Countries of Europe and Central Asia
region are well known for having a high base of human
capital. Given the many other crises such as unemployment
and the required...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP145Date: August 19, 1994Author:
Heyneman,Stephen Paul
South Asia's move toward a freer
market and freer trade has a new momentum. As in other
regions during the 1980s and before, each country in South
Asia has, in its own...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP142Date: July 1, 1994Author:
Srinivasan, T.N.
This report seeks to consolidate and
synthesize the chief observations and contributions gathered
by a mission of governors, legislators, executives and
federal government...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP147Date: June 30, 1994
This paper analyses the adjustments of
state-owned or formerly state-owned enterprises in Russia to
the economic reforms started in early 1992, drawing on
evidence from...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP141Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Fan, Qimiao ;
Schaffer, Mark E.
Access to credit and the high level of
local currency interest rates and lending spreads have been
cited as one of the most common obstacles to economic growth
in Latin...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP140Date: April 30, 1994Author:
Rodriguez, Carlos Alfredo
This paper provides a close look at the
key factors from the viewpoint of source countries that
contribute to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows.
According to a survey...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP139Date: April 30, 1994Author:
Kawaguchi,Osamu
What drives interest rates in Indonesia
and are they too high? Many have argued that Indonesian
real interest rates are "too high", depressing
investment and hindering...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP136Date: February 28, 1994Author:
Hanna,Donald P.
This paper shows that the existing
official budget of the Russian Federation, inherited from
the central planning era, grossly misrepresents the
government's revenues...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP137Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Le Houerou, Philippe ;
Gold, Elana ;
Katash, Stanisl
The decentralization of political,
economic and fiscal power from the center to the regions is
an integral and critical part of the sweeping changes that
took place...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP138Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Le Houerou,Philippe H.
The paper reviews analytically the
issues concerning the involvement of the government in
infrastructure and industrial policy in South Asia. It does
so both in order...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP134Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Seabright,Paul B.
Taxation is one of several key
determinants which affect the profitability of foreign
investment in a country. Similar to many other countries
throughout the world,...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP135Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Mintz, Jack ;
Tsiopoulos, Thomas
The combination of economic
deterioration during the 1980s and the end of the Cold War
rivalry has created a climate in which many African
governments -- those emerging...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP130Date: October 31, 1993
This paper provides an overview of a
number of major legal factors that discourage foreign
investment in productive activities in Brazil. It identifies
restrictions...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP132Date: October 31, 1993Author:
Fischer, Georges Charles
A dominant issue of macroeconomic policy
in Ecuador during the last decade has been the effects of
the government's decision ten years ago to convert
external debt of...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP133Date: September 30, 1993Author:
Bayas, Santiago ;
Somensatto, Eduardo
In most South Asian countries, the
central banks are assuming an active or increasing role in
mobilizing domestic and foreign resources or in financing
public enterprises...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP129Date: August 31, 1993Author:
Rodriguez, Carlos Alfredo
This report begins from the premise that
labor-intensive economic growth is a necessary condition for
rapid poverty reduction in South Asia. In examining some of
the...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP131Date: June 30, 1993Author:
Goldstein,Ellen A.
In the aftermath of the debt crisis,
foreign direct investment appears to be an increasingly
attractive alternative to long-term bank loans as a form of
capital inflow...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP127Date: June 30, 1993Author:
Fry, Maxwell
After ten years of primary and secondary
education, Nepali students spend four years at the
university. Bachelors degrees are granted after 14 years of
total study....
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP109Date: May 31, 1993Author:
Abadzi,Helen
This study evaluates Senegal's
adjustment performance since 1980, the year Senegal launched
its first adjustment program. In the first half of the
decade (1980-85) little...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP124Date: February 28, 1993Author:
Rouis,Mustapha
The paper examines possible
modifications to standard techniques of cost-benefit
analysis as employed by the World Bank in the appraisal of
large projects. The identification...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP126Date: February 28, 1993Author:
Jack,William G.
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