This press release announces World Bank approved loans in the amount over one hundred fifty-eight million dollars to Colombia, Kenya, Tunisia, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen , and Zimbabwe.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154422Date: May 21, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of eleven million thirty thousand US dollars to Benin...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154252Date: May 18, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of twenty million US dollars to Togo for a fourth highway...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154248Date: May 14, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank has approved loans totaling three hundred seventy-six million seven hundred thousand to India, Jordan, Mali, Philippines, and Turkey.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154415Date: May 11, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank has approved loans totaling over five hundred fifty-two million dollars to Benin, Burundi, Haiti, Jamaica, the Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Paraguay,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154326Date: May 4, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of ten million US dollars to Sierra Leone for a second...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154204Date: May 4, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-five million US dollars to improve communications between...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154208Date: May 4, 1981
The findings of this survey on health, nutrition, and family planning include: (a) integration of services for health, nutrition, and family planning is the most cost-effective; (b) community participation...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DPH8114Date: May 1, 1981Author:
Faruqee, R. ;
Johnson, E.
Questions of importance for the negotiations on the extension of the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles focus on: (i) relative importance of trade in textiles and clothing; (ii) the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP202Date: April 30, 1981Author:
KEESING, D. ;
Wolf,Richard M
Discussions on the cost of credit in less developed countries seldom include the transaction costs of lending. These costs consists of the cost of administering credit and the cost of risk of default....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP226Date: April 30, 1981Author:
SAITO, K. ;
VILLANUEVA, D.
This paper shows how an approximate competitive market equilibrium may be computed as the solution to a linear programming model, when production possibilities are described by activity analysis vectors...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP189Date: April 30, 1981Author:
Norton, R. ;
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
The potential benefits of education as a consumption good and source of pleasure cannot be separated from its utility in transmitting the skills necessary to help people meet their basic needs, such as...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP450Date: April 30, 1981Author:
NOOR, A.
The paper distinguishes between two types of uses of income distribution data and argues that they require different treatments of demographic factors. In a descriptive, static analysis, these factors...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DPH8108Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Meesook,Oey Astra
Price policy is an important tool of government intervention in the market for agricultural goods and a primary way of influencing consumption, production, income distribution and trade. This paper specifically...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP41Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Knudsen, Odin K ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
This paper provides a demographic description of Nepal that shows regional differentials in order to show how the sample area compares with the rest of Nepal. The sample used compares age structure, fertility,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DPH8109Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Cochrane, S. ;
Joshi, N. ;
Nandwani, K.
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: King, in farewell, bids the Board to place interest of the Bank first, by Colbert I. King; ten years old and going strong, by Christine...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59320Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Abel, Christine ;
Fawcett,Katie L. ;
King,Colbert I. ;
Knapp,J. Burke ;
Nasem-Ports,Jeanette C. ;
Sagnier,Thierry
The twentieth century has witnessed a profound increase in the world's population and an equally remarkable increase in the proportion of the world's population living in urban areas. This paper analyzes...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP211Date: March 31, 1981Author:
INGRAM, G. ;
CARROLL, A.
The paper estimated the distribution of household income in Panama for 1970, using data from the country's first national household survey. It found that the inequality in income distribution by household...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8103Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Park,Jong-Goo
Trends in world sugar production, consumption, and prices are analyzed; projections are made under various scenarios regarding the operation of an International Sugar Agreement, and the occurrence of a...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN10Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Brook,Ezriel M. ;
Nowicki,Danuta
The report estimates Nepals houwehold income distribution using the country's first nationwide household survey (1976-1977). Results show that rural income inequality is considerably higher than its urban...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8102Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Kansal, Satish
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