• Curriculum diversification in Colombia and Tanzania : an evaluation
    This paper is concerned with whether the introduction of diversified curricula into secondary schools has resulted in any differences between those groups of students who enrolled in diversified schools...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP363 Date: January 31, 1985
  • Commodity export prices and the real exchange rate in developing countries
    In this paper a model that analyzes the interaction between changes in commodity export prices, money creation inflation and real exchange rates in developing countries is developed. According to the model,...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8515 Date: January 31, 1985 Author: Edwards, S.
  • Income transfers and urban projects : research findings and policy issues from Cartagena, Colombia
    This report describes the determinants of the magnitude, composition and uses of interhousehold transfers, and assesses the way in which transfers affect, and in turn are affected by, the squatter upgrading...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD56 Date: January 31, 1985 Author: Kaufmann, D. ; Bamberger, J. Michael
  • Monitoring and evaluating urban development programs : a handbook for program managers and researchers
    This 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 and implementation...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD67 Date: January 31, 1985 Author: Bamberger, M. ; Hewitt, E.
  • Decentralized urban development and industrial location behavior in Sao Paulo, Brazil : a synthesis of research issues and conclusions
    This report introduces the reader to the findings of a large-scale research project and only highlights findings reported in greater depth in project papers. Looking at a system of cities across the stages...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD29 Date: January 31, 1985 Author: Hamer, A.
  • Announcement of World Bank Contributes Another Three Million Dollars to African Famine Relief on January 28, 1985
    The World Bank is contributing a further 3 million dollars to the World Food Program (WFP) to help speed up the delivery of emergency food supplies to drought-stricken areas of sub-Saharan Africa. The...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152665 Date: January 28, 1985
  • Tanzania - Transport sector memorandum (Vol. 2 of 3) : Volume II
    This Tanzania Transport Sector Memorandum discusses the background of Tanzania’s transportation sector, as well as issues that hamper its efficient functioning. The combination of a large territory and...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 4042 Date: January 4, 1985
  • Tanzania - Transport sector memorandum (Vol. 3 of 3) : Volume III
    This Tanzania Transport Sector Memorandum discusses the background of Tanzania’s transportation sector, as well as issues that hamper its efficient functioning. The combination of a large territory and...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 4042 Date: January 4, 1985
  • Tanzania - Transport sector memorandum (Vol. 1 of 3) : Volume I
    This Tanzania Transport Sector Memorandum discusses the background of Tanzania’s transportation sector, as well as issues that hamper its efficient functioning. The combination of a large territory and...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 4042 Date: January 4, 1985
  • A computational approach to optimum public policies
    This paper describes and illustrates the use of an algorithm that computes optimal taxes and public production in an economy where the government's tax powers are restricted. The special features of the...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP382 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Heady, Christopher J. ; Mitra, Pradeep K.
  • Public inputs and child schooling in Brazil
    Household data from a one percent sample of the 1970 Brazilian census are used to analyze the effect of public inputs, i.e. the supply of schooling, on children's school attainment in Brazil. The household...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP368 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Birdsall, Nancy M.
  • Effective incentives for domestic market sales and exports
    This paper develops and employs an estimating procedure to measure the net effect of economic policies in providing incentives for domestic market production and sales, as reflected through observed price...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP369 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Tyler, William G.
  • Changing perceptions on the role of agriculture in the economy
    This paper traces the perceptions of the agricultural sector held by economists over the last three centuries, with particular emphasis on how the evolution of these ideas has influenced the state of thinking...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP78 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Throsby, C. D.
  • Grenada - Economic report
    This report is based on the work of an economic mission to Grenada during January 1985. The main issues identified in the report include the need for: (i) a comprehensive fiscal reform to improve incentives...
    Type: Publication Report#: 75938 Date: January 1, 1985
  • Port tariffs : current practices and trends
    The purpose of this report is to examine the strategies, procedures, objectives and data used by port managers when designing or revising their port tariffs. This report was written to complement earlier...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 13998 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Arnold, John H.
  • Exports, policy choices, and economic growth in developing countries after the 1973 oil shock
    In a study of 43 developing countries in the 1973-78 period of external shocks, the author has shown that intercountry differences in the rate of economic growth are affected by differences in investment...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP372 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Balassa, Bela
  • General equilibrium analysis of the benefits of large transportation improvements
    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...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP365 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu ; Mera, Koichi
  • The construction industry : issues and strategies in developing countries
    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: Publication Report#: 13531 Date: January 1, 1985
  • Ventilated improved pit latrines : Zimbabwean brick designs
    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#: 11434 Date: January 1, 1985 Author: Morgan, Peter R. ; Mara, D. Duncan ; Blair Research
  • Distortions, factor proportions and efficiency losses : Argentina in the Latin American scenario
    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: Publication Report#: REP384 Date: January 1, 1985
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