This paper uses data from the World Bank and UNFPA sponsored survey on the Determinants of Fertility Decline in Sri Lanka. The multivariate analysis shows that the traditionally strong influences on fertility,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES3Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Patel,Sulekha
This case study summarizes the design and early implementation of a large public investment project in a middle-income developing nation. State-of-the-art technology and many components were purchased...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN242Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Bundick, Paul ;
Maybury, Robert
This paper is addressed to leaders in developing countries who are concerned about the severe limits in the ability of their countries to foster the growth of local science and technology and to link these...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN339Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Kamenetzky, Mario ;
Maybury, Robert
This case examines the choice of technology in an investment project undertaken to improve the efficiency and production of the fishing industry in a low-income island developing country. Following a comparative...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN239Date: October 31, 1982
The emergence of rapidly growing metropolitan centers of unprecedented size in many LDCs has prompted a search for ways to promote the growth of alternative secondary cities. The sources of industrial...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD13Date: October 31, 1982Author:
DILLINGER, W. ;
HAMER, A. ;
DRD
Youth unemployment is a chronic and pervasive problem in many parts of the world. Inappropriate educational systems have frequently been adopted, thereby failing to address this issue. This case looks...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN237Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Bundick,Paul L.
This paper examines the industrial and economic growth of Sao Paulo. Around 1900, Sao Paulo city and its hinterland belonged to a national economic archipelago: the region was one of a series of small...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD14Date: October 31, 1982Author:
HAMER, A. ;
URB
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of seven million US dollars to reconstruct flood-damaged...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156133Date: October 4, 1982
Modernization of developing nations always includes the spread of education, but factors influencing the rate and consequences of its spread remain poorly understood. This paper examines data recently...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP396Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Cochrane, Susan H. ;
Jamison,Dean T.
This paper reviews the experience of centrally planned economies with reforms and the relevance of their experience to China. Attempts made at the decentralization of decision making in China are considered...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP235Date: September 30, 1982Author:
BALASSA, B.
This paper seeks to place India's marked acceleration in the pace of urbanization during 1971-81 in its proper perspective. It relates the census data to past trends as well as to the urbanization experience...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP295Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Mohan, R. ;
Pant, C.
This report begins with a brief illustration of the basic idea of the 'active life profile' and outlines a new technique of constructing it. The life profile has some analogies with the national income...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN202Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Seers, D.
One of the often noted features of less-developed agrarian economies is the existence of interlinkages among the land, labor, credit, and product markets. The landlord is often the supplier of credit;...
In order to understand the connection between non-sectoral policies and industrial location better, a theoretical model linking macroeconomic policies to the spatial response of factor markets was developed....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD12Date: September 30, 1982Author:
RUANE, F. ;
URB
A dynamic model of diffusion of a new technology involving a variable input highlights the role of information accumulation and distinguishes between active gathering of information, which entails costs,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN85Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Slade,Roger H.
In this paper the socioeconomic system of a country is viewed as an iceberg with an affluent tip and extreme poverty at the submerged bottom. Making use of this representation, the paper describes an approach...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN233Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Kamenetzky,Mario
Health conditions throughout the developing world are substantially inferior to those in affluent countries. The principal causes of morbidity and mortality are infectious and parasitic diseases. The environments...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN236Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Hall, K. ;
PHN
Project-specific monitoring and evaluation systems are being introduced at an increasing rate in agricultural and rural development projects to improve the efficiency of ongoing project management and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN139Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Ng, Ronald ;
Lethem, Francis
This paper presents a dynamic model of diffusion of a new technology involving a variable input. The model highlights the role of information accumulation, and distinguishes between active gathering of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU2Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Slade, R.
This report reviews the current status of the process by which the Bank, in its continuing search for ways to improve the effectiveness of its development asssistance, evaluates the results of its operational...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 4104Date: September 30, 1982
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