• Tanzania - Transport sector memorandum (Vol. 1 of 3) : Volume I
    This Tanzania Transport Sector Memorandum discusses the background of Tanzania’s transportation sector, as well as issues that hamper its efficient functioning. The combination of a large territory and...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 4042 Date: January 4, 1985
  • Public inputs and child schooling in Brazil
    Household data from a one percent sample of the 1970 Brazilian census are used to analyze the effect of public inputs, i.e. the supply of schooling, on children's school attainment in Brazil. The household...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP368 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Birdsall,Nancy M.
  • Effective incentives for domestic market sales and exports
    This paper develops and employs an estimating procedure to measure the net effect of economic policies in providing incentives for domestic market production and sales, as reflected through observed price...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP369 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Tyler,William G.
  • A computational approach to optimum public policies
    This paper describes and illustrates the use of an algorithm that computes optimal taxes and public production in an economy where the government's tax powers are restricted. The special features of the...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP382 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Heady, Christopher J. ; Mitra,Pradeep K.
  • Grenada - Economic report
    This report is based on the work of an economic mission to Grenada during January 1985. The main issues identified in the report include the need for: (i) a comprehensive fiscal reform to improve incentives...
    Type: Publication Report#: 75938 Date: January 1, 1985
  • Exports, policy choices, and economic growth in developing countries after the 1973 oil shock
    In a study of 43 developing countries in the 1973-78 period of external shocks, the author has shown that intercountry differences in the rate of economic growth are affected by differences in investment...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP372 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Balassa,Bela
  • General equilibrium analysis of the benefits of large transportation improvements
    This paper considers three benefit measures of a large transportation improvement in a general equilibrium framework, i.e. the Marshall-Dupuit consumer's surplus, the compensating variation, and the compensating...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP365 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu ; Mera,Koichi
  • The construction industry : issues and strategies in developing countries
    The primary purpose of this paper is to suggest directions and emphases for future actions by the Bank to promote the development of the domestic construction industry in developing countries. The report...
    Type: Publication Report#: 13531 Date: January 1, 1985
  • Distortions, factor proportions and efficiency losses : Argentina in the Latin American scenario
    This paper reports some orders of magnitude of the employment and income gains from resource reallocation that could be expected from removal of policy-induced distortions in the Argentina manufacturing...
    Type: Publication Report#: REP384 Date: January 1, 1985
  • Inflation and imported input prices in some inflationary Latin American economies
    This paper first updates to 1980 the estimates of the Harberger inflation model for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay and shows that all the hypotheses of this model hold and the reaction...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP366 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Hanson,James A.
  • The distribution and impact of health resource availability in China
    Using cross-section data, this paper provides a statistical assessment of the extent to which health resources are evenly distributed in China, and the degree to which improvements in health resource availability...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP397 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Prescott,Nicholas M. ; Jamison,Dean T.
  • Developing country trade policies and the international economic system
    This report focuses on the nature of the trade policies of both industrial and developing countries that are most conducive to the latter's future economic growth. It also considers approaches to strengthening...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP373 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Kreuger, Anne O. ; Michalopoulos,Constantine
  • Changing perceptions on the role of agriculture in the economy
    This paper traces the perceptions of the agricultural sector held by economists over the last three centuries, with particular emphasis on how the evolution of these ideas has influenced the state of thinking...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP78 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Throsby, C. D.
  • Port tariffs : current practices and trends
    The purpose of this report is to examine the strategies, procedures, objectives and data used by port managers when designing or revising their port tariffs. This report was written to complement earlier...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 13998 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Arnold,John H.
  • Ventilated improved pit latrines : Zimbabwean brick designs
    This paper describes the most recent developments in the design of ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines in Zimbabwe. A VIP latrine was developed in Zimbabwe in the 1970s as an odorless, fly-free toilet...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 11434 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Morgan, Peter R. ; Mara, D. Duncan ; Blair Research
  • Introduction to urban management
    This paper discusses what is involved in improving urban management in cities of the developing world. Part one, which makes up the main part of the paper, presents an overview of the principal issues...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 109679 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Grossman,David A.
  • Rural water supply handpumps project. Handpumps testing and development : progress report on field and laboratory testing
    The UNDP/World Bank Project for the Testing and Technological Development of Handpumps for Rural Water Supply is field testing a total of 2860 pumps of 76 pump types in 17 countries. The project has also...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP29 Date: December 31, 1984 Author: Arlosoroff, Saul ; Grey, David ; Journey, William ; Ka
  • Recycling from municipal refuse : a state-of-the-art review and annotated bibliography
    This report is in two parts: a concise state-of-the-art overview of recycling from municipal refuse, focusing on techniques and conditions germane to developing countries; and an annotated bibliography...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP30 Date: December 31, 1984 Author: Cointreau, Sandra Johnson ; Gunnerson, Charles G.
  • Guidelines for calculating financial and economic rates of return for DFC projects
    These guidelines, prepared for Bank-assisted Development Finance Companies, explain how to calculate financial and economic rates of return. The approach concentrates on capital productivity and efficiency,...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP33 Date: December 31, 1984 Author: Duvigneau,J. Christian ; Prasad,Ranga Nuthakki
  • Shared control of education : theory practice and impressions from education projects assisted by the World Bank
    The application of shared control in education administration is described. Shared control is a synthetic approach combining centralized and decentralized control, the major forms of education administration...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP329 Date: December 31, 1984 Author: Noor,Abdun
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