• Modeling material substitution in the tin-tinplate-TFS complex
    Due to the change in demand for tin, tin plate and aluminum, it is often questioned whether the pricing policies of the tin and tin plate industries have contributed to material substitution against tin...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8303 Date: September 30, 1983 Author: Hashimoto,Hideo
  • The housing finance system of Brazil
    The purpose of this paper is to prepare a methodology useful for the analysis of the housing finance systems of developing countries. This methodology is applied to Brazil which exhibits a diversity of...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD35 Date: September 30, 1983 Author: Tucillo, John
  • Philippines - The transport sector
    The Philippines transport sector displays all the weaknesses that characterize that of many developing countries. There is little intermodal coordination and a lack of infrastructure, particularly freight...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 3916 Date: September 30, 1983
  • Laos - Country economic memorandum
    Since the last economic report on LPDR was prepared, the government not only started a number of important investment projects, particulary in agriculture and transport, but also introduced a comprehensive...
    Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report#: 4125 Date: September 30, 1983
  • Strategies for analyzing effects of user charges in the social sectors
    Does the use of user charges in the social sectors of poor countries cause ramifications in regard to efficiency and equity considerations? The purpose of this note is to suggest a strategy for analyzing...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8309 Date: September 30, 1983 Author: Birdsall,Nancy M.
  • Announcement of IFC Invests More Than Three Million US Dollars in First Leasing Company in Dominican Republic on September 20, 1983
    This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, signed in Washington, D. C. agreements creating the first specialized leasing company in the Dominican...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 153096 Date: September 20, 1983
  • Ninth annual review of project performance audit results (Vol. 1 of 3) : Ninth annual review of project performance audit results - Volume 1 : Overview
    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 Evaluation Report#: 4720 Date: September 16, 1983
  • Ninth annual review of project performance audit results (Vol. 3 of 3) : Volume 3 : Annexes and tables
    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 Evaluation Report#: 4720 Date: September 16, 1983
  • Announcement of Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollar Loan to Nigeria on September 15, 1983
    This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollar loan to Nigeria on September 15, 1983. The loan will be used to import about two million tons of fertilizer to help...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155735 Date: September 15, 1983
  • Coping with a decline in energy prices : macroeconomic and income distribution effects in Thailand
    After the two first oil price shocks, economists, policy makers, and the public got used to increases in energy prices and they expected them to continue. In 1982, when the oil prices dropped, all expectations...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD63 Date: September 1, 1983 Author: Grais, Wafik M.
  • Bank's world
    Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: economic crisis continues: update on sub-Saharan Africa, by Pushpa N. Schwartz; the annual report: a ritual since 1946, by Alex Spiliotopoulos;...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 59518 Date: September 1, 1983 Author: Benjenk,Munir P. ; Carroll,Jane H. ; Drattell,Alan M. ; Nepomuceno, Patricia D. ; Ohuchi,Teruyuki ; Please,Stanley ; Schwartz,Pushpa Nand ; Spiliotopoulos, Alex
  • Foreign trade, resource allocation, and structural adjustment in Yugoslavia : 1976-80
    The Yugoslav economy has weathered a number of shocks, including two increases in oil prices, two worldwide recessions, changes in the relative prices of both exports and imports, and shifts in major export...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD57 Date: September 1, 1983 Author: Robinson,Sherman ; Tyson,Laura D'Andrea
  • Announcement of Seventy-Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Loan to Indonesia on September 1, 1983
    This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Seventy-Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar loan to Indonesia on September 1, 1983. The loan will be used to aid in its sugar production.
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155734 Date: September 1, 1983
  • Kenya - Growth and structural change : basic economic report
    This report consists of five sections, a main report and four annexes which include detailed discussions of poverty and growth; issues in agricultural development; the industrialization process, growth...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB3350 Date: August 31, 1983
  • Why do firms locate where they do?
    The metropolitan Sao Paulo region still has substantial agglomeration economies which enhance the productivity of plants located there. A doubling of distance from the center of the metropolitan region,...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD25 Date: August 31, 1983 Author: Hansen,Keith E.
  • 1983 Annual report on operations evaluation (AROE)
    This report reviews the current status of the process by which the Bank evaluates the results of its operational activities and communicates them to its members and its staff. It also contains a summary...
    Type: Annual Report Report#: 4679 Date: August 31, 1983
  • A simulation alternative to the comparative R2 approach to decomposing inequality
    This paper argues that the comparative R2 procedure is often less satisfactory for decomposing inequality than is simulation with the estimated "true" relation determining the distribution of interest....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP380 Date: August 31, 1983 Author: Behrman,Jere R. ; Knight, John B. ; Sabot,Richard H.
  • Marginal cost of natural gas in developing countries : concepts and applications
    This paper defines the concept of marginal costs and applies it to estimate the economic cost of natural gas in ten developing countries with a wide range of conditions. The marginal cost of natural gas...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: EGY10 Date: August 31, 1983 Author: Mashayekhi Beschloss,Afsaneh
  • A primer on the Chilean economy, 1973-1983
    This paper sketches some key facts concerning the Chilean economy in the past decade. Emphasis has been placed on matters related to economic fluctuations, unemployment, monetary and exchange rate policy,...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8409 Date: August 31, 1983 Author: Harberger,Arnold
  • Economic reform in the U.S.S.R.
    Since 1953 the Soviet leadership has increasingly recognized that the current system of overcentralized planning has been the principal impediment to the economic development of the country. Alarmed by...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8310 Date: August 31, 1983 Author: Okun,Yergeny
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