Energy plays a primary role in agricultural growth and development. The expansion of food production cannot take place without adequate supplies of energy--whether in the form of human labor, draft animal...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP76Date: August 1, 1983Author:
Sfeir-Younis,Alfredo
The paper presents CONOPT, an optimization system for static and dynamic large scale nonlinearly constrained optimization problems. The system is based on the GRG algorithm. All computations involving...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD59Date: August 1, 1983Author:
Drud,Arne
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
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
The paper develops general econometric methods for the treatment of modelling decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and risk. The problem of modelling fertilizer use and crop response in the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP347Date: July 31, 1983Author:
Hartley, Michael
This study focuses on the likely long term trends in investment, production and trade patterns in the world aluminum industry. It first introduces the non specialist reader to the technical characteristics...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP603Date: July 31, 1983Author:
Martin-Brown,Joan ;
Dammert,Alfredo J. ;
Meeraus,Alexander ;
Stoutjesdijk, Ardy
World Bank experience and that of other donor agencies suggests that institutional assistance is less successful than engineering assistance because it deals with problems that are difficult to define...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP586Date: July 31, 1983Author:
Lethem,Francis J. ;
Cooper,Lauren E. ;
PAS
This report is a guideline for use by Bank staff and consultants on power generating projects which employ large diesel engines as prime movers. It explains the characteristics and comparative advantages...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY9Date: July 31, 1983
This report is about the determinants of fertility decline in Sri Lanka in the post-1960 period. The paper concludes that a combination of historical circumstances and congeries ofsocial, economic, and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES5Date: July 31, 1983Author:
Namboodiri, N. Krishnan ;
Peiris, W. A. A. S ;
Gunasekara, H. R. ;
Perara, Soma ;
Patel,Sulekha ;
Ladd, Kathie W
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Fifteen Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Loan to Mauritius on July 28, 1983. The loan will be used to improve four main roads that serve heavily populated...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155688Date: July 28, 1983
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a One Hundred Ten Million Dollar loan to Yugoslavia on July 21, 1983. The loan will be used to help finance improvements for four railway organizations.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155687Date: July 21, 1983
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Thirty Million Dollar loan to Jordan on July 11, 1983. The loan will be used to improve urban transport conditions and solid waste collection for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155685Date: July 11, 1983
This paper sets out guidelines for Bank staff on centrally organized monitoring and evaluation in developing countries. Its purposes are to assist staff in discussions with member countries that wish to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 99017Date: July 1, 1983
This article refutes the contention that Brazil's development has not benefitted the poor and that rapid growth has had a polarizing effect on the distribution of income. Using the National Household Expenditure...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP259Date: June 30, 1983Author:
WEBB, R. ;
PFEFFERMANN, G.
Linear programming (LP) and quadratic programming (QP) have been broadly applied to analyze commodity- and sector-related issues. Linear complementarity programming (LCP), which encompasses LP and QP...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8302Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
This paper places the economic policies applied in Turkey in an international context, with a view to furthering the understanding of the changes that have occurred since January 1980. The paper also considers...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP266Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Balassa, Bela
Food aid to foreign countries has long enjoyed broad-based bi-partisan support in the United States. While many domestic and foreign programs are being scrutinized and restructured by the current Administration...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU8Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Reutlinger, S. ;
AGR
This paper presents an outline of the Becker-Mills-Williamson (BMW) model, which is being developed to simulate urban development in India in the context of general development of the national economy....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD22Date: June 30, 1983Author:
BECKER, C. ;
MILLS, E. ;
WILLIAMSON, J. ;
URB
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