This paper examines data on the
determinants of adult cognitive competencies and of child
school participation in the Terai region of Nepal. The
results of the analysis...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP408Date: January 1, 1987Author:
Jamison, Dean T. ;
Lockheed, Marlaine E.
This paper examines the determinants of
intra-industry specialisation in manufactured goods in
bilateral trade among countries whose manufactured exports
exceeded $300...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP404Date: January 1, 1987Author:
Balassa, Bela
This paper presents a regression
analysis of import and export shares of GDP for 14 commodity
and service categories in 55 developing countries over the
period 1964-82....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP431Date: January 1, 1987Author:
McCarthy, F. Desmond ;
Taylor, Lance ;
Talati, Cyrus
This study has shown that significant
quantities of protein for either human consumption or
livestock feed could be produced from wastewater-based
aquaculture, which...
Type: PublicationReport#: TEC3Date: January 1, 1987Author:
Johnson Cointreau, Sandra
This paper is a preliminary report on a
research project on "The Timing and Sequencing of a
Trade Liberalization Policy," conducted by the CPD
since the spring of 1984....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8642Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Papageorgiou, Demetrius ;
Choksi, Armeane ;
Michaely
This paper reviews the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) rules on subsidies in trade and
examines the quantitative importance and pattern of
countervailing...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ERS9Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Nam, Chong-Hyun
This paper surveys the literature on the
role and educational effects of practical activities in
science teaching. Two issues are investigated: (a) the
validity of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: EDT51Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Haddad, Wadi D. ;
Za'rour, George I.
Distance education includes the use of
correspondence courses, the work of open universities, and
education in-school and out-of-school based on broadcasting
by radio...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: EDT43Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Perraton, Hilary
This paper relates the consumer bias
towards foreign goods in developing countries to the quality
reputation of locally produced goods. It argues that
consumers may...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWA8605Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Agbonyitor, Alberto D.K.
This study reports on an analyses of
household demand for health, schooling and water supply
services in an impoverished region of the African Sahel.
The purpose of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8615Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Birdsall, Nancy ;
Orivel, Francois ;
Ainsworth, Mart
The Action-Planning approach, as opposed
to the conventional development planning and implementation
techniques, is directed toward improving the borrowers'
institutional...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP56Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Silverman, Jerry M ;
Kettering, Merlyn ;
Schmidt, Te
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate
the Bank's involvement in assisting member countries to
attract and benefit from direct private foreign investment,
and to suggest...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD4Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Bannon, Ian
This paper suggests a number of
important policy issues for countries currently benefitting
from the temporary coffee export boom. First and foremost
among these policy...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8645Date: December 31, 1986Author:
Cuddington,John T.
This press release announces the World
Bank has approved two loans totaling sixty-five million US
dollars to two development banks in Malaysia to be used for
financing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157414Date: December 18, 1986
This book is part of Learning Kit No.5
in the World Bank's series of multimedia kits about
economic development, Toward a Better World. This book
includes the following...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74581Date: December 10, 1986Author:
Baldwin,Harriet B. ;
Rosen, Carol [editor]
Agricultural residues briquettes are a
viable economic alternative to increasingly scarce and
costly fuelwood for both domestic and industrial fuel. If
necessary, the...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM62Date: December 1, 1986
Sub - Saharan Africa, owing to its large
diversity of agro-climates, farming systems and endowments
in land and labor resources, necessitates different types of
technology...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU60Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Binswanger, Hans P ;
Pingali, Prabhu
In recent years the World Bank has
advised member countries on how they could improve their
policies toward private foreign direct investment, by means
of policy conditionality...
Type: PublicationReport#: CPD8641Date: November 30, 1986Author:
Hallberg,Kristin
This technical note is the first of two
notes prepared as part of the ongoing work by the
Population, Health and Nutrition Department on financing
health care in developing...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: PHN8629Date: November 30, 1986
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