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Venture capital may play an important role in supporting entrepreneurial development and small business growth. But institutional arrangements and instruments must be carefully chosen, taking into account the lessons from countries where venture capital has been a reality now for a few years. The Bank's role should be largely to disseminate these lessons.
Korea's ability to keep the economy from going off the rails has been as remarkable as its achievement of high long- run growth rates. The key to the success of Korea's labor policy - state guidelines limited the wage increases under structural adjustment - was the high rate of total factor productivity growth.
This paper provides an overview of the existing state of fiscal federalism in Brazil and suggests directions for change.
The macroeconomic consequences of adopting different price rules for adjusting controlled prices in systems where controlled and market prices coexist and the implications of varying the proportions of controlled and market prices.
IFC Discusssion Paper No. 24. Investors' interest in emerging markets has grown significantly in recent years because of potential high returns and the benefits of diversification. Despite this increased activity, there remains little information o
IFC Discussion Paper No. 38.QUOTEIt is now universally acknowledged that ownership matters; that private ownership in and of itself is a major determinant of good performance in firms... Decent economic policy and well-functioning legal and administrative institutions... matter greatly as well.QUOTEThis paper looks at what happens when the shift to private ownership gets far out in front of the effort to build the institutional underpinnings of a capitalist economy. The emphasis is on what went wrong and why and what, if anything, can be done to be correct it. Proposals include renationalization and/or postponement of further privatization, both to be accompanied by measures to strengthen th...