In principle, the world has the ability
to feed itself for at least two to three decades with
presently known technologies, if employed effectively.
However, most of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP251Date: April 30, 1977Author:
Burki, S. ;
Goering, Theodore
Recently there has been substantial
interest in using public expenditure to relieve poverty.
This leads as a consequence to a need for knowing the
distributive direction...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP260Date: April 30, 1977Author:
MEERMAN, J.
This paper provides an analysis of the
financing of street improvements, sewer extensions, and
other urban services by valorization charges, a system of
taxation by...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP254Date: March 31, 1977Author:
DOEBELE, W. ;
GRIMES, O.
This long-term planning model simulates
the Korean economy and enables the planner to test the
impact of a given policy or set of policies through the use
of sensitivity...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP250Date: March 31, 1977Author:
Gupta,S.
Korea's overall development
performance since the policy reforms in 1964-1965 has been
striking. The role of monetary and fiscal policy in
increasing public and private...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP249Date: February 28, 1977Author:
Westphal,Larry E.
The paper provides a comparative
evaluation of export incentives and their effects on exports
and economic performance. The results indicate that greater
export orientation...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP248Date: January 31, 1977Author:
BALASSA, B.
This paper presents data on educational
expenditures of LDCs and OECD countries and compares
patterns of allocation of these expenditures by levels of
education. Expenditures...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP246Date: November 30, 1976Author:
ZYMELMAN, M.
This paper presents the preliminary
findings of an inquiry into the commodity problem faced by
some of the poorest countries and regions in the world
economy. It focuses...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP245Date: November 30, 1976Author:
Avramovic,Jelena
The paper presents base-line projections
of the developing country foodgrain situation in 1985.
Projections are presented for the World Bank developing
regions and for...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP247Date: November 30, 1976Author:
HADLER, S. ;
YANG, M.
This paper develops a method to simulate
an investment in a grain reserve and calculate its
efficiency, equity, trade, and stabilization impacts. The
method is applied...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP244Date: September 30, 1976Author:
REUTLINGER, S. ;
EATON, D. ;
BIGMAN, D.
This paper summarizes the conclusions of
a study of capital utilization in the manufacturing
industries of Colombia, Israel, Malaysia and the
Philippines. The levels...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP242Date: September 30, 1976Author:
HUGHES, H. ;
BAUTISTA, R. ;
LIM, D.
The central notion of the paper is the
hypothesis of factor complementarity between preschool
ability and education in determining an individual's
future productivity....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP243Date: September 30, 1976Author:
PINERA, S. ;
SELOWSKY, M.
This paper is intended to interpret,
complement and supplement social cost-benefit methodology as
previously set forth. It explains for country economists the
derivation...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP239Date: August 31, 1976Author:
BRUCE, C.
The purpose of this paper is to set
forth a general approach for the economic analysis of rural
road projects. In this context, the paper discusses the
shortcomings...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP241Date: August 31, 1976Author:
CARNEMARK, C. ;
BIDERMAN, J. ;
BOVET, D.
Attitudes towards export subsidies
granted by developing countries are examined and
recommendations are made for export policies. The export
subsidy debate, involving...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP238Date: July 31, 1976Author:
BALASSA, B. ;
SHARPSTON, M.
The paper empirically examines the
effects of household structure and related economic
variables on urban poverty through the combined analyses of
employment and earnings...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP237Date: July 31, 1976Author:
SANT'ANNA, A. ;
MERRICK, T. ;
MAZUMDAR, D.
Examines the discrepancy between
observed market wages and the true marginal product of labor
classified by schooling in an urban economy characterized
by: (a) labor...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP233Date: June 30, 1976Author:
PINERA, S. ;
SELOWSKY, M.
This paper examines the effects of
commercial policy on international trade, the location of
production, and factor movements in an international as well
as an interregional...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP236Date: June 30, 1976Author:
Balassa,Bela
Five distinct and significant rural
unemployment rates and magnitudes can be identified in the
data on rural unemployment. The crucial distinctions
required for the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP234Date: April 30, 1976Author:
KRISHNA, R.
This paper explores the possibilities of
applying current urban modelling techniques to cities in
LDCs. Urban models are divided into two classes: analytic
models and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP232Date: April 30, 1976Author:
MOHAN, R.
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