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
What accounts for the differences in economic progress and affluence between the middle income countries and the poorer ones? This report examines this quesion in the light of three qualifications. First,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP30Date: August 1, 1982Author:
Scandizzo,Pasquale L. ;
David, W. ;
AGR
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
Two of the most striking features of institutional credit in rural Africa since the 1960s are increases in government activity intended to provide more credit to farmers, and the size of the resource transfer...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP47Date: August 1, 1982Author:
VON PISCHKE, J. ;
Rouse,Michael J. ;
AGR
Modernization of the agricultural sector in developing countries has been threatened, due largely to the increasingly high cost of imported oil products to support irrigation projects, fertilizers, and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP49Date: August 1, 1982Author:
MCCOMBS , J . ;
AGR
Factors influencing the performance of net farm income in families who adopted the double cropping regime in Malaysia are analyzed in light of the Muda Irrigation Project, which supplies off-season water...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP238Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Goldman, R. ;
Squire,Lyn
This paper presents the early results of empirical work on trade among developing countries. The main conclusion is that non-fuel trade among developing countries, excluding capital surplus oil exporters,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP278Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Havrylyshyn, Oli ;
Wolf, Martin
Time use data is crucial to the measurement of living standards both for developing more realistic and meaningful indicators of welfare and poverty and for providing deeper understanding of the dynamics...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM18Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Acharya,Meena
Kerala does not conform to the socioeconomic development pattern normally associated with a rapid fertility decline. This report attempts to determine the causes of the decline that Kerala is experiencing....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES2Date: July 31, 1982Author:
Zachariah,K. C.
This document is a collection of the maps developed by the National Spatial Policies in Brazil research project and the Cartography Division over an 18-month period. The nineteen computer generated maps...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD9Date: July 31, 1982Author:
KEEN, D. ;
LUSCOMBE, B. ;
URB
By 1982, it had become clear that women were active participants in the labor force recruited by the rural access road programme (RARP) in road construction. It was also evident that the extension of roads...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: WID23Date: July 31, 1982
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), concessionary lending affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of fifty million US dollars to Pakistan for an eleventh...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156073Date: July 2, 1982
A social accounting matrix (SAM) is a means of representing economic and social data. It is an alternative statistical system to the more conventional balance sheet method by which most national income...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP55Date: July 1, 1982Author:
Round, J. ;
AGR
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