- Revisiting Grain Movement Control and Taxation in Ethiopia: A Policy Brief
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- The current sales tax collection system is affecting negatively the producers income, traders’ profit margins and consumers purchasing power. While the conventional wisdom in Ethiopia is that the tax on grain sales falls on trade...
- Made in China?: The Growth of Chinese Trade
- S. Breslin / Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998
- Traces the growth of Chinese exports in the post-Mao era, and the implications for policy making within China. The first part of the paper provides a statistical overview of the growth in Chinese trade since 1978, and suggests that th...
- Reports on the international financial architecture [International Financial Crisis / Transparency and Accountability / Strengthening Financial Systems]
- World Bank, 1998
- Motivated by Asian financial crisis, reports from 3 working groups examine issues related to the stability of the international financial system and the effective functioning of global capital markets. recommendations include: ...
- Business opportunities with the Asian Development Bank
- Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999
- Listing of current opportunities and programmes. Includes details of: business opportunities consulting services procurement private sector operations cofinancing opportunities ...
- The Social Impact of Adjustment in Tanzania in the 1980s: Economic Crisis and Household Survival Strategies
- M. Messkoub / Internet Journal of African Studies, 1996
- Provides a theoretical discussion of the key issues of the social impact and a brief account of the Tanzanian economy and the various dimensions of the economic crisis of the 1980s. Then discusses the social impact of adjustment progr...
- Economic Crisis in Asia: a Future of Diminishing Growth and Increasing Poverty?
- M. Rosegrant; C. Ringler / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- Recovery from the crisis will depend, in part, on increases in Asia’s exports to some of the larger developed markets, like the United States and Western Europe. But developed countries themselves are suffering from the crisis to...
- Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics - gaps in habitat protected and funding priorities
- M.G. Murray; M.J.B. Green; G.C. Bunting; J.R. Paine / UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997
- Study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, not previously available, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of biodiversity throughout the tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed moist ...
- Reforming Institutions for Service Delivery: A Framework for Development Assistance with an Application to the Health, Nutrition, and Population Portfolio [of the World Bank]
- N Girishankar / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Argues for greater "institutional pluralism" in how the World Bank does business in the infrastructure, rural, and social sectors. Rather than monopolistic public sector provision, delivery should be governed by broad checks and balan...
- Good Governance and Trade Policy: Are They the Keys to Africa's Global Integration and Growth?
- F. Ng; A. Yeats / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Model testing the influence of trade and governance policies on economic performance Turning the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa around requires badly needed national policy reform—abandoning the region's restrictive fisca...
- The design of a paravet system in the Republic of Somaliland
- A. Catley / Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996
- The civil war in Somalia between 1988 and 1991 resulted in considerable loss of human life and destruction of local infrastructure and government services throughout the country. In August 1991 ACTIONAID, in collaboration with VETAID,...
- The Egyptian stabilization experience : an analytical retrospective
- Arvind Subramanian / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper analyzes the successful Egyptian stabilization experience during the 1990s, focusing on its distinctive features and contrasting them with the recent experiences of other developing countries that undertook adjustment. The ...
- Estimating the equilibrium real exchange rate : an application to Finland
- Tarhan N. Feyzioglu / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Exchange rate volatility, pricing to market and trade smoothing
- Peter B. Clark; Hamid Faruqee / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Explaining and forecasting the velocity of money in transition economies : with special reference to the Baltics, Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union
- Mark de. Broeck; Kornelia Krajnyak; Henri Lorie / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Exchange rate-based stabilization in Western Europe : Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal
- Enrica Detragiache; A. Javier Hamann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Fiscal policy and the predictability of exchange rate collapse
- Betty C Daniel / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Is the exchange rate a shock absorber? : the case of Sweden
- A.H. Thomas / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Japanese foreign direct investment and regional trade
- Tamim A Bayoumi; G Lipworth / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- There has been considerable debate in Japan about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows, largely focused on whether the economy is .hollowing out.. The surge in outward Japanese FDI over the last decade, together with...
- Monetary impact of a banking crisis and the conduct of monetary policy
- Alicia Garcia-Herrero / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Money, wages and inflation in middle-income developing countries
- Pierre-Richard Agenor; A.W Hoffmaister / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Development bank of Latin America
- SecretarÃa General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- 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.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- University of Western Australia
- Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)
- Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance is a strategic cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt School).
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
