Recommendations are made for reforming the system of incentives in countries which have established an industrial base behind high protective barriers. The recommendations aim at improving resource allocation...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP203Date: April 30, 1975Author:
Balassa,Bela
The manufacturing sector in the Caribbean area consists largely of those lighter industries that typify countries at an early stage of industrialization. All these countries have a relatively small market,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 668Date: April 4, 1975
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: listening held key to communication; travel with desert's ~^!!^blue man~^!!^ offers glimpse of another world, by Carole E. Devillers;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64212Date: April 1, 1975Author:
Chemock, Joan ;
Devillers,Carole E. ;
Hoisen, John A. ;
Woo,Shing-Fan Josephine
Results of educational research in both developed and developing countries are presented on the issue of schooling effectiveness, and policy implications are discussed. Schooling is not as effective in...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP200Date: March 31, 1975Author:
SIMMONS, J.
Literature on educational production functions for developing countries is reviewed and policy implications are considered. Findings from both developed and developing countries indicate that the students's...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP201Date: March 31, 1975Author:
ALEXANDER, L. ;
SIMMONS, J.
At this time of important international economic changes, Tanzania faces new challenges and opportunities as well as serious problems and uncertainties. This survey attempts to contribute to the discussion...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 647Date: March 31, 1975
Construction is an essential industry in any economy and plays an important role in development. Therefore, encouragement of an efficient construction industry should be an objective of both national policy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN320Date: March 31, 1975Author:
Jaycox, Edward V.K. ;
Hardy, Clifford
The rapidly increasing tendency for firms in developed countries to contract out to producers in developing countries the manufacture of certain products for final sale in developed country markets is...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP19Date: March 31, 1975Author:
Sharpston,Michael
The International Development Association (IDA) approved a 4.4 million dollars credit to assist a road rehabilitation and improvement project in Western Samoa.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154766Date: March 6, 1975
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: food service comments result in both changes and suggestions, by Hugh Dowsett; warring with computers in a lost cause; Bank calendar;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64211Date: March 1, 1975Author:
Dowsett,Hugh ;
MUNCIE, PETER C. ;
Yucel, Nan C.
In-depth analysis of the structure and performance of Liberia's economy in the 1960s and early 1970s; assesses balance of payments prospects and public sector finances through 1980; outlines a potential...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 426Date: March 1, 1975
This study compares the quality of hand-laid with machine-laid road surface on a surfacing project in India. The machine-laid surface was found to be markedly superior with a rideability ratio of 2.5....
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN291Date: February 28, 1975Author:
World Bank
In labor-intensive haulage activities, labor productivity is reduced substantially if the materials have to be lifted over more than a certain height. This paper describes an experiment in which sand was...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN292Date: February 28, 1975Author:
World Bank
The theoretical issues of an appropriate expression for the shadow wage is considered for the case in which the creation of an additional job in the urban sector with artificially elevated wages induces...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP197Date: February 28, 1975Author:
MAZUMDAR, D.
This study examines the major consequences of the introduction of tractor technology to farms in Pakistan. Field survey data were collected on farm structure, resource use, production processes and output...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP210Date: February 28, 1975Author:
MCINERNEY, J. ;
DONALDSON, G. ;
DEDER
A demonstration that a comparative urban data system for LDCs is both feasible to construct and potentially useful as an analytical tool to guide future development of the World Bank's urban lending program...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7503Date: February 28, 1975Author:
Bahl, Roy W. ;
Morss, E.
A model of an urban labor market in less developed countries is described as an approach to the theory of urban underemployment in these nations. The model has two sectors: one (the U-sector) is characterized...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP198Date: February 28, 1975Author:
Mazumdar,Dipak
The value of travel time saved in economic assessment of transport projects can assume an overriding importance. This value arises out of two basic considerations: time savings make possible alternative...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP199Date: February 28, 1975Author:
Yucel,Nail Cengiz
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