Pricing, Cost Recovery, and Production Efficiency in Transport

Pricing, Cost Recovery, and Production Efficiency in Transport
Author: Rachel E. Kranton
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 51
Release: 1990
Genre: Costos de transporte
ISBN:

Public sector pricing policies may undermine incentives to reduce costs. Therefore measures to promote cost reduction should be part of any pricing policy reform designed to increase cost recovery.

MEXAGMKTS

MEXAGMKTS
Author: Gerald T. O'Mara
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1990
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Inefficient Private Renegotiation of Sovereign Debt

Inefficient Private Renegotiation of Sovereign Debt
Author: Kenneth Kletzer
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1990
Genre: Debt relief
ISBN:

Private renegotiation of debt repayments and new loans is inefficient because of the creditors' seniority privileges and lack of commitment and the inadequate information creditors have about debtors' policy choices.

How Redistribution Hurts Productivity in a Socialist Economy (Yugoslavia)

How Redistribution Hurts Productivity in a Socialist Economy (Yugoslavia)
Author: Milan Vodopivec
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1990
Genre: Central planning
ISBN:

In socialist economies, profitable firms are taxed to subsidize unprofitable ones, and productive workers subsidize unproductive workers. Yugoslav firms, Vodopivec concludes, produce less because of both types of redistribution.