This survey attempts to establish the
prospects for growth and the attendant potential for urban
employment generation of the small- and medium-scale
industry; to assess...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2913Date: September 10, 1980
This survey attempts to establish the
prospects for growth and the attendant potential for urban
employment generation of the small- and medium-scale
industry; to assess...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2913Date: September 10, 1980
This survey attempts to establish the
prospects for growth and the attendant potential for urban
employment generation of the small- and medium-scale
industry; to assess...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2913Date: September 10, 1980
The problems faced by Fiji may be
subsumed under four headings: growth, diversification,
employment, and income distribution. The Eight Development
Plan, 1981-85, is...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3025Date: August 31, 1980
Panama depends heavily on imported
petroleum to supply its energy needs. Although the potential
for development of hydro energy is considerable, limiting
factors in...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3109Date: August 31, 1980
This report focuses on a new
stabilization strategy in Argentina, which simultaneously
attempts to reduce the rate of inflation and to induce the
modernization and restructuring...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2988Date: July 31, 1980
With increasing economic stability in
Portugal, a look at longer term investment needs is
possible. This systematic review of the country's
public investment program...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2883Date: July 31, 1980
The capital goods producing industries
have played an important role in the growth of Brazil's
industrial sector since the earliest stages of its modern
development....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2488Date: July 31, 1980
Of the Mexican states, Tabasco is
significant as a case study of the impact of the oil boom on
an economy based on traditional agricultural and livestock
activities...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3087Date: July 31, 1980
The Bank's program of assistance in
the energy sector is reexamined in a broad survey and
analysis of the energy prospects of developing countries in
light of the current...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3076Date: July 31, 1980
This analysis of the social aspects of
development in Tunisia is mainly concerned with what is
being done to cover the basic needs of the population. In
general, social...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2950Date: June 30, 1980
Despite natural resource endowment,
educated and skilled manpower, proximity to the lucrative
North American markets, and a developed financial system,
Jamaica's real...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3023Date: June 30, 1980
The Caribbean economies performed
unevenly in 1979. Although the world market conditions for
major traditional Caribbean exports ranged from adequate to
good, manufactured...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3011Date: June 30, 1980
The Electrical and Mechanical Industries
(EMIs), which are largely in the public sector, have shown
modest development due to their intrinsic complexity, the
earlier...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2666Date: June 30, 1980
Thailand has had an outstanding economic
record, achieved primarily in an open economy with low
tariffs and few quantitative import restrictions, under a
free enterprise...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2804Date: June 30, 1980
This report synthesizes the results of
four special studies on poverty related issues in Thailand.
The studies found: (i) the incidence of poverty has been
sharply reduced...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2566Date: June 30, 1980
Although biomass ethanol production
cannot solve the energy problems of developing countries, it
could lead to significant savings in petroleum imports.
Those countries...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3021Date: June 30, 1980
The economy of Uruguay currently shows a
steady recuperation from the sixties and early seventies
through reorientation of economic policy. Growth has been
concentrated...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2706Date: June 30, 1980
Economic conditions in Guyana
deteriorated in 1979, largely due to the disappointing
performance of sugar, rice, and bauxite. As a result, public
sector savings fell...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3015Date: June 30, 1980
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