This paper presents a macro-model of the Korean economy that focuses on short-run macro-economic adjustment and, more in particular, on the transmission channels of monetary policy between the financial...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP236Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Van Wijnbergen,Sweder
This paper describes the sampling strategy of the establishment survey conducted in Bogota to study the determinants of manufacturing employment location, and reports descriptive findings based on the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8103Date: January 31, 1982Author:
LEE, K. ;
DED
It is not possible to make a quantitative assessment of the need for or of the merits of infant-industry promotion without empirical evidence concerning costs and benefits. This report reviews the evidence...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP253Date: January 31, 1982Author:
WESTPHAL, L.
Interest in, and commitment to, promoting literacy is not declining in the developing world. It is gaining momentum and can be seen in the plans of many developing countries and international agencies....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP230Date: January 31, 1982Author:
NOOR , A .
In response to the object housing conditions in urban areas of the developing world (recent estimate indicates that up to 40% of the population of some of the world's largest cities live in inadequate...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP223Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.
Although railways continue to be one of the most important means of overland transport, they have been a steadily growing cause of concern in almost all countries, developing and industrialized alike....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 6971Date: January 28, 1982
This press release announces that the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), approved $484.5 million in loans to lndonesia, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Romania, and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149383Date: January 11, 1982
This volume amounts to a rather comprehensive survey of the specification and uses of economy-wide planning models for developing countries. These models focus mainly on medium-term and perspective planning,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11915Date: January 1, 1982Author:
Blitzer, Charles R. ;
Clark, Peter B. ;
Taylor, Lanc
This paper is concerned with 'communication support' i.e., information, motivation or education activities designed to help the parent project achieve its objectives by: a) encouraging certain groups of...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP551Date: January 1, 1982Author:
Perrett,Heli E.
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: Journal ArticleReport#: UNN100Date: January 1, 1982Author:
Knudsen, O. ;
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
This paper is a suggested political economy of the Bank's new style rural development projects. It attempts to describe some of the things that happen in the political environment of a project when governments,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP23Date: January 1, 1982Author:
Tendler,Judith ;
AGR
The process of agricultural transformation in developing economies may be characterized by a transition from subsistence farming to commercialized agriculture. In this paper, the discussion concerns Taiwan,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP93Date: January 1, 1982Author:
Wee,Ai Chin
This report is a result of the proceedings of the World Bank Third Agricultural Sector Symposium held January 4-8, 1982. This volume contains the papers presented by the speakers, chairpersons' statements,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN386Date: January 1, 1982Author:
Davis,Ted J.
This study on Energy Pricing in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Egypt Study is the first comprehensive study financed by the Bank on the effects of energy price changes in a developing country....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY3Date: December 31, 1981Author:
Julius,Deanne S.
An acute shortage of foreign exchange has been a recurring problem for many developing economies. This paper reexamines the foreign exchange gap issue and the debate between structuralists and neoclassicists...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP248Date: December 31, 1981Author:
Dervis, K. ;
De Melo,Jaime A. P. ;
Robinson, S.
This article, Projecting Debt Servicing Capacity of Developing Countries, was reprinted with permission from the December 1981 issue of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Many less developed...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP237Date: December 31, 1981Author:
Feder,Gershon ;
Just, Richard ;
Foss, Knud ;
DRC
The purpose of this note is to suggest information considered in policy and project analysis that should be disaggregated by gender so that project design can take into account the contribution of women...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: WID15Date: December 31, 1981Author:
Scott,Gloria L.
This paper presents the current information and studies in the field of municipal finance in India, highlights major problem areas as well as the various attempts at resolving them. The first chapter reviews...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD18Date: December 31, 1981Author:
DATTA, A. ;
URB
Bogota and Cali are cities of considerable size populated by households which have fairly high incomes by the standards of the developing world. Residences are more concentrated in particular macro-zones...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8120Date: December 31, 1981Author:
HAMER, A. ;
DED
This paper considers a model of linkage between land, labor and credit transactions in the context of sharecropping. The paper's objectives are: a) to derive and characterize the equilibrium in a model...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP216Date: December 31, 1981Author:
Braverman,Avishay ;
Srinivasan,Giridhar N.
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