The acquisition of technological mastery is critical to the achievement of self-sustaining development. Transfers of technology are substitutes for local mastery rather than sources of it. Consequently,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP217Date: November 30, 1981Author:
DAHLMAN, C. ;
WESTPHAL, L.
A political commitment to health programs aimed at those populations in greatest need of them, the rural and peri-urban, and competent managerial capability to implement them are essential if the goal...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP209Date: November 30, 1981Author:
EVANS, J. ;
Hall,Christine K. ;
WARFORD, J.
The purpose of this paper is to consider whether and under what circumstances developing countries can benefit from investments in international shipping. In recent years, much has been said and written...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP502Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Hansen, Harold
This paper suggests that rurally oriented development projects stand a greater chance of success if more consideration is given to the role that women play in society. In the past, economic betterment...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: WID13Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Carr,Marilyn N.
This review of education sector work in 1981 synthesizes the previous year's findings, updates the data and records significant changes over the year. In addition, it attempts a first qualitative review...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN268Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Prosser, R.C. ;
EDC
From the perspective of the Bank there are three basic reasons for the importance of Brazil and world food security. First, Brazil is the Bank's most important borrower and agriculture is a critical component...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN106Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Yudelman, Montague ;
AGR
The two models presented in this paper attempt to explain how the spatial pattern of economic activities in a developing economy may be linked directly to the economy-wide policies used to promote economic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8128Date: November 30, 1981Author:
RUANE, F. ;
DED
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, arranging long term foreign exchange loans to Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), and its subsidiary,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152916Date: November 30, 1981
The concentration of population and industry in cities of unprecedented size has caused concern in many developing countries. The identification of implicit spatial policies, such as uniform tariff policies...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8127Date: November 30, 1981Author:
DILLINGER, W. ;
DED
Responding to World Bank and member countries' concerns about the size and growth rates of major world metropolises, a research team of urban and regional economists was assembled in 1980. As part of this...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8123Date: November 30, 1981Author:
HAMER, A. ;
DED
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessional lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of six million thirty thousand US dollars to Comoros...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154697Date: November 12, 1981
This paper discusses alternative fuels for use in internal combustion engines in an effort to find local substitutes for imported gasoline and diesel fuel. A number of nations, particularly the developed...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY4Date: November 1, 1981
In developing countries government attempts to stabilize farmers incomes via price stabilization or crop insurance programs are often advocated on the basis of their potential efficiency and equity impacts...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN150Date: October 31, 1981Author:
Barah, B.C. ;
Binswanger, Hans
This manual follows and extends upon an earlier paper titled "A System for Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Extension Projects" (Report Number SWP272), which was published in December 1977. That...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN140Date: October 31, 1981Author:
Slade, Roger ;
Feder, Gershon
This paper assembles data on wages in India from different sources. The first part of the paper provides an analysis of the trends in wages in India from 1830 to 1976. The second part of the report explains...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER74Date: October 31, 1981Author:
Satyanarayana, Ded Y.
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessional lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-five million US dollars to India on October...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154694Date: October 29, 1981
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, and an international group of financial institutions joining Indian investors in a project to almost...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152838Date: October 22, 1981
This report represents an overview of a seventh group of 87 projects on which performance audit reports were issued by the department through the end of December 1980.
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 3640Date: October 9, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank has approved six loans totaling two hundred twenty-seven million dollars to Congo, India, Sudan, Tunisia, and Zaire.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154709Date: October 8, 1981
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