• The social costs of adjustment
    The paper outlines the deterioration in economic and social conditions that has recently occurred in many developing countries and examines the connections of economic adjustment to programs. The concept...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8706 Date: March 31, 1987 Author: Yukon Huang ; Nicholas, Peter
  • The GATT, quantitative restrictions, and the balance of payments
    A major objective of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations is the reduction and elimination of quantitative restrictions on international trade. The developed countries expect such liberalization on...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: ERS10 Date: March 31, 1987 Author: Frank, Isaiah
  • Announcement of World Bank to Assist Cote d'Ivoire Urban Program and Structural Adjustment on March 26, 1987
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred twenty-six million US dollars to assist Cote d'Ivoire in improving various facets of its urban program, and by strengthening...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 157440 Date: March 26, 1987
  • Announcement of Meeting of the Consultative Group for Guinea on March 19, 1987
    This press release announces the first meeting of the Consultative Group for Guinea held in Paris on March 18 and 19, 1987, under the chairmanship of Mr. Ismail Serageldin, Director, Country Programs Department,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 158206 Date: March 19, 1987
  • India - Review of the automotive products industry
    The automotive products subsector in India has been targeted by the 1985-1989 plans to grow more rapidly than the overall industrial sector, and the Government of India expects the subsector to constitute...
    Type: PSD, Privatization and Industrial Policy Report#: 6667 Date: March 9, 1987
  • Import demand elasticities : estimates and determinants
    In the formulation of trade policy, an accurate knowledge of the responses of imports and exports to income, relative price and policy changes is important. Therefore, the specification, econometric estimation...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DWA8704 Date: February 28, 1987 Author: Pritchett,Lant Hayward
  • Financial liberalization in Uruguay : success or failure
    The recent developments of Argentina, Uruguay and Chile during the seventies, all of which pursued a liberalization of their markets, ended up in deep crashes during the early eighties. Mostly based on...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8701 Date: February 28, 1987 Author: Larrain,Felipe B.
  • Market-based debt-reduction schemes in Chile : a macroeconomic perspective
    Chile's oversized external liabilities and the impossibility of generating a more sizeable trade surplus without imposing intolerable social costs have led to a search for alternative ways to reduce the...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8702 Date: February 28, 1987 Author: Larrain,Felipe B.
  • Urban transport
    Solving transport problems has become one of the chief tasks confronting governments in the developing countries, primarily because of the economic importance of their burgeoning cities. The urban sector...
    Type: Publication Report#: 9276 Date: February 28, 1987
  • Exchange rate movements, prices and inflation in the Nigerian economy : a macroeconomic analysis
    The Nigerian economy has been in a recession since 1981. In 1986, after four years of economic stagnation and debate on foreign exchange policy, the government instituted an auction system for the determination...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DWA8703 Date: February 28, 1987 Author: Obidegwu,Chukwuma F.
  • Hong Kong and Singapore : urban management and economic success
    This paper assesses the economic progress that has been made in Hong Kong and Singapore. Unlike many lesser developed countries, Hong Kong and Singapore have achieved remarkable economic growth despite...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD106 Date: February 28, 1987 Author: Costa,Rene L.
  • Announcement of World Bank President Conable to Visit Tanzania on February 16, 1987
    This press release announces on February 16, 1987, the President of the World Bank, Mr.Barber B. Conable, arrives in Dar-es-Salaam on Tuesday, February 17, 1987, for a two-day visit to Tanzania.
    Type: Announcement Report#: 158187 Date: February 16, 1987
  • Announcement of Conable Urges Action on Safe Motherhood, Announces World Bank Development Strategy for Women on February 10, 1987
    This press release announces Mr. Barber Conable, the Bank's President called for an immediate Safe Motherhood action program and, at the same time, outlined the key features of a major new strategy for...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 158113 Date: February 10, 1987
  • Procedures for evaluating traffic capacity and improvements to road geometry
    The geometric standards of a road, such as width, minimum curve radius and maximum grades, can have a major effect on the costs of road construction and maintenance, and the speed, safety and vehicle operating...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: TRP3 Date: February 1, 1987 Author: Hoban,Christopher Joseph
  • The value-added tax : revenue inflation and the foreign trade balance
    The paper discusses the revenue-increasing potential of the value added tax (VAT), the potential impact on prices of both introducing a VAT and changing its rate structure once introduced and on the foreign...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD225 Date: February 1, 1987 Author: Tait, Alan A.
  • Economic appraisal of transport projects : a manual with case studies
    This book provides a practical introduction to the economic appraisal of transport projects in developing countries. It defines the objectives of economic appraisal and describes the methodology of identifying,...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 10107 Date: January 31, 1987 Author: Adler,Hans A.
  • Higher education and the markets for educated labour in LDCs : theoretical approaches and implications
    The paper reviews a number of themes from the recent literature on higher education and markets for educated labor, from the viewpoint of their relevance to education and labor market policies in LDCs....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: EDT54 Date: January 31, 1987 Author: Blomquist, Ake
  • Demand for primary schooling in rural Mali : should user fees be increased?
    This paper presents estimates of the price elasticity of demand for primary schooling using household and school survey data from rural Mali. The elasticity of enrollment with respect to the price, i.e.,...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8704 Date: January 31, 1987 Author: Birdsall, Nancy ; Orivel, F.
  • How textbooks affect achievement
    This paper analyzes longitudinal data from a national sample of eighth-grade mathematics classrooms (99 teachers and 4030 students) in Thailand to explore the mechanisms whereby textbooks affect student...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: EDT53 Date: January 31, 1987 Author: Lockheed, Marlaine E. ; Vail, Stephen C. ; Fuller, B
  • Opening statements to the meetings of the Development Committee, by Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Chairman : April 1985 - September 1986
    This report contains a collection of opening statements to meetings of the Development Committee. These statements highlight issues that were on the committee's agenda and outline the prospects of the...
    Type: Publication Report#: DEV11 Date: January 31, 1987
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