• The design of a basic evaluation system
    The purpose of this volume is to present a functional design for a basic evaluation system (BAS) which will provide a simple and easily understandable tool to help improve the efficiency of project implementation....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR8203 Date: May 31, 1982 Author: BAMBERGER, M. ; INT'L. DEV. RESEARCH CTR. ; DED
  • Non-survey techniques for evaluating urban development programs
    The purpose of this volume is to counteract a tendency to equate evaluation research with the use of sophisticated sample survey techniques and the application of complex, structured questionnaires. While...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR8206 Date: May 31, 1982 Author: Valadez,Joseph J. ; INT'L. DEV. RESEARCH CTR. ; DED
  • Statistical procedures for the evaluation of project impact
    The present volume is intended for researchers in developing countries who are involved in the design and interpretation of studies whose objective is to evaluate the impact of urban shelter projects....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR8208 Date: May 31, 1982 Author: Bamberger, M. ; DED ; IDRC
  • Evaluation of public sector investment programs
    The activities of development lending institutions, such as the World Bank, imply tests by which their effectiveness can be gauged. Although the World Bank has always prided itself on its pragmatic, ‘learning...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR8211 Date: May 31, 1982 Author: Keare, Douglas H.
  • The impact of attitudes toward risk on agricultural decisions in rural India
    The hypothesis that differences in investment behavior observed among farmers facing similar technologies and risk cannot be explained primarily by differences in their attitudes but have to be explained...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN153 Date: May 31, 1982 Author: Binswanger, Hans ; Jha, Dayanatha ; Balaramaiah, T.
  • The population sector : a background paper for the IDA retrospective study
    This paper provides a review of the population sector experience of the Bank against the setting of the evolution of population concerns and activities globally. It discusses the beginning and evolution...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: GEN9 Date: May 31, 1982 Author: Kanagaratnam,Kandiah
  • Announcement of Uganda to Receive Second Reconstruction Credit from IDA on May 27, 1982
    This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of seventy million US dollars to support for economic...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155942 Date: May 27, 1982
  • Announcement of Burma to Borrow Twenty Million US Dollars for Construction Industry on May 27, 1982
    This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty million US dollars to strengthen Burma's...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155943 Date: May 27, 1982
  • Announcement of IFC Helps Finance First Turkish Heavy Diesel Engine Plant on May 26, 1982
    This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, financing together with Turkish and German institutions and companies to the first heavy diesel...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 153021 Date: May 26, 1982
  • Guinea-Bissau - An introductory basic economic report (Vol. 2 of 3) : Volume 2
    Since independence, the Government has committed itself to centrally planning economic development and has tried to allocate priority to agriculture as the main force for subsequent industrial growth....
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 3529 Date: May 21, 1982
  • Announcement of Bangladesh to Improve Port Facilities with IDA Credit of Sixty Million US Dollars on May 20, 1982
    This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of sixty million US dollars to expand the Port facilities...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155934 Date: May 20, 1982
  • Announcement of Sri Lanka to Rehabilitate Tea Industry with Twenty Million US Dollars IDA Credit on May 6, 1982
    This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty million US dollars for rehabilitation of...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155186 Date: May 6, 1982
  • Food policy analysis
    Food policy analysis is the process of research and thinking designed to discover the complementarities and trade-offs among food policy objectives and to build understanding of government initiatives...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP42 Date: May 1, 1982 Author: Timmer,C. Peter ; Falcon, Walter P. ; PEARSON, SCOTT R. ; Harvard Business School ; Food Research Institute
  • Philippines - Housing finance
    Housing finance represents a confluence of issues in the financial and shelter sectors of the economy, both of which involve wide-ranging and complex concerns. This report focuses on three interrelated...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB3732 Date: April 30, 1982
  • The costs of urbanization in developing countries
    The rapid process of urbanization in many developing countries has given rise to concern regarding the costs of urbanization. Industrialization, population growth, and increases in per capita income, all...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP227 Date: April 30, 1982 Author: Linn,Johannes F.
  • CILSS : national and regional security grain stocks in the Sahel - a World Bank statement
    The Sahelian countries are clearly vulnerable to major disruptions in domestic food supplies, and assisting them to increase food security is a priority concern for the Bank. The first priority will remain...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN107 Date: April 30, 1982
  • Bangladesh : rural and renewable energy issues and prospects
    In the absence of greater Government attention and immediate responses to the country's deteriorating rural energy situation and its impact on the rural population, the complex fuel-food-enviornment tradeoffs...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: EGY5 Date: April 30, 1982 Author: Manibog,Fernando
  • Economic appraisal in the health sector
    This paper discusses the role of economic appraisal in the formulation of health sector policy in less developed countries (LDCs). Specifically, it focuses on the application of economic analysis to public...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: GEN3 Date: April 30, 1982 Author: Prescott,Nicholas M. ; Warford,Jeremy James
  • Sectoral influences on spatial changes in manufacturing : Sao Paulo State, Brazil, 1960-1975
    Over the past twenty years the State of Sao Paulo in Brazil has undergone polarization reversal in the growth patterns of urban population. This reversal has been aided by a decentralization of manufacturing...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD15 Date: April 30, 1982 Author: TOWNROE, P. ; ROSEMAN, J. ; URB
  • Steps and concepts in coastal shipping development : a recent case history
    This case history of a country's efforts to introduce improvements in its transport sector illustrates how difficulties confronting project designers may call for many steps - steps of a trial and error...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN238 Date: April 30, 1982 Author: Englemann, Peter
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