In the past ten years the most striking
achievement of vocational education and training (VET) has
been the development of national training systems from
nonformal training...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP51Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Middleton, John ;
Demsky, Terri
Education has played an increasingly
important role in the Thai Government's strategy for
economic development over the last twenty years. During this
period, the Government...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23096Date: April 30, 1989
This report discusses government
intervention in agricultural prices and how it persisted
throughout the period 1960-84 in the Republic of Korea.
During that period,...
This volume is a compendium of papers
presented at the "Workshop on Technological and
Institutional Innovation in Irrigation" held in
Washington D.C. in April 1988....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP94Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Le Moigne, Guy ;
Barghouti, Shawki ;
Plusquellec, Herve
The paper opens with brief examinations
of the process of agricultural extension, and the different
forms of publicly provided extension services. An extensive
review...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP87Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Baxter, Michael ;
Slade, Roger ;
Howell, John
The final session of the conference
brought together six acknowledged development experts in a
panel discussion to review the current state of development
policy research...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14356Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Bhagwati, Jagdish ;
Habte, Aklilu ;
Krueger, Anne ;
Macedo, Roberto ;
Schultz, Paul ;
Siamwalla, Ammar ;
Fischer, Stanley
This paper provides an empirical
examination of financial liberalization in five Asian
countries: Korea, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, which have been
relatively successful,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP50Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Yoon-Je Cho ;
Khatkhate, Deena
In assessing the response of
agricultural production to government policies, it is
necessary to look not just at output prices but at all the
factors that affect real...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14355Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Binswanger,Hans P.
This publication is a lively
contribution to the controversy over which form of extension
is most appropriate for conditions in African culture.
Although the World Bank...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10202Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Roberts, Nigel [editor]
The conference began with a keynote
address by the secretary general of the South Commission. He
identified some of the major areas of challenge for
researchers dealing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14348Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Singh, Mannohan
Subsidies in international trade come
under Articles VI, XVI and XXIII of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade. The developed countries, but not the
developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP55Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Bala [editor]ssa, Bela [editor]
This manual is intended for
administrators and technical staff who have responsibilities
for waste management, public health and environmental
protection. This paper...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP93Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Batstone, Roger ;
Smith, James E. Jr. ;
Wilson, David ;
WHO ;
UNEP
This manual is intended for
administrators and technical staff who have responsibilities
for waste management, public health and environmental
protection. This paper...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP93Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Batstone, Roger ;
Smith, James E. Jr. ;
Wilson, David ;
WHO ;
UNEP
Until as recently as the early 1970s,
the main channel for oil supply was the integrated system of
the major oil companies. Each company had its own source of
crude...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP96Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Razavi, Hossein
In the past few decades public sector
activity has expanded greatly in many developing countries.
This expansion has frequently stifled private initiative and
market...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10378Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Gustafson,Douglas ;
Jimenez,Emmanual ;
Linn,Johannes F.
Some developing countries have begun to
reevaluate the traditional policy of charging uniformly low
(or zero) prices for such social services as education and
health....
Type: PublicationReport#: 14352Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Jimenez, Emmanuel
This paper reviews recent theoretical
developments in the analysis of trade structure and policy.
It emphasizes how understanding monopolistic
(noncompetitiive) market...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14354Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Helpman, Elhanan
This manual is intended for
administrators and technical staff who have responsibilities
for waste management, public health and environmental
protection. This paper...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP93Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Batstone, Roger ;
Smith, James E. Jr. ;
Wilson, David ;
WHO ;
UNEP
This study examines twenty-five years of
pricing policies in agriculture, covering the period
1960-85. During this period, the price regime has
discriminated strongly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9802Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Dethier, Jean-Jacques
This paper presents a detailed analysis
of fertility in 10 sub - Saharan African countries for which
World Fertility Survey data are available. These data and
similar...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP43Date: April 30, 1989Author:
Cochrane, Susan H. ;
Farid, Samir M.
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.