Probably the most significant progress in agricultural extension worldwide in the 1970s has been the development of the Training and Visits Extension System. However, this development has not yet captured...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP196Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Cernea,Michael M.
This paper points out that the process governing variations in daily energy balances in human beings is not yet fully understood and a satisfactory theoretical framework for it is yet to emerge. Nevertheless,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP178Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Srinivasan,Thirukodikaval N.
This paper attempts to broaden the scope of poverty measurement. First, a brief review of measurements based on nutritional and monetary norms is presented. Then, it is suggested that data on the proportion...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP193Date: January 31, 1981Author:
RAO, V.
Cooperatives have a universal appeal as an instrument of poverty alleviation and yet their record has been less than exemplary. This paper highlights dilemmas faced in cooperative development between the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP169Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Lele,Uma
This paper describes the spatial distribution of manufacturing employment in Bogota and analyzes the changes in the location patterns over the 1970-1975 period using industrial directory data. The analysis...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP195Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Lee,Doyoung K.
This paper analyzes the initial conditions for development facing post-colonial African nations, outlines alternative development strategies followed by different groups of countries and assesses the consequences...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP177Date: January 31, 1981Author:
ACHARYA, S.
The question of the profitability of investing in human capital remains controversial. Three main methods for estimating the rate of return to investment in education are described: the elaborate method,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP210Date: January 31, 1981Author:
PSACHAROPOULOS, G.
This paper addresses income distribution issues and policy options to eliminate extreme poverty in a particular typology of middle-income semi-industrialized developing countries of Latin America. These...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP176Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Selowsky,Marcelo
This article, Shifting Patterns of World Trade and Competition, was reprinted with permission from the 1981 publication Growth and Entrepreneurship: Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing World. Examining...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP231Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Balassa,Bela
Since 1964 Brazil has experienced rapid economic growth, exclusionary politics and a persistently unequal distribution of income. After 1973 rapid growth was maintained only at the cost of accelerating...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP203Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Knight,Peter T.
The rapid rise in energy costs, especially oil prices, has created major dislocations in the economies of most oil-importing countries. The exploitation of domestic energy resources is one means of mitigating...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP187Date: January 31, 1981Author:
SCHRAMM, G. ;
MUNASINGHE, M.
This is chapter 9, entitled Feasibility, Effectiveness, and Costs of Food Security Alternatives in Developing Countries, from the publication entitled Food Security for Developing Countries. The chapter...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN105Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Valdes, Alberto [editor] ;
REUTLINGER, SHLOMO ;
BIGMAN, DAVID
Studies have shown that preschool age children of the lower socioeconomic groups in developing countries perform substantially worse in tests of cognitive development than children from higher income groups....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP218Date: January 31, 1981Author:
SELOWSKY, M.
This paper calls attention to a particular type of misallocation of resources having important efficiency and distributional losses within the educational sector of developing countries. It proposes that...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP192Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Pinera,Sebastian E. ;
Selowsky,Marcelo
The concern of this paper is with locational choices in investment decision. The spatial focus is the city-region. The paper argues that it is both conceptually and empirically useful to distinguish between...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8107Date: January 31, 1981Author:
TOWNROE, P. ;
DED
The second agricultural sector symposia which took place between January 5 to 9, 1981, represented the continuation of efforts to promote the dissemination of information to staff working on agriculture...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN59Date: January 31, 1981Author:
AGR
Until the 1960s all telephone switching systems used electromechanical components and progressed from step-by-step to machine-driven to crossbar exchanges. The rapid and unprecedented advances in the 1960s...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TWT3Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
An analysis of local government structure and finance in Karachi reveals a number of problems due largely to inadequate amounts of public sector resources available to local governments and to the fragmentation...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF68Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Kee, W. ;
Development Economics Department (DED)
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-five million US dollars for Bangladesh to improve the distribution...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154001Date: January 26, 1981
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