Prospects for rural development in
sub-Saharan Africa appear to be much poorer than in the rest
of the developing world, especially since the oil price
increases. If...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP186Date: February 28, 1981Author:
Lele,Uma
This paper explores the relationship
between education and employment, specifically the tendency
for the coefficient on education to depend on the length of
employment...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP200Date: February 28, 1981Author:
KNIGHT, S. ;
SABOT, R.
This handbook is part of a collection of
basic information handbooks on various commodities, which
are designed to allow new or updated data to be inserted
accordingly....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 12898Date: February 28, 1981
This press release announces the
International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the
World Bank, which promotes and assists private enterprises
in developing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152683Date: February 18, 1981
This press release announces the
International Development Association (IDA), soft-loan
affiliate, has approved a credit of thirty-three million US
dollars to Malawi...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154070Date: February 5, 1981
The problem of sustaining mechanical
technologies in rural areas is multidimensional, widespread,
and persistent. It is not simply that tractors break down
and irrigation...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP40Date: February 1, 1981Author:
Delp, Peter ;
AGR
Probably the most significant progress
in agricultural extension worldwide in the 1970s has been
the development of the Training and Visits Extension System.
However,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP196Date: January 31, 1981Author:
CERNEA, M.
This paper points out that the process
governing variations in daily energy balances in human
beings is not yet fully understood and a satisfactory
theoretical framework...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP178Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Srinivasan, T. N.
This paper attempts to broaden the scope
of poverty measurement. First, a brief review of
measurements based on nutritional and monetary norms is
presented. Then, it...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP193Date: January 31, 1981Author:
RAO, V.
The concern of this paper is with
locational choices in investment decision. The spatial focus
is the city-region. The paper argues that it is both
conceptually and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8107Date: January 31, 1981Author:
TOWNROE, P. ;
DED
Cooperatives have a universal appeal as
an instrument of poverty alleviation and yet their record
has been less than exemplary. This paper highlights dilemmas
faced...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP169Date: January 31, 1981Author:
LELE, U.
This paper describes the spatial
distribution of manufacturing employment in Bogota and
analyzes the changes in the location patterns over the
1970-1975 period using...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP195Date: January 31, 1981Author:
LEE, K.
This paper analyzes the initial
conditions for development facing post-colonial African
nations, outlines alternative development strategies
followed by different groups...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP177Date: January 31, 1981Author:
ACHARYA, S.
The question of the profitability of
investing in human capital remains controversial. Three main
methods for estimating the rate of return to investment in
education...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP210Date: January 31, 1981Author:
PSACHAROPOULOS, G.
This paper addresses income distribution
issues and policy options to eliminate extreme poverty in a
particular typology of middle-income semi-industrialized
developing...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP176Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Selowsky,Marcelo
This article, Shifting Patterns of World
Trade and Competition, was reprinted with permission from
the 1981 publication Growth and Entrepreneurship:
Opportunities and...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP231Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Balassa, Bela
Since 1964 Brazil has experienced rapid
economic growth, exclusionary politics and a persistently
unequal distribution of income. After 1973 rapid growth was
maintained...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP203Date: January 31, 1981Author:
KNIGHT, P.
The rapid rise in energy costs,
especially oil prices, has created major dislocations in the
economies of most oil-importing countries. The exploitation
of domestic...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP187Date: January 31, 1981Author:
SCHRAMM, G. ;
MUNASINGHE, M.
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