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This report examinesthe highly innovative andsuccessful institution,
the Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh, The Bank was established in 1983
for the exclusive purpose of providing credit without collateral to the
rural poor to enable them to generate self-employment. Loan repayment
performance is excellent, which is unusual for rural development
credit programs in low-income countries.
No. 66
Geraldo M. Calegar and G. Edward Schuh
The Brazilian Wheat Policy: Its Costs, Benefits, and
Effects on Food Consumption
May 1988.63 pages. ISBN 0-89629-068-9.
This report identifies and measures the effects of extensive government
interventions in Brazil's wheat sector on welfare, income distribution,
and trade. It addresses the question of whether the separate
wheat policies that subsidize both producers and consumers have
negatively affected the economy and created a drain on the public
budget.
No. 67
Mahabub Hossain
Nature and Impact of the Green Revolution
In Bangladesh
July 1988. 146 pages. ISBN 0-89629-070-0.
This study, using two large household surveys conducted between
1979 and 1982, examines the characteristics of modern seed-fertilizer-water
agricuttural technology as applied particularly to rice production
in Bangladesh, and investigates the effects of that technology
on agricuttural productivity and rural income distribution.
No. 68
Jorge Garcia Garcia and Gabriel Montes Llamas
Coffee Boom, Government Expenditure,
and Agricultural Prices: The Colombian Experience
August 1988. 107 pages. ISBN 0-89629-069-7.
In this report Garcia and Montes trace Colombia's economic decline
in the 1980s to two developments in the 1970s -- the coffee boom,
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