This news release announces the World Bank has granted a loan of One Hundred Million Dollars to Pakistan on March 11, 1985. The loan will be used to reinforce and expand Pakistan’s secondary power transmission...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165862Date: March 18, 1985
This news release announces the World Bank has granted a loan of Fifteen Million Dollars to Tunisia on March 18, 1985. The loan will be used to fund a project to raise food production and farm incomes.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165864Date: March 18, 1985
This paper describes the mechanics of trade finance as it applies to the foreign exchange earning and borrowing capacity of developing countries. The possible role of related risk management tools such...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP103Date: March 1, 1985Author:
Lewis, C M
This paper reviews the evolution and performance of agricultural marketing boards since 1965. Chapters I and II deal with the subject of agricultural marketing itself. Chapter III traces the evolution...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP94Date: March 1, 1985Author:
Abbott, J
Energy pricing has to be seen in the context of wider energy demand management policies. The overall objective of the latter is to change demand from patterns that would evolve without "management" to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48208Date: March 1, 1985Author:
Jechoutek,Karl Georg ;
Schramm,Gunter
This paper studies the impact of alternative foreign borrowing strategies on economic growth and social welfare in Senegal. The main tool of analysis used is a dynamic optimal control model where the objective...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8507Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Ghanem,Hafez
The Gambia relies entirely on imported petroleum to meet all its commercial energy needs, including electricity. In recent years, the country has encountered energy problems which, in large part, can be...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM30Date: February 28, 1985
This book presents factual historical information on the trade of the developing countries and provides 86 market price quotations for 55 commodities which figure importantly in international trade. Section...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10090Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Washington, DC : The World Bank
This paper analyzes the robustness of the traditional foreign borrowing maxim: "borrow to finance a temporary shock, adjust to a permanent one". Dynamic optimizing simulations are used to illustrate the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8504Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Kharas, Homi ;
Hisanobu Shishido
This paper compares China's transport indicators with those of other countries and attempts to define prospects for the future development of transport in China. The share of transport in the economy is...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP723Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Yenny,Jacques G. ;
Hale,Lily Uy
The production of paper is relatively energy-intensive: one ton of paper requires energy equivalent to about three quarters of a ton of oil in industrialized countries, and as much as 2-3 times this figure...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP34Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Ewing, Andrew J.
The emphasis in this paper is on certain issues unique to the high-debt situation. Many countries in the late 1970's and early 1980's faced excess demand shocks, terms of trade shocks and supply shocks,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8511Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Krumm,Kathie L.
This paper compares alternative methods of analyzing price policy. The "single-market" approach uses the standard technique of consumer and producer surplus. In agriculture, where substitution possibilities...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8501Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Case, A. ;
Squire, Lyn
This paper describes a simple, multi-market model for the analysis of agricultural pricing in Malawi. The model was used to guide the Ministry of Agriculture's pricing recommendations for the 1984-85 season...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8509Date: February 28, 1985Author:
Kirchner, James ;
Squire, Lyn ;
Singh, Inderjit
This news release announces the Philippines are receiving a loan of Four Million Dollars from the World Bank on February 21, 1985. The loan will be used to finance a project to strengthen telecommunications...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165530Date: February 21, 1985
This news releases announces the World Bank is lending Indonesia One Hundred Thirty-One Million Dollars on February 21, 1985. The money will be used on a project to expand rubber production in the country.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165529Date: February 21, 1985
This news release announces the World Bank is granting Six Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar loan to Seychelles on February 14, 1985. The loan will be used to upgrade the commercial port and rehabilitate...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165527Date: February 14, 1985
This news release announces the World Bank is granting a Eight Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollar loan to Swaziland on February 7, 1985. The loan will be used on a project to rehabilitate roads damage...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165523Date: February 7, 1985
This document is a comprehensive but easily understood handbook for urban policy makers, managers and evaluation practitioners in developing countries. It provides guidance on all stages of the design...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD68Date: February 1, 1985Author:
Bamberger, M. ;
Hewitt, E.
This Bank~^!!^s world newsletter includes some of the following issue: stern lending: ~^!!^lending decline is highly localized~^!!^, by Alan Drattell; International Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 58514Date: February 1, 1985Author:
Descaire,Luis ;
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Dyck,H. James ;
Lean,Geoffrey ;
Nepomuceno, Patricia D ;
Rappaport,Sheldon ;
Tillier,Ellen
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