This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved thirty-two million US dollars to carry out measures for rehabilitating...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156439Date: March 24, 1983
The project will provide: a) reconstruction or construction of quays and related facilities and service systems at the deep-water port at Matadi and the river port at Kinshasa; b) cargo-handling equipment...
The project includes: a) rehabilitation and upgrading of the Port-au-Prince central market area; b) a sites and services scheme for the relocation of 1,036 families displaced by the upgrading of the market;...
This report concerns further development and application of the Turkey Agricultural Sector Model (TASM). It presents a revised version of the model developed for the livestock subsector, TASM-ALV(R), which...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP68Date: March 1, 1983Author:
Le-Si, V. ;
Evans, M. ;
AGR
The Turkey Agricultural Sector Model (TASM) has been developed to: (i) determine if Turkey has a comparative advantage in agriculture and, if so, in which products; (ii) identify changes in cropping patterns...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP67Date: March 1, 1983Author:
Le-Si, V. ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ;
Kasnakoglu, H.
This paper represents a detailed statistical analysis of the relative size of Indian cities. Firstly it demonstrates from a variety of comparisons that Indian urbanization is less dominated by a few large...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD4Date: February 28, 1983Author:
Mills, E ;
Becker, C
This paper presents a description and evaluation of a variety of national government programs to control the size and growth rate of large Indian cities. Since the l950s, the Government of India has employed...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD3Date: February 28, 1983Author:
MILLS, E. ;
BECKER, C. ;
URB
The main problems affecting the transport sector in Madagascar have been identified in chapters two, three and four. In some cases Government has begun taking steps to study the problems and adopt corrective...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4057Date: February 28, 1983
The objective of this paper is two-fold. First, it clarifies the role of different assumptions made by previous authors in the determination of results regarding the neutrality or non-neutrality of social...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8304Date: February 28, 1983Author:
Shome, P. ;
Squire, Lyn
Using a demand determined model involving both consumption goods imports and home goods with imported inputs, this paper shows that the condition under which devaluation reduces demand for home goods,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP257Date: February 28, 1983Author:
Hanson, James
The paper reviews evidence from a household and community survey in a poor rural area of Mali regarding the ability and willingness of residents to pay for potential new health and water supply services...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8308Date: February 28, 1983Author:
Birdsall, Nancy ;
Orivel, F. ;
Chuhan, Punam
This paper investigates various aspects of urban concentration, particularly those relating to disproportionate migration of highly skilled labor into the larger cities. The findings on the production...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD30Date: February 28, 1983Author:
Henderson,John Vernon
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved thirteen million US dollars to increase food crop and livestock...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156431Date: February 17, 1983
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved twenty-three million US dollars to improve a major road artery...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156430Date: February 17, 1983
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved its first credit to Cape Verde for the improvement of the island...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156428Date: February 10, 1983
This paper places India's twentieth century urban growth in the context of the country's economic development. After a brief historical survey of economic and urban growth during the present century, it...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD2Date: January 31, 1983Author:
MILLS, E. ;
BECKER, C. ;
URB
This report reviews recent economic developments and adjustment efforts undertaken by the Government since the end of 1979. Severe financial difficulties resulted from a combination of excess demand for...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3857Date: January 31, 1983
This paper summarizes the results of the OECD and World Bank studies of external shocks and policy responses to these shocks in developing economies during the 1973-1978 period. External shocks, in the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP265Date: January 31, 1983Author:
Balassa, Bela
For some time, forest products have been the most important product group in Indonesia's exports except for petroleum. This report reviews the recent changes in Indonesia's timber policy and assesses...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8301Date: January 31, 1983Author:
Takeuchi,Kenji
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