- Have trade policy reforms led to a greater openness in developing countries? : evidence from readily available trade data
- Shuby Andriamananjara; John Nash / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- The developing countries that began trading moreopenly in the 1980s did so incrementally ,shock therapy was uncommon. Asian countries led in trade reform and openness, so their exportled growth performance was not surprising. African ...
- When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality
- Jakob Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. The welfare of all parties might be improved by tied project aid and b...
- World Crude Oil Resources: Evidence from Estimating Supply Functions for 41 Countries
- G.C. Watkins; S. Streifel / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- A gloomy outlook for non OPEC oil supply is unwarranted. Several countries are still expanding, others show no sign of declining supply, and even those contracting will continue to add to reserves. Evidence to support or deny e...
- The Demand for Base Money and the Sustainability of Public Debt
- V.F. Garcia / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Anything policy makers can do to increase the demand for base money will help solve public debt problems. Key (related) factors in an analysis of debt sustainability should include: The demand for base money (or highpow...
- Aid, Policies, and Growth
- C. Burnside; D, Dollar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies. Aid appears not to affect policies systematically either for good or for ill. Any tendency for aid to reward good policies has...
- Fiscal Imbalances, Capital Inflows, and the Real Exchange Rate: The Case of Turkey
- Pierre-Richard Agenor; C John McDermott; E Murat Ucer / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper examines the links between fiscal policy, uncovered interest rate differentials, the real exchange rate, and capital inflows in Turkey since the late 1980s. The first part reviews recent macroeconomic developments in Turkey...
- From Generosity to Sustainability - The Austrian Pension System and Options for its Reform
- Manfred Koch; Christian Thimann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Austria is probably the world.s leader in pension expenditures.not because of its demographic structure but because of the generosity of its pension system. Contributors can obtain 80 percent of the average of their 15 best years of i...
- Phillips Curves, Phillips Lines and the Unemplyment Costs of Overheating
- Peter B Clark; Douglas Laxton / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The objective of the paper is to reconsider the issue of nonlinearity of the Phillips curve and to underscore its importance for policymaking. A true Phillips curve implies that the relationship between inflation (adjusted for inflati...
- Labor Market Adjustment in Canada and the United States
- Eswar Prasad; Alun H Thomas / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Since the early 1980s, the aggregate unemployment rate in Canada has been persistently higher than that in the United States. However, existing research has failed to identify conclusively the proximate determinant for the persistent ...
- Fiscal Policy Management in an Open Capital Regime
- Peter S Heller / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper discusses how countries should manage fiscal policy as they move to the uncertain world of more open capital regimes. The possibility of both significant inflows and outflows may lead to calls for additional fiscal adjustme...
- Commercialisation has resulted in more rigid and permanent forms of socio-economic stratification
- P. M. Sikana; C. K. Kerven / Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1991
- As pastoral systems undergo commercialisation, all parts of those systems (livestock productivity, range use, household economies and the socio-cultural system itself) adjust to the new goals of production. This paper considers one of...
- Human face or human facade: adjustment and the health of mothers and children
- A. Costello; F. Watson; D. Woodward / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1994
- Report considers the effects of strutucal adjustment programmes on the health sector . Includes an annotated bibliography
- Reducing corruption
- World Bank Policy and Research Bulletin, 1997
- An effective state can contribute powerfully to sustainable development and the reduction of poverty. But there is no guarantee that state intervention will benefit society
- Mozambique: Macroeconomic Performance and Critical Development Issues
- Finn Tarp; Morten Igel Lau / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1996
- Presents the results of an analytical review of the Mozambican economy based on the scattered evidence available at the time of writing. In this regard, a recently published set of national accounts data, covering the period up to 199...
- Must globalisation force poor countries to suffer poor air quality?
- D Wheeler / New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000
- This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by e...
- Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery
- J. Loxley; V. Jamal / Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
- Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at ...
- Sustainability of private capital flows to developing countries : is ageneralized reversal likely?
- Leonardo Hernandez; Heinz Rudolph / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Developing countries that undertake adequate domestic reform should continue to expect capital inflows, despite recent events in Mexico and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's raising of interest rates during 1994. Since 1989, pri...
- Development bank of Latin America
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)
- On 9 August 2010, the Secretary-General launched the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) that brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future on a planet under increasing stress resulting from human activities. Recognizing that climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, the destruction of ecosystems and shifting demogra...
- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
- The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is a network of 22 member country governments that promotes global change research in the region, increases developing country involvement in that research, and strengthens interactions between the science community and policy-makers.
- Belize Red Cross Society
- In the Caribbean, the national Red Cross societies are assisted by the International Federation Secretariat, with regional offices based in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, with support from the Americas Zone Office based in Panama. The IFRC secretariat provides services that include international coordination of disaster relief, capacity-building of National Societi...
- Brot für die Welt
- "Brot für die Welt" ("Bread for the World") is a programme of help initiated by the protestant churches in Germany. It was set up in Berlin in 1959 and since then has been the responsibility of the “Diakonische Werk”, the Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). "Brot für die Welt" works jointly with local churches and par...
- Economics Web Institute
- Institute focusing on economics and management
- Publish What You Fund
- Publish What You Fund campaigns for aid transparency – more and better information about aid. It urges donors to disclose their aid information regularly and promptly, and in a standardised format that will be comparable with other countries and accessible to all. It supports greater disclosure of aid information in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standar...
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
- Policy impact evaluation
