This paper reviews and analyzes adult
education activities in China from the later 1920s, based
largely on field observations and individual interviews. The
study concludes...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP527Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Colletta,Nat J.
Irrigation is a technological and
institutional innovation which permits cultivation of lands
otherwise ill-suited to agriculture. The institutional
environment in which...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP531Date: January 31, 1982Author:
BROMLEY, D.
This paper is a suggested political
economy of the Bank's new-style rural development
projects. It attempts to describe some of the things that
happen in the political...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP532Date: January 31, 1982Author:
TENDLER, J.
This paper analyses the validity of
several well established propositions in the theory of
exhaustible resources in the presence of substitutes. By
carefully modelling...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP516Date: January 31, 1982Author:
FARZIN, Y.
This paper analyzes some of the
characteristics and the main consequences of the food
distribution policies followed by the Indian Government and
provides a quantification...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP509Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ;
Swamy, G.
This report presents the findings of a
five-year evaluation of the First Lusaka Upgrading and Sites
and Services Project. The evaluation formed part of a
four-country...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP548Date: January 31, 1982Author:
BAMBERGER, M. ;
SANYAL, B. ;
VALVERDE, N. ;
URB
The main hypothesis tested here is that
the exports of a developing country, with an advanced
manufacturing sector, will differ among destinations: the
capital intensity...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP538Date: January 31, 1982Author:
KHANNA, A. ;
EPD
This paper highlights the complexity in
appraising and evaluating the impact of a health project.
The two major disciplines involved are health and economics.
Measuring...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP546Date: January 31, 1982Author:
FARUQEE, R. ;
DRD ;
DEDPH
This paper undertakes a comparison of
the agricultural experience of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia
in order to provide insights into (i) the importance of food
and agriculture...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP552Date: January 31, 1982Author:
CLEAVER, K. ;
EM2
In recent years, Chinese efforts to
develop biogas, small-scale hydroelectric plants, and other
decentralized renewable energy systems have attracted a
great deal of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP535Date: January 31, 1982Author:
TAYLOR, R. ;
PAS
Narangwal is more than the name of a
village in Punjab, India. It has become associated with one
of the best known and well documented field experiments in
health care...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP515Date: January 31, 1982Author:
FARUQEE, R. ;
DEDPH
This paper addresses the question of the
best choice of language as the initial language of
instruction for the child in primary school in a
multilingual society. The...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP504Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Dutcher, Nadine;
This paper is a revised version of Staff
Working Paper 444. It reviews various studies which have
provided a description of and possible explanation to
patterns of innovation...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP542Date: January 31, 1982Author:
FEDER, G. ;
JUST, R. ;
ZILBERMAN, D.
The paper evaluates the reform measures
taken in 19810 and 1981 that aim at the further development
of the Hungarian New Economic Mechanism, introduced on
January 1,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP534Date: January 31, 1982Author:
BALASSA, B.
This paper reports on an investigation
into the efficiency of investment in irrigation, both
surface and groundwater, both public and private, in India.
The authors...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP536Date: January 31, 1982Author:
ABBIE, L. ;
HARRISON, J. ;
WALL, J.
This paper first examines the changing
size distribution of industry in developing countries by
region and over time, and, by reference to firm-level
surveys, it discusses...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP518Date: January 31, 1982Author:
ANDERSON, D. ;
DED
The paper analyzes the economic
performance of the five large market economies of East Asia
-- Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia
-- during the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP529Date: January 31, 1982Author:
HASAN, P. ;
AEA
This paper presents sources and uses of
funds accounts integrated in a macroeconomic framework for
analyzing financing patterns and economic interdependence
among sectors...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP543Date: January 31, 1982Author:
PINELL-SILES, A. ;
RAVISHANKAR, V.
Management problems in the
implementation of rural development are analyzed from a
bureaucratic political standpoint. Proposals for management
improvement will fail...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP537Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Heaver, Richard ;
WDR
This paper presents estimates of
efficiency and social accounting prices for commodities and
factors of production in Egypt which are appropriate for the
period 1979-1985....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP521Date: January 31, 1982Author:
PAGE, J.
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