This survey is concerned with three
issues: the sectoral structure of the labor force;
unemployment; and underemployment. This book provides a
statistical overview of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11185Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Squire, Lyn
This paper is a proposal for the
development of an economics that would be based on
satisfaction of the unvarying and universal human needs and
not of desires or wants....
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN253Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Kamenetzky, Mario
This report focuses on the need for
national urbanization policy. First, it presents a worldwide
perspective on urbanization and explains why the need for
active urbanization...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9978Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Renaud, Bertrand
This book is about the way the world is
developing. It is about more than three billion people who
live in countries that are poor. The book also discusses
economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11140Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Baldwin, Harriet ;
Ross-Larson, Bruce
In the thirteen years that Robert
McNamara served as President of the World Bank, he
transformed that institution into the worlds largest and
most important single source...
Type: PublicationReport#: 33244Date: January 1, 1981
Alarm at the dim economic prospects for
the nations of sub-Saharan Africa resulted in a study of the
economic development problems of these countries and an
appropriate...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14030Date: January 1, 1981
The key aim of this study is to learn
about the reasons for the relative poor performance of Latin
America (not just Colombia) in exporting manufactures (not
just clothing)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13368Date: January 1, 1981
This book is a detailed case study of
the working of the urban labor market of Peninsular Malaysia
and of the factors affecting the distribution of income
there. Although...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13353Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Mazumdar,Dipak
The purpose of this manual is to provide
early dissemination of research results to field workers, to
summarize selected portions of the other publications that
are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11509Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Kalbermatten, John M. ;
Julius, DeAnne S. ;
Mara, D.
This paper is a summarized version of
the final report on Appropriate Technology for Water, Supply
and Waste Disposal in Developing Countries, a World Bank
research...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10424Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Kalbermatten, John M. ;
Julius, DeAnne S. ;
Gunnerson, Charles G.
Social and cultural factors influencing
people's responses to water supply and excreta disposal
technologies are investigated in seven case studies of
communities in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10367Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Elmendorf, Mary ;
Buckles, Patricia
This report is an attempt to set the
Bank's initial diagnosis of the problems and prospects
of the Maldivian economy in the context of the
country's historical background...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2739Date: December 31, 1980
This is the second World Bank economic
report on the Comoros. The first report, which comprised a
general introduction to the economy of the Comoros Islands,
reflected...
Type: PublicationReport#: 189926Date: December 31, 1980Author:
World Bank
This document is intended as an
environmental manual for the pulp and paper sector. Its main
purpose is to provide general guidance to those planning,
assessing or instituting...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11193Date: December 31, 1980
Renewable energy resources occur in
nature, in the form of energy flows of indefinite duration,
as opposed to mineral deposits of finite amount. Thus solar
and wind...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN351Date: December 31, 1980
Examines, in the light of recent
economic developments in Madagascar and of the
government's objectives, the feasibility and
appropriateness of the planning strategy...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2357Date: November 1, 1980
Measurement of practical welfare
involves the concepts of income, real income, per capital
real income, and occasionally a measure of inequality; the
economic approach,...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM7Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Deaton, A.
This study covers household income and
expenditure surveys conducted during the last ten years in
twenty-three different countries. It discusses: (i) purpose;
(ii) coverage;...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM9Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Wahab, M.
The first of these three papers points
out some of the practical problems of survey design and
implementation, which may feed back either on the
formulation of survey...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM5Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Scott, C. ;
DRC
A summary of the main findings of an
analysis of selected household surveys from a number of
Asian countries sheds light on the socioeconomic
characteristics of different...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM2Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Visaria,Pravin
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