Empirical evidence indicates that the poor, and particularly the urban poor, in developing countries pay a substantial part of their income as taxes. This paper examines critically the procedures employed...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP222Date: December 31, 1975Author:
MCLURE, C.
Current information on Nigeria's urban and regional development is presented. The data concentrate on population growth and distribution, income distribution and employment change, and demand for basic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7505Date: December 31, 1975Author:
Hwang,Grace Y.
This paper analyzes the quantitative effects of different compensatory financing schemes. It derives the properties of these schemes both by using historical simulations and by applying statistical theory....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP228Date: December 31, 1975Author:
DE VRIES, J.
About 950 Tanzanian villages will take part in a National Maize Project that will be assisted by an 18 million dollars credit from the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156409Date: December 24, 1975
Ghana's economic development will be assisted by 42 million dollars from the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association, (IDA). The funds are for two projects, 14 million dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156407Date: December 24, 1975
The International Development Association,, an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a 14 million dollars credit for a first highway project in Guinea. The project is designed to satisfy a pressing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156408Date: December 24, 1975
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, lending ten million US dollars to help finance an expansion program for four companies in the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151546Date: December 23, 1975
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of 10 million dollars for a highway project in Mali.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156405Date: December 15, 1975
A study of unskilled labor markets for civil construction was proposed by the Transport Research Division of the Bank within its ongoing major study of the Substitution of Labor and Equipment in Civil...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP223Date: November 30, 1975Author:
BOSE, S.
Buffer stock policy aimed at stabilizing annual consumption of grain in the face of fluctuating supplies has many dimensions which are most conveniently analyzed by stochastic computer simulation models....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP219Date: November 30, 1975Author:
REUTLINGER, SHLOMO
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, is extending a credit of 6 million dollars to help finance a technical
assistance project in Tanzania.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156112Date: November 26, 1975
A procedure for representing competitive and noncompetitive market structures in linear programming (LP) models is presented. The specification of the objective function follows from the choice of market...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP23Date: November 1, 1975Author:
Duloy, J. ;
Norton, R.
The objective of this paper is to analyze some effects of economic dependence between sharecroppers and landlords on technological progress in Northeastern Brazil. The results indicate that under certain...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD16Date: November 1, 1975Author:
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: new style orientation deemed okay, by May E. Roxburgh; Timbuktu is alive and well but ancient city lacks bank, by Julian Bharier; second...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64219Date: November 1, 1975Author:
Banfi,Gabriel ;
Bharier,Julian ;
EDeeley, Raymond ;
Roxburgh,May E.
Exploration of some of the implications of a multiplicative risk model suggests that such a model leads to the rather surprising result that optimally distorted market prices are more efficient for social...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP24Date: November 1, 1975Author:
Hazell,Peter B. ;
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
This paper analyzes the results of a field survey of small and medium industry in Kenya as potential suppliers of tools and equipment for a rural access roads program now being implemented by the Ministry...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SCT20Date: October 31, 1975Author:
Baranson,Jack
In labor-intensive civil construction the most basic method of moving material is the direct carrying of the load by the available manpower. Headbaskets and shoulder yokes are the most widely used. This...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN298Date: October 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
This memorandum, which is complementary to earlier experiments on wheelbarrows, describes the characteristics of wheelbarrows, the mechanics of their use, various aspects of their design, and features...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN299Date: October 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
Compaction is an important aspect of most civil engineering construction, applicable in earth and rockfill embankments, layered materials such as road pavements, and concrete prior to setting. This memorandum...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN303Date: October 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
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