• Bank notes
    This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: Credit Union (CU) installs mini-computer; film crew experiences life in Indian village; staff member discovers island of sheep, beaches,...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 64263 Date: September 1, 1979 Author: Baldwin,Harriet B.
  • The evaluation of the benefits of basic need policies
    A theoretical framework for the analysis of market intervention policies of goods related to the satisfaction of basic human needs is presented. The method allows quantification of such social benefits...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP18 Date: September 1, 1979 Author: Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ; Knudsen, O. ; AGR
  • Korea : options for secondary city urban transport
    The existing urban transport problems in Korea's rapidly growing provincial cities are assessed. Travel demand and land use and the pricing of strategic policy alternatives are discussed. Public transport...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR7902 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: Beesley, M. ; Turner, C. ; Gist, P.
  • 1979 Annual report on operations evaluation (AROE)
    The World Bank's operations evaluation activities have continued to evolve in a positive manner during the past year, reflecting the degree to which their most important features have become firmly rooted...
    Type: Annual Report Report#: 2648 Date: August 31, 1979
  • Intra-urban location of manufacturing employment in Colombia
    The spatial distribution of manufacturing employment in Bogota, Colombia is described, and the changes in location patterns from 1970 to 1975 using industrial directory data are analyzed. While the central...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR7910 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: K. Lee
  • A national urban pattern data file for 114 countries
    Tabular data are presented to aid in the development of an international perspective on urban growth patterns. The data were gathered for a cross-sectional analysis of patterns of concentration and reflect...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR7905 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: Dillinger,William R.
  • Selected aspects of a general algebraic modeling language
    This paper touches on the role of models in a policy/planning environment, and establishes the need for a general algebraic modeling system. The main purpose of the paper, however, is to develop a notation...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DRC13 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: Bisschop, Johannes ; Meeraus, Alexander
  • The city study : the available data
    Data documentation for the City Study Research Project is presented. The main objective of the study is to develop economic tools for estimating the economic and spatial impacts of policy interventions...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: URR7913 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: Lee,Irene Y.
  • Malaysia - Jengka Triangle Resettlement Project
    This case study was developed for use in executive courses for Bank staff and is designed to serve as the basis for seminar discussion, rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN166 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: Runge, Carlisle Ford
  • The World Bank as an agent of technological development
    Among other things, the Bank is an agent of technological development in the developing countries. It assists governments in formulating national economic policies that affect the rate and direction of...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN247 Date: August 31, 1979
  • Pakistan - Azad Kashmir Hill Farming Technical Development Project
    This case study is designed to serve as the basis for seminar discussion, rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a project. The Azad Kashmir Project was an experiment in...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN167 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: Runge, Carlisle Ford ; AGR
  • The Benor training and visit extension system in Turkey and West Bengal
    The training and visit system (T&V) has gained wide notice for its well defined, highly disciplined approach to agricultural extension. The basic elements of the system are: (i) systematic and regular...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN162 Date: August 31, 1979 Author: AGR
  • Announcement of First IFC Bangladesh Investment Six Million Thirty Thousand US Dollars Shipbuilding Project on August 21, 1979
    This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, making its first investment in Bangladesh on August 21, 1979, by joining Bangladeshi and Japanese...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 151923 Date: August 21, 1979
  • Interrelated credit and tenancy markets in rural economies of developing countries
    This paper concentrates on a model of linkage between land, labour, and credit transactions in the context of sharecropping. It assumes that sharecropping is the only form of tenancy and that a potential...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD30 Date: August 2, 1979 Author: Braverman,Avishay ; Srinivasan, T.
  • Policies for efficient and equitable growth of cities in developing countries
    The unprecedented rate of urban growth in developing nations has created massive new tasks for national and local policy makers. This paper, which was prepared as a background paper for World Development...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP342 Date: July 31, 1979 Author: Linn,Johannes F.
  • Growth policies and the exchange rate in Turkey
    This paper reviews Turkey's growth performance, which has had a pronounced cyclical pattern, and makes recommendations for policies for more stable economic growth. Turkey's growth performance is examined...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP181 Date: July 31, 1979 Author: BALASSA, B.
  • Recent theoretical developments in public finance
    The growing use of general equilibrium models and the explicit incorporation of constraints in optimization models have resulted in a modification of traditional conclusions in many areas of economics....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP500 Date: July 31, 1979 Author: Jetha,Nizar
  • Announcement of Argentine and Spanish Firms, IFC Sponsor Forty-Three Million US Dollars Fishing Project on July 31, 1979
    This press release announces Argentine and Spanish investors and the International Finance Corporation are joining to establish a major integrated fishing project in Argentina, that will catch and process...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 151920 Date: July 31, 1979
  • Public food distribution in India
    The government of India has a long history of responding to crisis situations of acute shortages of food through public distribution. However, the objective of the public distribution system is not well...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP25 Date: July 1, 1979 Author: Swamy,Gurushri N. ; AGR
  • Book review of "advances in maritime economics"
    Advances in Maritime Economics, a volume of papers relating to the enalysis of the economics of shipping edited by R. O. Gossis reviewed. The papers presented cover such topics as the fiscal treatment...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP110 Date: June 30, 1979 Author: WALTERS, A.
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