This paper discusses those trade policy issues which impede improving the financial health of the less developed countries, and the need to address these issues at the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: CON4Date: June 30, 1987Author:
Fitchett,Delbert A.
A number of developing countries now use the services of international firms providing preshipment and inspection services for a variety of purposes. The draft OMS 2.43 on "Procurement in SALs and other...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8710Date: June 30, 1987Author:
Suriyaarachchi,Para
Five years after the onset of the debt crisis, concern has arisen over the sustainability of the original financing strategy over the medium-term. One dimension of the problem that is being reexamined...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8713Date: June 30, 1987Author:
Krumm,Kathie L.
Recent analyses of agricultural performance in the developing countries question the appropriateness of nonfood (for export) crop promotion as a development strategy by arguing that such a strategy leads...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWA8706Date: June 30, 1987Author:
Agbonyitor,Alberto D. K.
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred million US dollars to rehabilitate the railway system of Brazil's State of Sao Paulo on June 29, 198
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157588Date: June 29, 1987
While the Korean National Railroad (KNR) is an efficient railway in many aspects and in terms of its performance relative to its methods of operation and maintenance, and to many other railways in the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 6692Date: June 25, 1987
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of fifty million US dollars for Portugal to implement a project to improve its highway system on June 18, 1987.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157567Date: June 18, 1987
Given the critical position the transport sector plays in the country's economic development, the government of Ethiopia is now focussing on improving the transport corridor between Addis Ababa and the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 6554Date: June 12, 1987
Given the critical position the transport sector plays in the country's economic development, the government of Ethiopia is now focussing on improving the transport corridor between Addis Ababa and the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 6554Date: June 12, 1987
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred eighty million three hundred thousand US dollars to rehabilitate or improve roads in Colombia on June 11, 1987.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157533Date: June 11, 1987
This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans totaling two hundred twenty-four million US dollars for Brazil State of Sao Paulo to reduce its industrial pollution and improve its road...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157535Date: June 11, 1987
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred twenty-five million US dollars to help finance an urban transport project in the States of Mexico and Nuevo Leon on June 1,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157529Date: June 1, 1987
This paper is an investigation of price-setting behavior in Chile, Israel and Korea when each of these countries moved from a fairly closed to a more open international trade regime. In some cases, the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD277Date: June 1, 1987Author:
Corbo,Vittorio ;
Mcnelis,Paul
The use of energy in the US manufacturing sector has been declining over the last two decades and the rate of decline has accelerated in the post-1973 period; the period of sharply-higher energy prices....
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8705Date: May 31, 1987Author:
Imran,Mudassar ;
Najmabadi,Farrokh
This paper analyses the effects of various economic policies on the transport and agricultural sectors. It also examines the effects of government interventions in one of these sectors on the performance...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TRP7Date: May 31, 1987Author:
Beenhaker, Henri L.
This is a quantitative, cross-sectional analysis of the level of equity among students in secondary and higher education in countries at all levels of development. Equity is assessed in terms of access...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: EDT82Date: May 31, 1987Author:
Anderson, C. Arnold
Much of the theoretical and academic literature on LDC debt restructuring has concentrated on analyzing the problem from the lenders' perspective. This paper seeks to identify and analyze factors influencing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8714Date: May 31, 1987Author:
Saunders, Anthony ;
Subrahmanyam, Marti
What impact do linkages between the farm and rural non-farm sectors ultimately have on agricultural growth? Although empirical evidence was previously lacking to assess the power of agricultural growth...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: ARU67Date: May 31, 1987Author:
Haggblade, Steve ;
Hazell, Peter ;
Brown, James
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