Download or read book Do Wage Distortions Justify Protection in the U S Auto and Steel Industries written by Jaime De Melo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No. Wage premiums in those industries may even exacerbate the welfare costs of protection.

Download or read book A Survey of the Costs of World Sugar Policies written by Brent Borrell and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifting government controls on sugar prices and production would probably increase world sugar prices. World prices would definitely be less volatile, and the end of intervention would certainly improve world welfare, especially in the sugar- exporting developing countries.

Download or read book Trade Policies for Development and Transition written by David G Tarr and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has virtually incomparable experience in both providing trade policy advice to more than 25 countries on behalf of the World Bank and also publishing quality journal articles in most of those cases. In this volume, he focuses on his work on: (i) trade policies for countries making the transition from planned to market economies; (ii) his trade policy guideline papers for the World Bank on trade policies for poverty alleviation, uniform tariff policy, adjustment costs of trade liberalization, exchange rate overvaluation, globalization and technology transfer and rules of thumb on regional trade policies; (iii) multilateral, dynamic and environmental issues in trade policy using computable general equilibrium models; (iv) trade policy of the United States in the auto and steel industries; and (v) mathematical methods for modeling. The papers show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with rigor and international trade theory insights. The papers in this volume have appeared in many of the economics profession's more prestigious journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Comparative Economic, Review of International Economics, World Economy, the Southern Economic Journal, the World Bank Economic Review, the Japanese Economic Review and the Latin American Journal of Economics. In this book, the author elaborates on the articles by discussing some of the policy contexts for the requests for the work from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions and the policy impacts.

Download or read book Government Revenue from Financial Repression written by Alberto Giovannini and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aanwinsten van de Centrale Bibliotheek Queteletfonds written by Bibliothèque centrale (Fonds Quetelet) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Taxes Outward Orientation and Growth Performance in Korea written by Irene Trela and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax policies have contributed relatively little to Korea's extraordinary growth: less than 10 percent of Korean growth between 1962 and 1982, and about 3 percent of export growth. Indirect tax exemptions (rebates of sales and excise taxes on exports) have contributed far more to growth than have direct measures (mainly corporate tax rebates for exporters).

Download or read book Industrial Policy and Competitive Advantage written by David B. Audretsch and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume set (a postgraduate reference work), addresses industrial policy from the point of view of policy-makers and the intellectual community, looking at international competitiveness and also at unemployment and growth. These contributions span a number of academic disciplines.

Download or read book Industrial Policy and Competitive Advantage Instruments and targets written by David B. Audretsch and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: Política competitiva; Redes y cooperación; Infraestructura; Política regional; Recursos humanos; Finanzas.

Download or read book The Sectoral Structure of Poverty During an Adjustment Period written by Monika Huppi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Favorable initial conditions, a timely adjustment program, and associated gains to the rural sector allowed Indonesia to maintain the momentum of its progress in poverty alleviation during the difficult 1980s.

Download or read book Industrial Organization and Trade Liberalization written by Jaime De Melo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare gains Korea would realize from abolishing the tariffs and equivalent import restraints prevailing in 1982 are likely to be substantial.

Download or read book The Menu Approach to Developing Country External Debt written by Asl? Demirgüç-Kunt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppose that each creditor bank to a particular debtor country is confronted with a choice: each dollar of country debt held can be either rescheduled or sold at a given price. What choice will they make? Relatively strong banks will take advantage of a debt workout to exit from the debt. Relatively weak banks will relend.

Download or read book The Kuwaiti Ngos Their Role in Aid Flow to Developing Countries written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Link Between Poverty and Malnutrition written by Maurice W. Schiff and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past studies have identified nutrition exclusively with nutrient intake. A better definition of nutrition (as the one used here) would critically affect the link between poverty and malnutrition and would affect the implications for policies designed to improve the nutritional status of the poor.

Download or read book Shared Investment in General Training written by Eliakim Katz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making it difficult for a (recruiting) firm to know how much a worker has been trained increases a (training) firm's incentive to offer workers general training. Both minimum wage legislation and training certification discourage on- the- job- training.

Download or read book Trade Reform Policy Uncertainty and the Current Account written by Sweder van Wijnbergen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Industrial Policy in the Presence of Wage Distortions written by Jaime De Melo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rural Poverty in India 1973 86 written by Nanak Kakwani and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth (trickle- down) and poverty alleviation (pull- up) programs are not substitutes for each other, but complements, the Indian data on poverty show.