Economics

Containing the Employment Guarantee Scheme: Reform in the Rural Employment Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme is one of the most effective existing public programs dealing with rural unemployment in a developing country. This case describes the charges of corruption in the scheme, made by political opponents of...

Scaling Down the Bureaucracy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The problem of excessively large public bureaucracies, in relationship to the size of the overall economy, plagues many developing countries. The Pacific Basin nation of Gapura--a disguised composite of similar emerging nations in that...

Sunshine and Shadow: The CIA and the Soviet Economy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After nearly 40 years of steady, rigorous, remarkably open, and respected analysis of the Soviet economy, the CIA stood accused in the early 1990s of having gotten the answer badly wrong: so much so that Daniel Patrick Moynihan had called for...

Privatizing the Albany County Airport (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this context, the county executive seriously examines...

Privatizing the Albany County Airport

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this context, the county executive seriously examines...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Macael Marble Industry (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides an opportunity to explore how a government economic promotion agency can foster the will and capacity of locally concentrated traditional industries to prosper in competitive market environments. The agency (IPIA) is a unit of...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Macael Marble Industry (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides an opportunity to explore how a government economic promotion agency can foster the will and capacity of locally concentrated traditional industries to prosper in competitive market environments. The agency (IPIA) is a unit of...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Macael Marble Industry (A Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is an abridgement of "Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Macael Marble Industry, Parts A, B, and C." Case numbers: 971, 972, 973, written by Michael Barzelay. The original case provides an opportunity to explore how a government economic...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Macael Marble Industry (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides an opportunity to explore how a government economic promotion agency can foster the will and capacity of locally concentrated traditional industries to prosper in competitive market environments. The agency (IPIA) is a unit of...

XPORT: A Public Sector Trading Company (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case takes its place in the ongoing debate over privatization: which functions are best performed by the public sector, which should be reserved to private enterprise? In this instance, a newly-appointed executive director of the Port...

XPORT: A Public Sector Trading Company

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case takes its place in the ongoing debate over privatization: which functions are best performed by the public sector, which should be reserved to private enterprise? In this instance, a newly-appointed executive director of the Port...

Ricardo Sanchez de la Morena and the Institute of Industrial Promotion of Andalusia (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides an opportunity to discuss how the strategies and structures of governmental agencies should be molded to reflect their political, social, and economic environments, in the context of democratic institution-building in an...