This paper evaluates the 1973-74 Household Expenditure Survey in Bangladesh and the estimates of income distribution derived from it. Based on this evaluation, the survey data were adjusted for biases...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8108Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Kansal,Satish M.
As part of the City Study to develop tools to estimate spatial and economic impacts of policy interventions in LDC urban centres, this volume provides a comprehensive, uniform and systematic description...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8115Date: July 31, 1981Author:
LEE, Y. ;
DED
Polarization reversal (PR) is the term given to the turning point in the spatial pattern of growth and development in a nation when continuing relative concentration ceases and urban deconcentration or...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8116Date: July 31, 1981Author:
KEEN, D. ;
TOWNROE, P. ;
DED
The purpose of this note is to outline simple methods that may be useful to analyze the nutritional impact of agricultural projects. All agricultural projects may have important implications for the nutritional...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN86Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ;
AGR
The growing volume of private commercial loans to LDCs has heightened concern about the ability of countries to service their accumulated external obligations on schedule, and reawakened interest in analyzing...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF73Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Kharas, H. ;
Development Economics Department (DED)
The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical base for future discussion of policy issues related to housing subsidies. A survey was conducted to collect data on the amount of direct and indirect...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8106Date: July 31, 1981Author:
HINH, D. ;
SANYAL, B. ;
VALVERDER, N. ;
BAMBERGER, M. ;
DED
An analysis of wage and employment trends in Africa provides a descriptive account and some conceptual approaches to this dimension of the labor market. In Africa, as in the rest of the developing world,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER68Date: July 31, 1981Author:
LINDAUER, D. ;
DEDER
The number of workers per household in Bogota is increasing as women and other household members join the labor force in greater numbers. Increasing the number of workers per household has virtually no...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8110Date: July 31, 1981Author:
PINEDA, J. ;
DED
This paper surveys and evaluates the data on the distribution of income in Papua New Guinea. The data which come from the Household Expenditure Survey of 1975/76 and the Urban Population Survey of 1977,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8109Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Downes, E. Beverley
The purpose of this paper is to investigate three related issues concerning the urban land market in Bogota, Colombia. First, an attempt is made to quantify the extent to which land unit prices vary in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8114Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Wagner,Andrew M.
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of four hundred million US dollars to India for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154558Date: July 9, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank and its affiliate, lnternational Development Association, have approved loans totaling $967 million to six countries: Argentina, lndia, Nigeria, Romania, Thailand,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149258Date: July 9, 1981
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, The Kedaung Group of Indonesia, Corning Glass Works of the United States, and two international...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152788Date: July 8, 1981
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
Since 1973 attempts to adjust the structure of the world economy to rapidly rising costs of energy have dominated all other economic issues. This paper argues that the energy transition is closer to completion...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP204Date: June 30, 1981Author:
Chenery,Hollis B.
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