This economic memorandum updates and assesses Guinea~^!!^s economic and financial situation and examines the policy issues dominating short- and medium-term development prospects. It focuses on the main...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 4690Date: February 29, 1984
This press release announces the World Bank granted a Twenty Million Dollar loan to Guatemala on February 23, 1984. The loan will be used for a project designed to modernize export industries and reorient...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157645Date: February 23, 1984
This press release, dated February 17, 1984, announces the Caribbean group for cooperation in economic development concluded its sixth meeting at World Bank headquarters. In the area of agriculture, it...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151407Date: February 17, 1984
This press release, dated February 9, 1984, announces the sixth meeting of the Caribbean Group for cooperation in economic development to be held in Washington, D.C., from February 13 through 17, 1984,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151231Date: February 9, 1984
This paper reviews the determination of trade policy in the United States and argues that historical circumstance and intellectual tradition are important elements in this determination. The restoration...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD75Date: February 1, 1984Author:
Finger, J.
A significant gap exists in many countries between known and feasible agricultural technologies, and what is actually practiced by farmers. A major channel for the dissemination of information on these...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP301Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Slade,Roger H.
The exploitation of technological knowledge is central to the development process. This paper stresses the role of technological effort in relation to production engineering and project execution as a...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP263Date: January 31, 1984Author:
DAHLMAN, C. ;
WESTPHAL, L.
The limited data available suggest that the prevalence of poor health and malnutrition in Nepal is as high as anywhere in the world. This paper focuses on child malnutrition in the Terai or southern plains...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP309Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Martorell, R. ;
Leslie, J. ;
Moock, P. ;
Stanford University ;
EDI ;
Columbia University
Basic economic conditions in Bhutan are relatively favorable, contradicting the very low per capita income. The ratio of population to land is relatively low and there is little landlessness. Literacy...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB4307Date: January 31, 1984
As a result of declining agricultural consumption and continued narrowing of the sector, agriculture has become strictly a minor economic activity in rich countries and in quite a few middle-income ones,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP323Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Jones, William
This study examines some problems in the market for natural rubber, one of the ten core commodities proposed for stabilization. The first part of the study is concerned with the specification, estimation,...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP10Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Tan,C. Suan
Throughout the developing world, the spatial distribution of population and industry is increasingly viewed as a major developmental issue. This article breaks down the evaluation of location policies...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP327Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Choe, S. Song, B. WUD
Tropical hardwood has been one of the most important primary commodities for developing countries in terms of export earnings. This handbook discusses various aspects of tropical hardwood including its...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN383Date: January 31, 1984
Educational expenditures claim a particularly large portion of available resources in LDCs. Major investment is being undertaken at a time when many economies are being constrained by recessionary pressures...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8401Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.
This paper analyzes optimal foreign borrowing and investment in a two-period certainty model with traded and nontraded goods. The model illustrates how borrowing and investment interact with relative...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8403Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Kharas, H. ;
Glick, R.
In 1981, a three-year global research and development project on integrated resource recovery was undertaken by the Bank for UNDP. Project goals are to achieve environmental, employment, energy, economic,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD37Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Gunnerson, C. ;
Jones, D.
This paper is concerned with a particular issue which arises during the implementation of an anti-inflation-cum-trade-liberalization program, i.e., the elimination of "water in external tariffs" or tariff...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP317Date: January 1, 1984Author:
Wogart,Jan Peter ;
Marques, Jose Silverio
Since the analysis of the expansion of urban employment and the attendant process of internal migration is of central importance in studying the economic development of LDC's, this paper formulates and...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP300Date: January 1, 1984Author:
Mazumdar, D.
This paper provides one more rationale for interlinking credit and tenancy contracts in the context of production loans. In an environment characterized by a heterogeneous labor pool and imperfect information,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP326Date: January 1, 1984Author:
Braverman,Avishay ;
Guasch, J. Luis
This paper reports on the analysis of data from Nepal. The farm households surveyed were chosen so that about half were in a region exposed to the newly-introduced training-and-visit (T & V) extension...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP296Date: January 1, 1984Author:
Jamison, Gracie D. ;
Moock, P. ;
DEDPH
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