Charging for roads. The value-added tax
and developing countries. Indexation and stabilization :
theory and experience. Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in
Africa....
Type: PublicationReport#: 17500Date: July 31, 1988Author:
Newbery, David M. ;
Shoup, Carl ;
McNelis, Paul D. ;
Elkan, Walter ;
Kannappan, Subbiah
Although many people argue that tenurial
systems in South Asia hinder technological innovation in
agriculture and prevent the benefits of such innovation from
reaching...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP32Date: July 31, 1988Author:
Singh, Inderjit
This paper reviews recent trends in
adjustment lending, especially in the design, monitoring and
institutional aspects of adjustment loans, and such evidence
as is available...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP34Date: July 31, 1988Author:
Nicholas, Peter
This study assesses the economic
implications of land ownership security in rural Thailand.
It uses data from this country to rigorously analyze several
aspects of land...
Tax policy has far-reaching implications
for economic development and public administration. This
book, which presents a modern theory of public finance,
brings together...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11614Date: July 31, 1988Author:
Newbery, David ;
Stern, Nicholas [editors]
Many households rely for their
livelihood on farming small but viable holdings in South
Asia. Raising the productivity of these households is thus a
central part of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP31Date: July 31, 1988Author:
Singh,Inderjit
Between 1980 and 1986 the Indonesian
Transmigration Program supported the movement of more than
two million people from the densely populated inner islands
of Java,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10929Date: July 31, 1988
This paper examines several commonly
used definitions of poverty. First, the paper proposes a
definition based on the theory of welfare economics and
contrasts it with...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM48Date: June 30, 1988Author:
Glewwe, Paul ;
van der Gaag, Jacques
This paper is concerned with two related
questions, first, what determines coffee and cocoa yields,
and second, how should the government determine the farmgate
prices...
Since the founding of the People's
Republic, The Government of China has recognized the
importance of textbooks and has endeavored to supply them to
all students. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP30Date: June 30, 1988Author:
Searle, Barbara W. ;
Mertaugh, Michael ;
Read, Anthony ;
Cohen, Philip
The future well-being of the peoples of
sub-Saharan Africa depends on the development of
science-based agriculture appropriate to the diverse
physical, social, and economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10168Date: June 30, 1988Author:
Pickering, D. C. [editor]
Like so many developing countries,
Morocco has been experiencing an external debt crisis since
1983. In order to place the economy onto a new sustainable
growth path,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP29Date: June 30, 1988Author:
Mateus,Abel M.
This manual, developed for use in
assessing World Bank/IFC development proposals, provides
guidelines for the identification of the potential hazards
of new or existing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP55Date: June 30, 1988Author:
Technica, Ltd.
Since the mid 1970s, an economic crisis
and instability have reduced the living standards of an
increasing section of the Argentine population. To mitigate
the hardship...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB6900Date: June 30, 1988
The World Bank holds numerous seminars
and briefings in its various member countries to provide
information about business opportunities arising from Bank
financed projects....
The world's forest industry has
undergone important changes over the past 10-15 years as
demand growth in the industrial countries has slowed, and as
new, competitive...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP83Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Ewing, Andrew J. ;
Chalk, Raymond
This paper attempts to evaluate the
responsiveness of consumers to changes in the costs of
health care. The paper analyzes the demand for health care
in rural Cote D'Ivoire,...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM35Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Dor, Avi ;
van der Gaag, Jacques
This Living Standards Measurement Study
working paper includes two reports that are part of a larger
study on "Health Care Demand and Resource
Mobilization." This study...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM37Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Dor, Avi ;
Gertler, Paul ;
Locay, Luis ;
Sanderson, Warren ;
van der Gaag, Jacques
A household expenditure survey is the
tool through which material welfare is measured. Its results
show that levels of living vary among individuals and groups
in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM28Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Deaton, Angus ;
Case, Anne
This paper presents information on labor
market activity from household surveys undertaken in Cote
d'Ivoire and Peru by the Living Standards Unit of the
World Bank and...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM36Date: May 31, 1988Author:
Newman,John Lincoln
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