Although the emerging interest in trade
in services has resulted in some studies, research on trade
in non-factor services (NFS) has been largely neglected.
This is...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP410Date: August 31, 1980Author:
SAPIR, A. ;
LUTZ, E.
Efforts have been growing to provide
family planning services through channels other than
physician-staffed clinics. Relying on community
participation and local community...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP411Date: August 31, 1980Author:
KANAGARATNAM, K. ;
PIERCE, C.
A brief overview of the past economic
developments and future prospects in Eastern and Southern
Africa are presented. Africa has experienced lagging income
growth, and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP413Date: August 31, 1980Author:
GULHATI, R.
After two decades of neglect, health has
reappeared as a significant concern among development
authorities and financing institutions. Recent studies have
shown that...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP412Date: August 31, 1980Author:
GOLLADAY, F. ;
LIESE, B.
Bussink treats human development as one
strand in a broad discussion of issues bearing on poverty in
East Asian countries. Davies presents an overview of poverty
in...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP406Date: July 31, 1980Author:
BUSSINK, W. ;
DAVIES, D. ;
GRAWE, R.
This paper presents an overview of
poverty, changes in poverty over time, and some of the
causes of these changes. It opens with a discussion of
various concepts of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP401Date: July 31, 1980Author:
SEN, A.
The effects of education on income are
comprehensively surveyed in five papers. The topics of
education and economic growth, returns to education, farmer
education and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP402Date: July 31, 1980Author:
KING, T. ;
JAMISON, D. ;
BERRY, A.
This paper is a cross-country
statistical analysis of the relationships among economic
growth, human resource development (improvements in
education, health and nutrition),...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP407Date: July 31, 1980Author:
WHEELER, D.
There have been many attempts to
determine the role of human capital in the process of
economic growth, including growth accounting and the
measurement of social and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP408Date: July 31, 1980Author:
HICKS, N.
Official support for financing exports
has become a complex, highly-subsidized form of assistance
to promote foreign sales, especially of manufactures and
capital goods....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP409Date: July 31, 1980Author:
Cizauskas,Albert C.
This paper investigates the effects of
education on health. The determinants of mortality are
receiving increasing scrutiny because the rate of mortality
reduction in...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP405Date: July 31, 1980Author:
COCHRANE, S. ;
O'HARA, D. ;
LESLIE, J.
The association between poverty and
rapid population growth in developing countries is examined.
Analysis of current demographic data revealed a shift in the
association...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP404Date: July 31, 1980Author:
Birdsall, Nancy
The thesis of this paper is that there
are major obstacles to perceiving the nature and the extent
of rural poverty in developing countries. These obstacles
originate...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP400Date: July 31, 1980Author:
CHAMBERS, R.
Political support, finance,
administration and demand (the way families and individuals
respond to services) are crucial linked factors in improving
education, health,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP403Date: July 31, 1980Author:
Knight, P. ;
Colletta, N. ;
Meerman, Jacob
This paper pulls together recent work
and evaluates the evidence on the contribution of primary
schooling to development. The paper shows that primary
schooling increases...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP399Date: June 30, 1980Author:
COLCLOUGH, C.
The recent publication of results from a
household budget survey for the first six months of 1977
sheds new light on income distribution in Mexico. This paper
reports...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP395Date: June 30, 1980Author:
Bergsman,Joel
This paper examines the pattern of
structural change in trade in manufactured goods between the
industrial and the developing countries. It reviews recent
changes in...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP396Date: June 30, 1980Author:
Balassa,Bela
Major conclusions and suggestions are:
(a) textbooks, teacher editions, and allied materials are
the most consistent factors in upgrading academic
achievement, especially...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP398Date: June 30, 1980Author:
NEUMANN, P.
The first stage in the proposed
framework is to decide whether these questions need special
attention in a particular project, in order to make best use
of scarce resources....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP397Date: June 30, 1980Author:
PERRETT, H. ;
LETHEM, F.
The central proposition of this paper is
that periodic shortfalls in aggregate food consumption in
the developing countries are primarily related to poor
harvests in...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP393Date: June 30, 1980Author:
Reutlinger, S. ;
Knapp, K.
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