• The behavior of a dual economy under different "closing rules"
    The behavior of a dual economy, having a capitalistic sector and subsistence sector, under different closing rules is investigated. If the central analytical issue when examining a dual economy is how...
    Type: Board Report Report#: REP123 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: BELL, C.
  • Indian export incentives
    Indian export incentives are analyzed within the framework of piecemeal "second-best" welfare economics, taking the extant import control system as a binding constraint. A condensed account of recent Indian...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP105 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Lal,Deepak K.
  • Tanzania : Kigoma rural development project (case study 2)
    The project was designed to support two of the governments high priority programs in rural development. These were: administrative reorganization and decentralization of public sector development program;...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN176 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Edgerton, J. ; AGR
  • Market access for semi-manufactures from developing countries
    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 of nontariff trade barriers, surveillance...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP130 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: LAL, D.
  • Indicators of development : the search for a basic needs yardstick
    The approaches and concepts associated with the measurement of development efforts in developing countries are reviewed. These efforts have generally focused on the growth of GNP per capita and related...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP104 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Hicks,Norman L. ; Streeten,Paul P.
  • Models of employment and income distribution
    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 relationship between relative...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP106 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: LLUCH, C.
  • Basic needs : premises and promises
    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 is that the gap between requirements...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP62 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Streeten,Paul P.
  • Economics of a unified transportation trust fund
    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 that broadly reflect economic user...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP145 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: ROTH, G.
  • Demographic factors and the distribution of income : some issues
    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 information, suggests that the inequility...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP129 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Visaria,Pravin
  • Monitoring rural development with minicomputers : the Indian experience
    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 help of a minicomputer. There is a growing...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN134 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Deboeck, Guido ; AGR
  • Announcement of Tanzania Receives Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars IDA Credit for Highway Project on January 18, 1979
    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 dollars credit for a project to...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 157377 Date: January 18, 1979
  • The role of natural gas in developing countries
    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 resources to meet the country's...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN353 Date: January 1, 1979 Author: Joyce, Thomas J
  • A "Stages Approach" to comparative advantage
    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 show that intercountry differences...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP136 Date: January 1, 1979 Author: Balassa,Bela
  • Optimum economic power supply reliability
    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 the reliability level by comparing...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP311 Date: January 1, 1979 Author: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan ; Gellerson,Mark
  • The use of DRC's to evaluate indigenization programs : the case of the Ivory Coast
    The domestic resource cost (DRC) of foreign exchange methodology is extended to evaluate education programs for purposes of indigenization. Application of the DRC approach to the Ivory Coast indicates...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP117 Date: January 1, 1979 Author: MONSON, T. ; PURSELL, G.
  • Port pricing and investment policy for developing countries
    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 on vessels have been accompanied...
    Type: Publication Report#: 13369 Date: January 1, 1979 Author: Bennathan, Esra ; Walters, A. A.
  • The bank and rural poverty
    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 national and international commitment...
    Type: Publication Report#: UNN191 Date: December 31, 1978 Author: Christoffersen,Leif E.
  • World grain and rice situation and outlook, 1978/79
    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 a 12 percent drop in U.S. wheat...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CMN9 Date: December 31, 1978 Author: Bale, Malcolm D. ; Nowicki, Danuta
  • Marginal costs, prices, and storage
    A mathematical analysis of the general priciples of production scheduling and pricing when a storage capability exists demonstrates that such a capability results in a restriction on the rate at which...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP89 Date: December 31, 1978 Author: Pyatt,Frank Graham
  • Announcement of IDA Approves Thirty Million Dollars for Oil and Gas Production in Pakistan on December 21, 1978
    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 through expansion of output from the...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 157195 Date: December 21, 1978
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