This report presents the findings of an urban transport sector review which analyzed key urban transport issues facing the Philippine government as a basis for determining possible courses of action for...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4134Date: October 11, 1983
This report presents the findings of an urban transport sector review which analyzed key urban transport issues facing the Philippine government as a basis for determining possible courses of action for...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4134Date: October 11, 1983
The paper presents a new approach for the formulation and implementation of economywide models. The approach uses extensively Social Accounting Matrices (SAM). It starts with the observation that each...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD62Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Drud,Arne ;
Grais,Wafik ;
Pyatt,Frank Graham
The clearing of tropical forests can expose unusually fragile soil surfaces to potential water run-off and soil erosion to a degree that has significant impact on their subsequent fertility, and on downstream...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP79Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Nelson, M.
The question of whether oil importing countries should tax interest payments to Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to exploit collective monopoly power in the world capital market is...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD60Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Van Wijnbergen,Sweder
Bank policy on irrigation water charges is well defined in terms of guiding principles. However, experience in implementation of existing policies has led to a review of whether the Bank should change...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP84Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Sfeir-Younis,Alfredo
Due to the change in demand for tin, tin plate and aluminum, it is often questioned whether the pricing policies of the tin and tin plate industries have contributed to material substitution against tin...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8303Date: September 30, 1983Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
The purpose of this paper is to prepare a methodology useful for the analysis of the housing finance systems of developing countries. This methodology is applied to Brazil which exhibits a diversity of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD35Date: September 30, 1983Author:
Tucillo, John
The Philippines transport sector displays all the weaknesses that characterize that of many developing countries. There is little intermodal coordination and a lack of infrastructure, particularly freight...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3916Date: September 30, 1983
Since the last economic report on LPDR was prepared, the government not only started a number of important investment projects, particulary in agriculture and transport, but also introduced a comprehensive...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 4125Date: September 30, 1983
Does the use of user charges in the social sectors of poor countries cause ramifications in regard to efficiency and equity considerations? The purpose of this note is to suggest a strategy for analyzing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8309Date: September 30, 1983Author:
Birdsall,Nancy M.
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, signed in Washington, D. C. agreements creating the first specialized leasing company in the Dominican...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153096Date: September 20, 1983
This report is the ninth of an annual series. It reviews the experience of 127 World Bank-supported projects whose performance was evaluated in 1982. Given its highly differentiated readership, the structure...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 4720Date: September 16, 1983
This report is the ninth of an annual series. It reviews the experience of 127 World Bank-supported projects whose performance was evaluated in 1982. Given its highly differentiated readership, the structure...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 4720Date: September 16, 1983
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollar loan to Nigeria on September 15, 1983. The loan will be used to import about two million tons of fertilizer to help...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155735Date: September 15, 1983
After the two first oil price shocks, economists, policy makers, and the public got used to increases in energy prices and they expected them to continue. In 1982, when the oil prices dropped, all expectations...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD63Date: September 1, 1983Author:
Grais, Wafik M.
Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: economic crisis continues: update on sub-Saharan Africa, by Pushpa N. Schwartz; the annual report: a ritual since 1946, by Alex Spiliotopoulos;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59518Date: September 1, 1983Author:
Benjenk,Munir P. ;
Carroll,Jane H. ;
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Nepomuceno, Patricia D. ;
Ohuchi,Teruyuki ;
Please,Stanley ;
Schwartz,Pushpa Nand ;
Spiliotopoulos, Alex
The Yugoslav economy has weathered a number of shocks, including two increases in oil prices, two worldwide recessions, changes in the relative prices of both exports and imports, and shifts in major export...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD57Date: September 1, 1983Author:
Robinson,Sherman ;
Tyson,Laura D'Andrea
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Seventy-Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar loan to Indonesia on September 1, 1983. The loan will be used to aid in its sugar production.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155734Date: September 1, 1983
This report consists of five sections, a main report and four annexes which include detailed discussions of poverty and growth; issues in agricultural development; the industrialization process, growth...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3350Date: August 31, 1983
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