• Argentina : in search of growth
    This paper discusses the critical factors that are preventing sustainable growth of the Argentine economy. Three major constraints are identified: (1) the unsettled political system, which has continuously...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8606 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Barandiaran,Edgardo E.
  • Rules of thumb for external borrowing
    During the perid 1983-85, most indebted LDC's undertook major adjustment efforts in order to achieve trade balance surpluses aimed at "repaying their debt." In Latin America, the results have been, on...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8618 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Cohen,Daniel
  • Guidelines for country economists for the review and evaluation of trade policies
    This paper suggests a framework and provides an outline for a systematic analysis and evaluation of a country's trade policies. The definition of the area of trade policies includes, however, the conduct...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8607 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Michaely,Michael
  • Guidelines for conducting and calibrating road roughness measurements
    Road roughness is gaining increasing importance as an indicator of road condition, both in terms of pavement performance, and as a major determinant of road user costs. This paper defines roughness measurement...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP46 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Gillespie, Thomas D. ; Paterson,William D. O. ; Sayers, Michael W.
  • The International Road Roughness Experiment (IRRE) : establishing correlation and a calibration standard for measurements
    Road roughness is gaining increasing importance as an indicator of road condition, both in terms of road pavement performance, and as a major determinant of road user costs. This need to measure roughness...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP45 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Sayers, Michael W ; Gillespie, Thomas D ; Queiroz, Cesar A.V
  • Project evaluation in theory and practice
    This paper provides a survey of project appraisal techniques in theory and practice. It identifies three levels of sophistication in the theoretical literature. The first, and simplest, is based on partial...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8609 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Squire,Lyn
  • Optimal borrowing and overborrowing : some simple simulation lessons
    This paper examines optimal foreign borrowing in a certainty world with a lending constraint that ensures that countries never have an incentive to repudiate. We find that the informational conditions...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8558 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Kharas, Homi J ; Hisanobu Shishido
  • A framework for studying the supply response of perennial crops
    This paper develops a model of supply of perennial crops which is an alternative to the traditional Nerlovian model. It is argued that a cost-of-adjustment investment model in which capital is heterogeneous...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8601 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Trivedi,Pravin K.
  • Announcement of Meeting of the Consultative Group for Malawi on January 22, 1986
    This press release, dated January 22, 1986, announces the first meeting of the consultative group for Malawi was convened in Paris on January 21 and 22, 1986, under the chairmanship of Mr. Jochen Kraske,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152071 Date: January 22, 1986
  • Announcement of Ecuador Signs Important Loans on January 15, 1986
    This press release, dated January 15, 1986, announces the signing of two loans, amounting to 106 million dollars, to enhance the economic growth prospects of Ecuador. The loans were signed in Washington,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152067 Date: January 15, 1986
  • Study of the substitution of labor and equipment in civil construction (SOL) : project completion report : Study of the substitution of labor and equipment in civil construction (SOL) : project completion report
    This Research and Implementation Project under the title of the Study of the Substitution of Labor and Equipment in Civil Construction, the Project was implemented in several stages. Research work in the...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 43239 Date: January 4, 1986
  • The Brazilian labor market : an overview
    In this paper an analysis of long term adjustment of the Brazilian labor market is carried out. During the last years of the "miracle period," shortage of unskilled labor could well characterize the situation...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD151 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Macedo, Roberto
  • Handpump laboratory test results
    This report contains the laboratory evaluations and conclusions on seven handpumps which were tested in 1984 and 1985. The main objectives of laboratory work related to handpumps are the following: (i)...
    Type: Publication Report#: TEC2 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Consumers' Association Testing and Research Laboratories (CATR)
  • The World Bank annual report 1986
    This annual report covers the period July 1, 1985 to June 30, 1986.
    Type: World Bank Annual Report Report#: 20096 Date: January 1, 1986
  • Child malnutrition and school performance in China
    This paper uses data on the height, weight, age and grade level of over 3000 children in five quite different locations to measure the impact of the nutritional variables on the available measure of school...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP393 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Jamison,Dean T.
  • The Chilean labor market 1970-1983 : an overview
    This study analyzes the performance of the Chilean labor market during a period when important structural economic changes were taking place in the country. The basic facts discussed in the paper derive...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD152 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Cox Edwards,Alejandra C.
  • Exchange rate responses to exogenous shocks in developing countries
    This paper examines the effects of external shocks on the real exchange rates of developing countries, and the appropriate policy responses to counteract these. The paper first discusses the principal...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD146 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Khan, Mohsin S.
  • The labor market in Colombia : an overview of its evolution over the past three decades
    In this paper an analysis of the long term adjustment of the Brazilian labor market is carried out. During the last years of the "miracle period", shortage of unskilled labor could well characterize the...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD157 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Bourguignon,Alain Jean-Francois
  • An overview of the labor market in India
    This paper maintains that it is unlikely that the growth in demand for labor in agriculture will substantially outpace population expansion. However, given the absolute size of employment in organized...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD153 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Lucas,Robert E. B.
  • The educational composition of the labour force : an international comparison
    Policy-makers and analysts typically use differences between the school enrolment ratios of different countries or regions to justify educational investment. The authors argue that although the enrolment...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP402 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Psacharopoulos,George ; Arriagada,Ana-Maria
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