This paper argues that the comparative R2 procedure is often less satisfactory for decomposing inequality than is simulation with the estimated "true" relation determining the distribution of interest....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP380Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Behrman,Jere R. ;
Knight, John B. ;
Sabot,Richard H.
Since 1980 the Bank's activities in the energy sector have expanded substantially. Analysis confirms that despite the recent drop in oil prices, the Bank should continue to accord a high priority to the...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB4442Date: August 31, 1983
The purpose of this report is to review the current federal programs for rural development and water resource use which are being used or could be used to help small farmers in Northeast Brazil. This assessment,...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3938Date: August 31, 1983
The metropolitan Sao Paulo region still has substantial agglomeration economies which enhance the productivity of plants located there. A doubling of distance from the center of the metropolitan region,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD25Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Hansen,Keith E.
This report reviews the current status of the process by which the Bank evaluates the results of its operational activities and communicates them to its members and its staff. It also contains a summary...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 4679Date: August 31, 1983
This paper defines the concept of marginal costs and applies it to estimate the economic cost of natural gas in ten developing countries with a wide range of conditions. The marginal cost of natural gas...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY10Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Mashayekhi Beschloss,Afsaneh
This paper sketches some key facts concerning the Chilean economy in the past decade. Emphasis has been placed on matters related to economic fluctuations, unemployment, monetary and exchange rate policy,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8409Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Harberger,Arnold
Since 1953 the Soviet leadership has increasingly recognized that the current system of overcentralized planning has been the principal impediment to the economic development of the country. Alarmed by...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8310Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Okun,Yergeny
Analysis of the cost and financing of the education system in Upper Volta shows the system is inefficient and inequitable. The higher the level of education, the more costs increase; the lower private...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8402Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Orivel,Francois
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate quantitatively the impact of alternative pricing policies, aimed at reducing the deficits in the Grain Management Fund and the Fertilizer Fund in Korea. In comparing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8302Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Braverman, A. ;
Ahn, C. ;
Hammer, J.
This memorandum reviews developments in the transport sector in Portugal, as background for the Bank's dialogue with the Government on the sector. The major issues it finds recurring in each mode of transport...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3922Date: August 31, 1983
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the housing finance system of Colombia in 1983. It provides a brief description of the recent macroeconomic environment in Colombia, of the general structure...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD34Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Pachon,Alvaro
This paper reviews information concerning malnutrition in China by summarizing available evidence on the anthropometric status (principally height and weight) of children. In reviewing the available anthropometric...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: GEN17Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Jamison, Dean T. ;
Trowbridge, F. L
The World Bank approved seven loans to Brazil, totaling 1457.5 million dollars, during the fiscal year ended on June 30, 1983. This amount is the largest ever committed by the Bank to Brazil in one year...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151705Date: August 8, 1983
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Forty Million Dollar loan to Zimbabwe on August 4, 1983. The loan will be used for the operation of Zimbabwe’s railways.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155727Date: August 4, 1983
Developing countries will need to invest $130 billion a year during the next decade to adjust to high energy prices, according to a World Bank energy study released today. Half of these projected investment...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151399Date: August 3, 1983
This first World Bank report on the Chinese economy is primarily an attempt to address: (i) China's economic development as related to its people since the 1949 revolution; and (ii) the respective roles...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3391Date: August 1, 1983
This first World Bank report on the Chinese economy is primarily an attempt to address: (i) China's economic development as related to its people since the 1949 revolution; and (ii) the respective roles...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3391Date: August 1, 1983
Policy measures operating at macroeconomic and sector levels over the past 20 years have strongly influenced the overall development of the Pakistan economy and specifically the structure of production...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP81Date: August 1, 1983Author:
McInerney, J.
This report, which includes a supplementary report on energy use in the transport sector, is designed to aid in the formulation of a national energy policy necessitated by the two oil price shocks of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4285Date: August 1, 1983
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