Low rates of industrial employment
growth, high rates of unemployment for new entrants to the
labor market and low levels of labor productivity and
remuneration are...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP336Date: June 30, 1979Author:
Squire, Lyn
This paper demonstrates the role of
shadow pricing in country economic analysis. It is argued
that: first, shadow prices serve as summary measures which
help the country...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP330Date: June 30, 1979Author:
SQUIRE, L. ;
LITTLE, I. ;
DURDAG, M.
This study presents an assessment of the
problem of food supply and distribution in selected
developing countries. Using fresh empirical evidence from
household budget...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP328Date: May 31, 1979Author:
Knudsen, O. ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
The paper reviews recent changes in
trade in manufactured goods between developed and developing
countries and examines the employment effects of this trade
for the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP329Date: May 31, 1979Author:
BALASSA, B.
Despite the developing countries'
impressive economic growth of the past 25 years, the
benefits have only reached the poor to a very limited
degree. The poorest countries...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP309Date: May 31, 1979Author:
AHLUWALIA, M. ;
CARTER, N. ;
CHENERY, H.
Tropical root crops (TRCs) are important
sources of calories for low-income groups in developing
countries, and have considerable development potential
because of their...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP324Date: April 30, 1979Author:
GOERING, J.
Tourism is a viable path to economic
development; but many developing countries, by failing to
plan lose control over the development of tourism. Failure
to plan reduces...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP326Date: April 30, 1979Author:
NORONHA, R.
This paper explores on the basis of
available data the role of various family characteristics in
fostering abilities in pre-school children and the
subsequent effect...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP322Date: April 30, 1979Author:
Grawe,Roger W.
This paper presents and evaluates the
broad results of pre-school intervention experiments and
programs aimed at fostering the intellectual and social
development of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP323Date: April 30, 1979Author:
SMILANSKY, M.
This paper challenges the conventional
wisdom that large buses in large organizations with
subsidies to produce optimum frequencies are the best
arrangement for urban...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP325Date: April 30, 1979Author:
WALTERS, A.
This paper presents policies, practices
and problems of student flow, and related research findings
to the questions: What are the determinants of achievement
and their...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP319Date: March 31, 1979Author:
HADDAD, W.
The paper reviews trade patterns and
volumes of the major fruit and vegetable exporters among
developing Mediterranean countries and the major EEC
importing countries,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP321Date: March 31, 1979Author:
HUNT, R.
The majority of the world's poor
are among the 625 million people who reside in the rural
areas of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The rural poor
consist predominantly...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP320Date: February 28, 1979Author:
SINGH, I.
In recent times, a number of developing
countries have experienced a decline in fertility making it
possible to study the factors inducing such decline. This
subject...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP318Date: February 28, 1979Author:
FARUQEE, R. ;
DEDPH
This paper presents the summaries of
papers on promotion of non-traditional (manufactured)
exports, along with comments presented at a Joint
IBRD/ECLA/UNDP Conference...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP313Date: January 31, 1979Author:
DE VRIES, B.
This paper reviews the experience of the
Latin American Free Trade Association and the Central
American Common Market with intra-industry trade in
manufacturing, entailing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP312Date: January 31, 1979Author:
BALASSA, B.
Developing countries' manufactured
exports increased from 1960 through 1976 at rates around 15
percent per year. This paper is concerned with the changing
structural...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP316Date: January 31, 1979Author:
KEESING, D.
The nature of the extensive educational
reforms that have taken place in Cuba since the revolution
are examined. Education and educational change in
revolutionary Cuba...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP317Date: January 31, 1979Author:
CARNOY, M. ;
WERTHEIM, J.
This paper explores the influences that
have shaped export growth since 1960 and the prospects for
their further expansion. Particular emphasis is given to
manufactured...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP314Date: January 31, 1979Author:
CHENERY, H. ;
KEESING, D.
The urban population of the Sahel is
expected to triple between 1975 and 200; an addition of 8
million people, at least half of them migrants. Present
conditions are...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP315Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Cohen, M. ;
Agunbiade, S. ;
Antelin, D.
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