This book examines the 35-year career of Vinod Thomas. He spent those 35 years within the World Bank Group in different positions and in different regions. This book is organized in four parts. First...
This chapter deals with the distortions to price incentives for agriculture that result from the trade, exchange rate and domestic policies in place in the four main South Asian countries, by summarizing...
This chapter analyzes the impact on incentives for India's agriculture resulting of price, trade and exchange rate policies, focusing on incentives for agriculture relative to incentives for manufacturing...
This chapter analyzes the impact on incentives for India's agriculture resulting of price, trade and exchange rate policies, focusing on incentives for agriculture relative to incentives for manufacturing...
Local content programs - especially in the auto industry - accompanied many import substitution policies during the 1960s and 1970s, but most were abandoned in countries that liberalized trade in the 1980s...
This volume brings together the main papers presented at a workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal, during April 22-24, 1996. The volume has four sections. The first one comprises overview papers covering global...
It was recognized by many developing countries in the 1980s that integration with the global economy is necessary for economic development and technological progress. Efforts to liberalize trade were controversial...
In an attempt to protect workers from unemployment, governments in some countries subsidize firms which would otherwise fail. This article examines the effects of such subsidies on output, prices, and...
Do African countries pay more for imports? - Yes. Investment incentives: new money, debt relief, and the critical role of conditionality in the debt crisis. Debt relief: implications of secondary market...
The principal purpose of the monograph is to use general equilibrium methodology to explain the logical foundations of shadow prices and the techniques for deriving shadow price expressions. We first discuss...
Korea's remarkable export growth is the envy of much of the developing world. The purpose of this book is to broaden the discussion of Korea's competitive edge by developing the two foregoing themes: the...