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No. 132 | 01 Feb 1998 |
Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits
Large current account deficits are often assumed to play an important role in the propagation of financial crises in emerging markets in receipt of heavy private capital inflows. This paper reaches some major conclusions. First, the Lawson Doctrine —... |
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No. 131 | 01 Jan 1998 |
Long-Run Growth Trends and Convergence Across Indian States
This paper examines the growth performance of Indian States during 1970-94. We, first, propose a grouping of States according to differences in the availability of physical, social, and economic infrastructure, using principal components analysis.... |
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No. 130 | 01 Dec 1997 |
Do Funded Pensions Contribute to Higher Aggregate Savings?
This paper provides statistically significant international evidence on the interaction between funded pensions and aggregate savings, after controlling for country-specific effects and for other saving determinants that have typically been... |
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No. 129 | 01 Dec 1997 |
Economic Reform in Egypt in a Changing Global Economy
Egypt, the oldest and most populous country in the Arab world, and one of its most influential in the Southern Mediterranean region, is now moving into the global economy. During the 1990s the country has pursued successful macroeconomic... |
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No. 128 | 01 Dec 1997 |
The Case of Missing Foreign Investment in the Southern Mediterranean
The developing countries of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) have missed the extraordinary surge of private international investment in recent years. Although the SOM region was an important destination for foreign direct investments, its share of... |
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No. 127 | 01 Dec 1997 |
Trade Strategies for the Southern Mediterranean
The lagging economic performance of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) region over the past decade is often attributed to the region’s relative lack of openness to international trade. The closer analysis of the region’s trade patterns undertaken in... |
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No. 126 | 01 Aug 1997 |
Fiscal Alternatives of Moving from Unfunded to Funded Pensions
The reform of public pension systems has become a key policy issue in many countries. Because conventional approaches to reform largely unfunded retirement income schemes prove politically and economically difficult, attention has focused on the... |
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No. 125 | 01 Aug 1997 |
Urban Credit Co-Operatives in China
This Technical Paper is a study of the working of urban credit cooperatives in China. It begins by putting the German, French, US and Japanese experiences into perspective, before constructing a macroeconomic analysis of the operation, institutional... |
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No. 124 | 01 Apr 1997 |
Emerging Market Risk and Sovereign Credit Ratings
In principle, the sovereign credit rating industry could help mitigate the congestion externalities common to world capital markets that arise from the failure of market participants to internalise the social cost of external borrowings. This would... |
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No. 123 | 01 Mar 1997 |
Outflows of Capital from China
While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United States), China’s state-owned... |
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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. 121 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Capital humain, ouverture extérieure et croissance
The innovation of this paper is the proof of a relationship between human capital and growth, using a sample of 83 countries and six time periods between 1960 and 1990. Nonetheless, calculations from both interactive and variable-coefficient models... |
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No. 120 | 01 Jan 1997 |
Liberalising Foreign Investments by Pension Funds
The paper evaluates the economics of foreign investment regulation for pension funds, with a focus on developing countries, where fully-funded pension systems are being started de novo. The analysis produces three observations. First, the benefits of... |
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No. 119 | 01 Dec 1996 |
Evidence on Trade and Wages in the Developing World
This paper synthesizes nine in-depth developing country (LDC) studies on the impact of trade upon wages. It is traditionally assumed that in LDCs trade liberalization lowers relative wage dispersion, while raising wage dispersion in DCs. Evidence... |
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No. 118 | 01 Oct 1996 |
Croissance et compétitivité de l'industrie manufacturière au Sénégal
This paper analyses the role of total factor productivity as a determinant of competitivity in Senegalese manufacturing industries. It is based upon a panel of ten industrial manufacturing groups and covers the period 1974-94. Following an estimation... |
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No. 117 | 01 Sept 1996 |
Labour Market Aspects of State Enterprise Reform in Viet Nam
State-owned enterprise (SOE) restructuring has proceeded more rapidly in Viet Nam than, for example, in China and India. The government tightened the budget constraints facing SOEs virtually simultaneously with price liberalisation. While a large... |
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No. 116 | 01 Sept 1996 |
General Equilibrium Modelling of Trade and the Environment
The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical... |
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No. 115 | 01 Jul 1996 |
Le rôle du capital public dans la croissance des pays en développement au cours des années 80
This paper analyses the links between growth and public capital for a sample of 28 developing countries over eleven years (1981-91). We estimate a simultaneous equations model to explain the GDP, as well as public and private capital formation.... |
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No. 114 | 01 Jul 1996 |
Vertical Intra-Industry Trade Between China and OECD Countries
This paper examines the issue of intra-industry trade in a transition economy. We address the question of whether the market-opening reforms in China have resulted in an increasing exchange of similar products, or whether foreign trade is still... |
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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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Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits
Helmut Reisen
01 Feb 1998
Large current account deficits are often assumed to play an important role in the propagation of financial crises in emerging markets in receipt of heavy private capital inflows. This paper reaches some major conclusions. First, the Lawson Doctrine —...
Long-Run Growth Trends and Convergence Across Indian States
Rayaprolu Nagaraj, Aristomene Varoudakis and Marie-Ange Véganzonès
01 Jan 1998
This paper examines the growth performance of Indian States during 1970-94. We, first, propose a grouping of States according to differences in the availability of physical, social, and economic infrastructure, using principal components analysis....
Do Funded Pensions Contribute to Higher Aggregate Savings?
Jeanine Bailliu and Helmut Reisen
01 Dec 1997
This paper provides statistically significant international evidence on the interaction between funded pensions and aggregate savings, after controlling for country-specific effects and for other saving determinants that have typically been...
Economic Reform in Egypt in a Changing Global Economy
Joseph Licari
01 Dec 1997
Egypt, the oldest and most populous country in the Arab world, and one of its most influential in the Southern Mediterranean region, is now moving into the global economy. During the 1990s the country has pursued successful macroeconomic...
The Case of Missing Foreign Investment in the Southern Mediterranean
Peter A. Petri
01 Dec 1997
The developing countries of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) have missed the extraordinary surge of private international investment in recent years. Although the SOM region was an important destination for foreign direct investments, its share of...
Trade Strategies for the Southern Mediterranean
Peter A. Petri
01 Dec 1997
The lagging economic performance of the Southern Mediterranean (SOM) region over the past decade is often attributed to the region’s relative lack of openness to international trade. The closer analysis of the region’s trade patterns undertaken in...
Fiscal Alternatives of Moving from Unfunded to Funded Pensions
Robert Holzmann
01 Aug 1997
The reform of public pension systems has become a key policy issue in many countries. Because conventional approaches to reform largely unfunded retirement income schemes prove politically and economically difficult, attention has focused on the...
Urban Credit Co-Operatives in China
Eric Girardin and Xie Ping
01 Aug 1997
This Technical Paper is a study of the working of urban credit cooperatives in China. It begins by putting the German, French, US and Japanese experiences into perspective, before constructing a macroeconomic analysis of the operation, institutional...
Emerging Market Risk and Sovereign Credit Ratings
Guillermo Larraín, Helmut Reisen and Julia von Maltzan
01 Apr 1997
In principle, the sovereign credit rating industry could help mitigate the congestion externalities common to world capital markets that arise from the failure of market participants to internalise the social cost of external borrowings. This would...
Outflows of Capital from China
David Wall
01 Mar 1997
While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United States), China’s state-owned...
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...
Capital humain, ouverture extérieure et croissance
Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Sébastien Dessus and Aristomene Varoudakis
01 Jan 1997
The innovation of this paper is the proof of a relationship between human capital and growth, using a sample of 83 countries and six time periods between 1960 and 1990. Nonetheless, calculations from both interactive and variable-coefficient models...
Liberalising Foreign Investments by Pension Funds
Helmut Reisen
01 Jan 1997
The paper evaluates the economics of foreign investment regulation for pension funds, with a focus on developing countries, where fully-funded pension systems are being started de novo. The analysis produces three observations. First, the benefits of...
Evidence on Trade and Wages in the Developing World
Donald J. Robbins
01 Dec 1996
This paper synthesizes nine in-depth developing country (LDC) studies on the impact of trade upon wages. It is traditionally assumed that in LDCs trade liberalization lowers relative wage dispersion, while raising wage dispersion in DCs. Evidence...
Croissance et compétitivité de l'industrie manufacturière au Sénégal
Thierry Latreille and Aristomene Varoudakis
01 Oct 1996
This paper analyses the role of total factor productivity as a determinant of competitivity in Senegalese manufacturing industries. It is based upon a panel of ten industrial manufacturing groups and covers the period 1974-94. Following an estimation...
Labour Market Aspects of State Enterprise Reform in Viet Nam
David O’Connor
01 Sept 1996
State-owned enterprise (SOE) restructuring has proceeded more rapidly in Viet Nam than, for example, in China and India. The government tightened the budget constraints facing SOEs virtually simultaneously with price liberalisation. While a large...
General Equilibrium Modelling of Trade and the Environment
John Beghin, Sébastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
01 Sept 1996
The environmental impacts of economic activity have become an increasingly urgent concern in both OECD Member countries, as well as in non-Member countries. Research in this area is still in its infancy, and the data required to buttress analytical...
Le rôle du capital public dans la croissance des pays en développement au cours des années 80
Sébastien Dessus and Rémy Herrera
01 Jul 1996
This paper analyses the links between growth and public capital for a sample of 28 developing countries over eleven years (1981-91). We estimate a simultaneous equations model to explain the GDP, as well as public and private capital formation....
Vertical Intra-Industry Trade Between China and OECD Countries
Lisbeth Hellvin
01 Jul 1996
This paper examines the issue of intra-industry trade in a transition economy. We address the question of whether the market-opening reforms in China have resulted in an increasing exchange of similar products, or whether foreign trade is still...
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...