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...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8301Date: November 30, 1982Author:
Behrman, Jere R. ;
Birdsall, Nancy
The most important non-rural development
program in Brazil is an industrialization promotion effort
which provides substantial income tax credits to industrial
firms...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD16Date: November 30, 1982Author:
REDWOOD, J. ;
URB
Housing policy must be based on accurate
information if it is to be effective at a reasonable cost.
This paper discusses what should be known about a housing
market...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD44Date: November 30, 1982Author:
Malpezzi, Stephen ;
Bamberger, Michael ;
Mayo, Steph
This press release announces the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(IBRD), and International Development Association (IDA),
have approved a combined...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156160Date: November 18, 1982
This press release announces the World
Bank and its affiliate International Development Association
(IDA), have approved funds totaling almost two hundred
million US...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156135Date: November 3, 1982
This paper examines the relevance of the
choice of development strategy for coping with external
shocks in the oil-importing countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
It analyzes...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD41Date: November 1, 1982Author:
Balassa, Bela
This paper analyzes the
policy-experience of sub-Saharan African countries during
the 1973-78 period of external shocks, with distinction made
between oil-importing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD42Date: November 1, 1982Author:
Balassa, Bela
This paper applies the concept of
intra-industry trade (IIT) on two levels. First, it
describes the extent of intra-industry trade of developing
countries and compares...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWI8206Date: November 1, 1982Author:
Havrylyshyn, Oli ;
Civan, Engin
This paper addresses international
trade, especially in commodities, as the linchpin of the
economic welfare of both the industrialized and developing
countries. This...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP61Date: November 1, 1982Author:
First Washington Associates
This paper uses data from the World Bank
and UNFPA sponsored survey on the Determinants of Fertility
Decline in Sri Lanka. The multivariate analysis shows that
the traditionally...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES3Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Patel,Sulekha
This case study summarizes the design
and early implementation of a large public investment
project in a middle-income developing nation.
State-of-the-art technology...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN242Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Bundick, Paul ;
Maybury, Robert
This paper is addressed to leaders in
developing countries who are concerned about the severe
limits in the ability of their countries to foster the
growth of local...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN339Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Kamenetzky, Mario ;
Maybury, Robert
This case examines the choice of
technology in an investment project undertaken to improve
the efficiency and production of the fishing industry in a
low-income island...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN239Date: October 31, 1982
Youth unemployment is a chronic and
pervasive problem in many parts of the world. Inappropriate
educational systems have frequently been adopted, thereby
failing to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN237Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Bundick,Paul L.
The emergence of rapidly growing
metropolitan centers of unprecedented size in many LDCs has
prompted a search for ways to promote the growth of
alternative secondary...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD13Date: October 31, 1982Author:
DILLINGER, W. ;
HAMER, A. ;
DRD
This paper provides an introduction to
the concept of the welfare cost of taxation and its
measurement. In addition, it derives the basic conclusion of
the theory of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP252Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Jetha, N.
This paper examines the industrial and
economic growth of Sao Paulo. Around 1900, Sao Paulo city
and its hinterland belonged to a national economic
archipelago: the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD14Date: October 31, 1982Author:
HAMER, A. ;
URB
This press release announces the
International Development Association (IDA), concessionary
lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit
of seven million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156133Date: October 4, 1982
In order to understand the connection
between non-sectoral policies and industrial location
better, a theoretical model linking macroeconomic policies
to the spatial...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD12Date: September 30, 1982Author:
RUANE, F. ;
URB
A dynamic model of diffusion of a new
technology involving a variable input highlights the role of
information accumulation and distinguishes between active
gathering...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN85Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Slade,Roger H.
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