This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of sixty-seven million US dollars to Korea to help finance a project to improve the efficiency of transport and increase the capacity of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156706Date: July 5, 1985
This paper examines recent changes in the external debt of the developing countries and the adjustment policies followed by these countries following the first oil shock, the second oil shock, and the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD149Date: July 1, 1985Author:
Balassa,Bela
This literature review was prepared as a background paper in support of ongoing research activities on the role of interhouse transfers as survival and development strategies for the urban poor. The purpose...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD69Date: July 1, 1985Author:
Clark, Mari H.
This paper examines the choices between outward and inward orientation, when the former provides similar incentives to sales in domestic and in foreign markets and the latter discriminates in favor of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD148Date: July 1, 1985Author:
Balassa,Bela
Extensive fuel peat reserves exist in developing countries, but much is yet to be done in defining the type, fuel value and reserves. This study presents a review of fuel peat formation, types, energy...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP41Date: June 30, 1985
This document presents some sylized facts on the nature of, and preconditions for, decentralized urban development, with special reference to tradeable goods and services. Given this framework, the implications...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD75Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Hamer, A.
This report documents the situation in Thailand's transport sector towards the end of the Fifth Development Plan (1982-86) and highlights issues that merit attention in preparation for the Sixth Development...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4950Date: June 30, 1985
Education, experience and the processing of information play key roles in a decision maker's choice of adopting various innovations. Before a decision maker decides whether or not to adopt a new production...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU42Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Fischer, Alastair
Optimal allocation of textile and apparel export quotas among various companies in an exporting country necessitates appropriate policies to maximize efficiency and increase output of a particular commodity....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8524Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Rottenberg, Simon
This memorandum presents an overview of the present situation and main problems in Ghana's transport sector brought on by more than a decade of political turmoil and economic decline, serious shortages...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 5737Date: June 30, 1985
This document presents stylized facts on the determinants of location behaviour, city size, and decentralized development. Given hypotheses about spatial outcomes of household, business, and government...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD73Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Hamer, A.
In Indonesia, and across the developing world, policymakers are apprehensive about increasing urbanization, fearing that it will concentrate population in one or very few centers, drawing resources away...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD74Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Hamer, A. ;
Steer, A. ;
Williams, D.
This paper surveys the literature on exchange rate crises, examining empirical regularities observed around the time of the crises and reviewing recent approaches to modelling exchange rate crises. It...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8539Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Goldberg,Linda S.
This paper analyzes the relationship between changes in the terms of trade and other exogenous shocks and national welfare. The latter is a wealth concept while the former is usually measured as a flow....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8528Date: June 30, 1985Author:
Kharas, Homi Hisan Shishido
The World Bank has approved a participation, totaling 50 million dollars, in two syndicated commercial loans, amounting to about $415 million, which will support three development projects in Hungary....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152101Date: June 11, 1985
A striking feature of the Egyptian labor market is the importance of the public sector, administration, public service and public enterprises. Outside agriculture the sector employs more than half the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD160Date: June 1, 1985Author:
Hansen, Bent
The paper analyzes the labor market performance in Pakistan taking as a departure point the existence of two broad economic periods since the independence of the country. For much of the first twenty...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD158Date: June 1, 1985Author:
Ahamd, Ehtisham ;
Stern, Nicholas
The first of the two papers in this report describes and provides representations of the patterns of rapid fertility and rapid mortality decline in developing countries. Rapid mortality decline is represented...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP681Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Bulatao, R. ;
Elwan, A.
This paper is intended as a guide to seaport planners in the preliminary assessment of projects involving bulk terminals. An overview of the bulk trades and bulk shipping provides the framework for assessing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP38Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Frankel, Ernst ;
Cooper, John ;
Yoo Whan Chang ;
Thara
The paper systematically examines the major devaluations of the l960-80 period to determine the influence of different policies--fiscal, credit and commercial--on the short and medium run outcome of a...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8518Date: May 31, 1985Author:
Chuhan, P.
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