date: June 30, 1989Author:
Fleisig,Heywood W.
This paper is a review of Bank
recommendations on the taxation of goods and services in
five South East and East Asian countries in the early to mid
1980s. It is organized...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP37Date: June 30, 1989Author:
Shalizi,Zmarak
This paper discusses at the outset some
issues in the design of tax structure: personal versus
impersonal taxes and income versus consumption bases. It
then examines...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP38Date: June 30, 1989Author:
Musgrave,Richard A.
This paper presents two frameworks that
can be used to evaluate the consistency of macroeconomic
objectives and to obtain short term projections for Brazil.
The first...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP55Date: June 30, 1989Author:
De Almeida Coutinho,Rui Manuel
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