• Notice of Meeting and Agenda for the meeting of the Executive Directors of the Bank and IDA to be held on March 13, 1984
    Type: Agenda Report#: 132274 Date: March 8, 1984
  • A review of problems in achieving efficient use of surface and ground irrigation waters in agricultural development
    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#: AGP89 Date: March 1, 1984 Author: O'Mara, Gerald T.
  • Fertilizer distribution in Bank supported rural and agricultural projects
    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#: AGP87 Date: March 1, 1984 Author: Mekonnen, H.
  • Bank~^!!^s world : Bank's world
    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: Newsletter Report#: 59347 Date: March 1, 1984 Author: Alexander, Lynn ; Bell, Carl T. ; Clausen, A. W. ; Drattell, Alan M. ; Ingram, Mary Lou ; Kavalsky, Basil G. ; Qureshi, Moeen A.
  • Does geographical aggregation cause overestimates of the returns to schooling?
    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 Article Report#: REP316 Date: February 29, 1984 Author: Birdsall, N. ; Behrman, J. ; CPD
  • Housing demand in developing countries
    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 Paper Report#: UDD41 Date: February 29, 1984 Author: Malpezzi, Stephen ; Mayo, Stephen K. ; Gross, David
  • Belize - Economic report
    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: Publication Report#: PUB4446 Date: February 29, 1984
  • Urbanization in India's future
    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 Paper Report#: UDD61 Date: February 29, 1984 Author: Manem, Mohan R.
  • Guinea - The conditions for economic growth : a country economic memorandum
    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 Memorandum Report#: 4690 Date: February 29, 1984
  • A spatial Nash equilibrium model
    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 Paper Report#: DWC8402 Date: February 29, 1984 Author: Hashimoto, Hideo
  • Announcement of Guatemalan Industry to Benefit from World Bank Loan on February 23, 1984
    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: Announcement Report#: 157645 Date: February 23, 1984
  • Announcement of Caribbean Group Ends Sixth Meeting on February 17, 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: Announcement Report#: 151407 Date: February 17, 1984
  • Announcement of Sixth Meeting of the Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development on February 9, 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: Announcement Report#: 151231 Date: February 9, 1984
  • Ideas count, words inform
    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 Paper Report#: DRD75 Date: February 1, 1984 Author: Finger, J.
  • Selecting contact farmers for agricultural extension : the training and visit system in Haryana, India
    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 Article Report#: REP301 Date: January 31, 1984 Author: Feder, Gershon ; Slade, Roger H.
  • Technological effort in industrial development : an interpretative survey of recent research
    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 Article Report#: REP263 Date: January 31, 1984 Author: DAHLMAN, C. ; WESTPHAL, L.
  • Tropical hardwood handbook
    Tropical hardwood has been one of the most important primary commodities for developing countries in terms of export earnings. This handbook discusses various aspects of tropical hardwood including its...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN383 Date: January 31, 1984
  • The structure of educational costs : multiproduct cost functions for schools in Latin America
    Educational expenditures claim a particularly large portion of available resources in LDCs. Major investment is being undertaken at a time when many economies are being constrained by recessionary pressures...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8401 Date: January 31, 1984 Author: Jimenez, Emmanuel Y.
  • Optimal foreign borrowing and investment with an endogenous lending constraint
    This paper analyzes optimal foreign borrowing and investment in a two-period certainty model with traded and nontraded goods. The model illustrates how borrowing and investment interact with relative...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8403 Date: January 31, 1984 Author: Kharas, H. ; Glick, R.
  • Characteristics and determinants of child nutritional status in Nepal
    The limited data available suggest that the prevalence of poor health and malnutrition in Nepal is as high as anywhere in the world. This paper focuses on child malnutrition in the Terai or southern plains...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP309 Date: January 31, 1984 Author: Martorell, R. ; Leslie, J. ; Moock, P. ; Stanford University ; EDI ; Columbia University
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