This report, prepared together with the International Cotton Advisory Committee, contributes to the discussion of cotton price formation following the abolishment of the state order system. Uzbekistan...
The records of the World Bank Group maintain and communicate the Bank’s institutional memory through their evidential and informational qualities. These records, in the form of correspondence, research...
The Upper Secondary Education Project for Columbia received moderately satisfactory outcome rating with modest risk to development outcome. The Bank’s performance was rated moderately unsatisfactory while...
The cost of the subsidy system in Morocco peaked at 6.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, an amount larger than the country's total investment budget for that year. Direct subsidies to households...
Subsidies typically reduce welfare by creating market distortions and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) losses. A classic example are fuel subsidies and low 'social' tariffs in developing countries which are...
Health care costs are escalating rapidly in many countries. While many factors contribute to rising costs, health insurance plays a part by shielding patients and physicians from the real cost. In an effort...
Direct subsidies are an increasingly popular means of making infrastructure services more affordable to the poor. Under the direct subsidy approach, governments pay part of the water bill of poor households...
Privatization of state-owned assets was a central economic reform of the 1980s and 1990s. Lack of data has made it impossible to judge the extent to which privatization has diminished the importance of...
The Coal Sector Adjustment Loan (Coal SECAL) will provide a significant portion of Ukraine's balance of payments and budget deficit financing needs in late 1996 and in 1997, including part of the fiscal...
From 1970 to 1990, the Tunisian government universally subsidized the consumption of basic food-stuffs and a variety of other items. After this period, it launched a series of reforms designed to introduce...
This volume contains two comments on Jefferson and Rawski's "How Industrial Reform Worked in China: the Role of Innovation, Competition, and Property Rights," followed by a floor discussion summary. The...