Dumping and antidumping: the rhetoric
and the reality of protection in industrial countries.
Policy instruments for pollution control in developing
countries. A survey...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17521Date: July 31, 1992Author:
Finger, J. Michael ;
Eskeland, Gunnar S. ;
Jimenez, Emmanuel ;
Borrell, Brent ;
Duncan, Ronald C. ;
Mitra, Pradeep ;
McLure, Charles E., Jr. ;
Tait, Alan A.
This report derives estimates from
national sample surveys conducted in Africa over the past
dozen years of the trends in age at first marriage and at
first birth. By...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP169Date: June 30, 1992Author:
Westoff, Charles F.
Nitrogen, which is an essential element
in our life and the world around us, has become an important
raw material for agriculture and industry. Almost all
industrial...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP174Date: June 30, 1992Author:
Constant, Kurt Michael ;
Sheldrick, William F.
This paper analyzes the economic and
institutional factors affecting the appropriate roles for
the public and private sectors in seed supply systems, it
also examines...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP167Date: June 30, 1992Author:
Jaffee, Steven ;
Srivastava, Jitendra
The end of the Cold War presents
enormous opportunities for collective international efforts
to address a range of urgent global issues, including the
challenges posed...
Type: PublicationReport#: DEV29Date: June 30, 1992
The performance of labor markets is
important both for the smooth functioning of the economy,
and in providing accurate signals about labor supply and
demand to the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP177Date: June 30, 1992Author:
Van Adams, Arvil ;
Stevenson, Gail ;
Kelly, Terence
Fish and fisheries have global
importance. They make an important contribution to the
world's food supply and are a source of income for more
than 100 million people...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10926Date: June 30, 1992Author:
United Nations Development Program
The Bank has initiated a reassessment of
its water management policies and strategies, seeking to
achieve a comprehensive approach in its operations. The
conceptual...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP175Date: June 30, 1992Author:
Le Moigne, Guy ;
Barghouti, Shawki ;
Feder, Gershon ;
Garbus, Lisa ;
Mei Xie [editors]
This report provides data for assessing
human welfare in more than 170 countries. During the past
three decades the developing world has made considerable
economic and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10946Date: June 30, 1992
The authors suggest that there are
important opportunities to empirically evaluate the
theoretically predicted channels from policy to growth. They
propose a research...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP164Date: June 30, 1992Author:
Easterly, William ;
King, Robert ;
Levine, Ross ;
Rebe
This review of the Bank's
experience in support of trade policy reform in a selected
group of countries is the first study by the World
Bank's Operations Evaluation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10739Date: June 30, 1992
Provision of universal basic education
requires ever-increasing efficiency in the use of
educational resources, innovative methods for reaching
sparsely populated rural...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP172Date: May 31, 1992Author:
Thomas, Christopher ;
Shaw, Christopher
Like any other market, the land market
is governed by the forces of supply and demand. These forces
determine the dynamics of land market operations and thus
affect...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10675Date: May 31, 1992Author:
Farvacque, Catherine ;
McAuslan, Patrick
Questions of corporate capital
structures have long attracted the interest of researchers
in developed countries, and their are clear links between
these issues and...
Linking trade and productivity: new
research directions. Transportation policy and
panterritorial pricing in Africa. The economics of farm
fragmentation: evidence from...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17601Date: May 31, 1992Author:
Gersovitz, Mark ;
Tybout, James R. ;
Blarel, Benoit
The Bank's approach to
industrialization has changed over time. Through the 1950s
and much of the 1960s, the Bank took for granted
industrialization strategies based...
The Factbook is designed to serve as a
reference work for use by institutional investors,
investment bankers, academics, economists and journalists.
Many of the tables...
Many metropolitan areas throughout the
world are susceptible to disasters that seriously disrupt
the process of economic development and cause unparalleled
social upheaval....
A pragmatic question that arises during
the design and execution of many government programs is
this: how can a capacity for mobilizing community
participation be built...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP166Date: May 31, 1992Author:
Cernea,Michael M.
The purpose of this study was to
investigate how Korea adjusted successfully to the
combination of low growth, high inflation, and unsustainable
current account deficits....
Type: PublicationReport#: 10907Date: May 31, 1992Author:
Corbo, Vittorio ;
Sang - Mok Suh [editors]
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