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No. 316 | 09 Apr 2013 | The Politics of Transport Infrastructure Policies in Colombia
This paper analyses the Policy-Making Process (PMP) of transport infrastructure projects in Colombia for the period 2002-10. It aims to identify the main bottlenecks to improve the implementation of public policies in the main phases of the transport... | |||
No. 152 | 01 Sept 1999 | The Politics and Economics of Transition to an Open Market Economy in Viet Nam
Reform in Viet Nam is a protracted process. Beginning in 1979, it experienced both advances and reversals until 1986, a sudden acceleration in 1989-91, then gradualism hampered by a deepening entrenchment of interests in positions both for and... | |||
No. 322 | 28 May 2014 | The Political Economy of Tax Incentives for Investment in the Dominican Republic
Tax incentives can be a useful tool to stimulate investment in developing countries. However, in these countries interest groups often are able to exert considerable influence in its management, if not its design. From a power-based approach to the... | |||
No. 59 | 01 Apr 1992 | The Political Economy of Stabilization Programmes in Developing Countries
This report investigates the endogenous effects of the implementation of stabilization programmes (credits and different variants of conditionalities) in developing countries. A model is outlined, which at the same time builds on Modern Political... | |||
No. 216 | 01 Nov 2003 | The Political Economy of Regulatory Reform
WTO membership and closer integration with the European Union in the context of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership are reinforcing pressures on MEDA countries to improve their competitive position. Privatisation, regulatory reform, and the creation... | |||
No. 97 | 01 Aug 1994 | The OECD Green Model
This paper presents a brief introduction to the OECD GREEN Model. The GREEN model has been developed by the OECD Secretariat in order to assess the economic impact of abating CO2 emissions using several different economic instruments. The paper is... | |||
No. 296 | 01 Feb 2011 | The Macroeconomic Effects of Large Exchange Rate Appreciations
In this paper we study the macroeconomic effects of large exchange rate appreciations. In a sample of 128 countries since 1960, we identify 25 episodes of large nominal and real appreciations shocks and study their macroeconomic effects in a... | |||
No. 270 | 01 Aug 2008 | The Macro Management of Commodity Booms
Strong growth in China and India has led to improvements in raw-material exporting countries' terms of trade and attracted complementary finance. The long-term challenge for these countries, where institutions are often fragile, is to avoid the... | |||
No. 26 | 01 Oct 1990 | The Legal Protection of Software
The issue of the nature and extent of legal protection of software arises in the context of a global software industry in which: a) suppliers and users are both heavily concentrated in the OECD countries; b) US firms dominate the global market,... | |||
No. 30 | 01 Oct 1990 | The Indian Electronics Industry
Prior to the 1980s, India's electronics industry was heavily protected. The industry used inefficient production methods to produce obsolete products of low quality at high cost. Since 1983, various attempts were made to "liberalize" the industry.... | |||
No. 234 | 01 May 2004 | The Impact of Social Institutions on the Economic Role of Women in Developing Countries
Donor agencies and policy makers tend to agree that increased access of women to education, health, credit, formal legal rights and employment opportunities, in conjunction with economic growth, will substantially improve the socio-economic role of... | |||
No. 298 | 01 May 2011 | The Impact of Migration Policies on Rural Household Welfare in Mexico and Nicaragua
This working paper presents findings from an effort to evaluate the impacts of immigration policies on the welfare of migrants and their families in migrant-sending countries. It uses a disaggregated micro economy-wide modelling approach, designed to... | |||
No. 77 | 01 Sept 1992 | The Impact of Laws and Regulations on Micro and Small Enterprises in Niger and Swaziland
This Technical Paper presents the results of research on the impact of taxation and other regulations on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in two countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The fiscal and other regulations of the countries studied — Niger and... | |||
No. 217 | 01 Nov 2003 | The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality
This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school construction... | |||
No. 68 | 01 Jun 1992 | The Impact of Economic Reform on the Performance of the Seed Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa
During the last decade, the seed sector has been included in economic reform programmes in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa but it is not clear whether these initiatives have helped or hindered the process of improving small farmers'... | |||
No. 3 | 01 Jun 1989 | The Impact of Budget Retrenchment on Income Distribution in Indonesia (including Statistical Annex)
This document sets out a new method for assessing the implications of public expenditure cuts for income distribution. The instrument is a social accounting matrix providing the appropriate conceptual framework for estimating all the direct and... | |||
No. 166 | 01 Oct 2000 | The HIPC Initiative
The paper develops the view that the perspective on the HIPC initiative is distorted by the fact that -contrary to the Brady deal itself- it lacks all perspective on the “market value” of the debt which is written down. The appropriate “market value”... | |||
No. 45 | 01 Oct 1991 | The External Financing of Thailand's Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
This study has three basic objectives. First, it estimates the subsidy rates for the officially supported external financing received by the Thai public sector. Second, it attempts to provide some analysis of the impact of this concessional funding... | |||
No. 37 | 01 Jul 1991 | The External Financing of Indonesia's Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
Foreign borrowing as a source of additional savings can be valuable to a nation whose supply of long-term investment funds is scarce, relative to the amount of its productive investment opportunities. Indonesia is an example of such a country. It has... | |||
No. 46 | 01 Oct 1991 | The External Financing of Brazilian Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
On average, the role of export-credit operations (ECOs) in the Brazilian economy has been modest: during the 1985-89 period they involved only 2.57 per cent of total Brazilian imports, highly concentrated in "equipment" (excluding transport, but... |
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The Politics of Transport Infrastructure Policies in Colombia
Sebastián Nieto-Parra, Mauricio Olivera and Anamaría Tibocha
09 Apr 2013
This paper analyses the Policy-Making Process (PMP) of transport infrastructure projects in Colombia for the period 2002-10. It aims to identify the main bottlenecks to improve the implementation of public policies in the main phases of the transport...
The Politics and Economics of Transition to an Open Market Economy in Viet Nam
James Riedel and William S. Turley
01 Sept 1999
Reform in Viet Nam is a protracted process. Beginning in 1979, it experienced both advances and reversals until 1986, a sudden acceleration in 1989-91, then gradualism hampered by a deepening entrenchment of interests in positions both for and...
The Political Economy of Tax Incentives for Investment in the Dominican Republic
Christian Daude, Hamlet Gutiérrez and Ángel Melguizo
28 May 2014
Tax incentives can be a useful tool to stimulate investment in developing countries. However, in these countries interest groups often are able to exert considerable influence in its management, if not its design. From a power-based approach to the...
The Political Economy of Stabilization Programmes in Developing Countries
Bruno S Frey and Reiner Eichenberger
01 Apr 1992
This report investigates the endogenous effects of the implementation of stabilization programmes (credits and different variants of conditionalities) in developing countries. A model is outlined, which at the same time builds on Modern Political...
The Political Economy of Regulatory Reform
Andrea Goldstein
01 Nov 2003
WTO membership and closer integration with the European Union in the context of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership are reinforcing pressures on MEDA countries to improve their competitive position. Privatisation, regulatory reform, and the creation...
The OECD Green Model
Hiro Lee, Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
01 Aug 1994
This paper presents a brief introduction to the OECD GREEN Model. The GREEN model has been developed by the OECD Secretariat in order to assess the economic impact of abating CO2 emissions using several different economic instruments. The paper is...
The Macroeconomic Effects of Large Exchange Rate Appreciations
Marcus Kappler, Helmut Reisen, Moritz Schularick and Edouard Turkisch
01 Feb 2011
In this paper we study the macroeconomic effects of large exchange rate appreciations. In a sample of 128 countries since 1960, we identify 25 episodes of large nominal and real appreciations shocks and study their macroeconomic effects in a...
The Macro Management of Commodity Booms
Rolando Avendaño, Helmut Reisen and Javier Santiso
01 Aug 2008
Strong growth in China and India has led to improvements in raw-material exporting countries' terms of trade and attracted complementary finance. The long-term challenge for these countries, where institutions are often fragile, is to avoid the...
The Legal Protection of Software
Carlos Maria Correa
01 Oct 1990
The issue of the nature and extent of legal protection of software arises in the context of a global software industry in which: a) suppliers and users are both heavily concentrated in the OECD countries; b) US firms dominate the global market,...
The Indian Electronics Industry
Ghayur Alam
01 Oct 1990
Prior to the 1980s, India's electronics industry was heavily protected. The industry used inefficient production methods to produce obsolete products of low quality at high cost. Since 1983, various attempts were made to "liberalize" the industry....
The Impact of Social Institutions on the Economic Role of Women in Developing Countries
Christian Morrisson and Johannes Jütting
01 May 2004
Donor agencies and policy makers tend to agree that increased access of women to education, health, credit, formal legal rights and employment opportunities, in conjunction with economic growth, will substantially improve the socio-economic role of...
The Impact of Migration Policies on Rural Household Welfare in Mexico and Nicaragua
J. Edward Taylor and Mateusz Filipski
01 May 2011
This working paper presents findings from an effort to evaluate the impacts of immigration policies on the welfare of migrants and their families in migrant-sending countries. It uses a disaggregated micro economy-wide modelling approach, designed to...
The Impact of Laws and Regulations on Micro and Small Enterprises in Niger and Swaziland
Isabelle Joumard, Carl Liedholm and Donald Mead
01 Sept 1992
This Technical Paper presents the results of research on the impact of taxation and other regulations on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in two countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The fiscal and other regulations of the countries studied — Niger and...
The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality
Lucia Breierova and Esther Duflo
01 Nov 2003
This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school construction...
The Impact of Economic Reform on the Performance of the Seed Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa
Elizabeth Cromwell
01 Jun 1992
During the last decade, the seed sector has been included in economic reform programmes in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa but it is not clear whether these initiatives have helped or hindered the process of improving small farmers'...
The Impact of Budget Retrenchment on Income Distribution in Indonesia (including Statistical Annex)
Steven Keuning and Erik Thorbecke
01 Jun 1989
This document sets out a new method for assessing the implications of public expenditure cuts for income distribution. The instrument is a social accounting matrix providing the appropriate conceptual framework for estimating all the direct and...
The HIPC Initiative
Daniel Cohen
01 Oct 2000
The paper develops the view that the perspective on the HIPC initiative is distorted by the fact that -contrary to the Brady deal itself- it lacks all perspective on the “market value” of the debt which is written down. The appropriate “market value”...
The External Financing of Thailand's Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
Supote Chunanunthathum
01 Oct 1991
This study has three basic objectives. First, it estimates the subsidy rates for the officially supported external financing received by the Thai public sector. Second, it attempts to provide some analysis of the impact of this concessional funding...
The External Financing of Indonesia's Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
Glenn P. Jenkins and Henry B. F. Lim
01 Jul 1991
Foreign borrowing as a source of additional savings can be valuable to a nation whose supply of long-term investment funds is scarce, relative to the amount of its productive investment opportunities. Indonesia is an example of such a country. It has...
The External Financing of Brazilian Imports (Special Series on Mixed Credits, in Collaboration with ICEPS)
Enrico Colombatto, Elisa Luciano, Luca Gargiulo, Pietro Garibaldi and Giuseppe Russo
01 Oct 1991
On average, the role of export-credit operations (ECOs) in the Brazilian economy has been modest: during the 1985-89 period they involved only 2.57 per cent of total Brazilian imports, highly concentrated in "equipment" (excluding transport, but...