In this issue : finding solutions to a wide range of problems : bus systems key to urban transport; jamaica's private bus system; urban paratranslt systems; high capacity bus lanes;projects, resources,...
This paper analyzes the two issues of quadrilateral compact and policy-based lending within the framework developed in two CPD working papers. Its primary purpose is to explore what the role of the Bank...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8540Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Sadeq,Sayeed
This study focuses on the pricing policy of Thailand broadly conceived. It shows that this policy has been important to the success of Thailand's development policy of the past 30 years, but that changed...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB4963Date: April 30, 1985
How do Indian villagers manage common property resources, such as canal irrigation water and grazing? The paper deals with the remarkable variation found between villages in one small area of South India....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU36Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Wade,Robert
The second phase of the Industrial Location Policies Research Project (RPO 672-91) has generated a series of UDD Discussion Papers in the following three categories: (1) Descriptive studies on observed...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD65Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Dong Hoon Chun ;
Lee,Kyu Sik
In the summer of 1984 a LOTUS model was developed to aid the on-site evaluation of a housing finance intermediary (HFI). This manual guides the user through the revised version of this model. It is hoped...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD77Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Kane, R.
This report reviews growth and structural change in India during the period 1973-1983, and then considers the implications of a 5 percent growth rate for the future. It discusses the current economic situation,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 5593Date: April 30, 1985
Rapid urbanization in developing countries has produced a heavy concentration of population and economic activity in a very few large urban centers. This pattern of urban concentration has generated two...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP364Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Lee,Doyoung K. ;
WUDD
Reschedulings are a device that creditors can use to structure the incentives faced by borrowers such that repudiation is never a rational option. This paper develops a numerical method for valueing the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8559Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Gennotte, Gerard ;
Sadeq, Sayeed ;
Kharas, Homi J.
This paper analyzes several aspects of real exchange rate behavior in developing countries. First, it provides a clarifying and comprehensive review of the different definitions of "the" real exchange...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8516Date: April 30, 1985Author:
Edwards, Sebastian ;
Ng, Francis
The main objective of this outline is to provide analysts with a check list of relevant topics in forestry development. This list is not intended to be comprehensive or to give any indication about which...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP99Date: April 1, 1985Author:
Sfeir-Younis,Alfredo
Since natural resources often transcend individual farmers' boundaries and political boundaries, externalities, due to this interdependence in use, often occur. Furthermore, since these externalities are...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP97Date: April 1, 1985Author:
Sfeir-Younis,Alfredo
The paper addresses the problem of calibration of the parameters in a macroeconomic model in the situation, which is typical of LDCs, where the time series data are incomplete. A three-stage systems approach...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD179Date: April 1, 1985Author:
Hartley,Michael John
A model of oligopoly is developed which specifies the behavioral link between size distribution of firms in the market, pricing behavior, and firm performance. The model analyzes structure and behavior...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8533Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Kessides,Ioannis N.
Since export markets provide an excellent means of promoting high value exports and agricultural development simultaneously, it is imperative that good exporter organizations exist to exploit these market...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP102Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Lewis, C M ;
Berman, B W
Any index of smallness is somewhat arbitrary, but common practice has been to use population and income criteria. Experience suggests that smallness is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ERS2Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Srinivasan,Thirukodikaval N.
This paper develops the view that in a wide variety of situations in developing countries, there is not likely to be a serious conflict between efficient growth policies and the objective of alleviating...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ERS1Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Myint,Hla
Is it feasible to develop gas distribution systems to serve residential and commercial (R&C) markets? In many developing countries there exists an abundant supply of inexpensive natural gas that could...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY22Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Mashayekhi Beschloss,Afsaneh
This paper reviews exchange rate arrangements that deviate from unrestricted convertibility at uniform fixed or flexible exchange rates. Broadly these alternatives are called "multiple exchange rate practices."...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8523Date: March 31, 1985Author:
Dornbusch,Rudiger
This news release announces the World Bank is granting a loan of Three Hundred Million Dollars to India on March 21, 1985. The loan will be used to help India double its production of petrochemicals and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 165969Date: March 21, 1985
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