Issues raised by the LDCs' demand
for freer access for their export of semimanufactures to
developed countries are discussed. The issues are
categorized into the topics...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP130Date: January 31, 1979Author:
LAL, D.
The approaches and concepts associated
with the measurement of development efforts in developing
countries are reviewed. These efforts have generally focused
on the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP104Date: January 31, 1979Author:
HICKS, N. ;
STREETEN, P.
A compact form of the Taylor/Lysy model
is presented. It consists of the commodity and factor price
frontiers, the saving-investment equilibrium condition and
the neoclassical...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP106Date: January 31, 1979Author:
LLUCH, C.
The objective of a basic needs approach
is to provide opportunities for the full development of the
individual. The essence of the case for the basic needs
approach...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP62Date: January 31, 1979Author:
STREETEN, P.
The pricing and investment rules
appropriate to a unified transportation trust fund (UTTF)
are described. It is possible to envisage a UTTF that would
collect revenues...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP145Date: January 31, 1979Author:
ROTH, G.
Data concerning the relationship between
demographic factors and income distribution are reviewed.
Application of the Kuznets curve to the data, as well as to
fertility...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP129Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Visaria,Pravin
This paper reviews the experience of the
Quinault Indians, who have made substantial progress in
monitoring the development of a 77,000 hectare reservation
with the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN134Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Deboeck, Guido ;
AGR
This news release, dated January 18,
1979, announces the International Development Association
(IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of the World Bank, approved a
20.5 million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157377Date: January 18, 1979
This report first presents a summary
review of the current status of natural gas resource
availability in developing countries. The potential for
utilization of indigenous...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN353Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Joyce, Thomas J
The changing pattern of comparative
advantage in the process of economic development is analyzed
insofar as it relates to exports of the LDCs. The empirical
estimates...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP136Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Balassa,Bela
The standards of reliability of
electricity supply have previously been determined on a
rule-of-thumb basis. This paper presents a generalized
simulation model for optimizing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP311Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan ;
Gellerson, Mark
The domestic resource cost (DRC) of
foreign exchange methodology is extended to evaluate
education programs for purposes of indigenization.
Application of the DRC approach...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP117Date: January 1, 1979Author:
MONSON, T. ;
PURSELL, G.
During the last two decades there have
been dramatic changes in the technology of shipping and in
the associated technologies of ports. Substantial capital
expenditures...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13369Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Bennathan, Esra ;
Walters, A. A.
The vast majority of the world's
poorest live in rural areas. There is no simple solution to
alleviating their living conditions, and any efforts made
depend on both...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN191Date: December 31, 1978Author:
Christoffersen, Leif E.
Production and import/export levels of
grains are predicted for 1978/79. Production of wheat,
coarse grains and milled rice is expected to increase by
five percent despite...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN9Date: December 31, 1978Author:
Bale, Malcolm D. ;
Nowicki, Danuta
A mathematical analysis of the general
priciples of production scheduling and pricing when a
storage capability exists demonstrates that such a
capability results in...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP89Date: December 31, 1978Author:
Pyatt,Frank Graham
This news release, dated December 21,
1978, announces oil at a lower cost will be made available
in Pakistan as a result of a project to increase domestic
production...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157195Date: December 21, 1978
This Bank notes newsletter includes some
of the following headings: new atlas to be published, by
Margaret de Tchihatchef; Feminism can set men free, at the
Bank, too,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59267Date: December 1, 1978Author:
De Tchihatchef, Margaret ;
Dell,Jerri ;
Pickering,Susan F.
Portugal's political and economic
systems were radically transformed after the 1974
revolution. A substantial increase in consumption took place
initially, but the population...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2214Date: November 30, 1978
Telecommunication utilities operating
efficiently on commercial lines are able to generate a very
high proportion of investment funds for maintaining a high
growth rate...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN40Date: November 30, 1978Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
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