This report is a guideline for use by Bank staff and consultants on power generating projects which employ large diesel engines as prime movers. It explains the characteristics and comparative advantages...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY9Date: July 31, 1983
This study focuses on the likely long term trends in investment, production and trade patterns in the world aluminum industry. It first introduces the non specialist reader to the technical characteristics...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP603Date: July 31, 1983Author:
Martin-Brown,Joan ;
Dammert,Alfredo J. ;
Meeraus,Alexander ;
Stoutjesdijk, Ardy
World Bank experience and that of other donor agencies suggests that institutional assistance is less successful than engineering assistance because it deals with problems that are difficult to define...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP586Date: July 31, 1983Author:
Lethem,Francis J. ;
Cooper,Lauren E. ;
PAS
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Fifteen Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Loan to Mauritius on July 28, 1983. The loan will be used to improve four main roads that serve heavily populated...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155688Date: July 28, 1983
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a One Hundred Ten Million Dollar loan to Yugoslavia on July 21, 1983. The loan will be used to help finance improvements for four railway organizations.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155687Date: July 21, 1983
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Thirty Million Dollar loan to Jordan on July 11, 1983. The loan will be used to improve urban transport conditions and solid waste collection for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155685Date: July 11, 1983
This paper sets out guidelines for Bank staff on centrally organized monitoring and evaluation in developing countries. Its purposes are to assist staff in discussions with member countries that wish to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 99017Date: July 1, 1983
This article refutes the contention that Brazil's development has not benefitted the poor and that rapid growth has had a polarizing effect on the distribution of income. Using the National Household Expenditure...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP259Date: June 30, 1983Author:
WEBB, R. ;
PFEFFERMANN, G.
Food aid to foreign countries has long enjoyed broad-based bi-partisan support in the United States. While many domestic and foreign programs are being scrutinized and restructured by the current Administration...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU8Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Reutlinger, S. ;
AGR
This paper presents an outline of the Becker-Mills-Williamson (BMW) model, which is being developed to simulate urban development in India in the context of general development of the national economy....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD22Date: June 30, 1983Author:
BECKER, C. ;
MILLS, E. ;
WILLIAMSON, J. ;
URB
This report identifies improvements which could be made to the electric power systems to reduce technical losses and thereby conserve energy. In Panama the power entity, Instituto de Recursos Hidraulicos...
This paper reviews the issues surrounding the debate over the relevance of spatial policy, arguing that market failures and imperfections provide a substantial efficiency rationale for promoting decentralization....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD26Date: June 30, 1983Author:
TOWNROE, P. ;
UDD
Linear programming (LP) and quadratic programming (QP) have been broadly applied to analyze commodity- and sector-related issues. Linear complementarity programming (LCP), which encompasses LP and QP...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8302Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
This paper places the economic policies applied in Turkey in an international context, with a view to furthering the understanding of the changes that have occurred since January 1980. The paper also considers...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP266Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Balassa, Bela
This study was prepared to provide an overview on energy financing markets as part of a larger policy paper on energy in the developing countries. Following the rapid increase in the price of oil, many...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY8Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Duersten,Althea L.
An analysis was made of data on industrial workers and their wages found in the Sao Paulo, Brazil 1980 social security files. After controlling for various worker attributes and city characteristics, wages...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD27Date: June 30, 1983Author:
HAMER, A. ;
DILLINGER, W. ;
UDD
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-three million US dollars for Niger to carry...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156702Date: June 30, 1983
An experiment providing various combinations of nutritional supplementation and "home education" for a cohort of children and their mothers through pregnancy and up to three years of age was conducted...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES8Date: June 30, 1983Author:
Herrera, M. G. ;
Super, C. M.
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