The influence of socioeconomic status upon the academic performance of poor children in Ugandan schools is investigated. In Uganda, socioeconomic status has little influence on school children's academic...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP111Date: June 30, 1979Author:
Heyneman,Stephen Paul
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 policy factors which should be...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN45Date: June 30, 1979Author:
Saunders, Robert J. ;
Dickenson, C. R.
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 is on this premise that lending of about...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN373Date: June 30, 1979Author:
TWD
The establishment of development banks in a number of LDCs and the influence of financial innovations on the role of development banks are examined. Central Banks play a critical role in initiating the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF56Date: June 30, 1979Author:
Bhatt,Vinayak V.
The effect of changing exchange rates and differences in the domestic rates of inflation on commodity analysis is calculated mathematically. Exchange rate deviations between countries have at times been...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN12Date: June 30, 1979Author:
de Vries, Jos
The process of development is a process of mobilizing technology. Any of the most common goods or services can be produced by employing different technologies. The selection of a technology will be based...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: UNN248Date: June 30, 1979Author:
Kamenetzky,Mario
Tanzania is attempting to establish a self-reliant socialist socioeconomic structure in order to ensure each family initially a minimum level of living and later a progressively rising minimum. In order...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF69Date: June 30, 1979Author:
Bhatt,Vinayak V. ;
Nankani, G. ;
Development Economics Department (DED)
This news release, dated June 25, 1979, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessionary lending, approved a 24 million dollars credit to Madagascar...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158073Date: June 25, 1979
This news release, dated June 21, 1979, announces the World Bank and its soft-loan affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), approved a loan and a credit of 27 million dollars and 20...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158071Date: June 21, 1979
This updating report covers research activities in FY78. As with previous reports, it covers all World Bank research except for that financed under loans and credits, and research of a technical nature...
Type: Report on the World Bank Research ProgramReport#: 20310Date: June 19, 1979
This news release, dated June 14, 1979, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessionary lending, approved a 10 million dollars credit to the People’s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157619Date: June 14, 1979
This news release, dated June 11, 1979, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessionary lending, announced credits to the Democratic Republic of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157615Date: June 11, 1979
This news release, dated June 11, 1979, announces the World Bank and its affiliate for concessionary lending, the International Development Association (IDA), approved 48 million dollars in loans to help...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157612Date: June 11, 1979
This news release, dated June 7, 1979, announces a program to encourage village people in India’s Uttar Pradesh state to plant trees for fuel and raw materials will be assisted with a 23 million dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157611Date: June 7, 1979
An econometric model that incorporates the main features of the world cocoa bean market is presented. Behavioral relationships are estimated for cocoa production, grindings, stocks, and prices. The model...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN11Date: May 31, 1979Author:
Yeung, Patrick ;
Pollak, Peter ;
Augusto, Suzana
This news release, dated May 31, 1979, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessionary lending, will make a credit of 9 million dollars to the Islamic...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157576Date: May 31, 1979
This paper explores the interrelationship between agricultural policies and development by means of a dynamically recursive, computable general equilibrium model applied to Sri Lanka. The goals considered...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP191Date: May 31, 1979Author:
DE MELO, M.
India's Draft Sixth Plan, emphasizing the importance of agriculture and rural development in India, is evaluated. Two major premises can be inferred from the Plan: that India has been urbanized overly...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7914Date: May 31, 1979Author:
Mohan, R.
The fall in sugar prices that followed the temporary flood of sugar earnings coupled with the increase in petroleum prices made it impossible for Guyana to sustain the greatly expanded level of public...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2505Date: May 31, 1979
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