• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nigeria during and after the oil boom : a policy comparison with Indonesia
    Nigeria & Indonesia provide an interesting contrast with regard to performance & policy during & after the oil boom. Roughly a decade after the first oil shock, Nigeria finds itself faced with several...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8555 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Pinto,Brian R.
  • 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.
  • Report on the World Bank research program (Vol. 1 of 2) : Part 1
    This year's "Report on the World Bank Research Program" has two parts. Part I comprises a review of various aspects of the research program conducted in the past year. Part II provides narratives of research...
    Type: Report on the World Bank Research Program Report#: 5961 Date: December 31, 1985
  • A world grains and soybeans model
    The Commodities Studies and Projections Division has recently completed the construction of global models of grains (wheat, rice and coarse grains) and soybeans markets. This paper describes in broad...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8507 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Mitchell,Donald O.
  • Project management for educational change
    The nature of the Bank's education portfolio is gradually changing. As a result of this change there has been a shift away from the earlier emphasis on the infrastructure sectors as a model for project...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: EDT12 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Verspoor,Adriaan M.
  • Issues and problems in planning and implementing industrial location policies in Korea : a planner's view
    The author, an active participant in urban and regional planning in Korea, summarizes the rationale behind the industrial decentralization policies pursued by the Korean government and illustrates key...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP386 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Won-Yong Kwon
  • Efficient market commodity price dynamics
    This paper examines the joint implications of private sector stockholding and futures market trading for commodity price dynamics. Speculative private sector stockholding links commodity prices over periods...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8504 Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Gilbert,Christopher L.
  • Announcement of Malawi Borrows Seven Million Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars for Projects in Industry and Agriculture on December 23, 1985
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of seven million eight hundred US dollars for Malawi to continue its efforts to expand its industrial base to increase productivity in the...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 157001 Date: December 23, 1985
  • Spatial distribution of industries and important location factors in the Seoul region
    The main purpose of this study is to identify the locational forces that influence the manufacturing industry in the Seoul region where more than 45 percent of industrial establishments are located and...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD89 Date: November 30, 1985 Author: Byung-Nak Song ; Choe,Sang Chuel
  • Fiscal performance of local governments in the Seoul region : implications for urban deconcentration policies
    This paper analyzes the available data on local finances for Seoul and its satellite cities. The paper documents the trends of revenues and expenditures for 1973-1982 to study the fiscal performance of...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD88 Date: November 30, 1985 Author: Dong Hoon Chun ; Kyung-Hwan Kim ; Lee,Kyu Sik
  • Review of literature on costs of health services in developing countries
    This report presents the results of an extensive survey of the literature on costs of delivering health services in developing countries. It contains data summaries with detailed documentation, but limited...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8521 Date: November 30, 1985 Author: Robertson, Robert L.
  • Foreign borrowing in Nigeria
    This paper assesses past foreign borrowing by Nigeria against two criteria: first whether the real marginal benefits exceeded the real marginal costs of foreign borrowing; and second whether government...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8604 Date: November 30, 1985 Author: Myers, R
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