Discussion of technology policy in an agricultural setting has only recently appeared with any cohesive force. A large number of the world's population not only have a low standard of living but also are...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN91Date: October 31, 1976Author:
McInerney, J.
Only 20 percent ot the world's population have access to safe water. The best way of remedying this situation is to provide shallow wells and hand pumps, wherever possible. However, existing hand pumps...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT9Date: October 31, 1976Author:
Journey,William K.
The absorption of foreign resources into the OPEC economies is examined. The absorption activities of the OPEC countries entail some major risks. First, the OPEC countries are in danger of falling into...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF24Date: October 31, 1976Author:
Bery,Suman K.
The World Bank and Its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA),are providing 16 million dollars to help develop two key sectors of Papua New Guinea's economy, agriculture and education.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156975Date: October 21, 1976
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, lending six million sixty thousand US dollars to Escorts, Ltd., of India on October 6, 1977, to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151629Date: October 6, 1976
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: staffers turning to bicycles to circumvent commuter rat race; high costs in West Arica due to lack of manpower, small size; new Bank...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64230Date: October 1, 1976Author:
Pard, Harding F.
The application of bargaining theory to cropsharing contracts in India is described. The mathematical derivation of determinate solutions for the rental share and empirical evidence concerning the existence...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP45Date: September 30, 1976Author:
Bell,Simon Cairns ;
ZUSMAN, P.
The rural nonfarm sector in Taiwan is examined. From 1930 to 1956, urban employment grew significantly faster than rural employment, but growth in nonagricultural employment in rural areas has exceeded...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER32Date: September 30, 1976Author:
HO, S.
This paper summarizes the conclusions of a study of capital utilization in the manufacturing industries of Colombia, Israel, Malaysia and the Philippines. The levels of capital utilization found in the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP242Date: September 30, 1976Author:
HUGHES, H. ;
BAUTISTA, R. ;
Lim,Choi D.
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has today approved a credit to Tanzania of 8 million dollars to help finance an expansion of Tanzania's tobacco processing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156973Date: September 17, 1976
The World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), wil1 support the Second Douala Port Project in Cameroon by providing a loan and a credit totaling 25 million dollars.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158084Date: September 9, 1976
This paper investigates the propensity of developing countries to purchase imported machinery rather than indigenously produced machinery at a lower price, based on the purchase of looms for textile weaving...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD19Date: September 1, 1976Author:
Rhee,Yung Whee ;
Westphal,Larry E.
This paper develops a method for estimating those benefits (or avoided costs) for both residential and business consumers. For the former, outage costs are based upon a calculation of the implied cost...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT7Date: August 31, 1976Author:
Julius,Deanne S.
It is contended that the informal sector of the urban labor market is not the major point of entry for fresh migrants from rural areas and that large variations in earning exist within it. A disproportionately...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP43Date: August 31, 1976Author:
MAZUMDAR, D.
The standard of reliability for electric power generation has traditionally been determined in an ad hoc manner. Generating capacity has been built to provide either a certain percentage of reserve capacity...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT8Date: August 31, 1976Author:
Gellerson,Mark
In order to explicitly examine the implications of sharecroppers and landowners having different objective functions, and to handle a multiple-output complication, a mathematical programming structure...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP40Date: August 31, 1976Author:
Kutcher,Gary P. ;
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
Tremendous problems in housing are arising from the unprecedented rate of urbanization, and it is imperative for government actions to facilitate the most efficient production of new housing and the best...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8124Date: August 31, 1976Author:
Struyk, R. ;
The Urban Institute ;
DED
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 of traditional economic analyses of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP241Date: August 31, 1976Author:
CARNEMARK, C. ;
BIDERMAN, J. ;
BOVET, D.
A case study of public finaces of the urban government of Bombay is presented as part of an an analytic and informational base that will increase consistency and confidence levels in decision making. The...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7613Date: August 31, 1976Author:
Bougeon-Maassen, F.
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