This study focuses on the many interactions among policies, perceptions, and underlying socio-economic conditions that influence the choice and use of technology in an investment project. In the study...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN231Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Kamenetzky,Mario
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of forty-three million fifty thousand US dollars to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156123Date: August 19, 1982
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of thirty-three million US dollars for a project to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156119Date: August 5, 1982
This review of available economic and sector reports focuses on agricultural sector reports and related analyses, some treatment of food sector management being the unifying element among the various reports...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP71Date: August 1, 1982Author:
Florini,Ann M. ;
AGR
What accounts for the differences in economic progress and affluence between the middle income countries and the poorer ones? This report examines this quesion in the light of three qualifications. First,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP30Date: August 1, 1982Author:
Scandizzo,Pasquale L. ;
David, W. ;
AGR
Modernization of the agricultural sector in developing countries has been threatened, due largely to the increasingly high cost of imported oil products to support irrigation projects, fertilizers, and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP49Date: August 1, 1982Author:
MCCOMBS , J . ;
AGR
Two of the most striking features of institutional credit in rural Africa since the 1960s are increases in government activity intended to provide more credit to farmers, and the size of the resource transfer...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP47Date: August 1, 1982Author:
VON PISCHKE, J. ;
Rouse,Michael J. ;
AGR
Factors influencing the performance of net farm income in families who adopted the double cropping regime in Malaysia are analyzed in light of the Muda Irrigation Project, which supplies off-season water...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP238Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Goldman, R. ;
Squire,Lyn
This paper presents the early results of empirical work on trade among developing countries. The main conclusion is that non-fuel trade among developing countries, excluding capital surplus oil exporters,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP278Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Havrylyshyn, Oli ;
Wolf, Martin
Time use data is crucial to the measurement of living standards both for developing more realistic and meaningful indicators of welfare and poverty and for providing deeper understanding of the dynamics...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM18Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Acharya,Meena
Kerala does not conform to the socioeconomic development pattern normally associated with a rapid fertility decline. This report attempts to determine the causes of the decline that Kerala is experiencing....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES2Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Zachariah,K. C.
This document is a collection of the maps developed by the National Spatial Policies in Brazil research project and the Cartography Division over an 18-month period. The nineteen computer generated maps...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD9Date: July 31, 1982Author:
KEEN, D. ;
LUSCOMBE, B. ;
URB
By 1982, it had become clear that women were active participants in the labor force recruited by the rural access road programme (RARP) in road construction. It was also evident that the extension of roads...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: WID23Date: July 31, 1982
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of fifty million US dollars to Pakistan for an eleventh...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156073Date: July 2, 1982
A social accounting matrix (SAM) is a means of representing economic and social data. It is an alternative statistical system to the more conventional balance sheet method by which most national income...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP55Date: July 1, 1982Author:
Round, J. ;
AGR
The nature of the extent of government intervention must be considered in the proposed revised Bank policy on loans for projects producing tropical beverages, because of the distortions the interventions...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP62Date: July 1, 1982Author:
Harling, Kenneth
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: new borrowing, lending policies-and what they mean, by Thomas Winston; a tabular look at FY82; taking the magic out of the process,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59495Date: July 1, 1982Author:
Fitzpatrick,Joseph H. ;
Koelle,H. Martin ;
Schneider,Hans J. ;
Sheen,Marjorie ;
Winston,Thomas B.
This paper examines the major instruments for administrative regulation of imports, the antidumping and countervailing duty procedures, or less-than-fair value cases, and the escape clause mechanism. It...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP246Date: June 30, 1982Author:
Nelson, Michael D. ;
Hall, H.
The purpose of this paper is to take a close look at the socioeconomic rationale for higher-education provision in developing countries. This is done by reviewing the costs and benefits associated with...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP225Date: June 30, 1982Author:
PSACHAROPOULOS, G.
Classical approaches to improving road maintenance organization in Africa have largely failed, mostly because they did not deal with the large number of constraints and pressures external to the organization...
Type: PAS Research PaperReport#: 14482Date: June 30, 1982Author:
Mason,Melody K.
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