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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
This is a special issue in the series of quarterly World Bank reports numbered EC-181, entitled Borrowing in International Capital Markets. In this issue are lists of publicized Eurocurrency credits for...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 67516Date: August 11, 1976
The purpose of this paper is to describe a technique and an associated computer algorithm for deriving the overall distribution of income given data on the distribution of income between and within aggregate...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD26Date: August 1, 1976Author:
Robinson,Sherman
Attitudes towards export subsidies granted by developing countries are examined and recommendations are made for export policies. The export subsidy debate, involving the United States' Trade Act of 1974...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP238Date: July 31, 1976Author:
BALASSA, B. ;
SHARPSTON, M.
The Hellerman-Rarick preassigned pivot procedure and a partitioning algorithm are used to construct reduced Jacobian matrices for the solution of large sparse nonlinear systems of equations.
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DRC4Date: July 31, 1976Author:
Bisschop, Johannes ;
Meeraus, Alexander
The character of the output of schools in developing countries depends largely on a single input, specifically, the characteristics of the children entering the schools. The relevance of public investment...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP32Date: July 31, 1976Author:
SELOWSKY, M.
The development of the services sector in Belo Horizonte, including labor absorption earnings, and the public services subsector is discussed. The services sector may be divided into two subsectors; the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7611Date: July 31, 1976Author:
Machado Luna,Jose Fernando
This report provides selected examples of the efforts of the World Bank to include technology that is appropriate to local conditions in the projects it finances in developing countries. It also describes...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN405Date: July 31, 1976
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