This paper briefly reviews two principal questions: (1) the merits of telecommunication investments in developing countries; and (2) the rationale for Bank Group involvement. It further studies the priority...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN17Date: May 31, 1975
This paper reviews two different issues of current concern to educational planners and policy-makers involved in the costing and financing of education. The first one highlights the financial impossibility...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP216Date: May 31, 1975Author:
HULTIN, M. ;
JALLADE, J.
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, is extending a credit of 15.5 million dollars to help finance a 32 dollars
million highway project in the People's Democratic...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155002Date: May 23, 1975
A credit of 10 million dollars from the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, will help to expand and improve the educational system in the Sudan.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154904Date: May 1, 1975
This review is a sequel to the World Bank's previous Guide to Highway Design Standards dated June 1957, which has been out of print for a number of years. This guide proved so popular, and the requests...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40967Date: May 1, 1975Author:
Cron, Frederick W.
This paper reports on one of several studies undertaken by a task force on urban poverty. The paper consists of two parts: an assessment of the nature and magnitude of several aspects of malnutrition in...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP202Date: April 30, 1975Author:
REUTLINGER, SHLOMO ;
SELOWSKY, M.
This note contains the description of a study on the economics of telecommunications in Papua New Guinea. The study is in part a reflection of a problem commonly encountered by telecommunications enterprises....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN16Date: April 30, 1975Author:
Warford,Jeremy James
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.
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