• Data on income distribution in Thailand
    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 toward small-size households and...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DWE8201 Date: February 28, 1982 Author: Kansal, Satish
  • Multiaccess VHF radio telephone systems for rural telephony
    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 connections in rural areas....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: TWT4 Date: February 28, 1982 Author: Vasudevan,C. P.
  • Farm size and the diffusion of Green Revolution technology : a Bayesian approach
    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 affected by farm size, but in a substantial...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP207 Date: February 28, 1982 Author: Feder,Gershon ; O'Mara, G.
  • A theory of interlinked rural transactions
    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 efficiency in the face of moral hazard....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP260 Date: February 28, 1982 Author: Mitra, P. ; DRD
  • Development issues in the 80s : achieving food security
    Continuing population growth and a steady rise in incomes have created a rapidly increasing demand for food. Meeting this demand has necessitated significant changes in production, trade, and distribution....
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN101 Date: February 28, 1982 Author: Yudelman, Montague ; AGR
  • Bank~^!!^s World : Bank's World
    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 for IFC, by Monique Amaudry; what...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 59375 Date: February 1, 1982 Author: Amaudry,Monique A. ; Drattell,Alan M. ; Sagnier,Thierry
  • Livestock : policy issues in trade, pricing and marketing
    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 to their domestic markets. Resolution...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP45 Date: February 1, 1982 Author: GIRARDOT - BERG , I ; AGR
  • The demand for calories in developing countries
    This paper uses household survey data on consumption to analyze the determinants of calorie intakes in developing countries. It relies on characteristic demand analysis for a demand function specification...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP26 Date: February 1, 1982 Author: Knudsen, O. ; Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
  • Optimal commodity stock-piling rules
    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 the competitive stockpiling rule,...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD38 Date: February 1, 1982 Author: Newbury,Jacqueline L. ; Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene ; Princeton University
  • A theory of interlinked rural transactions
    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 efficiency in the face of moral hazard....
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD33 Date: February 1, 1982 Author: Mitra,Pradeep K.
  • The role of self-help housing in low-cost shelter programs for the Third World
    Despite inevitable problems, the experience of both upgrading and sites-and-services projects has generally been positive and has proved the feasibility of producing, on a large scale, housing which is...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP264 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: Bamberger,J. Michael
  • The value of squatter dwellings in developing countries
    The value of squatter dwellings for a sample in the Philippines is estimated, and the statistical relationship between value and housing characteristics is described. The results of a survey approach indicate...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP243 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.
  • Brazil - Review of agricultural policies
    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 has been placed on the sector to expand...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB3305 Date: January 31, 1982
  • Developing country forestry issues in the 1980s
    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 issues include: the impact of continued...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN123 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: Spears,John S.
  • Opportunities for biological control of agricultural pests in developing countries
    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 of beneficial organisms, which aims...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN62 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: Greathead, D.J. ; Waage, J.K.
  • Turkey - Industrialization and trade strategy
    Development policies of Turkey traditionally favored import substitution over exports and industry over agriculture. The 1980 policy reforms aimed at changing this strategy by moving towards outward orientation...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB3641 Date: January 31, 1982
  • Bauxite processing in developing countries
    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 have been largely exhausted in...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8202 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: Hashimoto,Hideo
  • Mechanical processing of tropical hardwood in developing countries : issues and prospects of plywood industry development in the Asia-Pacific region
    This report examines the issues related to, and the prospects for, the growth of local processing of tropical hardwood in log-producing areas. While the report covers the broad issues of mechanical processing...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8201 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: Takeuchi,Kenji
  • Trade adjustment policies and income distribution in three archetype developing economies
    This paper explores quantitatively the macroeconomic and distributional impacts on non-oil producing, semi-industrial developing countries of external shocks originating in the world economy - in particular,...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP271 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: de Melo, Jaime ; Robinson, S.
  • Education and parental decision making : a two-generation approach
    An understanding of the relationship between education and development requires an understanding of the process whereby decisions are made to educate children in the first generation and the consequences...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP247 Date: January 31, 1982 Author: BIRDSALL, N. ; COCHRANE, S.
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