• Wagner's law of public expenditure : do recent cross-section studies confirm it?
    Conflicting empirical findings of various cross-section studies of Wagner's Law of public expenditures are examined. It has generally been believed that the share of government expenditure in GNP tends...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP69 Date: March 31, 1970 Author: Gandhi, V.
  • Are there economies of size in government current expenditures in developing countries?
    There seems to be a lack of any economies in government administration expenditure with respect to the size of the nation. This may be due to the tendency of a developing country to consume a stable proportion...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP68 Date: March 31, 1970 Author: GANDHI, V.
  • On the concentration of urbanization and economic efficiency
    The proposition that the economic return for investment in large metropolitan areas is less than in smaller urban centers is examined. Per capita costs of government expenditure for public services is...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP74 Date: March 31, 1970 Author: Mera,Koichi
  • A framework for urban transport studies
    A framework for conducting urban transportation studies as part of larger urban projects is developed. A three-step urban transportation study method is proposed: 1) establisment of a general land-use...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP73 Date: March 31, 1970 Author: Mera,Koichi
  • Announcement of Twenty Six Million Dollars Credit to United Arab Republic on March 26, 1970
    The largest tile drainage operation ever to be undertaken will go forward with the assistance of a 26 million dollars credit to the United Arab Republic from the International Development Association (IDA),...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152888 Date: March 26, 1970
  • Appraisal methodology for feeder roads projects
    The measurement of the benefits of feeder road investments in developing countries is discussed. An examination of the developmental benefits of feeder roads must consider which barriers are likely to...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP70 Date: March 19, 1970 Author: Israel,Arturo P.
  • Transport network model
    A transportation network model has been designed to simulate the traffic flows in a country taking the transportation system and shipping requirements as inputs. The output of the model is the system network...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP61 Date: February 28, 1970 Author: MILLER, L.
  • Transfer cost performance model
    A transfer model has been designed to simulate intermodal transfer operations. Model inputs include traffic description and technical characteristics of each facility; outputs include performance measures...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP64 Date: February 28, 1970 Author: Harral, Clell G.
  • Railroad cost performance model
    This paper is one of a series of papers from the Transport Planning Models Study. The overall objective of the study is the continuing investigation of mathematical models developed for use in transport...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP63 Date: February 28, 1970
  • A macro-economic model of Jamaica, 1959-1966
    An econometric model describing the Jamaican economy during the period 1959-66 has been developed to provide a macroeconomic structural description of the economy with statistically estimated quantitative...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP65 Date: February 28, 1970 Author: CARTER, N.
  • The optimum depth of water in a port
    The problems of cost-benefit analysis of port deepening projects are discussed. The first step in determining optimum port deepening levels is to examine the nature of a market equilibrium for an internationally...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP67 Date: February 28, 1970 Author: RAY, A.
  • Highway cost performance model
    A highway model has been developed that simulates vehicle operating costs and service characteristics for different vehicle types operating over a highway system of specified design characteristics. Vehicle...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP62 Date: February 28, 1970 Author: HARRAL, C.
  • Announcement of Nineteen Million Dollars for Highways in Cameroon on February 11, 1970
    The World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), are lending 19 million dollars for a highway project in the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152887 Date: February 11, 1970
  • International Bank notes
    This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: English language classes for wives; the African club, by Paul Danquah; and introducing new professional staff.
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 64168 Date: February 1, 1970 Author: Danquah,Paul
  • Use of simulation in appraising a livestock breeding / fattening project
    A computer simulation model has been developed to allow appraisal of livestock breeding and fattening ranch projects. The model can be complemented by other similar models such as those that describe fattening...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP56 Date: January 31, 1970 Author: HUSAIN, T.
  • Secondary effects and project appraisal
    A general classification of secondary effects has been developed to resolve definitional confusion surrounding the concept of secondary effects of development projects and to illustrate the situation that...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP58 Date: January 31, 1970 Author: MASSE, M.
  • Agricultural production and supply response research : a review for project planners in developing countries
    A review of estimation methodologies used by researchers in the area of agricultural production and supply response provides an assessment of the state of the art in this field. Production functions, which...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP57 Date: January 31, 1970 Author: SEAGRAVES, J.
  • Tariffs, intermediate goods, and domestic protection : comment
    Contrary to recent contentions, effective protection theory is valid in a general equilibrium framework, and efficiency proportions of the current definitions of effective tariff are unbiased. The analysis...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP54 Date: January 31, 1970 Author: BALASSA, B.
  • Growth performance of Eastern European economies and comparable Western European countries
    A comparison of the industrial growth performances of the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe with those of the decentralized Western European economies at comparable levels of development provides...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP59 Date: January 31, 1970 Author: BALASSA, B. ; BERTRAND, T.
  • The effective rates of protection and the question of labor protection in the United States : a comment
    In answering recent theoretical and empirical objections raised against the effective protection concept, one must examine the question of sectoral protection, the problems related to substitution between...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP55 Date: January 31, 1970 Author: Balassa,Bela ; GUISINGER, G. ; SCHYDLOWSKY, D.
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