The nature of the extensive educational
reforms that have taken place in Sweden is reviewed and
their causes and consequences are examined. At the primary
and lower...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP290Date: August 31, 1978Author:
HEIDENHEIMER, A.
This paper reviews current evidence on
employment in China, and the policies pursued to increase
labor absorption in agriculture and industry. In the 1950s,
China suffered...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP291Date: August 31, 1978Author:
RAWSKI, T.
Whereas the problems of definition and
practical interpretation of marginal costs are common to
both developed and developing countries, in the latter
difficulties due...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP286Date: June 30, 1978Author:
MUNASINGHE, M. ;
WARFORD, J.
The standards of reliability of
electricity supply have hitherto been determined on a
rule-of-thumb basis. The heavy investments in electric power
and the scarcity of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP285Date: June 30, 1978Author:
MUNASINGHE, M.
This paper reports the results of the
research program carried out by the World Bank to identify
and measure the effects of Singapore's Area License
Scheme on the transport...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP281Date: June 30, 1978Author:
WATSON, P. ;
HOLLAND, E.
The study underscores the crucial nature
of Pakistan forests to the economic activity of the country
in maintaining an environmental balance in the agricultural
sector;...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP284Date: June 30, 1978Author:
DRAPER, S. ;
EWING, A. ;
BURLEY, J.
This paper relates research results to
the questions: Do pupils learn better in small or large
classes? Do the educational benefits of smaller classes, if
they exist,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP280Date: June 30, 1978Author:
HADDAD, W.
It is widely acknowledged that factor
prices, especially the prices of labor and capital, play a
pivotal role in shaping the economic structures of
developing counties....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP287Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Guisinger,Stephen E.
This paper examines the recent emergence
of the new protectionism, evaluates the measures applied,
and makes policy recommendations for both developed and
developing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP282Date: May 31, 1978Author:
BALASSA, B.
The causes and consequences of
educational reform in the Soviet Union are examined. The
Soviet Union's comprehensive education network has been
developed under great...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP288Date: May 31, 1978Author:
BLUMENTHAL, I. ;
BENSON, C.
This paper is an essay on the
determination of the earnings of employees in urban Malaysia
based on a sample survey carried out by the Bank in three
towns of Peninsular...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP278Date: May 31, 1978Author:
MAZUMDAR, D. ;
AHMED, M.
This paper brings together a general
overview of urban land issues affecting developing countries
and five supporting papers on individual aspects. In Volume
1, the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP283Date: May 1, 1978Author:
Dunkerley, Harold B. ;
Walters, Alan A. ;
Doebele, William A. ;
Shoup, Donald C. ;
Rivkin, Malcolm D. ;
Courtney, John M.
This paper brings together a general
overview of urban land issues affecting developing countries
and five supporting papers on individual aspects. In Volume
1, the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP283Date: May 1, 1978Author:
Dunkerley, Harold B. ;
Walters, Alan A. ;
Doebele, William A. ;
Shoup, Donald C. ;
Rivkin, Malcolm D. ;
Courtney, John M.
Developing domestic supplies of energy
has become a major concern of oil importing countries.
Increased oil prices since 1973 have changed the relative
economics of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP289Date: April 30, 1978Author:
Vedavalli, R.
A linked five-country agricultural model
(MOCA), which describes conditions of production, demand,
trade, and price and income formation in each of five
Central American...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP276Date: April 30, 1978Author:
Cappi, C. ;
Fletcher, L. ;
Norton, R.
This paper examines the impact of
agricultural price policies on foodgrain production,
consumption, and trade in South Asia. The approach is
aggregative, based on a...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP277Date: April 30, 1978Author:
OSTERRIETH, E. ;
WAELBROECK, J.
This report reviews the experience with
land reform in five countries of Latin America: Boliva,
Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. The report is largely
based on an...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP275Date: April 30, 1978Author:
ECKSTEIN, S. ;
DONALD, G. ;
HORTON, D.
The paper links a simple aggregate model
of growth-cum-external debt with an empirical formula for
debt-servicing capacity. Through simulations of growth and
debt patterns,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP274Date: February 28, 1978Author:
Feder, Gershon
In many developing countries there
appear to be large differences in living costs between
different locations. This paper examines the implications of
these spatial...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP273Date: January 31, 1978Author:
THOMAS, V.
The proposed system is designed as a
management tool to ensure that the extension organization is
operating efficiently, to enable management to take
corrective action...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP272Date: December 31, 1977Author:
CERNEA, M. ;
TEPPING, B.
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