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No. 305 | 20 Oct 2011 |
Being “Middle-Class” in Latin America
This paper joins the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, analysing its structure and characteristics. The paper investigates inter-class mobility potential and its evolution over time in the case of selected countries. As a... |
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No. 20 | 01 Jul 1990 |
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
Maize is a relatively new crop in Thailand, but since commercial production began in the 1950s it has become the second most important crop in terms of planted area and one of the country's top four agricultural exports. Major changes are occurring... |
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No. 17 | 01 Jun 1990 |
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
With annual production averaging over 20 million metric tons, Brazil is the second largest developing country producer of maize (after China) and the third largest in the world. This report analyses development and dissemination of maize research and... |
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No. 19 | 01 Jun 1990 |
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
Maize has been a staple food in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times and is still an important source of calories and protein in daily consumption, especially for poor families. The pattern of consumption is nevertheless changing; with the share of food... |
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No. 34 | 01 Jan 1991 |
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
After rice, maize is the second most important staple food in Indonesia, and is cultivated under a diversity of agro-ecological conditions. While food accounts for more than half total maize utilisation, demand for maize as livestock feed -... |
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No. 105 | 01 Jan 1995 |
Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture
This case study of Mexico examines developments in agricultural biotechnology against the background of recent changes in macro-economic, environmental and agricultural policies as well as in the regulation of the seeds industry, intellectual... |
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No. 103 | 01 Dec 1994 |
Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture
India's self-sufficiency in food production has been achieved by the adoption of chemicals-intensive farming methods which have contributed to serious deterioration of the environment. New evironmentally-friendly technologies, which maintain (or... |
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No. 109 | 01 Dec 1995 |
Biotechnology and Sustainable Crop Production in Zimbabwe
This case study of Zimbabwe has examined developments in biotechnology against the background of a welldeveloped national agricultural research, plant breeding and seeds system. It has then assessed the constraints to biotechnology research,... |
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No. 72 | 01 Jul 1992 |
Biotechnology and the Changing Public/Private Sector Balance
This study examines the potential impact of changes in the public/private sector balance for biotechnology development and diffusion in developing country agriculture. It focuses on biotechnology related to two important developing country crops:... |
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No. 148 | 01 Mar 1999 |
Boom and Bust and Sovereign Ratings
The 1990s have witnessed pronounced boom-bust cycles in emerging-markets lending, culminating in the Asian financial and currency crisis of 1997-98. By examining the links between sovereign credit ratings and dollar bond yield spreads over 1989-97,... |
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No. 223 | 01 Nov 2003 |
Building Capacity to Trade
The Doha Declaration stresses the “important role” of “well targeted, sustainably financed technical assistance and capacity-building programmes”. It dedicates a whole section to them, and reiterates the commitment of its membership to help the... |
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No. 39 | 01 Jul 1991 |
Buybacks of LDC Debt and the Scope for Forgiveness
This paper explains why a debtor country may be eager to spend foreign exchange reserves on the retirement of its cross-border obligations at market prices. A simple two-period framework shows that such spending can be profitable to both the debtor... |
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No. 332 | 27 May 2016 |
Can investments in social protection contribute to subjective well-being?
Subjective well-being has in recent years been recognised as a goal of development that captures non-monetary or subjective dimensions of well-being. The body of evidence on the individual and societal determinants of subjective well-being is... |
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No. 160 | 01 Jul 2000 |
Capital Flows and Growth in Developing Countries
Are capital inflows associated with faster income growth? There are a large number of empirical studies that identify the most relevant determinants of a country’s growth rate. However, this literature has not explored the growth impact of the... |
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No. 36 | 01 Jul 1991 |
Capital Flows and the External Financing of Turkey's Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
Subsidized capital flows have made a major contribution to the recovery of the Turkish economy from the acute balance of payments crisis of the late 1970s. The inflow of foreign capital on a substantial scale has facilitated rapid growth in imports... |
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No. 320 | 29 Aug 2013 |
Capital Flows in Asia-Pacific
The Asia-Pacific region has long been prone to volatile capital flows that have posed a challenge for authorities to cope with and occasionally led to payment difficulties dragging down exchange rates and spilling over to the real economy. The recent... |
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No. 212 | 01 Jul 2003 |
Central Asia Since 1991
The five former Soviet republics have become separate states, developing at different rates and in different directions, and with different political and economic regimes. As a result, the cohesion of the region has broken down and economic... |
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No. 35 | 01 Mar 1991 |
Changing Comparative Advantage in Thai Agriculture
Two key developments affected Thai agriculture in the last decade: the precipitous decline (until 1988) in world prices for the major agricultural items exported by Thailand, and the decline in the amount of cultivable land available for each... |
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No. 89 | 01 Nov 1993 |
China as a Leading Pacific Economy
China is emerging as a leading Pacific economy in the 1990s. This paper examines the implications of China's entry into the world market for the OECD countries as well as for the regional economies of Asia and the Pacific. It argues that the shares... |
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No. 205 | 01 Feb 2003 |
China's Software Industry and Its Implications for India
The Chinese software industry is small and underdeveloped, compared with its computer and other information technology (IT) hardware industry and compared with India’s software industry. Yet, current status is not necessarily a good guide to future... |
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Being “Middle-Class” in Latin America
Francesca Castellani and Gwenn Parent
20 Oct 2011
This paper joins the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, analysing its structure and characteristics. The paper investigates inter-class mobility potential and its evolution over time in the case of selected countries. As a...
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
Suthad Setboonsarng
01 Jul 1990
Maize is a relatively new crop in Thailand, but since commercial production began in the 1950s it has become the second most important crop in terms of planted area and one of the country's top four agricultural exports. Major changes are occurring...
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson
01 Jun 1990
With annual production averaging over 20 million metric tons, Brazil is the second largest developing country producer of maize (after China) and the third largest in the world. This report analyses development and dissemination of maize research and...
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
Jaime A. Matus Gardea, Puente Gonzalez and Cristina López Peralta
01 Jun 1990
Maize has been a staple food in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times and is still an important source of calories and protein in daily consumption, especially for poor families. The pattern of consumption is nevertheless changing; with the share of food...
Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture
Hidjat Nataatmadja
01 Jan 1991
After rice, maize is the second most important staple food in Indonesia, and is cultivated under a diversity of agro-ecological conditions. While food accounts for more than half total maize utilisation, demand for maize as livestock feed -...
Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture
José Luis Solleiro Rebolledo
01 Jan 1995
This case study of Mexico examines developments in agricultural biotechnology against the background of recent changes in macro-economic, environmental and agricultural policies as well as in the regulation of the seeds industry, intellectual...
Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture
Ghayur Alam
01 Dec 1994
India's self-sufficiency in food production has been achieved by the adoption of chemicals-intensive farming methods which have contributed to serious deterioration of the environment. New evironmentally-friendly technologies, which maintain (or...
Biotechnology and Sustainable Crop Production in Zimbabwe
John J. Woodend
01 Dec 1995
This case study of Zimbabwe has examined developments in biotechnology against the background of a welldeveloped national agricultural research, plant breeding and seeds system. It has then assessed the constraints to biotechnology research,...
Biotechnology and the Changing Public/Private Sector Balance
Carliene Brenner
01 Jul 1992
This study examines the potential impact of changes in the public/private sector balance for biotechnology development and diffusion in developing country agriculture. It focuses on biotechnology related to two important developing country crops:...
Boom and Bust and Sovereign Ratings
Helmut Reisen and Julia von Maltzan
01 Mar 1999
The 1990s have witnessed pronounced boom-bust cycles in emerging-markets lending, culminating in the Asian financial and currency crisis of 1997-98. By examining the links between sovereign credit ratings and dollar bond yield spreads over 1989-97,...
Building Capacity to Trade
Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte
01 Nov 2003
The Doha Declaration stresses the “important role” of “well targeted, sustainably financed technical assistance and capacity-building programmes”. It dedicates a whole section to them, and reiterates the commitment of its membership to help the...
Buybacks of LDC Debt and the Scope for Forgiveness
Béatriz Armendariz de Aghion
01 Jul 1991
This paper explains why a debtor country may be eager to spend foreign exchange reserves on the retirement of its cross-border obligations at market prices. A simple two-period framework shows that such spending can be profitable to both the debtor...
Can investments in social protection contribute to subjective well-being?
Alexandre Kolev and Caroline Tassot
27 May 2016
Subjective well-being has in recent years been recognised as a goal of development that captures non-monetary or subjective dimensions of well-being. The body of evidence on the individual and societal determinants of subjective well-being is...
Capital Flows and Growth in Developing Countries
Marcelo Soto
01 Jul 2000
Are capital inflows associated with faster income growth? There are a large number of empirical studies that identify the most relevant determinants of a country’s growth rate. However, this literature has not explored the growth impact of the...
Capital Flows and the External Financing of Turkey's Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
Ziya Önis and Süleyman Özmucur
01 Jul 1991
Subsidized capital flows have made a major contribution to the recovery of the Turkish economy from the acute balance of payments crisis of the late 1970s. The inflow of foreign capital on a substantial scale has facilitated rapid growth in imports...
Capital Flows in Asia-Pacific
Margit Molnar, Yusuke Tateno and Amornrut Supornsinchai
29 Aug 2013
The Asia-Pacific region has long been prone to volatile capital flows that have posed a challenge for authorities to cope with and occasionally led to payment difficulties dragging down exchange rates and spilling over to the real economy. The recent...
Central Asia Since 1991
Richard Pomfret
01 Jul 2003
The five former Soviet republics have become separate states, developing at different rates and in different directions, and with different political and economic regimes. As a result, the cohesion of the region has broken down and economic...
Changing Comparative Advantage in Thai Agriculture
Ammar Siamwalla, Suthad Setboonsarng and Prasong Werakarnjanapongs
01 Mar 1991
Two key developments affected Thai agriculture in the last decade: the precipitous decline (until 1988) in world prices for the major agricultural items exported by Thailand, and the decline in the amount of cultivable land available for each...
China as a Leading Pacific Economy
Kiichiro Fukasaku and Mingyuan Wu
01 Nov 1993
China is emerging as a leading Pacific economy in the 1990s. This paper examines the implications of China's entry into the world market for the OECD countries as well as for the regional economies of Asia and the Pacific. It argues that the shares...
China's Software Industry and Its Implications for India
Ted Tschang
01 Feb 2003
The Chinese software industry is small and underdeveloped, compared with its computer and other information technology (IT) hardware industry and compared with India’s software industry. Yet, current status is not necessarily a good guide to future...