The second agricultural sector symposia
which took place between January 5 to 9, 1981, represented
the continuation of efforts to promote the dissemination of
information...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN59Date: January 31, 1981Author:
AGR
This is chapter 9, entitled Feasibility,
Effectiveness, and Costs of Food Security Alternatives in
Developing Countries, from the publication entitled Food
Security...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN105Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Valdes, Alberto [editor] ;
Reutlinger, Shlomo ;
Bigman, David
Studies have shown that preschool age
children of the lower socioeconomic groups in developing
countries perform substantially worse in tests of cognitive
development...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP218Date: January 31, 1981Author:
SELOWSKY, M.
This paper calls attention to a
particular type of misallocation of resources having
important efficiency and distributional losses within the
educational sector of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP192Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Pinera, S. ;
Selowsky, M.
An analysis of local government
structure and finance in Karachi reveals a number of
problems due largely to inadequate amounts of public sector
resources available...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF68Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Kee, W. ;
Development Economics Department (DED)
Until the 1960s all telephone switching
systems used electromechanical components and progressed
from step-by-step to machine-driven to crossbar exchanges.
The rapid...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TWT3Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
This press release announces the
International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of
the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-five million
US dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154001Date: January 26, 1981
This press release announces the
International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan
affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of
twenty-three million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153997Date: January 8, 1981
Food distribution schemes have acquired
increasing popularity as a basic instrument for the
alleviation of poverty. However, high leakages to unintended
beneficiaries...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP19Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ;
Graves, Judith ;
AGR
This paper is a proposal for the
development of an economics that would be based on
satisfaction of the unvarying and universal human needs and
not of desires or wants....
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN253Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Kamenetzky, Mario
This report, issued in two volumes,
represents the first two steps in a three step process as
agreed upon within the project staffs of the World Bank. The
first step,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP63Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Howe, Charles W.
Because widespread availability of
textbooks in the United States preceded research on the
effectiveness of instructional materials, there has been
little systematic...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP391Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Jamison, Dean T ;
Searle, Barbara ;
Galda, Klaus ;
Heyneman, Stephen P
The purpose of this manual is to provide
early dissemination of research results to field workers, to
summarize selected portions of the other publications that
are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11509Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Kalbermatten, John M. ;
Julius, DeAnne S. ;
Mara, D.
This paper analyzes the effects of
agricultural policies in industrialized nations on their
domestic economies, the world commodity markets, and
developing countries....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP174Date: December 31, 1980Author:
BALE, M. ;
LUTZ, E.
Efficient and economic external
transport is vital to the small landlocked countries of
Rwanda and Burundi, both of which must import industrial
products as well as...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3224Date: December 31, 1980
Efficient and economic external
transport is vital to the small landlocked countries of
Rwanda and Burundi, both of which must import industrial
products as well as...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3224Date: December 31, 1980
This paper is a review of partial and
general equilibrium approaches to analysis of distributional
consequences of technical change, using examples from the
agriculture...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP212Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Binswanger,Hans P.
This report is an attempt to set the
Bank's initial diagnosis of the problems and prospects
of the Maldivian economy in the context of the
country's historical background...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2739Date: December 31, 1980
In all societies, commercial banks are
instrumental in transferring surplus monetary resources from
savers to users. A study of the Indian commercial banking
system...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF66Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Mampilly, P. ;
Development Economics Department (D
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