This report examines the design and
implementation of policy reforms in Senegal during the
1980s. The report attempts to document, in a systematic
manner, the reform...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP125Date: February 28, 1993Author:
Rouis,Mustapha ;
Ngo,Brian T.
A systematic look at the incomes policy
in the context of Eastern European transition is as recent
as the market reforms in these countries. At a recent
seminar organized...
Despite official pronouncements, health
has not been a national priority in Chad. The government has
set, and reaffirmed on numerous occasions, an ambitious
political,...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP122Date: December 31, 1992
The overall purpose of this paper is to
analyze the role of private investment in sub-Saharan
Africa, (SSA) especially in those countries that have
embarked on structural...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP120Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Faruqee,Rashidur R.
Two years after the Polish Big Bang,
privatization in Eastern Europe has been progressing at a
slow pace which frustrates many reformers in these
countries. Notwithstanding...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP119Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Bogetic, Zeljko ;
Conte, Michael
This paper addresses the question of
labor retrenchment and redundancy compensation in state
owned enterprises in Sri Lanka, and its main purpose is to
provide a conceptual...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP121Date: December 1, 1992Author:
Fiszbein,Ariel
The purpose of this review is to
identify exemplary practices in presenting and analyzing
economic and financial data on the public enterprise (PE)
sector. Rather than...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP114Date: May 31, 1992Author:
Singh,Janardan Prasad
The paper describes and analyzes the
legal, social, economic, and cultural conditions encountered
by women in Indonesia. It points to the considerable
progress made...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP112Date: April 30, 1992Author:
Eap,Pisei Phlong
This paper examines the effect of
changes in public expenditure composition on competitiveness
of the tradable sector. It argues that the effect of cuts
in total public...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP111Date: March 31, 1992Author:
Matin,Kazi Mahbub-Al
Central Asia republics (CAR) fall in the
category of low to average middle income countries by most
development indicators. Their ample supplies of hydrogen,
coal and...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP107Date: February 29, 1992Author:
Grais, Wafik ;
Reed, Eric
This study examines public expenditure
and revenue data for 15 Latin American countries for the
period 1975-88, although the focus of analysis is generally
on the period...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP110Date: February 29, 1992Author:
Hicks,Norman L.
This paper critically assesses the view
that a big bang approach to reform is optimal for the
transition from planned to market economy. Reforms at the
enterprise level...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP113Date: February 29, 1992Author:
Dhar,Sanjay K.
The economic transformation process, by
its very nature, creates forces which require a major
reshaping of the social safety net: (a) it creates new
problems, notably...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP106Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Barr,Nicholas
There are potential gains in terms of
lowering political, economic, administrative and time costs
from fostering privatization in Eastern Europe via forms of
minority...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP103Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Bogetic,Zeljko
For developing countries, budget
constraints help set the agenda on mitigating environmental
damage, one of the indelible marks of our era. Political
considerations...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP104Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Margolis, Sergio
This paper examines differences between
developing and developed countries as they bear on two
questions: Where should actions to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP108Date: October 31, 1991Author:
Birdsall, Nancy ;
Dixon, John A.
As of January 1991, the member countries
of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA)
converted their trade to trade denominated convertible
currency at world...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP102Date: August 31, 1991Author:
Tarr, David G.
The rapidly developing countries of Asia
are firmly committed to export-led export growth strategy.
As labor markets tighten, two related policy objectives
arise: one...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP101Date: August 31, 1991Author:
Nabi,Ijaz
High and rapidly rising housing prices
are a serious social concern in Korea. This paper first
documents the nature and causes of high housing prices and
deteriorating...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP99Date: July 31, 1991Author:
Kim,Kyung-Hwan
This paper presumes the international
discourse on the sustainability of development is concerned
with a) the rights of future generations to the services of
natural...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP97Date: June 30, 1991Author:
Norgaard, Richard B.
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