This review of the first 50 projects covered by PPARs makes overall assessments of the performance of the projects against their appraisal objectives and of the Bank's handling of the projects. In financial...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 871Date: September 30, 1975
Concern with problems of income distribution and poverty in less developed countries has grown in recent years, and with it a demand for data on the size distribution of income. Several projects have been...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP217Date: September 30, 1975Author:
KIPNIS, J.
This paper presents the analytical framework and simulation results of three regional energy models for the OECD area, viz. North America, Japan and OECD Europe. Each regional model is designed as a system...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP221Date: September 30, 1975Author:
CELASUN, M. ;
Pinto,Rogerio F.
The relationship between government taxation of petroleum products and increases in the prices of oil products is examined. Price and tax data collected from 64 developing and developed countries for 1973...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF9Date: September 30, 1975Author:
Saito, K.
This paper surveys the present state of knowledge on internal migration in LDCs, and suggests directions for future research in this field. After a brief indication of the importance of migration flows...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP215Date: September 30, 1975Author:
YAP, LORENE Y. L.
Four possible policy options available to LDCs, which can foster economic integration and can be implemented individually or in combination, include development within a national framework, regional economic...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP30Date: September 30, 1975Author:
Balassa, Bela ;
Stoutjesdijk, A.
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a 5.2 million dollars credit to the Somali Port Authority (SPA) designed to help expand port facilities of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156103Date: September 25, 1975
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved additional financing of 4.6 million dollars to
Bangladesh to assist in financing improvements in the oil transfer...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156056Date: September 18, 1975
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of 3.2 million dollars to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen to help finance the rehabilitation...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156055Date: September 9, 1975
This paper summarizes a review of the literature on ergonomics relevant to labor-intensive civil construction techniques. It confines itself mainly to the energy aspects of physiological cost. Ergonomics...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN297Date: August 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
This supplement attempts to amplify certain points made by the study of productivity rates of earth moving machines, including bulldozers, motorized scrapers, towed scrapers, and front-end loaders. Specifically,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN293Date: August 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
An equipment charging system is essential for proper cost accounting of a job and for recovering the costs from contractors who may rent the equipment from the construction authorities. This paper examines...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN296Date: August 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
Cross country demand and savings patterns are investigated in an application of the extended linear expenditure system (ELES). By fitting the ELES model to a short time series for 14 countries, using an...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP31Date: August 31, 1975Author:
LLUCH, C. ;
WILLIAMS, R.
The first road demonstration project consisted of advanced earthworks and pavement construction to provide a length of new road in mountainous country in Northwest India. Although the experiments were...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN295Date: August 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
A case study of the public finances of the urban government Ahmedabad, India is presented as part of an analytic and informational base that will increase consistency and confidence levels in decison making....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7704Date: August 31, 1975Author:
Bahl,Roy W.
In this paper we have tested several alternative hypotheses regarding: The trade off between Growth Equity, Employment and Poverty. This testing was conducted in the framework of a general equilibrium...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP212Date: August 31, 1975Author:
GUPTA, S. ;
ANDERSON, E.
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a 4 million dollars development credit to the Republic of
Paraguay to help finance a preinvestment study project.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156053Date: August 25, 1975
Between 1975 and the year 2000 the cities of the developing countries will be expected to absorb 70 percent of the projected population increases. This paper examines the causes, magnitude, and locations...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP209Date: July 31, 1975Author:
BEIER, G. ;
CHURCHILL, A. ;
Cohen,Philip M. ;
RENAUD, B. ;
DED
Recovery of the costs of public sector investments from their beneficiaries is frequently an important issue in project selection, design and operation. This issue surfaces in a variety of forms, and the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP206Date: July 31, 1975Author:
Ray, A.
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.
