This study reviews financial aspects of health care in Brazil with some comparisons with more developed countries. Brazil now spends less than five percent of GDP on health, but that share has risen substantially...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: GEN6Date: November 30, 1982Author:
McGreevey,William Paul
Urban economies of scale are either caused by sector-specific, or localization, effects or by city size effects. If localization effects predominate, then these types of efficiencies suggest urban areas...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD17Date: November 30, 1982Author:
HENDERSON, J. ;
URB
This report, which examines the location behaviour of manufacturing firms in urban areas, is part of a World Bank urban study project. A theoretical model of employment location is formulated and extended...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP249Date: November 30, 1982Author:
Lee,Doyoung K. ;
URB
The purpose of this study is to analyze spatially IBRD/IDA investments in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Mali to determine national, regional, and urban investment patterns and to speculate on the implied...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD28Date: November 30, 1982Author:
Mathieu, Renee ;
UDD
This paper intends to describe the main features of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and to discuss its uses and limitations for making decisions about development projects and programs. CBA is a quantitative...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN235Date: November 30, 1982
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 school quality as well as quantity....
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 willing to invest in approved own or...
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 and why, and deals with the problems...
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 loan and credit of four hundred...
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 dollars for China to modernize and...
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 the policies of adjustment to the...
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 and oil-exporting and, within the first...
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 it to the IIT of industrial countries....
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 is illustrated by the following points....
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 strong influences on fertility,...
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 and many components were purchased...
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 science and technology and to link these...
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 developing country. Following a comparative...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN239Date: October 31, 1982
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 cities. The sources of industrial...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD13Date: October 31, 1982Author:
DILLINGER, W. ;
HAMER, A. ;
DRD
Youth unemployment is a chronic and pervasive problem in many parts of the world. Inappropriate educational systems have frequently been adopted, thereby failing to address this issue. This case looks...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN237Date: October 31, 1982Author:
Bundick,Paul L.
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