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  In search of price rigidities : recent sectoral evidence from Argentina

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Monetary and exchange rate policies have different effects on relative prices among economic sectors --- and thus significantly influence the real side of the economy.The hypothesis that the price adjustment to nominal shocks is instantaneous has been part of the monetarist approach explaining the inflationary process in Argentina.But Morisset and Revoredo argue that monetary and exchange ra
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  Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.
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  Price support at any price : costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Poland's agriculture sector can defend its income only by becoming more efficient --- by relying less on price supports and reducing farm employment, among other things.Orlowski argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union.
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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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  Rapid Economic Growth in China: Implications for the World Economy

  Brookings Institution, 1997

  Rapid growth of the Chinese economy in the past decade and its potential for strong growth into the foreseeable future have caused anxieties in the rest of the world. Some commentators see Chinese growth wholly in terms of competition for trade and investment opportunities with other developing economies and a major cause of structural adjustments in the advanced industrialized economies.
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  Social Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  The principal message of this study is that good macroeconomic policies and measures—combined with relevant sectoral policies and appropriate public expenditure allocation—provide a favorable environment for accelerating savings and investment, both necessary for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction (Figure 1).
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  Employment, Labor Markets, and Poverty in Ghana: A Study of Changes during Economic Decline and Recovery

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  An awareness on the part of policymakers that the formal sector is only a small part of Ghana's labor market is a necessary precondition of appropriate employment policy.
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  King Cotton under Sovereignty: The Private Marketing Chain for Cotton in Western Tanzania, 1997/98

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Examines the emergence of a private sector marketing chain for cotton in Tanzania in the period 1994/95-1997/98, based on field work conducted between June and September 1997.
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  Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

  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 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.

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