The study evaluates cotton development
programs in three African countries (Burkina Faso, Cote
d'Ivoire, and Togo), supported by the Bank's
lending between 1970-83,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23097Date: March 31, 1988
Efforts to improve the water supplies
used by people in rural areas of developing countries have
run into serious obstacles: not only are public funds not
available...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11204Date: March 31, 1988Author:
Briscoe, John ;
de Ferranti, David ;
EXT
For many years, very little hard
information was available about the population of the
People's Republic of China. This unsatisfactory
situation has changed completely...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP22Date: February 29, 1988Author:
Hill, Kenneth
This manual presents information on
wastewater management practices for coastal cities and the
options available for protecting the coastal environment. It
reviews the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP77Date: February 29, 1988Author:
Gunnerson,Charles G.
The paper provides guidelines for
managers and technical staff in extension agencies who plan,
organize, implement and utilize monitoring activities and,
when necessary,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP79Date: February 29, 1988Author:
Murphy, Josette ;
Marchant, Tim J.
This report discusses several different
approaches that support reforming health care services in
developing countries. For some time now, health care
services have...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB6563Date: February 1, 1988
Government wage policy in Africa: some
findings and policy issues. Export-promoting trade strategy:
issues and evidence. the state and the invisible hand.
Technological...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17492Date: January 31, 1988Author:
Lindauer, David L. ;
Meesook, Oey Astra ;
Suebsaeng, Parita ;
Bhagwati, Jagdish N. ;
Wellisz, Stanislaw ;
Findlay, Ronald ;
Binswanger, Hans ;
Pingali, Prabhu ;
Psacharopoulos, George
The slow pace of agricultural
mechanization in Africa has long been a puzzle. This book
begins to solve the puzzle by looking at the conditions in
sub-Saharan Africa...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10219Date: January 31, 1988Author:
Bigot, Yves ;
Binswanger,Hans P. ;
Pingali,Prabhu
This volume is a compendium of papers
presented at the "Workshop on Desertification Control
and Renewable Resource Management" held in Oslo, Norway
in June 1986. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP70Date: January 31, 1988Author:
Falloux,Francois M. ;
Mukendi, Aleki
This paper on investment in education
and training is the first in a series that the World Bank is
preparing to stimulate discussion of sectoral policies for
Africa...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9777Date: January 31, 1988
This paper aims to (a) examine in detail
the trends in food imports, their composition and the degree
of food import dependency in Somalia. It also seeks to (b)
analyze...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP23Date: January 31, 1988Author:
Hossein Farzin, Y.
This report considers external financing
choices for Korea. It assesses the structure of Korean
external liabilities in the light of (a) general principles
of liability...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB6437Date: January 31, 1988
As countries today renew their use of
educational testing, new concerns have arisen about how
better to manage such testing. China provides one example of
the new emphasis...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP78Date: January 31, 1988Author:
Heyneman, Stephen P. ;
Fagerlind, Ingemar
Primary commodity prices, manufactured
goods prices, and the terms of trade of developing
countries: what the long run shows. Price and income
elasticities of demand...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17560Date: January 31, 1988Author:
Grilli, Enzo R. ;
Maw Cheng Yang ;
Schwartz, J. Brad ;
Akin, John S. ;
Popkin, Barry M. ;
Cohen, Daniel ;
Martin, Ricardo ;
Selowsky, Marcelo ;
Sicat, Gerardo P. ;
Virmani, Arvind
By using a simple open macroeconomic
model and focusing on the external balance of a developing
economy with structural rigidities, this paper derives an
empirically...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP24Date: January 31, 1988Author:
Hossein Farzi, Y.
Non-agricultural self-employment is an
important part of the economy in Cote d'Ivoire, however
studies on the income generated by non-agricultural
enterprises are scarce...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM46Date: January 1, 1988Author:
Vijverberg, Wim P.
Population projections are prepared
routinely by the World Bank each year. This set of
projections was prepared for World Development Report 1987.
It presents a brief...
Type: PublicationReport#: 99105Date: January 1, 1988Author:
Zachariah,K. C. ;
Vu, My T.
Emerging Stock Markets Factbook 1986 is
the first fact book to pull together in one volume time
series of fundamental stock market data on the leading
securities markets...
Type: PublicationReport#: 140963Date: January 1, 1988
During 1986 a total of 246 loan and
credit operations were processed by the Operations
Evaluation Department (OED). The bulk of these projects were
approved in the latter...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB6976Date: January 1, 1988
The World Bank's research program
is intended to support all aspects of the Bank's
operations, to broaden understanding of the development
process, to improve the Bank's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75551Date: January 1, 1988
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