This study of consultative mechanisms (CMs) in Ghana is motivated by the increasing use of these bodies in the work of the work of the World Bank Group on private sector development (PSD). The Bank is...
This report analyzes the procedural and organizational dynamics that enabled Mexico's economic solidarity pact and subsequent agreements to help control inflation and initiate significant restructuring...
The objective of the comparative study is to determine how and when Consultative mechanisms (CMs) can be useful adjuncts to economic reform efforts. With regard to this study, on one hand, the authors...
Over the past twenty years, scores of countries in all regions and economic circumstances have experimented with or embraced policies of privatization, deregulation, and market liberalization. Although...
In recent years antidumping policy has become a major trade policy instrument in industrial countries, and increasingly in developing countries as well. Even though tariffs, quotas and voluntary export...
This report tabulates results from a cross-country survey of telecommunications regulatory structures carried out in late 1994. The survey characterizes the regulatory schemes that are currently in place...
This paper examines the role of bankruptcy policies in market economies. Two somewhat different perspectives on the proper role of bankruptcy are presented. The first emphasizes the role of bankruptcy...
The rail industry has been one of the most extensively regulated sectors in the economy. Price, entry, exit, financial structure, accounting methods, vertical relations, and operating rules have all been...
Land markets in developing and industrializing countries are subject to regulatory constraints that significantly affect the operation of the market and equilibrium prices and sales, contribute to reduced...
Labor regulations can change the price of labor (by imposing minimum wages or subsidized employment schemes), its quantity (by prohibiting child labor or setting restrictions on cross-country worker mobility)...
The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between governance capacity and the success or failure of the fiscal reform pursued in Pakistan in recent years. Some measures of governance capacity...
Throughout the 1980s, the Mubarak administration postponed any initiative of economic reform, while Egypt, like many other developing countries, struggled with the chronic economic ills of severe budget...
Increasingly, the market rather than the plan guides production in China. But how the market guides production, how information is obtained, and how it translates into market production remains conundrums...
Brazil has a history of protracted, uneven, and insufficient economic reform efforts. In the 1980s, governance also deteriorated, leaving the state substantially depleted of control over the instruments...
The role of small scale industries in providing productive employment and earning opportunities has emerged as an important concern among policy makers, donor agencies and researchers. Such policy interest...
This paper examines the political and institutional determinants of the early success and later derailment of economic reforms following the structural adjustment program put in place by the Venezuelan...
Bolivia was one of the early adjusters of the 1980s, and the success of its stabilization program of August 1985 in stopping hyperinflation has received considerable attention. The program went beyond...
Starting in 1980, Turkey embarked on an ambitious program of stabilization and structural adjustment. The speed with which macroeconomic stability was established and the rapid response of the private...
The structural adjustment program in Ghana has been one of the most enduring programs in Africa, and it has been viewed as the model of success. Within a decade Ghana has succeeded in dismantling and eliminating...
For much of the 38 years since it gained independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Malaysia was regarded as a moderately successful, middle-income, commodity-producing, and net oil-exporting developing...