In the most general sense, the topic of
this book is the economic structure of Mexican agriculture
and how that structure responds to different kinds of policy
initiatives....
Type: PublicationReport#: 13376Date: January 1, 1983Author:
Norton, Roger D. ;
Solis, Leopoldo M. [editors] ;
EXT
This paper describes recent developments
in Zimbabwe in the design of ventilated improved pit (VIP)
latrines. Two basic designs are presented, one suitable for
peri-urban...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP3Date: December 31, 1982Author:
Morgan, Peter R. ;
Mara, D. Duncan
This report has been prepared as part of
Industry Department’s work on Energy Industries,
and assesses the structure, background and outlook for the
world lube...
Type: PublicationReport#: 189925Date: December 31, 1982Author:
Ceyhan, A. ;
Kohli, Harinder S. ;
Wljetilleke, L.
The methodology and findings of the
estimation of non-sampling error have wide applicability.
This paper distinguished between enumerator error and
respondent error...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM20Date: November 30, 1982Author:
Grootaert, C. ;
Cheung, K. ;
Fung, H. ;
Tam, S. ;
DRD
This paper surveys three alternative
approaches to the measurement and analysis of welfare,
reflective of the thinking that has been ongoing in the
Bank's Living Standards...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM19Date: November 30, 1982Author:
Grootaert, C.
Labor market discrimination by sex and
by race in poor urban economy is analyzed using a survey of
manufacturing employees in Tanzania. There are large
differences...
Type: PublicationReport#: REP262Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Knight, J. ;
Sabot, R. ;
University of Oxford
In this book the author answers critics
of the basic needs approach to economic development. Based
on the actual experience of various countries, the book
distills World...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9977Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Streeten, Paul
This report begins with a brief
illustration of the basic idea of the 'active life
profile' and outlines a new technique of constructing
it. The life profile has some...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN202Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Seers, D.
The International Development
Association (IDA), an integral part of the World Bank, has
been for more than twenty years an important channel for aid
to low-income developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12689Date: August 31, 1982Author:
EXT
An establishment-based survey of
employees in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector yields
evidence of a marked change in the stability of urban
workers. Migration for...
Type: PublicationReport#: REP250Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Knight, J. ;
Sabot, R. ;
Oxford University
Time use data is crucial to the
measurement of living standards both for developing more
realistic and meaningful indicators of welfare and poverty
and for providing...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM18Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Acharya,Meena
This paper presents a framework of data
presentation that links demographic and labor market
information in an internally and consistent way. The
framework is set in...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM17Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Grootaert, C.
If the question, what does the World
Bank do? had to be answered in a few words, those words will
be: it lends for development projects. The Bank's main
business is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 110231Date: July 1, 1982Author:
Baum,Warren C.
Infant/child mortality data might be
appropriate for describing the well-being of households, as
it can be used to estimate differences between socioeconomic
groups...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM16Date: June 30, 1982Author:
Sullivan, J. ;
Cochrane, S. ;
DRD
This sector policy paper examines recent
developments in the global rubber market that form the basis
for establishing World Bank policies in lending for natural
rubber...
Type: PublicationReport#: 7256Date: June 30, 1982Author:
Goering,Theodore J.
Over the last three years, in the face
of unprecedentedly large global payments disequilbria, the
International Monetary Fund has been more active than ever
before in...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN206Date: June 1, 1982Author:
Crockett, A.
Housing finance represents a confluence
of issues in the financial and shelter sectors of the
economy, both of which involve wide-ranging and complex
concerns. This...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3732Date: April 30, 1982
There is a close interactive
relationship between health and the level of income; the
higher income level affords an individual access to better
health. However, in...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM15Date: April 30, 1982Author:
Ho, T. ;
DRC
This paper emphasizes not what was
learned substantively or methodologically from the ECIEL
study, but how the project was organized, what its
objectives were, how well...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM12Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Musgrove,Philip A.
The purpose of this essay is to provide
a theoretical framework for consideration of child schooling
as an input to the measurement of living standards and to
suggest...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM14Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Birdsall, Nancy ;
DRC
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