Managing the Transition
Managing the Transition

Author: Eric Rice

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 51

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The consensus of dozens of Bank and outside experts on issues and measures essential to government reform in six Eastern European economies changing to a market economy - and on how external agencies can best aid the reform process.

Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Health in Africa
Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Health in Africa

Author: François Pathé Diop

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 82

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Has the economic crisis of the 1980s in Sub-Saharan Africa increased mortality or at least reduced its rate of decline? Nationally, no. But the urban poor suffered more, the rural nonpoor less.

African Financing Needs in the 1990s
African Financing Needs in the 1990s

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Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 94

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Africa's external financing problem is much more than a structural imbalance between imports and exports. Debt relief measures will be an important source of financing.

Withholding Taxes and International Bank Credit Terms
Withholding Taxes and International Bank Credit Terms

Author: Harry Huizinga

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 37

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International differences in withholding tax rates on interest payments on international loans are reflected in bank credit terms. As a result of the limits on tax credits for foreign- interest withholding taxes introduced in the 1986 U.S. tax reform, credit terms for developing countries will probably be less favorable.