Comments are made on Bank-funded storage projects in India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Iraq, the Philippines, the Yemen Arab Republic, Argentina, and Ethiopia. It is noted that: (i) the projects provide only...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP21Date: August 1, 1978Author:
Lutz, E. ;
AGR
This working paper includes the following headings: basic and applied sciences; field crop production and soil management; horticulture; animal husbandry; animal health; farm power, workshop processes...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN285Date: August 1, 1978Author:
Habte,Aklilu
The World Health Organization has estimated that the vast majority of the people of developing countries has inadequate or no facilities for human waste disposal. The customary approach to providing communities...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT12Date: July 31, 1978Author:
Shuval, Hillel I. ;
Gunnerson, Charles G. ;
Julius,
The role of domain analysis and the automatic generation of exact point-derivatives in the solution of large nonlinear systems of algebraic equations is examined. The paper provides an informal technical...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DRC7Date: July 31, 1978Author:
Bisschop, Johannes ;
Meeraus, Alexander
A comparative analysis of farms that have been double-cropped for one year and those that have been double-cropped for two or more years provides information on the effect of farm experience on allocational...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP94Date: July 31, 1978Author:
BARNUM, H. ;
SQUIRE, L.
This article strongly questions small farmers need for access to low-interest credit to enable them to adopt technological improvements. In many cases credit may be unnecessary, in others it may be useless,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: UNN67Date: July 31, 1978Author:
Von Pischke, J.D.
This paper addresses the problem of determining the appropriate size and composition of telecommunication investments in less developed countries with special reference to supplying telephone facilities...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN37Date: July 31, 1978Author:
Saunders, Robert J. ;
Warford, Jeremy J.
This news release, dated July 27, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessional lending, approved a 7.6 million dollars credit for a Third...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156811Date: July 27, 1978
This news release, dated July 10, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessional lending to the poorest among the developing countries, approved...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156809Date: July 10, 1978
Whereas the problems of definition and practical interpretation of marginal costs are common to both developed and developing countries, in the latter difficulties due to market distortions, income disparities,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP286Date: June 30, 1978Author:
MUNASINGHE, M. ;
WARFORD, J.
Major patterns, trends, and policies that have characterized the housing sector in Bogota, Colombia within the last 20 years are described and correlated with other aspects of the city's urban development....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7908Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Stevenson, R.
The world cashew market is analyzed, and future production and pricing is projected. Cashew nut prices will fluctuate considerably around the long-term trend. This implies that in the short run cashew...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN5Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Brook, Ezriel ;
Nowicki, Danuta
In many developing countries, labor is an abundant resource which remains largely untapped, often with serious political consequences. The type of labor is available is unskilled or marginally skilled,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN319Date: June 30, 1978
The world cotton market is analyzed in order to project future levels of cotton demand, supply, and prices. The growth in cotton consumption is constrained by competition with manmade fibers. Competition...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: SCP2Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Thigpen, M. Elton ;
Yang,Maw-Cheng
The standards of reliability of electricity supply have hitherto been determined on a rule-of-thumb basis. The heavy investments in electric power and the scarcity of capital in developing countries suggest...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP285Date: June 30, 1978Author:
MUNASINGHE, M.
This paper reports the results of the research program carried out by the World Bank to identify and measure the effects of Singapore's Area License Scheme on the transport system in particular and the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP281Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Watson,Elizabeth P. ;
HOLLAND, E.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the incremental costs of generating, transmitting and distributing electricity in Kenya. It measures these costs at different places, times and voltage levels to...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN38Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Bates,Robin W.
Urban transportation in Bogota, Colombia is examined, including the institutional framework, the role of the private sector, and the actual operation of the transport system. From 1971-1975, division of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7907Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Cifuentes, J.
The nature of economic rent is examined and its incidence in bauxite, copper, iron ore, phosphate rock, tin, and petroleum is estimated. The total economic rent, based on quality, ease of mining, and location...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP124Date: June 30, 1978Author:
HUGHES, H. ;
SINGH, S.
Data documentation for the City Study Research Project is presented. The main objective of the study is to develop economic tools for estimating the economic and spatial impacts of policy interventions...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR7906Date: June 30, 1978Author:
Valverde,M.
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