This study develops an analytical
framework that relates changes in family income to the
evolution of its several components, which are in turn
related to development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13374Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Fei, John C.H. ;
Ranis, Gustav ;
Kuo, Shirley W.Y.
The present decade has seen much soul
searching about employment policies in developing countries.
Several aspects have been the subjects of intensive debate:
appropriate...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10932Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Rawski, Thomas G.
Governments can improve the distribution
of income an also can eradicate extreme poverty by changing
the composition and direction of their public expenditure.
But more...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13351Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Selowsky, Marcelo
The growth of Korea's economy
consistently satisfied and often surpassed the ambitious
targets set by development planners in the 1960s and early
1970s, although the...
The approach to development policy that
is illustrated in this volume has emerged from two parallel
lines of research. The first consists in developing models
that incorporate...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11911Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Chenery, Hollis
During the last two decades there have
been dramatic changes in the technology of shipping and in
the associated technologies of ports. Substantial capital
expenditures...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13369Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Bennathan, Esra ;
Walters, A. A.
The vast majority of the world's
poorest live in rural areas. There is no simple solution to
alleviating their living conditions, and any efforts made
depend on both...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN191Date: December 31, 1978Author:
Christoffersen, Leif E.
Despite major economic achievements, the
Dominican Republic still has serious poverty and
unemployment problems. Increasing agricultural production
will originate in...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1705Date: December 31, 1978
The most significant factors affecting
Paraguay's development prospects are the rapid
expansion of the agricultural frontier in easternmost
Paraguay and the exploitation...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2099Date: December 1, 1978
Portugal's political and economic
systems were radically transformed after the 1974
revolution. A substantial increase in consumption took place
initially, but the population...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2214Date: November 30, 1978
This two part report presents the
findings of an agricultural sector mission to Portugal in
1976. The forestry subsector is not included, and analysis
of government...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1689Date: November 30, 1978
Despite substantial economic growth in
recent years, social development has lagged, complicated by
the gap between the Spanish and Indian cultures. During the
1970s,...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1678Date: August 31, 1978
The purpose of this document is to
include environmental protection as an integral part of the
industrial process and growth process. Past experience in
many of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34023Date: August 1, 1978
This book is designed to provide and
overview of the world mining industry - its structure,
objectives and operations, and the major factors bearing on
them, such as...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13343Date: July 31, 1978Author:
Bosson, Rex ;
Varon, Bension
The 1970s have witnessed significant
changes in the trade policies and strategies of many LDCs.
In the 1950s and 1960s most of them adhered to policies of
import substitution...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN196Date: May 1, 1978Author:
Krueger, Anne O
This French-English and English-French
glossary assembles some uncommon terms relating to various
aspects of port construction and operation. The terms are
taken from...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35341Date: April 1, 1978
This report discusses forestry and
development; the scope and prospects for forest development;
and the role of the Bank in forestry. Forests play a
significant role...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1778Date: February 1, 1978
This paper presumes that broad,
generally applicable policies can be framed even though most
settlements are suited to a particular set of conditions in
a country or...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1670Date: January 31, 1978
The origin of this paper lies in the
concern of the bank, in the course of its research and
through its policy and operational work, to seek and promote
ways of reducing...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1577Date: January 1, 1978
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