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.
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
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
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
The Seventh Meeting of the Consultative Group for Zaire was held in Paris from December 21-22, 1983. The meeting reviewed the current economic situation and prospects of Zaire. The discussion was mainly...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151537Date: December 22, 1983
The World Bank has approved $80 million to help Peru finance emergency reconstruction and repair works in the northern part of the country required as a result of recent weather disturbances. The funds...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151536Date: December 20, 1983
This press release announces the World Bank and IDA has granted loans and credits to Malawi on December 13, 1983. The loans and credits total Forty-Four Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars. They will...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155958Date: December 13, 1983
This report is the ninth of an annual series. It reviews the experience of 127 World Bank-supported projects whose performance was evaluated in 1982. Given its highly differentiated readership, the structure...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: PUB4720Date: December 1, 1983
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: EDI, China-a new partnership, by Thierry Sagnier; art and development go hand in hand, by Muriel Sirken; behind the scenes with the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59522Date: December 1, 1983Author:
Gehringer, Michael E. ;
Enriquez Mejia,Luis Mariano ;
Nepomuceno, Patricia D. ;
ROESSNER, J. JILL ;
Sagnier,Thierry ;
Sirken, Muriel ;
Tillier,Ellen
This paper presents a macroeconomic model to explain the dynamics of Chilean inflation during 1976-82. The model extends the Australian and Scandinavian open economy models by making a finer distinction...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD69Date: December 1, 1983Author:
Corbo,Vittorio
The paper describes an analytical framework designed to address some of the important agricultural pricing issues that frequently arise in many African countries. The paper contains a description of producer,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8508Date: November 30, 1983Author:
Singh, Inderjit ;
Squire, Lyn ;
Kirchner, James
This field manual has been specifically prepared for Village Sanitation Assistants (VSA's) and village householders who, as part of Botswana's rural sanitation program, are working together in the construction...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TAG8Date: November 30, 1983Author:
van Nostrand, John ;
Wilson,James G. ;
UNDP ;
Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
The scope and complexity of the external debt situation defy simple solutions. The links between trade and finance, between domestic and international policies, and between short-term action and longer-term...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP294Date: November 30, 1983Author:
de Vries, B.
Housing decisions in urban Africa depend heavily on access to land, marriage and household patterns, and clients' locational intentions. This paper describes the Asante attitude to property as it springs...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD45Date: November 30, 1983Author:
Tipple,Frida Elisabeth
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