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No. 236 | 01 Aug 2004 |
Decentralisation and Poverty in Developing Countries
Decentralisation has been advocated by donors and development agencies as an important factor broadening citizen participation and improving local governance, thereby promoting poverty reduction from the bottom up. On the basis of a comprehensive... |
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No. 32 | 01 Oct 1990 |
Debt Overhang, Liquidity Constraints and Adjustment Incentives
Investment in most heavily indebted countries has been weak since 1982. The widely accepted debt overhang proposition interprets the investment drop as a moral hazard problem: a heavy debt burden raises the incentive to consume, because the marginal... |
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No. 54 | 01 Feb 1992 |
Debt Conversions in Yugoslavia
The paper begins with a brief description of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its creditors throughout the 1980s, providing a background for the introduction of debt conversions in Yugoslav practice. The main features of the legal environment... |
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No. 284 | 05 Jan 2010 |
Crushed Aid
This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing world... |
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No. 104 | 01 Jan 1995 |
Crop Biotechnology and Sustainability
This document provides a description of Colombian agriculture at a glance, to then enter into a more analytical view of how macroeconomic policies have interacted with sectoral policies to contribute in shaping the activity into what it is today. The... |
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No. 122 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Corruption
This paper sets out a framework within which the problem of corruption may be analysed in any specific country. It does not seek to establish the importance of such activity in a general sense, or seek to propose particular economic policy or... |
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No. 180 | 01 Oct 2001 |
Corporate Governance and National Development
Corporate governance matters for national development. Case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Malaysia and South Africa suggest that it has a role of growing importance to play in helping to increase the flow of financial capital to... |
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No. 159 | 01 Jul 2000 |
Converging European Transitions
Expectations of a broader convergence of living standards worldwide have spread at the same time as emerging markets and mature democracies seek to attract foreign investment in order to accelerate economic growth. In this increasingly competitive... |
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No. 200 | 01 Oct 2002 |
Convergence and Divergence of Sovereign Bond Spreads
Latin American sovereign bonds represent a significant share of the emerging debt class (50 per cent by early 2001) and so have considerably shaped the dynamics of this market. Recent financial turmoil, contagion episodes and investors’ renewed... |
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No. 299 | 01 May 2011 |
Continental vs. Intercontinental Migration
This working paper uses an agricultural household model to explore the impact of potential immigration policy reforms on the welfare of rural households in Burkina Faso. Simulation results demonstrate that, in contrast to continental migration,... |
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No. 57 | 01 Mar 1992 |
Conflict or Indifference
Managers of US multinational corporations generally respond with a "big yawn" to warnings that the world trading system might evolve into a set of protectionist regional blocs.Their lack of fear is justified, since both their past strategies and... |
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No. 31 | 01 Oct 1990 |
Comparative Advantage in Agriculture in Ghana
In 1957, when independence came, Ghana was one of the most advanced economies in sub-Saharan Africa. It seemed well placed to make rapid and substantial progress. In the event, economic performance was dismal, and by 1982 the economy was all but in... |
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No. 16 | 01 Jun 1990 |
Comparative Advantage
This paper investigates the application of the principle of comparative advantage to policy analysis and policy formulation. It is concerned with both the theory and the measurement of comparative advantage. Despite its central role in economics, the... |
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No. 280 | 30 Jul 2009 |
Coherence of Development Policies
This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid. It seeks to assess the potential (in)coherence between... |
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No. 78 | 01 Oct 1992 |
Co-Financing Transactions between Multilateral Institutions and International Banks
The last decade has exemplified a retrenchment of bank lending in developing countries. International banks strive to boost capital ratios, thereby raising equity, reducing their less profitable assets and rebalancing portfolios towards less risky... |
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No. 156 | 01 Nov 1999 |
Climate Policy Without Tears
What interest do developing countries have in limiting the growth of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? Answering this question is crucial to moving international climate policy negotiations forward. The primary benefits for individual countries... |
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No. 182 | 01 Nov 2001 |
Clearing the Air in India
With the aid of a computable general equilibrium model, this paper estimates for India the magnitude of spillovers from limiting growth of greenhouse gas emissions to local air quality and the health of the urban population. The most important... |
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No. 198 | 01 Oct 2002 |
Choice of an Exchange-Rate Arrangement, Institutional Setting and Inflation
The debate about whether fixed or flexible exchange-rate regimes are better suited to guaranteeing stability has received added stimulus from the macroeconomic crisis in Argentina. This paper argues that it is misleading solely to concentrate on... |
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No. 113 | 01 Jul 1996 |
Chinese Outward Investment in Hong Kong
Over the last decade, China has been the leading investor among developing countries and Hong Kong is the foremost destination of Chinese investment. However, China’s outward investment has been grossly understated in official statistics due to... |
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No. 147 | 01 Mar 1999 |
China's Unfinished Open-Economy Reforms
During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance and other business services, despite the fact that the authorities have maintained a plethora of restrictive measures limiting... |
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Decentralisation and Poverty in Developing Countries
Johannes Jütting, Céline Kauffmann, Ida McDonnell, Holger Osterrieder, Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner
01 Aug 2004
Decentralisation has been advocated by donors and development agencies as an important factor broadening citizen participation and improving local governance, thereby promoting poverty reduction from the bottom up. On the basis of a comprehensive...
Debt Overhang, Liquidity Constraints and Adjustment Incentives
Bert Hofman and Helmut Reisen
01 Oct 1990
Investment in most heavily indebted countries has been weak since 1982. The widely accepted debt overhang proposition interprets the investment drop as a moral hazard problem: a heavy debt burden raises the incentive to consume, because the marginal...
Debt Conversions in Yugoslavia
Mojmir Mrak
01 Feb 1992
The paper begins with a brief description of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its creditors throughout the 1980s, providing a background for the introduction of debt conversions in Yugoslav practice. The main features of the legal environment...
Crushed Aid
Emmanuel Frot and Javier Santiso
05 Jan 2010
This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing world...
Crop Biotechnology and Sustainability
Luis R. Sanint
01 Jan 1995
This document provides a description of Colombian agriculture at a glance, to then enter into a more analytical view of how macroeconomic policies have interacted with sectoral policies to contribute in shaping the activity into what it is today. The...
Corruption
Andrew Goudie and David Stasavage
01 Jan 1997
This paper sets out a framework within which the problem of corruption may be analysed in any specific country. It does not seek to establish the importance of such activity in a general sense, or seek to propose particular economic policy or...
Corporate Governance and National Development
Charles P. Oman
01 Oct 2001
Corporate governance matters for national development. Case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Malaysia and South Africa suggest that it has a role of growing importance to play in helping to increase the flow of financial capital to...
Converging European Transitions
Jorge Braga de Macedo
01 Jul 2000
Expectations of a broader convergence of living standards worldwide have spread at the same time as emerging markets and mature democracies seek to attract foreign investment in order to accelerate economic growth. In this increasingly competitive...
Convergence and Divergence of Sovereign Bond Spreads
Martin Grandes
01 Oct 2002
Latin American sovereign bonds represent a significant share of the emerging debt class (50 per cent by early 2001) and so have considerably shaped the dynamics of this market. Recent financial turmoil, contagion episodes and investors’ renewed...
Continental vs. Intercontinental Migration
Fleur Wouterse
01 May 2011
This working paper uses an agricultural household model to explore the impact of potential immigration policy reforms on the welfare of rural households in Burkina Faso. Simulation results demonstrate that, in contrast to continental migration,...
Conflict or Indifference
Louis T. Wells, Jr.
01 Mar 1992
Managers of US multinational corporations generally respond with a "big yawn" to warnings that the world trading system might evolve into a set of protectionist regional blocs.Their lack of fear is justified, since both their past strategies and...
Comparative Advantage in Agriculture in Ghana
James Pickett and E. Shaeeldin
01 Oct 1990
In 1957, when independence came, Ghana was one of the most advanced economies in sub-Saharan Africa. It seemed well placed to make rapid and substantial progress. In the event, economic performance was dismal, and by 1982 the economy was all but in...
Comparative Advantage
Ian Goldin
01 Jun 1990
This paper investigates the application of the principle of comparative advantage to policy analysis and policy formulation. It is concerned with both the theory and the measurement of comparative advantage. Despite its central role in economics, the...
Coherence of Development Policies
Iliana Olivié
30 Jul 2009
This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid. It seeks to assess the potential (in)coherence between...
Co-Financing Transactions between Multilateral Institutions and International Banks
Michel Bouchet and Amit Ghose
01 Oct 1992
The last decade has exemplified a retrenchment of bank lending in developing countries. International banks strive to boost capital ratios, thereby raising equity, reducing their less profitable assets and rebalancing portfolios towards less risky...
Climate Policy Without Tears
Sébastien Dessus and David O’Connor
01 Nov 1999
What interest do developing countries have in limiting the growth of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? Answering this question is crucial to moving international climate policy negotiations forward. The primary benefits for individual countries...
Clearing the Air in India
Maurizio Bussolo and David O’Connor
01 Nov 2001
With the aid of a computable general equilibrium model, this paper estimates for India the magnitude of spillovers from limiting growth of greenhouse gas emissions to local air quality and the health of the urban population. The most important...
Choice of an Exchange-Rate Arrangement, Institutional Setting and Inflation
Andreas Freytag
01 Oct 2002
The debate about whether fixed or flexible exchange-rate regimes are better suited to guaranteeing stability has received added stimulus from the macroeconomic crisis in Argentina. This paper argues that it is misleading solely to concentrate on...
Chinese Outward Investment in Hong Kong
Yun-Wing Sung
01 Jul 1996
Over the last decade, China has been the leading investor among developing countries and Hong Kong is the foremost destination of Chinese investment. However, China’s outward investment has been grossly understated in official statistics due to...
China's Unfinished Open-Economy Reforms
Kiichiro Fukasaku, Yu Ma and Qiumei Yang
01 Mar 1999
During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance and other business services, despite the fact that the authorities have maintained a plethora of restrictive measures limiting...