The very rapid rate of urban population
growth in developing countries is placing great strain on
their housing stock. Housing policies which aim at reducing
or eliminating...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP269Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Follain, James ;
Lim, Gill-Chin ;
Renaud, Bertrand
This paper presents a model of farm
decisions that arise when a farm is faced with two
interrelated innovations. The innovations are distinguished
by their returns to...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP206Date: February 28, 1982Author:
FEDER, G.
This paper is mainly about a new radio
telphone system which provides an effective and economical
means for opening long distance public call offices (LDPCOs)
or subscriber...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TWT4Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
The introduction of high-yield-crop
varieties is one of the more significant technological
changes taking place in LDC agriculture. Adoption patterns
should not be...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP207Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Feder, Gershon ;
O'Mara, G.
This study used data from the
Socio-Economic Survey, 1975-76 to examine income
distribution in Thailand. Evaluation of the survey data
showed that the sample was biased...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8201Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Kansal, Satish
This paper argues that the interlinking
of labor, output, and credit contracts often observed in
rural economies can be regarded as an attempt to improve
allocative...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP260Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Mitra, P. ;
DRD
Continuing population growth and a
steady rise in incomes have created a rapidly increasing
demand for food. Meeting this demand has necessitated
significant changes...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN101Date: February 28, 1982Author:
Yudelman, Montague ;
AGR
This Banks World newsletter includes
some of the following headings: EDs deal with shortfall,
Bank~^!!^s graduation policy; development in Sub-Saharan
Africa; new advisor...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59375Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Amaudry,Monique A. ;
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Sagnier,Thierry
This paper surveys a sample of issues
which government planners and policy makers face when
confronted with the need to supply growing amounts of meat
and dairy products...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP45Date: February 1, 1982Author:
GIRARDOT - BERG , I ;
AGR
This paper uses household survey data on
consumption to analyze the determinants of calorie intakes
in developing countries. It relies on characteristic demand
analysis...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP26Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Knudsen, O. ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
This discussion of commodity
stock-piling originated from the political call for
commodity price stabilization. It has two main objectives.
The first is to characterize...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD38Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Newbury, D. ;
Stiglitz, J. ;
Princeton University
This paper argues that the interlinking
of labor, output, and credit contracts often observed in
rural economies can be regarded as an attempt to improve
allocative...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD33Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Mitra,Pradeep K.
Despite inevitable problems, the
experience of both upgrading and sites-and-services projects
has generally been positive and has proved the feasibility
of producing,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP264Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Bamberger, Michael
The value of squatter dwellings for a
sample in the Philippines is estimated, and the statistical
relationship between value and housing characteristics is
described....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP243Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Jimenez, Emmanuel
This report reviews agricultural
performance and policies in Brazil in recent decades. In
view of the energy crisis and balance-of-payments problem, a
high priority...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3305Date: January 31, 1982
The major developing country forestry
issues in the 1980s are all related to the impact of
increasing population pressure on a declining tropical
forest resource. These...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN123Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Spears,John S.
Biological control is the use of living
beneficial organisms as pest control agents. The most
widely-used and successful method is the introduction and
establishment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN62Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Greathead, D.J. ;
Waage, J.K.
Development policies of Turkey
traditionally favored import substitution over exports and
industry over agriculture. The 1980 policy reforms aimed at
changing this strategy...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3641Date: January 31, 1982
Because of increasing oil prices since
1974, a geographical restructuring of bauxite processing is
under way in a wholesale manner. Since sources of low-cost
electricity...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8202Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Hashimoto,Hideo
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