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Announcement of World Bank Approves Thirty-Three Million Seven Hundred US Dollars for Zimbabwe on May 19, 1983

This press release announces a loan from International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) for a highway project in the eastern part of Zimbabwe, and a credit from International Development...
Type: Announcement Report#: 156557 Date: May 19, 1983
Announcement of Zambia to Expand Water Supply Services with Sixteen Million US Dollars Credit from IDA on May 16, 1983

This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of sixteen million US dollars for a project aimed...
Type: Announcement Report#: 156530 Date: May 16, 1983
Announcement of World Bank Supports Five Hundred Million US Dollars Power Project in India on May 12, 1983

This press release announces a loan from International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and a credit of International Development Association (IDA), to build a hydro-electric power plant...
Type: Announcement Report#: 156524 Date: May 12, 1983
The African trypanosomiases : methods and concepts of control and eradication in relation to development

The tsetse-transmitted trypanosomiases are diseases of man and his domestic livestock that have contributed to the prevalence of poverty, malnutrition, and disease in much of tropical Africa. Although...
Type: Publication Report#: WTP4 Date: April 30, 1983 Author: Lee, C.W. ; Maurice, J.M.
Identifying the urban poor in Brazil

This paper investigates the degree to which the use of a single urban poverty threshold in Brazil leads to biased project identification, design, and evaluation. Analysis of the causes of proverty is beyond...
Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP565 Date: April 30, 1983 Author: HICKS, J. ; VETTER, D.
Bolivia - Issues and options in the energy sector

Bolivia has a large energy resource base relative to its present internal needs. The hydro-potential is the largest known resource, but only 287 MW of a total potential of 18,000 MW have been developed....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 4213 Date: April 30, 1983
A national and state analysis of the Indian Urban Development : RPO 672-64 interim summary report

This interim summary report explains the objectives of the research project and summarizes each of the papers produced except those designed to develop a general equilibrium model of Indian urbanization....
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD23 Date: April 30, 1983 Author: MERA, K. ; URB
Announcement of More than Thirty Five Developing Countries Adopt World Bank’s Low-Cost Approaches to Solution of Urban Problems on April 13, 1983

Ten years of World Bank lending for urban development have had a significant impact on how developing countries are analyzing urban issues and on the way they are formulating and implementing solutions...
Type: Announcement Report#: 151807 Date: April 13, 1983
A dissenting view of the world food problem

In this paper, the author poses a dissenting view regarding the world food problem. He maintains that world hunger is exacerbated by illusions and misconceptions on the part of those who could correct...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP73 Date: April 1, 1983 Author: Eberstadt, Nick
The ventilated improved double pit latrine : a construction manual for Botswana

This booklet is intended to serve as a field manual for Self-Help Housing Agency Technical Assistants (SHHATA's) who are charged with inspecting and assisting in the construction of what are known in Botswana...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: TAG3 Date: April 1, 1983 Author: van Nostrand, John ; Wilson, James G. ; UNDP ; Technic
Pakistan : an analysis of agricultural pricing policy

An examination of the structure and workings of the markets for each of the four major crops suggests changes in market structure and/or in government pricing policy that would result in increased welfare....
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8303 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: Thobani,Mateen
The conceptual basis of measures of household welfare and their implied survey data requirements

This paper surveys three alternative approaches to the measurement and analysis of welfare, reflective of the thinking that has been ongoing in the Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study. The first...
Type: Journal Article Report#: REP258 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: Grootaert,Christiaan N.
Argentina - Petroleum geology brief

Argentina is among the most important oil-producing countries, but as a result of discontinuous and uncoordinated evolution of the petroleum industry, the body of technical knowledge about its oil and...
Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN340 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: Zuniga-Rivero, J.F. ; Hay-Roe, Hugh
The spatial content of Bank urban sector work

Rapid urbanization in developing countries has produced a heavy concentration of population and economic activity in large urban centers. In order to deal with perceived problems associated with large...
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD21 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: REEDY, D. ; WUDD
The demand for health and schooling in Mali : results of the community and service provider survey

This paper presents the findings of a survey of communities and providers of health and schooling services in Southwestern Mali, which aimed to characterize the supply of health and schooling services....
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8307 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: Ainsworth,Martha
Income distribution in post-1964 Brazil : new results

Brazil is often cited as a developing country that has exemplified the trade-off between economic growth and equity. Th basis for the claim was the rising inequality in the income distribution between...
Type: Journal Article Report#: REP251 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: Fox, M.
Technology, finance and development

The central message of this book is that the World Bank has had a substantial impact on the development and diffusion of technology in the Third World, and has become one of the main technological institutions...
Type: Publication Report#: UNN334 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: Weiss, Charles ; Jequier, Nicolas [editors]
Portugal - The prospects for external trade in light of EEC entry with special reference to agriculture

Portugal's entry into the EEC will probably affect trade in manufacturing in three ways: (i) tariff arrangements will be changed and local industries will be exposed to increased competition from external...
Type: Policy Note Report#: 4109 Date: March 31, 1983
Textbooks in the Philippines : evaluation of the pedagogical impact of a nationwide investment

Ambiguity can be found in North America as to whether an improvement in physical resources can affect significantly the quality of educational output. Such ambiguity should not pertain to developing countries....
Type: Journal Article Report#: REP335 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: Heyneman, Stephen P. ; Jamison,Dean T. ; Montenegro, Xenia
Third World energy policies : demand management and conservation

Increasing energy costs underline the need for more efficient management of energy supply and demand to maintain economic growth, especially in the developing countries where resources are scarce. Combining...
Type: Journal Article Report#: REP255 Date: March 31, 1983 Author: MUNASINGHE, M.