Alan Gelb
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 300040 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Gelb |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Gelb |
| ASSINATURA | GELB A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | World Bank |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Biometric Elections in Poor Countries
Elections have emerged as a leading area for the application of biometric technology in developing countries, despite its high costs and uncertainty over its effectiveness. Why then do countries pursue such programs, often with the support of donors? The paper considers the costs and benefits of technology, where the latter involves its potential to reduce the probability of seriously disputed elections that escalate into violence. Based on the l…
Identification Revolution
The Role of Identification in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The role of identity and identification \nand its importance to development outcomes places it within the new Sustainable Development \nGoals (SDG) agenda—specifically as one of the proposed SDG targets (#16.9), but also as a key enabler \nof the efficacy of many other SDG targets. Although there is no one model for providing legal \nidentity, this SDG would urge states to ensure that …
Cash at Your Fingertips
In recent years, interest has soared in the development potential of well-designed cash transfer programs. One particular application is the use of transfers by resource-rich countries (as recently initiated by Iran) to distribute rents across their populations. An emerging body of research suggests that the development impact of such programs tends to be positive and that, especially when received by poor individuals or households, they can unlo…
Déjouer la malédiction pétrolière
Les pays exportateurs de pétrole sont confrontés à deux problèmes principaux pour mobiliser leurs ressources pétrolières en faveur du développement. Le premier est la variabilité très forte de leurs recettes d’exportation. Le second tient aux dysfonctionnements des relations entre compagnies productrices, gouvernement et citoyens (présents et à venir) des pays producteurs. En dépit du fait que les citoyens sont théoriquement « propriétaires » des…
Introduction
The Cost of Doing Business in Africa
Reforming Aid
Political Economy of Resource-Abundant States
This chapter examines the relationship between political economy and natural resource endowment using an extension of Lal’s (1995) typology of political states. The extended typology explains why the governments of resource-abundant countries are less likely to align their interests with those of the majority than the governments of resource-deficient countries. Natural resource rents feed conflicts so that the resource-abundant country has a fac…
Can Africa Claim the 21st Century
"Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? is a product of the growing collaboration among some of the main institutions involved in African development: the African Development Bank, African Economic Research Consortium, Global Coalition for Africa, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and World Bank. More than 50 scholars, policymakers, and development practitioners - predominantly African - appraised the regions' development at the start of…
The challenge of globalisation for Africa
Macropolicies in Transition to a Market Economy
Addendum
Journal Article Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth Get access A. Gelb, A. Gelb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 412, 1 May 1992, Page 633, …
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth
Journal Article Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth Get access A. Gelb, A. Gelb The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot International Food Policy Research Institute and Williams College Search fo…
The Process of Socialist Economic Transformation
In this paper, we consider the reform process in those Central and East European countries that have made the decision to move from a more-or a less-planned socialist system to a private market economy, one in which private ownership predominates and most resources are allocated through markets. Because the reform process is both complex and intertwined with political factors-especially the shift towards representative democracy-and because there…
Oil windfalls in a controlled economy
Oil windfalls in a small parliamentary democracy
From Boom to Bust - Oil Exporting Countries over the Cycle 1970-84
In theory oil windfalls represent Ricardian rent, to be allocated ‘optimally’ over time and across uses. In practice, historical and political determinants of their use are powerful, and oil incomes have also been very uncertain. This article estimates windfall gains accruing to six developing oil exporters, their use, and the disappointing consequences for the economies of producing countries. It also accounts for the failure of massive oil-fund…
Worker Capitalism
Worker Capitalism
Worker + Capitalism = The New Industrial Relations
Worker Capitalism makes the case for a pragmatic, government-assisted program of worker and worker-community ownership of businesses as a means of economic redevelopment, particularly in older industrial countries. Worker ownership, the authors contend, is a potentially superior alternative to industrial policies such as subsidies or protection. They seek to isolate the factors necessary for successful employee ownership and develop a general tak…
The Radical Potential of Cash Nexus Breaks
The Political Economy of ‘Radical’ Policy
Within six months of taking office in February 1974 Labour had funded three worker co-operatives: Meriden, Kirkby Manufacturing and the Scottish Daily News (SDN). All three ventures were the subject of considerable economic and political controversy. The Conservatives attacked them as ‘wasteful projects’ which would only encourage ‘creeping militancy’; theDaily Telegraphreferred to them as a ‘diet of sub-Trotskyism’. Michael Heseltine, Conservati…
The Economics of Futures Trading
Journal Article GOSS (B. A.) and YAMEY (B. S.), (Eds.). The Economics of Futures Trading Get access The Economics of Futures Trading. Edited by B. A. Goss and B. S. Yamey. (London: Macmillan Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 236. £10.00.) Alan Gelb Alan Gelb University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 346, 1 June 1977, Pages 374–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232116 Publ…
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth
Journal Article Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth Get access A. Gelb, A. Gelb The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot International Food Policy Research Institute and Williams College Search fo…
The Process of Socialist Economic Transformation
In this paper, we consider the reform process in those Central and East European countries that have made the decision to move from a more-or a less-planned socialist system to a private market economy, one in which private ownership predominates and most resources are allocated through markets. Because the reform process is both complex and intertwined with political factors-especially the shift towards representative democracy-and because there…
Oil windfalls in a small parliamentary democracy
Cash at Your Fingertips
In recent years, interest has soared in the development potential of well-designed cash transfer programs. One particular application is the use of transfers by resource-rich countries (as recently initiated by Iran) to distribute rents across their populations. An emerging body of research suggests that the development impact of such programs tends to be positive and that, especially when received by poor individuals or households, they can unlo…
The Political Economy of ‘Radical’ Policy
Within six months of taking office in February 1974 Labour had funded three worker co-operatives: Meriden, Kirkby Manufacturing and the Scottish Daily News (SDN). All three ventures were the subject of considerable economic and political controversy. The Conservatives attacked them as ‘wasteful projects’ which would only encourage ‘creeping militancy’; theDaily Telegraphreferred to them as a ‘diet of sub-Trotskyism’. Michael Heseltine, Conservati…
Biometric Elections in Poor Countries
Elections have emerged as a leading area for the application of biometric technology in developing countries, despite its high costs and uncertainty over its effectiveness. Why then do countries pursue such programs, often with the support of donors? The paper considers the costs and benefits of technology, where the latter involves its potential to reduce the probability of seriously disputed elections that escalate into violence. Based on the l…
The Cost of Doing Business in Africa
Reforming Aid
The Economics of Futures Trading
Journal Article GOSS (B. A.) and YAMEY (B. S.), (Eds.). The Economics of Futures Trading Get access The Economics of Futures Trading. Edited by B. A. Goss and B. S. Yamey. (London: Macmillan Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 236. £10.00.) Alan Gelb Alan Gelb University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 346, 1 June 1977, Pages 374–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232116 Publ…
Introduction
Oil windfalls in a controlled economy
The Radical Potential of Cash Nexus Breaks
The Economics of Futures Trading
Journal Article GOSS (B. A.) and YAMEY (B. S.), (Eds.). The Economics of Futures Trading Get access The Economics of Futures Trading. Edited by B. A. Goss and B. S. Yamey. (London: Macmillan Press, 1976. Pp. viii + 236. £10.00.) Alan Gelb Alan Gelb University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 346, 1 June 1977, Pages 374–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232116 Publ…
The Political Economy of ‘Radical’ Policy
Within six months of taking office in February 1974 Labour had funded three worker co-operatives: Meriden, Kirkby Manufacturing and the Scottish Daily News (SDN). All three ventures were the subject of considerable economic and political controversy. The Conservatives attacked them as ‘wasteful projects’ which would only encourage ‘creeping militancy’; theDaily Telegraphreferred to them as a ‘diet of sub-Trotskyism’. Michael Heseltine, Conservati…
The Radical Potential of Cash Nexus Breaks
Worker + Capitalism = The New Industrial Relations
Worker Capitalism makes the case for a pragmatic, government-assisted program of worker and worker-community ownership of businesses as a means of economic redevelopment, particularly in older industrial countries. Worker ownership, the authors contend, is a potentially superior alternative to industrial policies such as subsidies or protection. They seek to isolate the factors necessary for successful employee ownership and develop a general tak…
Worker Capitalism
Worker Capitalism
Oil windfalls in a small parliamentary democracy
From Boom to Bust - Oil Exporting Countries over the Cycle 1970-84
In theory oil windfalls represent Ricardian rent, to be allocated ‘optimally’ over time and across uses. In practice, historical and political determinants of their use are powerful, and oil incomes have also been very uncertain. This article estimates windfall gains accruing to six developing oil exporters, their use, and the disappointing consequences for the economies of producing countries. It also accounts for the failure of massive oil-fund…
Oil windfalls in a controlled economy
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth
Journal Article Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth Get access A. Gelb, A. Gelb The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot International Food Policy Research Institute and Williams College Search fo…
The Process of Socialist Economic Transformation
In this paper, we consider the reform process in those Central and East European countries that have made the decision to move from a more-or a less-planned socialist system to a private market economy, one in which private ownership predominates and most resources are allocated through markets. Because the reform process is both complex and intertwined with political factors-especially the shift towards representative democracy-and because there…
Addendum
Journal Article Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth Get access A. Gelb, A. Gelb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 412, 1 May 1992, Page 633, …
Macropolicies in Transition to a Market Economy
The challenge of globalisation for Africa
Can Africa Claim the 21st Century
"Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? is a product of the growing collaboration among some of the main institutions involved in African development: the African Development Bank, African Economic Research Consortium, Global Coalition for Africa, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and World Bank. More than 50 scholars, policymakers, and development practitioners - predominantly African - appraised the regions' development at the start of…
Political Economy of Resource-Abundant States
This chapter examines the relationship between political economy and natural resource endowment using an extension of Lal’s (1995) typology of political states. The extended typology explains why the governments of resource-abundant countries are less likely to align their interests with those of the majority than the governments of resource-deficient countries. Natural resource rents feed conflicts so that the resource-abundant country has a fac…
Introduction
The Cost of Doing Business in Africa
Reforming Aid
Déjouer la malédiction pétrolière
Les pays exportateurs de pétrole sont confrontés à deux problèmes principaux pour mobiliser leurs ressources pétrolières en faveur du développement. Le premier est la variabilité très forte de leurs recettes d’exportation. Le second tient aux dysfonctionnements des relations entre compagnies productrices, gouvernement et citoyens (présents et à venir) des pays producteurs. En dépit du fait que les citoyens sont théoriquement « propriétaires » des…
Cash at Your Fingertips
In recent years, interest has soared in the development potential of well-designed cash transfer programs. One particular application is the use of transfers by resource-rich countries (as recently initiated by Iran) to distribute rents across their populations. An emerging body of research suggests that the development impact of such programs tends to be positive and that, especially when received by poor individuals or households, they can unlo…
The Role of Identification in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The role of identity and identification \nand its importance to development outcomes places it within the new Sustainable Development \nGoals (SDG) agenda—specifically as one of the proposed SDG targets (#16.9), but also as a key enabler \nof the efficacy of many other SDG targets. Although there is no one model for providing legal \nidentity, this SDG would urge states to ensure that …
Identification Revolution
Biometric Elections in Poor Countries
Elections have emerged as a leading area for the application of biometric technology in developing countries, despite its high costs and uncertainty over its effectiveness. Why then do countries pursue such programs, often with the support of donors? The paper considers the costs and benefits of technology, where the latter involves its potential to reduce the probability of seriously disputed elections that escalate into violence. Based on the l…
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