Reforming and Privatizing Hungary's Road Haulage

Reforming and Privatizing Hungary's Road Haulage
Author: Esra Bennathan
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 41
Release: 1991
Genre: Privatization
ISBN:

Options for restructuring the Volàn group -- the current provider of Hungary's public passenger and freight transport services and the largest enterprise in Hungary's road transport industry.

Reforming and Privatizing Hungary's Road Haulage

Reforming and Privatizing Hungary's Road Haulage
Author: Esra Bennathan
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1991
Genre: Privatization
ISBN:

Options for restructuring the Volàn group -- the current provider of Hungary's public passenger and freight transport services and the largest enterprise in Hungary's road transport industry.

Economic Stagnation, Fixed Factors, and Policy Thresholds

Economic Stagnation, Fixed Factors, and Policy Thresholds
Author: William Russell Easterly
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1991
Genre: Economic development
ISBN:

Economic policies, not initial conditions, determine whether countries stagnate. The black market premium on foreign exchange is an important factor in stagnation.

Poverty and Income Distribution During Adjustment

Poverty and Income Distribution During Adjustment
Author: François Bourguignon
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 59
Release: 1991
Genre: Cost and standard of living
ISBN:

Adjustment programs will fail when they do not recognize the interdependence of the three criteria of efficiency, welfare, and political feasibility. These programs must be tailored to both the political and economic environments of each country.

The New Trade Protection

The New Trade Protection
Author: Ann E. Harrison
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1991
Genre: Antidumping duties
ISBN:

For some sectors the effect on import prices of investigating antidumping cases and countervailing measures is as great as imposing a duty. And investigations that end in duties have different effects than those resulting in no action.