Population, Health, and Nutrition Fy88 Annual Sector Review
| Author | : World Bank. Population and Human Resources Department |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Developing countries |
| ISBN | : |
Population Health And Nutrition Fy88 Annual Sector Review
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School Effects and Costs for Private and Public Schools in the Dominican Republic
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 43 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Academic achievement |
| ISBN | : 0928095029 |
This study suggests that both elite and non-elite private schools are more effective -- and more cost -effective -- than public schools.
The Consistency of Government Deficits with Macroeconomic Adjustment
| Author | : Thanos Catsambas |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Budget deficits |
| ISBN | : |
What Determines the Rate of Growth and Technological Change?
| Author | : Paul Michael Romer |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Economic development |
| ISBN | : |
Policies to encourage more open trading and accumulation of human capital may be as important to growth and technological change as additional foreign lending.
Poverty and Undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s
| Author | : Martin Ravallion |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 59 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Household surveys |
| ISBN | : |
Because of sustained growth in average real consumption, a modest improvement in overall equity, and gains to the rural sector -- particularly the poorest of the poor -- poverty and undernutrition continued to be alleviated during Indonesia's recent period of macroeconomic adjustment.
Is the New Political Economy Relevant to Developing Countries?
| Author | : Ronald Findlay |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 49 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Developing countries |
| ISBN | : |
Can the methods and spirit of the new political economy be used to explain common features of Third World experience -- such features as the extensive growth of government relative to the private sector, the intensity of trade restrictions and the import substitution syndrome, the urban bias of economic policy and resource allocation, and the heavy dependence on foreign capital?
Women's Chaning Participation in the Labor Force
| Author | : T. Paul Schultz |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 53 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Labor supply |
| ISBN | : |
Research has rarely tested the proposition that women have lost more than men when low- income countries introduce minimum wage legislation and certain other labor market regulations that raise the cost of labor to firms compared with families. But such interventions in the labor market may slow women's transition from nonmarket and family work to employment by firms. And that may affect the rate and structure of economic growth.
Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Investment
| Author | : Robert S. Pindyck |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Capital investments |
| ISBN | : |
Irreversible investment is especially sensitive to such risk factors as volatile exchange rates and uncertainty about tariff structures and future cash flows. If the goal of macroeconomic policy is to stimulate investment, stability and credibility may be more important than tax incentives or interest rates.
Efficiency and Equity in Social Spending
| Author | : Nancy Birdsall |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 43 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Desarrollo social |
| ISBN | : |
In most countries it is easy to identify reallocations of public spending for social programs that would improve efficiency and simultaneously improve the distribution of income and better serve the poor. The authors suggest why these reallocations are difficult but not impossible to bring about.
Revised Estimates and Projections of International Migration, 1980-2000
| Author | : Fred Arnold |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
| ISBN | : |
Here are country -by -country recommendations for revising the World Bank's previous estimates and projections of net international migration for the period 1980-2000, for use in the Bank's World development projections. Net migration figures for most major sending and receiving countries should be revised upward.
