This paper contains a selection of case studies presented at the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in Eastern Africa, which was held in Nairobi in April 1979...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN137Date: January 31, 1980Author:
Deboeck, Guido J. ;
Rubin, Deborah [editors] ;
AGR
The Bihar Agricultural Research Project will reorganize and strengthen Bihar's agricultural extension services, and help upgrade and develop adaptive research with the objective of achieving early and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN175Date: January 31, 1980
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an island country of 3 million people located in the tropics about 100 miles north of Australia. PNG's geography, topography and early stage of economic development has affected...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 2819Date: January 29, 1980
The author raises questions that are relevant to most developing countries. Turkey's emphasis in the past on capital-intensive import substitution in preference to light labor-intensive export industries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10115Date: January 1, 1980Author:
Walstedt,Bertil
For almost a decade, the status of women working group of the staff association has addressed itself to the issue of equalizing the status of women and men in the Bank. As part of this effort, the group...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52744Date: January 1, 1980
This paper uses a simulation model to measure the size of the social welfare gains from price stabilization within the general setting of a non-linear multiplicative risk and lagged expectations model...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP27Date: January 1, 1980Author:
Scandizzo,Pasquale L. ;
Hazell, Peter B.R. ;
Anderson,Jock R. ;
AGR
This paper describes the economic issues involved in the supplemental feeding of malnourished children. The paper is divided into four major sections. The first section discusses the potential leakages...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP28Date: January 1, 1980Author:
Knudsen,Odin K.
The relationship between output, factor demands, and income and the decomposition of these relationships into separate effects as suggested by the structure of a social accounting matrix are examined....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP125Date: December 31, 1979Author:
PYATT, G. ;
ROUND, J.
The effectiveness of food programs in increasing food and calorie consumption in children of target families is examined. Three programs are compared: a ration shop scheme where preselected families received...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP127Date: December 31, 1979Author:
SELOWSKY, M.
Recent years have seen a growing awareness in the Bank's need to give explicit attention to the effects of its projects on women. It is being recognized that women are disproportionately represented among...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: WID6Date: December 31, 1979
Over the past five years, the Bank has effected a major change in the volume and direction of its lending for the rural sector. Over half of this lending is now being directed towards rural development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN159Date: December 31, 1979Author:
Thoolen, Ben A. ;
AGR
The workshop was organized to cover three broad themes: (i) management use of information; (ii) data collection, processing, analysis and presentation; and (iii) institutional and sociological aspects...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN136Date: December 31, 1979Author:
AGR
This news release, dated December 28, 1979, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s soft-loan affiliate, approved a 2.5 million dollars credit to Tanzania to help finance...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158180Date: December 28, 1979
This news release, dated December 20, 1979, announces the World Bank and its soft-loan affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), approved a lending package of 52 million dollars to Nicaragua...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158174Date: December 20, 1979
The sixth replenishment (IDA6) of the International Development Association (IDA) should be seen against a framework for mobilizing resources to achieve faster growth, through a substantial and sustained...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 34373Date: December 20, 1979
This news release, dated December 17, 1979, announces the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, approved a credit of 10 million dollars for a highway project in Bangladesh.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158173Date: December 17, 1979
This document consists of suggested outlines that should be modified or reorganized according to specific circumstances. Some sections of the outline may be irrelevant for certain country situations; or...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP48Date: December 1, 1979Author:
Sfeir-Younis,Alfredo ;
AGR
The background of economic growth in Norway is reviewed. Models that derive the direct and indirect measures used in empirical estimation and aggregate estimates for Norway's economy are analyzed, and...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP132Date: November 30, 1979Author:
Balassa, B.
A simple migration model that traces the link between individual decision making and observed aggregated migration behavior is described. Data are derived from migration flows for 11 provinces in Korea....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP140Date: November 30, 1979Author:
FEDER, G.
While operation, maintenance, and repair (OM&R) activities are vital to the success of irrigation projects, very little information has been published on the costs of these activities. The relevant information...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN127Date: November 30, 1979Author:
Hotes, Frederick L. ;
McSwain, Kenneth R. ;
AGR
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