• 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
  • Childhood malnutrition and schooling in the Terai region of Nepal
    Data on 350 primary school age children from subsistence farm households in the Terai (southern plains) region of Nepal are analyzed to assess the relationship between nutritional status and school participation....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP379 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Mook, Peter ; Leslie,Joanne J.
  • Adjustment policies in socialist and private market economies
    The paper shows that although the outward oriented newly industrializing countries (NIC's) suffered cosiderably external shocks than the inward oriented NIC's and two socialist countries, Hungary and Yugoslavia,...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP387 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Balassa,Bela
  • Intra-industry specialization : a cross country analysis
    This paper tests various hypotheses as to the determinants of intra-industry trade in thirty-eight developed and developing countries exporting manufactured goods. The econometric estimates for the entire...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP388 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Balassa,Bela
  • Practical application of integrated national energy planning (INEP), using microcomputers
    This paper describes the use of a practical microcomputer based, hierachical modelling framework for Integrated National Energy Planning (INEP), and policy analysis. The rational for the concept and the...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP374 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
  • Growth without adjustment : Thailand, 1973-82
    This paper examines Thailand's curiously successful adjustment experience using a six sector general equilibrium model which is calibrated to reproduce the actual behaviour of the economy from 1973-82....
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8605 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Devarajan, Shantayanan ; Sierra, Hector
  • Burundi - Peat utilization prospects
    A number of efforts have been made to produce peat and introduce it as an alternative source of energy in Burundi. Increasing the share of peat in the energy market essentially involves competition with...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM46 Date: December 31, 1985
  • Urbanization in India's future
    This paper attempts to project the growth of urbanization in India and to assess the economic implications of this growth. The relatively smooth and steady growth of urbanization in India since the turn...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP385 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Mohan, R.
  • A model of intraurban employment location : replicating the Bogota experiment in Seoul
    A model of employment location, which was developed and applied to Bogota, Colombia, in an earlier World Bank research project, was estimated with a fresh set of data obtained from a sample survey of manufacturing...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD90 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Lee,Kyu Sik
  • Import demand for grains : implications for U.S. agricultural policy
    Decreases in world import-demand for U.S. grain exports do not stem so much from the strength of the U.S. dollar and high U.S. loan rates as they do from other factors which exist in the importing country...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8505 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Mitchell,Donald O.
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