An examination of the nature of the
educational production process reveals that nonschool inputs
are usually stronger determinants of learning and behavior
than are...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP188Date: February 28, 1974Author:
SIMMONS, J.
Past and recent trends in jute
consumption are analyzed with emphasis on the factors that
affect the competitive relationship between jute and the
synthetics. Consumption...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP171Date: January 31, 1974Author:
Grilli, E. ;
Morrison, R. ;
Yang, M.
The post-1966 literature on the
employment implications of industrialization in LDCs is
surveyed using observations based on three broad schools of
thought regarding...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP170Date: January 31, 1974Author:
Morawetz, D.
Tabular data are presented on the
expected values of macroeconomic variables and other
structural characteristics derived from 20 years of data
(1950-1970) on 101 nonsocialist...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP154Date: January 31, 1974Author:
Carter, N. ;
Elkington, H.
A study to establish the technical
feasibility of alternative civil construction technologies
utilizing different combinations of labor and equipment,
and, in turn,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP172Date: January 1, 1974Author:
Harral, C. ;
Miller, L. ;
Sud, I.
The purpose of this paper is to explore
the circumstances under which in-plant training would be
preferable to formal vocational schools in developing
countries and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP169Date: December 31, 1973Author:
ZYMELMAN, M. ;
HOROWITZ, M. ;
HERRNSTADT, E.
The economic and institutional problems
influencing the growth of construction industries in
developing countries are examined. Research was conducted in
Korea, Iran,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP168Date: November 30, 1973
Recent trends in fertility in Jamaica
are described. Although the current fertility rates are very
much higher than those observed in the country during much
of the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP167Date: November 30, 1973Author:
ZACHARIAH, K.
The United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO) guidelines for economic
project evaluation are analyzed and are broken down into
four stages through step-by-step...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP166Date: November 1, 1973Author:
Hansen,Vernon J.
A development strategy is defined from
comparisons of a country's structure of production and
trade to the average intercountry patterns of resource
allocation. On this...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP165Date: October 31, 1973Author:
Chenery,Hollis B.
The advantages and disadvantages of
protection as an instrument of industrialization policy in
developing countries are examined. While there are strong
arguments for...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP164Date: October 31, 1973Author:
HUGHES, H.
The problems of automobiles and their
relation to mass transport in the cities of developing
countries are summarized. Automobile ownership is a global
phenomenon having...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP162Date: September 30, 1973Author:
OWEN, W.
The long-term implications of the
interrelation between fertility and mortality rates for
population programs in high mortality countries are
examined. Although the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP163Date: September 30, 1973Author:
ZACHARIAH, K. ;
ZAFROS, G.
A macromodel of the classical gap
analysis type, which was redesigned to take into account
specific problems emerging in Kenya, may prove useful as a
prototype for other...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP161Date: September 30, 1973Author:
AGARWALA, R. ;
BHAKTA, R.
The international demand for iron ore,
which has increased rapidly over the past 20 years following
the rise of steel consumption in developed and developing
countries,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP160Date: August 31, 1973Author:
VARON, B. ;
NUSBAUMER, J. ;
MUHTASIB, A.
This paper presents economic models of
household behaviour to clarify the normative and predictive
implications of so-called economic theories of fertility.
Three models...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP159Date: July 31, 1973Author:
Repetto, Robert C.
Alternative project selection procedures
put forward by World Bank appraisers are critically
examined. These methods involve cost-benefit analysis, which
has evolved...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP158Date: July 31, 1973Author:
LAL, D.
Issues in the field of education finance
are examined in light of the escalating costs in recent
years that have given these problems a special importance
and urgency....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP157Date: July 31, 1973Author:
Jallade,Jean-Pierre
The effect of reverse preferences, the
trade preferences granted by developing to developed
countries, is evaluated. Extensive tables focus on
preferences for items...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP155Date: June 30, 1973Author:
HADJITARKHANI, N.
The world hard fibers economy is
undergoing a period of crisis and is facing an uncertain
future. The substantial sisal price increase of 1963-1964
triggered a new planting...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP156Date: June 30, 1973Author:
GRILLI, E.
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