The purpose of this paper is to review the Bank's activity in horticulture in an attempt to answer certain questions relating to its loan activity. It attempts to determine whether there is a central theme...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8318Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Bale, M. ;
Bowers, A.
This paper reviews the theoretical literature relevant to an analysis of public investment and provides an overview of Bank work in the area of public expenditure review; it focuses on the public investment...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8316Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Pant,Chandrashekar
As the European Community has increased it's level of self sufficiency in agriculture it has moved from being an importer of many agricultural commodities to being an exporter. As a consequence, countries...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP290Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Bale, M. ;
Koester, U.
The first of these three papers examines the quality of schooling, paticularly on the misleading focus on quantity alone. It extends the Mincerian framework to incorporate school quality as well as quantity....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP311Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Behrman,Jere R. ;
Birdsall,Nancy M.
This survey of Romania's investment program proposed for the seventh plan 1981-85 assesses the desirability and feasibility of the changes in investment allocations and policies which were necessary in...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8317Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Pant,Chandrashekar
The main objectives of this review of the transport sector is to take stock of the current situation, identify and recommend solutions to the main problems faced by the sector, and to propose short- and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4429Date: December 31, 1983
As a result of the sharp increase in the price of energy during the 1970s and the associated changes in the relative costs of alternative energy resources, all countries need to conserve energy and to...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP17Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Fog,Mogens H. ;
Nadkarni, Kishore L.
The purpose of this study is to detail the incentive/disincentive structure in agriculture, agroprocessing and manufacturing generated by the various interventions taken by the government in those sectors....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8319Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Bale,Malcolm D.
This paper serves as a background document for two other papers summarizing an investigation of the current state of knowledge on resource allocation and financing issues in the health sector in developing...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: GEN23Date: December 31, 1983Author:
De Ferranti,David
This paper discusses the principal issues that arise when efforts are made to apply cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis in the health sector. It also reviews possible approaches to enhancing practical...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: GEN24Date: December 31, 1983Author:
De Ferranti,David
Although much research discusses the quantity of schooling as an effective impact on productivity and earnings, most such research leaves out the idea of the quality of schooling which may cause biases...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP376Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Behrman,Jere R. ;
Birdsall,Nancy M.
The objective in this note is to show the change in wage dispersion in response to increases in the relative supply of educated workers in two low-income countries. We also measure the relative contributions...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP289Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Knight, J. ;
Sabot, R.
This handbook is written for the use of District Sanitation Coordinators (DSC's) charged with implementing District sanitation programs in Botswana. The handbook presents a step by step description of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TAG9Date: December 31, 1983Author:
van Nostrand, John ;
Basaako, Kebadire ;
Parker, Ron
Over the last two decades, Korea's economy has experienced fundamental changes that in turn have deeply affected the transport sector. It is in this context that this Transport Sector Issues Survey has...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4423Date: December 31, 1983
The purpose of this study is to review the state of the art of the literature on commodity price stabilization, to provide a nontechnical summary of it, and to attempt to distill from this complex and...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8321Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Schmitz, A.
The European Community is the major player in global agricultural trade. Not only is it the leading importer of agricultural goods, it is also the dominant exporter of a number of agricultural products,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8320Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Koester, Ulrich ;
Bale, Malcolm
The cost effectivenss of the FP/MCH program in Nepal is analyzed using estimates of effect (births prevented) derived from an application of the population council's CONVERSE computer program. The analysis...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES9Date: December 31, 1983Author:
Barnum, Howard N.
This press release announces the World Bank has granted a Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollar loan to the Dominican Republic on December 22, 1983. The loan will be used to fund two high priority...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156083Date: December 22, 1983
This press release announces the World Bank has granted a One Hundred Twenty-Eight Million Dollar loan to Algeria on December 22, 1983. The loan will be used to expand and improve Algeria’s telecommunications...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156084Date: December 22, 1983
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