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  Poverty and structural adjustment: the African case

  HNPFLASH, 1999
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  Energy price increases in developing countries : case studies of Malaysia,Indonesia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Colombia and Turkey

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Six case studies show that raising energy prices to eliminate subsidies does not harm the poor, growth, inflation, or industrial competitiveness. And public revenues improve.When domestic energy prices in developing countries fall below opportunity costs, price increases are recommended to conserve fiscal revenue and to ensure efficient use of resources.
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  Social safety net and the poor during the transition : the case of Bulgaria

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Bulgaria's social safety net is not well targeted; too many benefits accrue to better off households rather than to the poor.
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  Raising household energy prices in Poland : who gains? who loses?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Programs that subsidize household energy prices in the transition economies help the rich more than they help the poor. Not only do the wealthy consume more energy in absolute terms than the poor, but they also spend a larger portion of their income on energy.Freund and Wallich examine the welfare effects of increasing household energy prices in Poland.
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  Workers in transition

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The outlook is bright for transition economies that are fully embracing market based reform, including appropriate, coherently applied labor policies. In other transition economies, a mix of paternalism and populism could produce partial, timid reform that makes them increasingly unproductive and corrupt.
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  Averting the Old Age Crisis: Technical Annex

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Supporting documentation for the World Bank publication Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth (1994).Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth, the publication for which this technical annex provides supporting documentation, is the third in a series of major World Bank Policy Research Reports.
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  Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Growth attributed to structural adjustment has benefited the population generally, shifting a significant portion of the population from below the poverty line to above it.
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  Inflation in nontradables and the macroeconomic policy mix : a model with policy application to transition economies

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  How a price increase in the nontradables sector of a transition economy affects the exchange rate, relative prices, wages, and, indirectly, the movement of factors of production.
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  Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries and the HIPC Initiative

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Since the onset of the debt crisis in the early 1980s, many heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), continue to have difficulty in paying their external debt-service obligations, largely because of exogenous factors, imprudent debt-management policies, and the lack of sustained adjustment or implementation of structural reforms.
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  Deindustrialization: Causes and Implications

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Increased globalization (the international integration of markets for goods, factors, and technology) has coincided in the past two decades with a shift in labor demand away from less-skilled workers toward those with more skills.

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