The World Bank's operations
evaluation activities have continued to evolve in a positive
manner during the past year, reflecting the degree to which
their most important...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 2648Date: August 31, 1979
The spatial distribution of
manufacturing employment in Bogota, Colombia is described,
and the changes in location patterns from 1970 to 1975 using
industrial directory...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7910Date: August 31, 1979Author:
K. Lee
Tabular data are presented to aid in the
development of an international perspective on urban growth
patterns. The data were gathered for a cross-sectional
analysis...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7905Date: August 31, 1979Author:
Dillinger,William R.
This paper touches on the role of models
in a policy/planning environment, and establishes the need
for a general algebraic modeling system. The main purpose of
the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DRC13Date: August 31, 1979Author:
Bisschop, Johannes ;
Meeraus, Alexander
This case study was developed for use in
executive courses for Bank staff and is designed to serve as
the basis for seminar discussion, rather than to illustrate
either...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN166Date: August 31, 1979Author:
Runge, Carlisle Ford
Data documentation for the City Study
Research Project is presented. The main objective of the
study is to develop economic tools for estimating the
economic and spatial...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7913Date: August 31, 1979Author:
Lee,Irene Y.
Among other things, the Bank is an agent
of technological development in the developing countries. It
assists governments in formulating national economic
policies that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN247Date: August 31, 1979
This case study is designed to serve as
the basis for seminar discussion, rather than to illustrate
either effective or ineffective handling of a project. The
Azad Kashmir...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN167Date: August 31, 1979Author:
Runge, Carlisle Ford ;
AGR
The training and visit system (T&V)
has gained wide notice for its well defined, highly
disciplined approach to agricultural extension. The basic
elements of the system...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN162Date: August 31, 1979Author:
AGR
This press release announces the
International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the
World Bank, making its first investment in Bangladesh on
August 21, 1979,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151923Date: August 21, 1979
This paper concentrates on a model of
linkage between land, labour, and credit transactions in the
context of sharecropping. It assumes that sharecropping is
the only...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD30Date: August 2, 1979Author:
Braverman, A. ;
Srinivasan, T.
This press release announces Argentine
and Spanish investors and the International Finance
Corporation are joining to establish a major integrated
fishing project in...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151920Date: July 31, 1979
The unprecedented rate of urban growth
in developing nations has created massive new tasks for
national and local policy makers. This paper, which was
prepared as a...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP342Date: July 31, 1979Author:
Linn, Johannes F.
This paper reviews Turkey's growth
performance, which has had a pronounced cyclical pattern,
and makes recommendations for policies for more stable
economic growth....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP181Date: July 31, 1979Author:
BALASSA, B.
The growing use of general equilibrium
models and the explicit incorporation of constraints in
optimization models have resulted in a modification of
traditional conclusions...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP500Date: July 31, 1979Author:
Jetha,Nizar
The government of India has a long
history of responding to crisis situations of acute
shortages of food through public distribution. However, the
objective of the public...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP25Date: July 1, 1979Author:
Swamy, Gurushri ;
AGR
Advances in Maritime Economics, a volume
of papers relating to the enalysis of the economics of
shipping edited by R. O. Gossis reviewed. The papers
presented cover...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP110Date: June 30, 1979Author:
WALTERS, A.
The Bank's approach to railway
lending has been based on the assumption that an economic
role exists for the railways in each of the countries in
which it lends. It...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN373Date: June 30, 1979Author:
TWD
The influence of socioeconomic status
upon the academic performance of poor children in Ugandan
schools is investigated. In Uganda, socioeconomic status has
little influence...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP111Date: June 30, 1979Author:
HEYNEMAN, S.
This paper provides a brief updated
summary of the state of telecommunications investment in the
developing world and outlines some of the economic
development and tariff...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN45Date: June 30, 1979Author:
Saunders, Robert J. ;
Dickenson, C. R.
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