How Support Services Can Expand Manufactured Exports

How Support Services Can Expand Manufactured Exports
Author: Donald B. Keesing
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1990
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN:

This paper offers proposals to make support services more effective through outside assistance. Especially recommended are packages of assistance and promotion built around grant funds that pay firms half the cost of commercial service suppliers, such as consultants, and/or half of their initial marketing expenses.

Health and Development

Health and Development
Author: Nancy Birdsall
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1990
Genre: Desarrollo economico
ISBN:

The conclusions of past research and priorities for future research on the relationship between health and economic development: the effects of development on health and the effects of health on development.

The New Fiscal Federalism in Brazil

The New Fiscal Federalism in Brazil
Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 121
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiscal policy
ISBN:

This paper provides an overview of the existing state of fiscal federalism in Brazil and suggests directions for change.

The Labor Market and the Transition of Socialist Economies

The Labor Market and the Transition of Socialist Economies
Author: Milan Vodopivec
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 49
Release: 1990
Genre: Arbejdsmarkedet
ISBN:

One challenge of the transition of socialist economies to multiparty democracy and a market economy will be to reallocate labor while minimizing the social costs of unemployment. Vodopivec identifies the key issues of labor reform and makes policy recommendations.

Trade and Transition

Trade and Transition
Author: Alasdair MacBean
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135304505

Export promotion covers various fiscal, commercial and exchange rate measures that governments can take to ensure some neutrality when comparing domestic and export markets. These essays discuss export promotion and its pros and cons.