Since the mid 1970s, labor migration
from South and East Asia to the Middle East has been
increasing very rapidly. It has many important economic and
social implications,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP454Date: April 30, 1981Author:
ALI, S. ;
ARIF, A. ;
HABIBULLAH, A.
This paper discusses some social
correlates of the design and the implementation of forestry
projects. The cultural/behavioral variables associated with
forest development...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP452Date: April 30, 1981Author:
CERNEA, M.
It is shown in the paper that trade in
manufactured goods with the developing countries benefitted
the developed countries by increasing demand for their
products at...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP453Date: April 30, 1981Author:
BALASSA, B.
A paradigm, or pattern, incorporating
financial logic and elements of political economy is
developed to explain performance problems found in
specialized farm credit...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP446Date: April 30, 1981Author:
VON PISCHKE, J. ;
HEFFERNAN, P. ;
ADAMS, D.
The paper attempts to measure the extent
of malnutrition and poverty in the cities of Bogota and
Cali, Colombia. It determines lower bound estimates of the
proportion...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP447Date: April 30, 1981Author:
MOHAN, R. ;
WAGNER, W. ;
GARCIA, J.
The potential benefits of education as a
consumption good and source of pleasure cannot be separated
from its utility in transmitting the skills necessary to
help people...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP450Date: April 30, 1981Author:
NOOR, A.
This paper describes the economic issues
involved in the supplemental feeding of malnourished
children. The paper is divided into four major sections. The
first section...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP451Date: April 30, 1981Author:
Knudsen, Odin K.
This paper argues that the emiprical
evidence does not disprove the efficacy of high levels of
selective infant industry protection. The argument is based
on two types...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP445Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Westphal,Larry E.
This paper: (a) provides background
information to the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade
Negotiations; (b) describes and summarizes its results; (c)
looks at the response...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP372Date: February 28, 1981Author:
Kemper, Ria
This paper reviews various studies which
have provided a description and possible explanation to
patterns of innovation adoption in the agricultural sector.
The survey...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP444Date: February 28, 1981Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Just, R. ;
Silberman,Ronald Loeb
This paper examines the consequences of
alternative adjustment mechanisms to foreign exchange
shortages in semi-industrial economies. Devaluation is
compared to two...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP443Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Dervis, K. ;
De Melo, Jaime ;
Robinson, S.
This paper assesses the potential social
pay off of alternative measures that might be taken to
promote innovation in LDCs. It is mainly concerned with the
general issues...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP441Date: December 31, 1980Author:
COOPER, C.
This paper explores quantitatively the
macroeconomic and distributional impacts on non-oil
producing, semi-industrial developing countries of external
shocks originating...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP442Date: December 31, 1980Author:
de Melo, Jaime ;
Robinson, S.
The purpose of this paper is to take a
close look at the socio-economic rationale of higher
education provision in developing countries. This is done by
reviewing the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP440Date: November 30, 1980Author:
PSACHAROPOULOS, G.
The project seeks to establish the
shares of industrial country markets held by the developing
countries, changes in such shares in the 1970s, and why they
vary among...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP429Date: October 31, 1980Author:
HAMILTON, C.
Since most of the projects represented
at the workshop are still under implementation, the
discussions concentrated on the managerial, technical and
institutional aspects...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP439Date: October 31, 1980Author:
DEBOECK, G. ;
NG, R.
This paper studies the influences
determining the emergence of protectionist pressures in the
industrial countries in response to market penetration by
products from...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP425Date: October 31, 1980Author:
CABLE, V. ;
REBELO, I.
This paper studies the sources of growth
from the supply side in Turkish manufacturing over the
period 1963-1976. Primary factors and intermediate inputs
are explicitly...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP422Date: October 31, 1980Author:
KRUEGER, A. ;
TUNCER, B.
This work in progress report is part of
an inquiry being undertaken by the World Bank in conjunction
with scholars from twelve industrial countries into the
penetration...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP427Date: October 31, 1980Author:
GLISMANN, H. ;
WEISS, G.
Malawai today has the same portion of
its total population in elementary school as it had in 1911.
And despite the fact that students attend school longer and
are expected...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP420Date: October 31, 1980Author:
Heyneman,Stephen Paul
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