Documents & Reports
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The importance of local capital markets for financing development (English)
Rudimentary markets for capital - for raising money and investing - exist in even the remotest places around the world. However, prudent macroeconomic management, regulation, investor protection, and innovation...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 112692 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Narayanaswamy,Meera,Blitzer,Charles R.,Carvajal,Ana Fiorella
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How restricting carbon dioxide and methane emissions would affect the Indian economy (English)
India and China contain about 40 percent of the earth's people. They are at an early stage of economic development, and their increasingly massive energy requirements will depend heavily on coal, a potent...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS978 Document Date: September 30, 1992 Author: Blitzer,Charles R.,Eckaus, R.S.,Lahiri, Supriya,Meeraus,Alexander
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Growth and welfare losses from carbon emissions restrictions : a general equilibrium analysis for Egypt (English)
The authors assess the economic effects in Egypt, under various conditions, of restricting carbon dioxide emissions. They use their model to assess the sensitivity of these effects to alternative specifications:...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS963 Document Date: August 31, 1992 Author: Blitzer,Charles R.,Eckaus, R.S.,Lahiri, Supriya,Meeraus,Alexander
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A dynamic simulation model of the world jute economy (English)
Jute and jute products have been steadily losing markets to synthetic substitutes since the 1960s. One of the causes of this loss in market shares has traditionally been identified in the supply instability...
Document Type: Staff Working Paper Report No.: SWP391 Document Date: May 31, 1980 Author: Anderson, J.,Blitzer,Charles R.,Cauchois, T.
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Development and income distribution in a dual economy : a dynamic simulation model for Zambia (English)
This paper discusses medium-term development prospects for Zambia. The analysis is carried out in terms of a modified dual economy model, suitably modified to capture a number of key aspects of the Zambian...
Document Type: Staff Working Paper Report No.: SWP292 Document Date: August 31, 1978 Author: Blitzer,Charles R.
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Applications of control theory to a Leontief - type planning model (English)
Dynamic multisector models are a familiar tool of the development planner. This paper discusses application of control theory to dynamic planning models. Optimal control theory offers itself as a possible...
Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: DRD1 Document Date: May 31, 1973 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blitzer,Charles R.,Kim,David J.H.