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Title: Energy prices, substitution, and optimal borrowing in the short run: an analysis of adjustment in oil-importing developing countries. [Monograph]

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OSTI ID:5233840

A short-term model of traded and nontraded goods is used to analyze the economic responses of developing oil-importing countries to OPEC price increases and to evaluate the ensuing borrowing strategies. A second model shows the gradual mobility of labor with other factor substitutions. Policies to increase the speed of adjustment to long-run substitution would emphasize both the discovery and mastery of new processes and appropriate investments. 19 references, 3 figures, 15 tables. (DCK)

OSTI ID:
5233840
Resource Relation:
Other Information: World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 466
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English