The purpose of this paper is to
investigate three related issues concerning the urban land
market in Bogota, Colombia. First, an attempt is made to
quantify the extent...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP651Date: August 31, 1984Author:
Wagner, M. ;
DED
This paper presents an overview of
issues arising in the development of housing finance
institutions in developing countries. The housing problem is
defined as the necessity...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP658Date: August 31, 1984Author:
Renaud, B.
This paper reports the results of an
evaluation of Bank-assisted diversified secondary schools
(INEM) in Colombia offering prevocational subjects alongside
the traditional...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP653Date: July 31, 1984Author:
Psacharopoulos, George ;
Zabalza, Antonio
Recognizing the importance of providing
any discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the T
& V system of agricultural extension with firm empirical
foundations,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP656Date: July 31, 1984Author:
Feder, Gershon ;
Slade, Roger ;
AGR ;
ASP
The determinants of the interhousehold
flow of transfer payments are analyzed. A social
contractarian model of the extended family is proposed based
on Rawlsian behavioral...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP644Date: July 31, 1984Author:
Kaufmann, D. ;
Lindauer, D.
This approach for analysis of
distributional and other change in incomes in fast growing
cities in the developing world is based on data from Bogota
and Cali. Among...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP650Date: July 31, 1984Author:
Mohan, Rakesh ;
DRD
Attention is rarely called to the
supportive role that the Korean labor market has played over
the last twenty years. In this paper, recent macroeconomic
events serve...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP641Date: July 31, 1984Author:
Lindauer, David
Turkey has made piecemeal use of
protective and incentive measures and has not given
sufficient attention to the interdependence of these
instruments and their net effect...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP660Date: July 31, 1984Author:
Yagci, Fahrettin
The Ivory Coast experienced a series of
external shocks in the last seven years which led to a
severe deterioration of its financial position and to
negative growth...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP647Date: June 30, 1984Author:
Michel, Gilles ;
Noel, Michel
Dominican Republic is an open economy
with a relatively small domestic market. Towards the end of
the 1970s, a number of external shocks in oil prices, terms
of trade,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP649Date: June 30, 1984Author:
McCarthy, F. ;
CPD
Since 1968, Hungary has attempted to
combine central planning of the economy with a significant
decentralization of economic decision making at the
enterprise level....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP648Date: June 30, 1984Author:
Knight, Peter
This paper describes the defects in
transport planning and the various approaches that have been
adopted in order to find solutions, but which have been of
limited success....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP600Date: June 30, 1984Author:
Thomson, John Michael
This analysis suggests that the
liquidity provided by currency swaps is an important element
in the development of long-term forward markets in foreign
exchange, reducing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP640Date: May 31, 1984Author:
Bock,David R. ;
Wallick, Christine
The SAM for Malaysia addresses a number
of conceptual issues and their practical solution which do
not seem to have been treated elsewhere. This SAM is a large
one,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP646Date: May 31, 1984Author:
Pyatt, Graham ;
Round, Jeffery ;
Denes, Jane ;
DRD
Countries at similar levels of income
and of similar size have long been known to share similar
patterns of economic structure and resource allocation. This
finding...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP642Date: May 31, 1984Author:
Taylor, Lance ;
McCarthy, F. ;
Alikhani, Iradj ;
CPD ;
WA 2
Egypt's public finances are unusual
in several respects compared to those of other countries at
similar income levels. The high proportions of public
expenditures, revenues,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP639Date: April 30, 1984Author:
Ahmed, Sadiq ;
AEA
This paper attempts a comprehensive
review of the development of the handloom, powerloom, and
factory sectors of the Indian textile industry. Estimates of
production...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP645Date: April 30, 1984Author:
Mazumdar, Dipak ;
DRD
Despite the importance of agriculture to
the national economy of Pakistan and the major role played
by the government in its development, a number of key issues
have...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP643Date: April 30, 1984Author:
Cheong, Kee-Cheok ;
D'Silva, Emmanuel ;
ASA ;
PUB
This paper focuses on the path of
domestic resource mobilization in the Republic of Korea over
the past twenty years, and on the probable medium term
trend. Achievement...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP628Date: April 30, 1984Author:
Yusuf, Shahid ;
Peters, R. ;
AEA
A railway vehicle requires substantially
less propulsive energy than a road vehicle of the same
weight moving at the same speed. However, other factors
favor road transport....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP634Date: March 31, 1984Author:
Alston,Liviu L.
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