This report presents the recommendations
in regard to sample design for the Living Standards Surveys
in Ghana and Mauritania. To meet the requirements of the
planned...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM49Date: January 31, 1989Author:
Scott, Chris ;
Amenuvegbe, Ben
While it is difficult to isolate
adjustment as the sole cause of deteriorating social
welfare, what little evidence exists seems to indicate that
adjustment makes some...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP44Date: January 31, 1989Author:
Zuckerman, Elaine
Looking for boy-girl discrimination in
household expenditure data. Inflation and the financing of
government expenditure: an introductory analysis with an
application...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17589Date: January 31, 1989Author:
Deaton, Angus ;
Anand, Ritu ;
van Wijnbergen, Sweder ;
Srinivasan, T. N. ;
van der Gaag, Jacques ;
Stelcner, Morton ;
Vijverberg, Wim ;
Levy, Victor ;
Newman, John L. ;
Lele, Uma
The book provides an overview of the
various ways of attacking absolute poverty, the sources of
growth, and policies to accelerate it, are examined, as are
a wide range...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11908Date: January 1, 1989
Malaria contributes to the very high
mortality rates among young children in tropical Africa and
is also a debilitating disease to adults who have acquired
variable...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9116Date: January 1, 1989Author:
Uadia, Patrick
The Highway Design and Maintenance
Standards Model (HDM-III), issued in 1987, was developed by
the World Bank to meet the needs of the highway community,
particularly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79753Date: January 1, 1989Author:
Watanatada, Thawat ;
Harral, Clell ;
Paterson, William ;
Dhareshwar, Ashok ;
Bhandari, Anil ;
Tsunokawa, Koji
The book surveys many of the different
facets of the complex problems of poverty in Africa, and
many of the policy and program interventions that impact on
poverty....
Type: PublicationReport#: 20975Date: January 1, 1989Author:
Serageldin, Ismail
For more than forty years the World Bank
has been the largest source of financial and technical
assistance to development countries to stimulate economic
growth and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 8208Date: January 1, 1989
The objective of the Onchocerciasis
Control Programme (OCP) is to put an end to onchocerciasis
as a public health disease and to prevent it from being an
obstacle to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9117Date: January 1, 1989Author:
Ahiadeke, Clement
In an open economy, foreign investment
is often used as a means of evading taxes on wealth, or on
capital assets' income. This paper presents the simple
analytics of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9115Date: January 1, 1989Author:
Giovannini, Alberto
The Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation)
Act was enacted in India in 1976 with a view to curbing land
price increases and promoting low-income housing through
socialization...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9125Date: January 1, 1989Author:
Acharya, Ballabh Prasad
This paper discusses the impact of rural
reforms and industrialization strategies on the
modernization process in, and the economic structure of,
rural areas during...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10376Date: December 31, 1988Author:
Fureng, Dong
Structural adjustment lending was
initiated in 1980 in response to the serious balance of
payments problems affecting many developing countries. This
report reviews...
Type: PublicationReport#: 8022Date: December 31, 1988
The Atlas reports for data compiled in
accordance with internationally agreed methods. Where
necessary and feasible, the World Bank modifies basic data
to improve international...
Type: PublicationReport#: 188623Date: December 31, 1988Author:
World Bank
This report argues that ad hoc revenue
increasing measures in the past have paid insufficient
attention to the incentive effects of taxes and that tax
reform is warranted...
This is International Finance
Corporation (IFC’s) second factbook on the stock
markets of developing countries. Until quite recently, these
markets were neglected,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 188338Date: December 31, 1988Author:
World Bank
Environmental degradation in it's
many forms, ranging from atmospheric pollution to
desertification, has commanded increasing concern in the
international community...
Type: PublicationReport#: DEV17Date: December 31, 1988
This paper describes the main aspects
and the results of the voluntary debt reduction operations
that recently took place in Bolivia and Mexico. It covers
the motivations...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP42Date: November 30, 1988Author:
Lamdany, Ruben
Zambia's agricultural potential is
great. Less than a quarter of its available agricultural
land is now being used for farming, and rainfall in most
years is substantial....
Type: PublicationReport#: WBC1Date: November 30, 1988Author:
Jansen, Doris
The principal focus of this paper is on
low-income countries that face exceptional difficulties.
These countries' prospects for reviving sustainable
growth are limited...
Type: PublicationReport#: DEV16Date: November 30, 1988
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