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 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 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
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
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
The World Bank today announced three loans for Tanzania totaling 46 million dollars that will assist major government programs to develop fishing and forestry, as well as help finance the construction...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158136Date: July 2, 1976
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has today approved a 20 million dollars credit to help finance a third highway project in Upper Volta.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158137Date: July 2, 1976
Investigation of the possibilities for substituting labor and equipment in civil construction projects has led to the following conclusions: (i) labor-intensive methods are technically feasible for a wide...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN317Date: July 1, 1976Author:
TWD
The research activities of seven institutions in Austria and Germany are described. There is a considerable gap between research and policy work on developing countries carried out by semi-official, non-academic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7607Date: June 30, 1976Author:
Linn,Johannes F.
The trade problems of LDCs are discussed. The nature of the problems of the poor countries is well understood. There is agreement on the broad principles that there is a need to raised living standards...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP39Date: June 30, 1976Author:
SINGH, S.
In seeking to make labor-intensive construction methods more productive and efficient, an important principle to be observed is to make the best use of human work capacity by minimizing energy-consuming...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN308Date: June 30, 1976Author:
World Bank
Problems of inequality related to the disaggregation of Gini coefficients are examined. Measures of inequality can be decomposed so that in a grouped population, total inequality depends on inequality...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP38Date: June 30, 1976Author:
PYATT, G.
This memorandum describes the use of agricultural tractors to haul construction materials in trailers, explains the problems in their use and discusses ways of overcoming these problems. Various options...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN310Date: June 30, 1976Author:
World Bank
Aggregates are used extensively in civil construction and the cost of their production is often a significant part of the total project cost. Usually it is necessary to crush or break quarried rock and/or...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN311Date: June 30, 1976Author:
World Bank
Only one of the 57 projects reviewed is likely to yield less than the opportunity cost of capital. However, the evidence available on another five or six is insufficient to permit a sound judgment as to...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 1227Date: June 30, 1976
The efficiency pricing approach of Squire and van der Tak, used for the economic analysis of projects, is evaluated. The World Bank application of the project appraisal methodology is proceeding in two...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7608Date: June 30, 1976Author:
Linn,Johannes F.
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