Government wage policy in Africa: some findings and policy issues. Export-promoting trade strategy: issues and evidence. the state and the invisible hand. Technological priorities for farming in Sub-Saharan...
This article documents recent trends in government wage and employment levels for a number of African countries and challenges the conventional wisdom that public wages are too high in Africa. Although...
In order to understand how Thailand achieved the observed outcomes of growth and distribution the authors must examine the social and political forces which lie behind Thailand's political economy and...
The objective of this paper is to relate children's school enrollment and level of educational attainment to their household socioeconomic characteristics and the availability of schools. For primary school...
This paper examines the role of the private sector and the potential for recovering costs in the public sector in the provision of education and health services in Indonesia, with particular attention...
The paper examines household members' labor inputs into different income-earning activities and the contributions of household members in different age-sex categories in terms of hours worked and household...
This paper presents some preliminary findings and views on wage and price policy issues facing the Prices and Incomes Commission (PIC). Following indications by the Chairman of the PIC that he would welcome...
This paper examines the role of the private sector and the potential for recovering costs in the public sector in the provision of education and health services in Indonesia, with particular attention...
This paper examines the role of the private sector and the potential for recovering costs in the public sector in the provision of education and health services in Indonesia, with particular attention...
The paper distinguishes between two types of uses of income distribution data and argues that they require different treatments of demographic factors. In a descriptive, static analysis, these factors...
The study concludes that the growth of the national product has been accompanied by a very rapid increase in the incomes of both urban and rural households. After properly taking into account the changes...