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Costs and benefits of agricultural price stabilization in Brazil
Braverman, Avishay; Kanbur, Ravi; Brandao, Antonio … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990
In recent years, agricultural price stabilization policies have been recommended in Brazil as a way to reduce government intervention and open the sector for international trade without internalizing the instability of world prices. The proposal discussed (and eventually implemented in 1987) was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133452
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Welfare economics, political economy, and policy reform in Ghana
Kanbur, Ravi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1994
Welfare economics develops the logic of how the gains of the gainers and the losses of the losers should be weighed against each other, in a specific ethical framework. Political economy develops the logic of how they will be weighed against each other, in the context of sociopolitical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129057
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A new regional price index for Cote d'Ivoire using data from the international comparisons project
Grootaert, Christiaan; Kanbur, Ravi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993
The authors report on an exercise in economic statistics. They develop a regional price index for Cote d'Ivoire building on the strengths of two independent data sources: the Cote d'Ivoire Living Standards Survey (CILSS) and the International Comparisons Project (ICP). The CILSS collected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133419
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Tax competition and tax coordination : when countries differ in size
Kanbur, Ravi; Keen, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991
The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that isrich enough to capture some of the central features of the interaction between national tax systems in an integrated world but simple enough to yield sharp insights into some of the central questions which that interaction raises. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079852
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Analytical aspects of the debt problems of heavily indebted poor countries
Claessens, Stijn; Detragiache, Enrica; Kanbur, Ravi; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996
A group of heavily indebted low-income countries (HIPCs), most in Sub-Saharan Africa, has continued to experience external debt problems. Because the HIPCs'economic characteristics and external imbalances are very different from those of middle-income countries, the analysis of debt problems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079936
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The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't - an African case study
Grootaert, Christiaan; Kanbur, Ravi; Oh, Gi-Taik - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995
Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend to focus on the incidence of poverty at a particular point in time. If the incidence of poverty increases, however, there is no information about how many new poor have joined the existing poor and how many people have escaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106891
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Labor markets in an era of adjustment : an overview
Horton, Susan; Kanbur, Ravi; Mazumdar, Dipak - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991
The authors have written an overview of 19 papers in a symposium devoted to an examination of the interaction between labor markets and adjustment. The purpose of their commentary is to draw general conclusions and policy lessons and to identify areas for further research. The papers include 7...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115897
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The links between economic policy and research : three examples from Ghana and some general thoughts
Kanbur, Ravi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993
The author gives examples of research recently published in professional journals that directly helped, or could help, in formulating policy advice (and perhaps even policymaking). An article by Younger (1992) was helpful in analyzing a problem in Ghana, where aid flows to government crowded out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989768
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Children and intra-household inequality : a theoretical analysis
Kanbur, Ravi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991
-household inequality first increases then decreases. The behavior of intra-household inequality as household welfare improves is clearly … relationship between intra-household inequality and total household resources for models of intra-household allocation that lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128795
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Are better off households more unequal or less unequal ?
Haddad, Lawrence; Kanbur, Ravi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1990
intrahousehold inequality increase or decrease? It finds that under certain conditions intrahousehold inequality first increases and … then decreases. The debate on intrahousehold inequality is entwined with policy questions about the efficacy of targeting … adjustment on intra-household inequality. When cash crops are predominantly under male control and food crops are primarily a …
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