Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann, Angus Deaton, Paul Duane, Eduardo Engel, Stanley Fischer, ...
Using economic rates of return from World Bank-funded investments, we investigate how country characteristics and policies that influence aggregate performance affect investment productivity....
Anqing Shi, Shantayanan Devarajan, Halsey Rogers, Lyn Squire
Using a city-level database of Global Urban Indicators, this article finds that it is not economic development alone that could lead to a lower child mortality regime. Rather, other aspects of the...
BEYOND RATE OF RETURN: REORIENTING PROJECT APPRAISAL (1997)
Devarajan, Shantayanan, Squire, Lyn, Suthiwart-Narueput, Sethaput
Traditional approaches to project appraisal fail in practice to address two fundamental questions: whether a project belongs in the public or the private sector; and what effect any external...
The Impact of Labor Market Regulations (1997)
Squire, Lyn, Suthiwart-Narueput, Sethaput
This article investigates the impact of labor market regulations in a setting with incomplete compliance. It takes as its starting point the limited evidence regarding the distortionary costs of...
MACROECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT AND POVERTY IN AFRICA: AN EMERGING PICTURE (1996)
The view that macroeconomic adjustment disproportionately hurts the poor in Africa has become commonplace. The popular media and the nongovernmental aid community frequently express this view in...
A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality (1996)
This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile...
A Survey of Agricultural Household Models: Recent Findings and Policy Implications (1986)
Singh, Inderjit, Squire, Lyn, Strauss, John
Semicommercial farms that produce multiple crops make up a large part of the agricultural sector in developing economies. These farms or agricultural households combine two fundamental units of...
An econometric application of the theory of the farm-household (1979)
Barnum, Howard N., Squire, Lyn
Employing a Cobb-Douglas specification for the production function and a modified linear expenditure system, the paper presents an econometric model of household production, consumption and labor...
Análisis económico de proyectos / Lyn Squire y Herman G. van der Tak (1977)
Traducción de: Economio analysis of projects
Some Aspects of Optimal Pricing for Telecommunications
The published work on telecommunications has been primarily concerned with marginal-cost pricing and the peak-load problem: externalities generated by the telephone have been ignored. This article...
Professor Mirrlees' Contribution to Economic Policy
This paper looks at Professor Mirlees' important contribution to the theory and practice of project evaluation. Despite the apparent relevance of this work to practical policy making, the approach...
The impact of labor market regulations
Squire, Lyn, Suthiwart-Narueput, Sethaput
The authors investigate the impact of labor market regulations in settings where compliance is incomplete. They review some stylized facts about labor market behavior, present an analytical model...
Reviving project appraisal at the World Bank
Devarajan, Shantayanan, Squire, Lyn, Suthiwart-Narueput, Sethaput
The authors focus on two broad questions: 1) what is the proper role for project evaluation in today's world, where countries have reduced major economic distortions and are reconsidering the role of...
Equity and growth in developing countries : old and new perspectives on the policy issues
Bruno, Michael, Ravallion, Martin, Squire, Lyn
The"stylized fact"that distribution must get worse with economic growth in poor countries before it can get better turns out not to be a fact at all. Growth's effects on inequality can go either way...
Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality ? - Some empirical evidence
Milanovic, Branko, Squire, Lyn
The objective of the paper is to answer an often asked question: If tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality? The authors consider two types of wage inequality: between...
Does Tariff Liberalization Increase Wage Inequality? Some Empirical Evidence
The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations...
The simultaneous evolution of growth and inequality
Research on inequality and growth can be divided into two strands. One, deriving from Kuznets and Lewis, has tried to identify a mechanistic relationship between growth, or level, of income and...
Explaining International and Intertemporal Variations in Income Inequality.
Li, Hongyi, Squire, Lyn, Zou, Heng-fu
This paper explores the propositions that income inequality is relatively stable within countries and that it varies significantly among countries. A new and expanded data set provides broad support...
Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence
The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations...
Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? Some empirical evidence
The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations...
Aggregate indices like UNDP's Human Development Index (HDI) or the Centre for Global Development and Foreign Policy's Commitment to Development Index (CDI) are subject to multiple criticisms. This...
The Impact of Labor Market Regulations.
Squire, Lyn, Suthiwart-Narueput, Sethaput
This article investigates the impact of labor market regulations in a setting with incomplete compliance. It takes as its starting point the limited evidence regarding the distortionary costs of...
A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality.
This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile...
Beyond Rate of Return: Reorienting Project Appraisal.
Devarajan, Shantayanan, Squire, Lyn, Suthiwart-Narueput, Sethaput
Traditional approaches to project appraisal fail in practice to address two fundamental questions: whether a project belongs in the public or the private sector; and what effect any external...
Adjustment and Poverty Evidence: A Response to Weeks
The paper responds to a comment by John Weeks on an earlier article by the authors. He maintains that the macroeconomic index used in that article was 'invalid for its purpose', and that the survey...