The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea, 1954-66

The Transition to Export-led Growth in South Korea, 1954-66
Author: Stephan Haggard
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1990
Genre: Exportaciones - Corea del sur
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South Korea's transition to export- led growth was a product of the interplay of four factors: pressure from the United States, strong executive power, bureaucratic reform, and a restructuring of the relations between the state and business.

Firms' Responses to Relative Price Changes in Côte D'Ivoire

Firms' Responses to Relative Price Changes in Côte D'Ivoire
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1990
Genre: Côte d'Ivoire
ISBN:

Firms' in Cote d'Ivoire would sell more to the foreign market when it is more profitable to do so. Exports would respond positively to increases in export prices and negatively to increases in import prices.

Anticipated Real Exchange-rate Changes and the Dynamics of Investment

Anticipated Real Exchange-rate Changes and the Dynamics of Investment
Author: Luis Serven
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1990
Genre: Foreign exchange rates
ISBN:

Unanticipated changes in the real exchange rate affect investment through their impact on the desired capital stock, whose direction depends on a number of factors and is in general ambiguous. In contrast, anticipated changes can also have an important effect on the optimal timing of investment, in a direction that depends on the financial openness of the economy and on the important content of capital goods. This issue is explored using a simple macroeconomic model.

The Macroeconomics of Price Reform in Socialist Countries

The Macroeconomics of Price Reform in Socialist Countries
Author: Simon Commander
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1990
Genre: Communist countries
ISBN:

The macroeconomic consequences of adopting different price rules for adjusting controlled prices in systems where controlled and market prices coexist and the implications of varying the proportions of controlled and market prices.

Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Developing Countries

Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Developing Countries
Author: Ajay Chhibber
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1990
Genre: Finance, Public
ISBN:

The key to sustained recovery in developing countries is the revival of private investment. This revival requires a coordinated set of credible policies - fiscal, exchange rate, tax, and public expenditure restructuring. In several countries the debt overhang is also an obstacle to achieving that credibility.