This press release announces the Bank has approved a loan of Two Hundred Thirty Million Dollars to Korea on March 22, 1984. The loan will be used to help support Korea’s highway development program.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157993Date: March 22, 1984
This press release announces the Bank is granting a Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollar loan to India. The loan will be used to help finance the Seven Hundred Twenty-Two Million Dollar project.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157753Date: March 15, 1984
This press release announces the Bank has approved a loan of Sixteen Million Dollars to Jamaica on March 15, 1984. The loan will be used to help develop an adequate and efficient transport system in the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157981Date: March 15, 1984
This press release, dated March 12, 1984, announces the visit of Mr. A. W. Clausen, the President of the World Bank, to the Sudan, Madagascar, and Mauritius on March 16 to 26. The visit provided an opportunity...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151507Date: March 12, 1984
With the increased use of irrigation in many regions of the world, water resource endowments are reaching their natural limits and losing their productivity, necessitating greater efficient utilization...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP89Date: March 1, 1984Author:
O'Mara,Gerald T.
The study reviews the experience of the Bank in the design and implementation of fertilizer distribution activities in Bank-supported projects approved between FY74 to FY83, and the little that is known...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP87Date: March 1, 1984Author:
Mekonnen, H.
This Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: senior staff changes announced, by A.W. Clausen; mountaineer maintains life-long passion: on the top of the world, by Mary Lou Ingram;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59347Date: March 1, 1984Author:
Alexander, Lynn ;
Bell,Carl T. ;
Clausen,A. W. ;
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Ingram,Mary Lou ;
Kavalsky,Basil G. ;
Qureshi,Moeen A.
This paper reports on research conducted to increase understanding of developing country markets, particularly housing demand behaviour. The objectives of the paper are: (i) to review previous evidence...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD41Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Malpezzi, Stephen ;
Mayo, Stephen K. ;
Gross, David
Rates of returns to schooling are usually estimated from cross-section national sample of census data on income and schooling. Reported estimates of rates of return average over 20 percent for primary...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP316Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Birdsall, N. ;
Behrman, J. ;
CPD
Growth of the Belizean economy, which had been expanding steadily, slowed sharply during 1978-82 largely due to international recession and diseases affecting sugarcane. The weakened economy has resulted...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB4446Date: February 29, 1984
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: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD61Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Manem,Mohan R.
This economic memorandum updates and assesses Guinea~^!!^s economic and financial situation and examines the policy issues dominating short- and medium-term development prospects. It focuses on the main...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 4690Date: February 29, 1984
Whereas models have generally been developed for perfectly competitive and monopolistic markets, this paper presents a spatial equilibrium model based on assumed oligoplistic market behaviour, characterized...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8402Date: February 29, 1984Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
This press release announces the World Bank granted a Twenty Million Dollar loan to Guatemala on February 23, 1984. The loan will be used for a project designed to modernize export industries and reorient...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157645Date: February 23, 1984
This press release, dated February 17, 1984, announces the Caribbean group for cooperation in economic development concluded its sixth meeting at World Bank headquarters. In the area of agriculture, it...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151407Date: February 17, 1984
This press release, dated February 9, 1984, announces the sixth meeting of the Caribbean Group for cooperation in economic development to be held in Washington, D.C., from February 13 through 17, 1984,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151231Date: February 9, 1984
This paper reviews the determination of trade policy in the United States and argues that historical circumstance and intellectual tradition are important elements in this determination. The restoration...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD75Date: February 1, 1984Author:
Finger, J.
A significant gap exists in many countries between known and feasible agricultural technologies, and what is actually practiced by farmers. A major channel for the dissemination of information on these...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP301Date: January 31, 1984Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Slade,Roger H.
The exploitation of technological knowledge is central to the development process. This paper stresses the role of technological effort in relation to production engineering and project execution as a...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP263Date: January 31, 1984Author:
DAHLMAN, C. ;
WESTPHAL, L.
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