This paper considers three benefit measures of a large transportation improvement in a general equilibrium framework, i.e. the Marshall-Dupuit consumer's surplus, the compensating variation, and the compensating...
The primary purpose of this paper is to suggest directions and emphases for future actions by the Bank to promote the development of the domestic construction industry in developing countries. The report...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13531Date: January 1, 1985
This paper describes the most recent developments in the design of ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines in Zimbabwe. A VIP latrine was developed in Zimbabwe in the 1970s as an odorless, fly-free toilet...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 11434Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Morgan, Peter R. ;
Mara, D. Duncan ;
Blair Research
This paper reports some orders of magnitude of the employment and income gains from resource reallocation that could be expected from removal of policy-induced distortions in the Argentina manufacturing...
Type: PublicationReport#: REP384Date: January 1, 1985
Using cross-section data, this paper provides a statistical assessment of the extent to which health resources are evenly distributed in China, and the degree to which improvements in health resource availability...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP397Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Prescott,Nicholas M. ;
Jamison,Dean T.
This paper first updates to 1980 the estimates of the Harberger inflation model for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay and shows that all the hypotheses of this model hold and the reaction...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP366Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Hanson,James A.
This paper discusses what is involved in improving urban management in cities of the developing world. Part one, which makes up the main part of the paper, presents an overview of the principal issues...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 109679Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Grossman,David A.
This report focuses on the nature of the trade policies of both industrial and developing countries that are most conducive to the latter's future economic growth. It also considers approaches to strengthening...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP373Date: January 1, 1985Author:
Kreuger, Anne O. ;
Michalopoulos,Constantine
This purpose of this study was to investigate the functions and determinants of interhousehold transfers and to consider the policy implications of these transfers for the design and implementation of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD63Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Bamberger, M. ;
Kaufmann, D.
The UNDP/World Bank Project for the Testing and Technological Development of Handpumps for Rural Water Supply is field testing a total of 2860 pumps of 76 pump types in 17 countries. The project has also...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP29Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Arlosoroff, Saul ;
Grey, David ;
Journey, William ;
Ka
The purpose of the paper is to discuss some aspects of the second best taxation in developing economies in relation to the analysis of tax reforms. A brief intuitive review of indirect taxation in the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8514Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Chamley,Christophe P.
This report is in two parts: a concise state-of-the-art overview of recycling from municipal refuse, focusing on techniques and conditions germane to developing countries; and an annotated bibliography...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP30Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Cointreau, Sandra Johnson ;
Gunnerson, Charles G.
This report focuses on anthropological studies of interactions between particular households in the Zona Sur Oriental of Cartegena and their support networks. The households' strategies for survival, development...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD58Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Parris, S.
Recently questions have been raised concerning whether the tremendous capital investments in rural electrification have had the desired impact in rural areas. India is one of the few countries that has...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU29Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Barnes, D. ;
Binswanger,Hans P.
These guidelines, prepared for Bank-assisted Development Finance Companies, explain how to calculate financial and economic rates of return. The approach concentrates on capital productivity and efficiency,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP33Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Duvigneau,J. Christian ;
Prasad,Ranga Nuthakki
The application of shared control in education administration is described. Shared control is a synthetic approach combining centralized and decentralized control, the major forms of education administration...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP329Date: December 31, 1984Author:
Noor,Abdun
This press release, dated December 12, 1984, announces at the second meeting of the recently reconvened consultative group for Ghana, held in Paris on December 11 and 12, donors expressed strong support...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151185Date: December 12, 1984
The purpose of this paper is to account for the changes in the diverse set of production relations characterizing agragrian economies which are induced by increases in population growth. This study pays...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU28Date: November 30, 1984Author:
Rosenzweig, M. ;
Binswanger, H. ;
McIntire, J. ;
AGR
This paper is one of a series to examine the "netback value" of natural gas in major domestic and export uses. The netback can be compared to the cost of gas to permit a rough estimate of the net economic...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY19Date: November 30, 1984Author:
Albouy, Y. ;
Mashayekhi, A.
This study collects information on Public Tractor and Equipment hire services in developing countries and develops hypotheses regarding the successes and failures of these schemes. Information was collected...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU30Date: November 30, 1984Author:
Seager, P ;
Fieldson, R
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