Domestic Purchase Requirements for Import License Allocations in Mali

Domestic Purchase Requirements for Import License Allocations in Mali
Author: Wendy E. Takacs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1991
Genre: Buy national policy
ISBN:

To obtain import licenses for sugar and tea, prospective importers in Mali were required to purchase a certain amount of domestic output. The efficiency of this kind of arrangement relative to that of a direct trade restriction such as tariff depends on the policy's objective whether the protected industry is competitive or a monopoly.

The Domestic Financial Market and the Trade Liberalization Outcome

The Domestic Financial Market and the Trade Liberalization Outcome
Author: Prema-chandra Athukorala
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1991
Genre: Finance
ISBN:

The main finding of the study is the domestic financial market plays a very significant role in the success or failure of trade liberalization. This was found to be the case in Sri Lanka during 1977-87.

The Bank's Use of Technical Assistance for Institutional Development

The Bank's Use of Technical Assistance for Institutional Development
Author: Beatrice Buyck
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1991
Genre: Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN:

Whenever the Bank identifies shortcomings in institutional capability, technical assistance is automatically assumed to be the appropriate response. But technical assistance has, and will continue to have limitations - and there are alternatives.

Official Credits to Developing Countries Implicit Transfers to the Banks

Official Credits to Developing Countries Implicit Transfers to the Banks
Author: Harry Huizinga, Asl? Demirgüç-Kunt
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 33
Release: 1991
Genre: Bank loans
ISBN:

The stock market expects virtually all additional resources provided to debtor countries to be used for debt service to commercial banks. The stock market capitalization of banks increased about $6 billion at the time of the 1983 U.S. proposal to increase its quota to the IMF by $8.5 billion, and by a low estimate of $22.4 billion at the time details of the Brady Plan were recorded.

Public Policies and Saving in Developing Countries

Public Policies and Saving in Developing Countries
Author: Vittorio Corbo
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1991
Genre: Consumption (Economics)
ISBN:

Developing countries can increase their national saving rate best by increasing government saving. The most effective way to increase national saving is through permanent tax hike, a cut in current public spending, and a macroeconomic framework in which inflation is low and incentives are predictable.

Adjustment Programs and Bank Support

Adjustment Programs and Bank Support
Author: Vittorio Corbo
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1991
Genre: Ajuste economico
ISBN: 9609301320

Adjustment should begin with policy and institutional reforms to deal with the ultimate causes of any macroeconomic crisis a country is experiencing. Only when progress has been made in reducing inflation and fiscal and balance of payment deficits should other structural reforms begin - of the public sector, trade and competition, the financial sector, and the labor market.