• A World Bank glossary : glossary of maintenance
    The terms listed in this glossary are generally those pertaining to the field of maintenance management and which are not normally found in dictionaries, but anumber of specialist terms in the technical...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 20826 Date: June 4, 1986
  • Urban transit systems : guidelines for examining options
    This paper compares the characteristics and costs of the main types of urban transit systems, including buses, trains, light rail, rapid rail and suburban rail systems. As well as covering the examination...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP52 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Armstrong-Wright, Alan T.
  • The medium-term relationship between performance indicators and policy : a cross section approach
    Providing a framework for evaluating the adequacy of policy measures taken to improve medium-term economic performance ranks high on the agenda for policy research in the development area. This paper explores...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DWA8602 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Genberg, Anders Hans O. ; Swoboda, Alexander K
  • Capital flight : estimates, issues, and explanations
    Large-scale capital flight is often mentioned as an important cause of the external debt problem of developing countries. Motivated by this concern, this paper addresses the following questions (1) What...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8551 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Cuddington, John T.
  • The management of common property resources : collective action as an alternative to privatization or state regulation
    Can locally based collective action be a viable way to manage common property resources? Many writers on collective action and common property are sweepingly pessimistic about the ability of the people...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: ARU54 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Wade, Robert
  • Parastatal pay policy in Africa
    Public enterprises have grown to represent a significant share of modern sector employment in many African economies, yet little is known about public enterprise compensation and employment policies and...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8631 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Lindauer, David L.
  • The nature of the debt problem in Eastern and Southern Africa
    This paper (and the accompanying transcript of Mr. Jaycox's remarks to a panel discussion) is on the debt problems of seriously affected countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. It classifies...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP378 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Jaycox, Edward V. K. ; Gulhati, Ravi I. ; Lall, Sanjaya ; Yalamanchili, Satya
  • Trade liberalization in the presence of domestic distortions
    The idea that external liberalization can spur economic growth is gaining wider acceptance among policy makers, expecially those in developing nations. Yet the record on liberalization as an effective...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8623 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Mcculloch, Rachel
  • Savings, commodity market rationing and the real rate of interest in China
    This paper uses an intertemporal disequilibrium framework to analyze the rapid increase in personal savings that has taken place in China since 1979. A theoretical model of savings behavior under rationing...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8627 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Feltenstein, Andrew ; Lebow, David ; van Wijnbergen
  • Trends in educational computing : decreasing interest and the changing focus of instruction
    This article presents a rationale for changing the current emphasis of precollege computer courses. It suggests that as an interim approach, to be used before computers are integrated effectively across...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP377 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Lockheed, Marlaine E. ; Mandinach, Ellen B.
  • Revenue - neutral tariff reform : theory and an application to Cameroon
    This paper addresses the issue of revenue constrained partial tariff reform. This is an increasingly important issue, as more & more countries are caught between the conflicting demands of restoring price...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8625 Date: May 31, 1986 Author: Dahl, Henrik ; Devarajan, Shantayanan ; van Wijnberg
  • Notice of Meeting and Agenda for the meeting of the Executive Directors of the Bank and IDA to be held on May 27, 1986
    Type: Agenda Report#: 132475 Date: May 22, 1986
  • Notice of Meeting and Agenda for the meeting of the Executive Directors of the Bank and IDA to be held on May 8, 1986
    Type: Agenda Report#: 132443 Date: May 5, 1986
  • Retention of basic skills among dropouts from Egyptian primary schools
    Over the past fifty years, various studies have attempted to document the alleged loss of literacy and numeracy skills afflicting dropouts from primary schools in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). These...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD171 Date: May 1, 1986 Author: Hartley, Michael John ; Swanson, Eric Valdeman
  • Economic prospects and policies in Mexico
    This paper was originally presented at the Conference on "Industrial Organization, Trade and Investment in North America: U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico," held in Merida, Mexico on December 16-18, 1985. ...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD178 Date: May 1, 1986 Author: Balassa, Bela
  • Assessing the effects of trucking regulation in Korea
    In 1984 the Korean Ministry of Transport hired consultants from the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) to evaluate the regulations governing its trucking industry. Its objective...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 51346 Date: May 1, 1986 Author: Smith, Graham ; Michell, Tony ; Shin, Buyong
  • An historical perspective of Peru's trade liberalization policies of the 80s
    In 1979, and after two decades of following inward-oriented policies, Peru started to reduce its trade barriers. This tendency was intensified during 1980 by the government of Fernando Belaunde Terry....
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD168 Date: May 1, 1986 Author: Nogues, Julio
  • Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa : analysis and explanation
    This paper presents a detailed analysis of fertility in 10 sub - Saharan African countries for which World Fertility Survey data are available. These data and similar data from other developing countries...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8513 Date: April 30, 1986 Author: Cochrane, Susan H. ; Farid, Samir M.
  • Rent control in India : its economic effects and implementation in Bangalore
    Recent research on rent control has demonstrated that rent control differs greatly in its effects from place to place, depending on the specific provisions of the rent control laws, their enforcement,...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD91 Date: April 30, 1986 Author: Tewari, Vinod ; Kumar, T. Krishna
  • The analysis of multipurpose national housing
    There is increasing awareness that the efficiency of public enterprises in developing countries must be improved. What has been developed in this paper is an analytical checklist or, if one prefers, the...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD94 Date: April 30, 1986 Author: Gardner, Donald
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