Managing the Transition

Managing the Transition
Author: Eric Rice
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 51
Release: 1991
Genre: Administracion publica - Paises socialistas
ISBN:

The consensus of dozens of Bank and outside experts on issues and measures essential to government reform in six Eastern European economies changing to a market economy - and on how external agencies can best aid the reform process.

How Conflicting Definitions of "manufactures" Distort Output and Trade Statistics

How Conflicting Definitions of
Author: Alexander J. Yeats
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 27
Release: 1991
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN:

Inconsistencies in definitions of "manufactures" used to compile output and trade statistics produce a discrepancy of $60 billion in estimates of developing country exports. Clearly, international organizations must resolve these discrepancies.

Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Health in Africa

Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Health in Africa
Author: François Pathé Diop
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1991
Genre: Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN:

Has the economic crisis of the 1980s in Sub-Saharan Africa increased mortality or at least reduced its rate of decline? Nationally, no. But the urban poor suffered more, the rural nonpoor less.

African Financing Needs in the 1990s

African Financing Needs in the 1990s
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1991
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

Africa's external financing problem is much more than a structural imbalance between imports and exports. Debt relief measures will be an important source of financing.

Withholding Taxes and International Bank Credit Terms

Withholding Taxes and International Bank Credit Terms
Author: Harry Huizinga
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 37
Release: 1991
Genre: Banks and banking
ISBN:

International differences in withholding tax rates on interest payments on international loans are reflected in bank credit terms. As a result of the limits on tax credits for foreign- interest withholding taxes introduced in the 1986 U.S. tax reform, credit terms for developing countries will probably be less favorable.