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 identified earlier, among them whether...
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 for other economic activities. FAO has...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP72Date: September 1, 1982Author:
Sfeir-Younis,Alfredo
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 identified earlier, among them whether...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 4090Date: September 1, 1982
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 that a futures market has two effects:...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD39Date: September 1, 1982Author:
Newbery,David M.
This report provides a review and analysis of grain freight markets and draws out implications for the optimal use of those markets by developing countries. The report describes and introduces the services...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP59Date: September 1, 1982Author:
Landell Mills Commodities Studies
Bank forestry lending during fiscal year 1982 amounted to US$156 million distributed over 12 projects, of which slightly more than half was for rural afforestation, fuelwood production, and watershed protection....
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN124Date: August 31, 1982
This paper on an evaluation of industrial location policies for urban de-concentration in Seoul presents a comprehensive review of the history of industrial location policies implemented in Korea during...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD7Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Choe, S. ;
Song, B. ;
WUD
The agricultural policy problem is inherently complex, for it involves attempting to influence the actions of very large numbers of heterogeneous producers as well as consumers, and the sector's performance...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP234Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Kutcher,Gary P. ;
Norton,Roger D.
In this study tentative household income distribution estimates were derived for the Sudan, using the 1967-68 household survey data for the northern ares and the sketchy, International Labor Organization...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8203Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Kansal, Satish
Estimating the demand for urban passenger travel is very useful in transport planning. This study estimates a joint model of choice for both auto ownership and travel mode to work in Karachi, Pakistan....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD5Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Thobani, Mateen ;
URB
An establishment-based survey of employees in the Tanzanian manufacturing sector yields evidence of a marked change in the stability of urban workers. Migration for wage employment was circular and short-term;...
Type: PublicationReport#: REP250Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Knight, J. ;
Sabot, R. ;
Oxford University
A significant gap exists in many countries between known and feasible agricultural technologies, and what is actually practiced by farmers. A major channel for the dissemination of information on these...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN89Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Feder, Gershon ;
Slade, Roger
A simple model of an LDC focuses on the relationship between the rural and urban sector and on the effects of pricing on migration and on incentives within the rural and the urban sectors. Within this...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8203Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Braverman, Avishay ;
Sah, Raaj Kumar ;
Stiglitz, Jos
Over the past two decades economic growth in Thailand has proceeded at a high rate, with agriculture continuing to play an important role in the growth process. Non-farm activities have become a major...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN190Date: August 31, 1982
Estimating the demand for urban passenger travel is very useful in transport planning. This study estimates a joint model of choice for both auto ownership and travel mode to work in Karachi, Pakistan....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP307Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Thobani,Mateen ;
URB
In FY82 the Bank Group made lending commitments for education and training of US$902.1 million for 19 education projects (totaling US$526.4 million) and 155 project-related training and education components...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN257Date: August 31, 1982Author:
EDC
This study focuses on the many interactions among policies, perceptions, and underlying socio-economic conditions that influence the choice and use of technology in an investment project. In the study...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN231Date: August 31, 1982Author:
Kamenetzky,Mario
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of forty-three million fifty thousand US dollars to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156123Date: August 19, 1982
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of thirty-three million US dollars for a project to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156119Date: August 5, 1982
This review of available economic and sector reports focuses on agricultural sector reports and related analyses, some treatment of food sector management being the unifying element among the various reports...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP71Date: August 1, 1982Author:
Florini,Ann M. ;
AGR
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