• The distribution of income by factor components
    A rigorous and exact formulation of the relationship between the Gini measure of inequality in total income across families and corresponding measures of inequality in such components of total income as...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP162 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: PYATT, G. ; CHEN, C. ; FEI, J.
  • Basic needs : the case of Sri Lanka
    This article has two related objectives: to judge Sri Lanka's success in meeting its basic needs and growth objectives, and to use Sri Lanka's experience to cast light on general hypotheses regarding basic...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP197 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Isenman,Paul
  • Price distortions in developing countries : a bias against agriculture
    This article evaluates the effects of government intervention in agricultural commodity markets for a sample of developing countries. It also presents a review of the methodology for quantifying the effects...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP175 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Lutz, E. ; Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
  • Consumer search and alternative market equilibria
    A general model is presented for studying the connection between imperfect information and imperfect competition, comparing the methodology involved in generating monopolistic competition due to consumers'...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP137 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Braverman,Avishay
  • Choice of technique in Sahelian rice production
    This paper reports on investigations of the social and private profitability of alternative ways of growing rice in four Sahelian countries. Efforts were made to ensure that methods are technically feasible...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP199 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Humphreys, C. ; Pearson, S.
  • A model for analyzing lenders' perceived risk optimal international borrowing, capital allocation, and creditworthiness control
    A model that facilitates inferences about lenders' subjective default probabilities is presented. The models' underlying assumption is that the probability of default is determined by factors not controlled...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP159 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Feder,Gershon ; Just, R. ; DRC ; BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
  • A cost of siblings : child schooling in urban Colombia
    The factors that influence the persistent and negative relation between number of children and allocation of resources to investment in those children are discussed. Data used for the analysis are a 1967...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP160 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: BIRDSALL, N. ; DEDPH
  • The incidence of sales and excise taxes, or where do we put the transfers?
    Whether sales or excise taxes are regressive or progressive depends on how the question is asked, and the implicit or explicit definition of what incomes would be were there no taxes is of crucial importance....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP503 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Meerman,Jacob P.
  • Workers' self-management and planning : the Yugoslavia case
    The rules, procedures, and theoretical premises of Yugoslavia's 1974 new constitution as they apply to workers' self-management are described. One feature of the constitutional changes is that, in addition...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP161 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Ardalan,Cyrus
  • Predicting agricultural output response
    The prediction of output response to price changes in the agricultural sector of developing countries is often an extremely important aspect of policy formation since variations in the price of major crops...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP167 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: BARNUM, H. ; SQUIRE, L.
  • The impact of trade policies on income distribution in a planning model for Colombia
    This paper develops a multisector Computable General Equilibrium model to simulate the effects of trade on the distribution of income among socioeconomic groups defined both by the factors of production...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP170 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: DE MELO, J. ; ROBINSON, S.
  • Portugal in face of the Common Market
    With a view toward Portugal's entry into the European Common Market, this paper reviews the experience of the Portuguese economy during the post-Revolutionary period, the quadrupling of oil prices, and...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP164 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Balassa, Bela
  • Integrated national energy planning in developing countries
    In recent years, decision makers in an increasing number of countries have realized that energy sector planning should be carried out on an integrated basis within the framework of a national energy master...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP165 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: MUNASINGHE, M.
  • Estimating counterfactual incomes in studies budget incidence
    The relationship between economies with indirect taxes and total factor incomes is discussed. Comprehensive statistical studies (CSS) of budget incidence assume ceteris paribus conditions for technology,...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP171 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Meerman,Jacob P. ; Shome, P.
  • Spatial differences in poverty : the case of Peru
    Using Peru as a case study, the implications of spatial differences in living costs for measures of poverty are examined. To obtain location specific poverty lines that reflect comparable levels of consumer...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP153 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Thomas,Vinod
  • Resource allocation to housing investment : comments and further results
    Using a 39 country sample, Burns and Grebler show that there is a systematic nonlinear relationship between investment in residential construction and the per capita output of a country. An obvious test...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP183 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Renaud, Bernard
  • Project evaluation in risky markets
    This paper analyzes the implications of production risk for shadow price in the economic and social evaluation of investment projects. The analysis shows how income distribution and risk aversion considerations...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP184 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
  • Selected case studies on monitoring and evaluation of rural development projects - Volume II : East Asia and the Pacific
    These case studies include experiences from agricultural and rural development projects in East Asia and the Pacific. They include papers from seven countries on monitoring and evaluation of agricultural...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN138 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Deboeck, Guido J. ; Rubin, Deborah [editors] ; AGR
  • Nepal - First rural development project
    Nepal is one of the least developed countries in the world, and serious attempts at development have been under way only since the 1960s. The rural development - I project was the first Bank operation...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN174 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: AGR
  • Food security in food deficit countries
    The central proposition of this paper is that periodic shortfalls in aggregate food consumption in the developing countries are primarily related to poor harvests in the countries and not short world supplies....
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN186 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Reutlinger, S. ; Knapp, K.
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