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A Note on Measuring Educational Returns in LDCs
(1977-02)
The standard internal rate of return methodology is modified to account for high failure rates and educational screening common in many LDCs. When the modified procedure is applied to the Ivory Coast, estimated educational ...
The Economics of Prestation Systems: A Consumer Analysis of Extended Family Obligations with Application to Zaire
(1976-08)
For the great majority of urban Africans, consumption and savings decisions take place within constraints imposed by prestation systems. Prestation payments, often referred to as extended family obligations, were estimated ...
The Role of Monetary Institutions : Comment
(1973)
Comments on a paper written by John M. Letiche.
Estimation of Standard Errors of the Characteristic Roots of Dynamic Econometric Models
(The Econometric Society, 1973-01)
Perspectives on the Accuracy of Macro-Econometric Forecasting Models
(1978-10-26)
Times of economic crisis have always (since Joseph in Egypt) generated considerable - though often transient - interest in the potential value of business cycle theories (metaphysical and otherwise) as guides to the short-run ...
Budget, Economic Policy, and Economic Performance in Underdeveloped Countries
(1971)
This paper tries to combine political and economic matters. It examines first the political and historical limitations which any government faces; it then examines the function of the State in a market-type economy; it ...
Efficiency Differentials in Peasant Agriculture and Their Implications for Development Policies
(1976-06)
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical work on allocative efficiency in traditional agriculture and presents a new study of technical efficiency among Tanzanian cotton farmers. The theoretical arguments are shown ...
The Control of Annual Plans: The Experience of Tunisia
(1971)
Tunisia has been preparing annual economic plans since 1966. Monthly data began to be collected in 1968 in order to assess whether things are moving as foreseen in the annual plan. Three examples of monthly data are ...
Racial prejudice in a search model of the urban housing market
(Elsevier, 1978-07)
A simple model of buyer search in an urban housing market is employed to demonstrate that if some whites are unwilling to sell housing to blacks competitive equilibria in which blacks pay more for housing than whites are ...