• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Risk analysis in project appraisal
    The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it describes for the general reader three case studies in the use of risk analysis in project appraisal which serve to illustrate different aspects of the...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: OCP11 Date: January 1, 1970 Author: Pouliquen,Louis Y.
  • Economic growth in Sweden during 1860-1965 compared with growth in other countries
    A preliminary exploration of Swedish economic development provides data pertinent to the comparability of the Swedish experience and contemporary underdeveloped countries. Apart from the fact that Swedish...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP53 Date: December 31, 1969 Author: ZAFIRIOU, R.
  • Exports of cotton textiles from developing countries to the European economic community and the United Kingdom
    Examination of trends in exportation of cotton textiles from developing countries to the European Economic Community (EEC) and the United Kingdom during the period extending from 1958 to 1967 provides...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP52 Date: December 31, 1969 Author: SHEPHERD, G.
  • Gambia - The economy
    The Gambia is a small country with a surface of 4,000 square miles, forming a 200-mile long and 15 to 30-mile-wide stretch of land along both sides of the Gambia river. It is surrounded on three sides...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: AW12 Date: December 31, 1969
  • International Bank notes
    This International Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: partners in development; World Bank art society; welcome to new Executive Directors; Christmas party 1969; and welcome...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 64166 Date: December 1, 1969
  • Economic aspects of the pulp and paper industry, special reference to developing countries
    The economic background of the pulp and paper industry relevant to the establishment of such industries is examined. Industry characteristics are reviewed, including a discussion of the main manufacturing...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP51 Date: October 31, 1969 Author: Datas-Panero,Jose
  • Cotton charts : a graphic summary of postwar trends in the world cotton economy
    Fifteen charts and a summary table on selected aspects of the world cotton economy, covering the period 1953 to 1969, are presented. Chart I shows the internationally used staple length classification...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP49 Date: October 31, 1969 Author: VARON, B. ; RYAN, D.
  • Notes on a macro-economic model used to project the possible performance of the Jamaican economy 1968-1973
    Description of a quantitative economic model, its evolution, and its integration into an analysis of the Jamaican economy from 1968-73 provides insights into the steps by which this type of activity is...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP50 Date: October 31, 1969 Author: CARTER, N.
  • Tunisia - Economic growth and tax elasticity : the Tunisian experience
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the causes explaining the apparent lack of elasticity of the Tunisian Tax system. The elasticity of the tax system has arisen in Tunisia as a problem area within...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: EC172 Date: October 30, 1969
  • Announcement of Bank and IDA Lend Morocco Fourteen Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars for Highways on October 8, 1969
    This press release announces the Bank and IDA are lending the equivalent of Fourteen Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars to Morocco. The funds will be used to help finance a highway improvement and maintenance...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155469 Date: October 8, 1969
  • Cotton : current situation, major issues, and recent international discussions
    The current cotton situation is summarized and major problems confronting the world cotton economy are examined. The world cotton economy has been facing two major problems in the last few years: a declining...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP48 Date: September 30, 1969 Author: VARON, B.
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