Modernization of developing nations
always includes the spread of education, but factors
influencing the rate and consequences of its spread remain
poorly understood....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP396Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Cochrane, Susan H. ;
Jamison, Dean T.
This paper reviews the experience of
centrally planned economies with reforms and the relevance
of their experience to China. Attempts made at the
decentralization of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP235Date: September 30, 1982Author:
BALASSA, B.
In this paper the socioeconomic system
of a country is viewed as an iceberg with an affluent tip
and extreme poverty at the submerged bottom. Making use of
this representation,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN233Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Kamenetzky,Mario
Health conditions throughout the
developing world are substantially inferior to those in
affluent countries. The principal causes of morbidity and
mortality are infectious...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN236Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Hall, K. ;
PHN
This report begins with a brief
illustration of the basic idea of the 'active life
profile' and outlines a new technique of constructing
it. The life profile has some...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN202Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Seers, D.
This paper seeks to place India's
marked acceleration in the pace of urbanization during
1971-81 in its proper perspective. It relates the census
data to past trends...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP295Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Mohan, R. ;
Pant, C.
Project-specific monitoring and
evaluation systems are being introduced at an increasing
rate in agricultural and rural development projects to
improve the efficiency...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN139Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Ng, Ronald ;
Lethem, Francis
One of the often noted features of
less-developed agrarian economies is the existence of
interlinkages among the land, labor, credit, and product
markets. The landlord...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP229Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Braverman, A. ;
Stiglitz, J.
This paper presents a dynamic model of
diffusion of a new technology involving a variable input.
The model highlights the role of information accumulation,
and distinguishes...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU2Date: September 30, 1982Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Slade, R.
This report reviews the current status
of the process by which the Bank, in its continuing search
for ways to improve the effectiveness of its development
asssistance,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 4104Date: September 30, 1982
This press release announces the
International Development Association (IDA), concessionary
lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit
of four million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156126Date: September 23, 1982
This press release announces the
International Development Association (IDA), concessionary
lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit
of thirty million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156125Date: September 23, 1982
This review covers 108 operations,
representing all the major sectors of Bank operations except
urban development. Four population projects come in for
special comparative...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 4101Date: September 9, 1982
This paper concerns the evaluation of
the effects of alternative market policies on Portuguese
agriculture under the two basic scenarios of free trade and
full membership...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP57Date: September 1, 1982Author:
Le-Si, V ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
This review draws case material from
about 100 PPARs and nine case studies, in order to test the
relevance of several root causes for non-compliance with
loan covenants...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 4090Date: September 1, 1982
This paper is about the economic aspects
of soil conservation. It is well known that millions of
hectares are being irreversibly lost for agricultural
production or...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP72Date: September 1, 1982Author:
Sfeir-Younis,Alfredo
This paper studies the impact of a
futures market on a cash market in which there is a dominant
producer and a competitive fringe of price-taking firms. It
is shown...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD39Date: September 1, 1982Author:
Newbery, David M.
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