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Incentive Reforms in Developing Country Bureaucracies
Dilip Mookherjee
Издател: The World Bank
What major problems are likely to be encountered in designing and implementing pay-for-performance mechanisms for public bureaucrats? This paper examines this question in the context of tax administration, drawing on both economic theory and recent reform efforts in developing countries. Incentive schemes may or may not increase corruption; more
How Adjustment Programs Can Help the Poor
Издател: The World Bank
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Little is known about the overall impact of adjustment programs on poverty. To a large extend, this is because it is difficult to distinguish the effects of externally induced recession from the effects of the policies and programs designed to offset them.
European Migration: Push and Pull
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Издател: The World Bank
In recent decades Europe has experienced periods of push and pull migration. Whereas pull migration has been seen as economically beneficial, there is concern that push migration will accelerate the employment crisis. This article qualifies this view by arguing that migration may erode institutional constraints. The theoretical framework behind
Russia`s Struggle with Stabilization: Conceptual Issues and Evidence
Jeffrey Sachs
Издател: The World Bank
This volume consists of two comments on Sachs' paper, "Russia's Struggle with Stabilization: Conceptual Issues and Evidence," followed by a summary of the floor discussion on the paper. Both comments analyze the Sachs model and its policy implications, including implications for foreign aid. The first comment discusses two key questions in
Urban Concentration: The Role of Increasing Returns and Transport Costs
Paul Krugman
Издател: The World Bank
Very large urban centers are a conspicuous feature of many developing economies, yet the subject of the size distribution of cities (as opposed to such issues as rural-urban migration) has been neglected by development economists. This article argues that some important insights into urban concentration, especially the tendency of some developing
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