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The East Asian Financial Crises: An Analytical Survey
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid, 1998The East Asian financial crises, which erupted in mid-1997, were unanimously unpredicted. They also represent a new kind of crises, as they do not seem to conform to the so-called first-generation and second-generation literature on currency crises.DocumentEvaluation of Stakeholder Impacts in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Expands the scope of the analyses of both public and private investment projects beyond the traditional criteria of the financial and economic net present value of an investment.DocumentStrengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Suggests a three-pronged approach to an enhanced growth strategy for India. The first prong is export-led growth. Here the lessons of China are particularly instructive, since China achieved in the past fifteen years the kind of export-led growth that India could have achieved, but failed to do so, because of poor public policies.DocumentThe External Debt Problem in Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, and the HIPC Initiative
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Reviews the foreign debt burden in Central America with special emphasis on Honduras and Nicaragua, which have a large debt overhang. Several indicators suggest that this foreign debt seriously impedes economic growth in both nations.DocumentPromoting Better Logging Practices in Tropical Forests: A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Regulations
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Suggestions to promote better logging practices in tropical forests include longer concession agreements, renewability provisions, and the use of performance bonds. Tests the empirical significance of these recommendations by using a simulation model developed with an unusually large data set from a lowland tropical rain forest in Peninsular Malaysia.DocumentSchooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998Investigates the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates.DocumentGlobalisation and liberalisation: Implications for poverty, distribution and inequality
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1997Globalisation - or, more accurately, the deepening of economic integration between countries - has contributed enormously to the creation of wealth in some developing countries. The average income gap between south-east Asia and the industrialised world is continuing to narrow, albeit from extremely wide levels, with export growth driving economic expansion.DocumentWorld Data on Education [country profiles]
International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 1998Country level educational sector profiles (144 in June 2000). Overview describing structure of sector and nationals policies Includes statistcal indicators. Available on WWW and on (free) CDROM.DocumentMeasuring Poverty: A New Approach
National Academies Press, 1996Proposal for a new set of indicators for measuring poverty in the USA. WWW site includes executive summary and recommendationsDocumentDeveloping Environmental Indicators: Materials Ecology
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998Report on WRI programme to develop indicators to capture a picture of material flow through industrial economies: industrial minerals; construction materials; metals; chemicals; infrastructure; fossil fuels; soil erosion; renewables; semi-manufactures; finished products; hidden flows.See also related report: Resource Flows: The Material Basis of Industrial Economies atPages