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, By Jerri Dell; jungle expedition...
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 has had to accept stagnant...
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 of telecommunication facilities...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN40Date: November 30, 1978Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
This news release, dated November 13, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessionary lending, approved a 190 million dollars credit for a...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157107Date: November 13, 1978
The most prominent characteristics of Thailand's urbanization pattern are a relatively low but steadily increasing level of urbanization, the overwhelming primacy of Bangkok and a comparatively small amount...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46021Date: November 1, 1978
This study presents a generalized simulation model for optimizing the reliability level by comparing the social benefits and costs of changes in power system reliability. This part of the report covers...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT18Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan ;
Scott, Walter
This paper gives a broad outline of the needs for and factors affecting the development of telecommunications in a developing country. It identifies certain of the special conditions which may be encountered...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN32Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Dickenson,Cuthbert R.
This paper discusses the role of wood as a source of energy in the developing countries, in which upwards of 1.5 billion, or 37 percent of the world's population, still depend almost entirely on wood for...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN114Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Spears,John S.
This paper is the Final Report in a series that presented a generalized simulation model for optimizing the reliability level by comparing changes in power system reliability. It summarizes, then analyzes...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT19Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
This news release, dated October 12, 1978, announces the World Bank and its soft-loan affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), will lend 20 million dollars to Guyana to provide foreign...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157103Date: October 12, 1978
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, help finance motorized bicycle (moped) engine project in Turkey, which assists the integration...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151817Date: October 12, 1978
This news release, dated October 6, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of the World Bank, approved a 5 million dollars credit for a highway project...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157102Date: October 6, 1978
This Banks Notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: new displays are unveiled; Alaska experiences many development problems familiar to Bank staff, by C. Eugene Webb; conductor prepares...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59265Date: October 1, 1978Author:
Fawcett,Katie L. ;
Lee,David James ;
Webb,Carleton Eugene
New developments in the theory of the farm household for nutrition and nutrition-oriented policies in the rural sector are evaluated. Some of the issues that such a model could elucidate are discussed;...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER49Date: September 30, 1978Author:
Singh, I. ;
Squire, Lyn
An outline and application of an exploratory multiregional linear programming model for Colombia, South America are presented. The model permits explicit consideration of multiple objectives of national,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7803Date: September 30, 1978Author:
Thoss, R. ;
Linn, Johannes F.
The study of labor and capital substitution in civil engineering construction has, since 1971, provided the framework for research and implementation activities related to construction technologies more...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN321Date: September 30, 1978Author:
TWD
This news release, dated September 7, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of the World Bank, approved a 55 million dollars credit for a fertilizer project...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156986Date: September 7, 1978
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following issue: mission's work in Bolivia is rewarding; resolves critical problems, says Res Rep by Rolando Arrivillaga; changes made in G-iv work regulations;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59264Date: September 1, 1978Author:
Arrivillaga,Rolando R. ;
Janssen,Hans ;
King,Martin W. G.
Recent advances in electronics has made the realization of Automatic Message Accounting systems economical and attractive so that AMA systems now emerge as a clear choice in preference to bulk billing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN41Date: August 31, 1978Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
A mathematical model illustrating the optimal hedging strategy of a producing country subject to price and production variability is proposed. Cocoa is used as a case study. The analysis is applied to...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN6Date: August 31, 1978Author:
Rolfo,Jacques Raymond
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