The role of health in economic and
social planning for less developed countries is discussed.
Planning should be based on both the consumption and
production aspects...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP153Date: May 31, 1973Author:
NEWMAN, P.
The principal changes that have occurred
in the structure of private foreign direct investment during
the post-World War II period, both at the level of the
investor...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP149Date: April 30, 1973
The methodology and results of a
nutrition and health survey of 571 civil construction
workers at three sites in West Java are presented. Efforts
were made to determine...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP152Date: April 30, 1973Author:
KARYADI, D. ;
BASTA, S.
Recommendations are made on the
establishment of the common external tariff for the Andean
Common Market (ACM) as well as on export taxes and
subsidies, quantitative...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP150Date: April 30, 1973Author:
Balassa,Bela
Selected field surveys of migrants and
nonmigrants in rural and urban areas are examined in order
to define the motives underlying internal migrations,
especially those...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP151Date: March 31, 1973Author:
BRIGG, P.
A summary evaluation is presented of the
interrelations between internal and external policies in the
economic development experience of the past 10 years, with
emphasis...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP141Date: March 31, 1973Author:
CHENERY, H. ;
CARTER, N.
A critical examination of the export
projections of LDCs prepared by the UNCTAD and FAO is
presented in order to learn as much as is possible from
major exercises carried...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP146Date: March 31, 1973Author:
ANYANWU, E.
The employment problem is likely to be a
key question in development strategy throughout the 1970s,
as rapid rates of population are increasingly felt in the
labor market...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP148Date: March 31, 1973Author:
TURNHAM, D. ;
HAWKINS, E.
The influence of structural changes in
manufacturing activity on the relative size and composition
of inventory by the stages of fabrication are examined.
Manufacturing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP147Date: March 31, 1973Author:
PRAKASH, V.
Questions relevant to the use of rate of
time discount in evaluating the social profitability of an
investment project are reviewed. Attention is paid to the
underlying...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP144Date: February 28, 1973Author:
BLITZER, C.
Problems experienced by countries in the
Pacific-Asian area in the trade of manufactured goods are
discussed, with emphasis on the principal characteristics of
the international...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP143Date: February 28, 1973Author:
HUGHES, H.
The experience of development finance
companies (DFCs) associated with the World Bank is
evaluated, with emphasis on their double role as financial
intermediaries and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP145Date: February 28, 1973Author:
DIAMOND, W. ;
GULHATI, R.
Estimation of the shadow price of
foreign exchange for project evaluation in developing
countries is addressed. The information requirements of the
alternative methods...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP142Date: February 28, 1973Author:
Balassa, Bela
Hypotheses explaining an alleged failure
of production techniques to adapt to social factor prices
are examined. Research and policy priorities in Southeast
and East...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP140Date: January 31, 1973Author:
HUGHES, H.
The intercountry variation in the GDP
rates is examined in terms of variations in the supply of
factor inputs and the efficiency of factor use. A production
model with...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP138Date: January 31, 1973Author:
SINGH, S.
This paper was prepared in answer to
increasing interest in the Bank in the work of family
planning programs. It presents a method of evaluation which
uses statistics...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP137Date: November 30, 1972Author:
CUCA, R.
Policy issues facing tropical hardwood
trade in the Asia-Pacific region are described. Tropical
hardwood resources offer excellent opportunities for the
economic development...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP136Date: October 31, 1972Author:
TAKEUCHI, K.
The world nickel market is assessed.
Developing countries, excluding Cuba, produce about 2
percent of the global nickel output but possess 22 percent
of the world's...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP135Date: August 31, 1972Author:
Varon, Bension
The behavior and outlook of the natural
rubber market is considered. Three variables appear to
explain the movement of the natural rubber price during the
1950 to 1970...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP133Date: August 31, 1972Author:
Khan,Manzoor Ul Haque
Current trends in labor-oriented
Japanese manufacturing investment in Taiwan, Singapore, and
South Korea are described. Japan's labor
resource-induced overseas investment...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP134Date: August 31, 1972Author:
Ozawa,Sachiko
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