This news release, dated May 25, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessional lending approved a 5.8 million dollars credit to help finance...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156517Date: May 25, 1978
This news release, dated May 22, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA) approved a 15 million dollars credit to help finance a transport project in Haiti to benefit about 900,000...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156476Date: May 22, 1978
This news release, dated May 15, 1978, announces a project to improve the maintenance of Zambia’s road network will be assisted by a loan and a credit totaling 22.5 million dollars from the World Bank...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156466Date: May 15, 1978
Egypt is a vast country, but some 95 percent of it is desert; virtually the entire population is concentrated along the Nile, an area of only approximately 15,000 sq. miles. In addition, Egypt has been...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 1815Date: May 8, 1978
This news release, dated May 1, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, approved of a credit of 11.5 million dollars to help finance its Third Highway...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156419Date: May 1, 1978
The 1970s have witnessed significant changes in the trade policies and strategies of many LDCs. In the 1950s and 1960s most of them adhered to policies of import substitution behind highly restrictive...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN196Date: May 1, 1978Author:
Krueger,Anne O.
The objective of this study is to review and analyze agricultural prices and subsidies policies and their effect on the production performance in Portugal. Pricing policy includes a wide range of measures,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP6Date: May 1, 1978Author:
Kim, Hyung
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: group formed to seek help for G-iv children; Bank missions in Somalia review needs and possibilities to increase food production; a common...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64250Date: May 1, 1978Author:
Bura,Gaile I. ;
Fawcett,Katie L.
Three reports on social security investment policies and resources allocation are presented. The study of Malaysia's contractual savings institutions indicate that they do not adversely affect aggregate...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP144Date: April 30, 1978Author:
SATO, K. ;
SHOME, P.
The purpose of this review is to: (a) provide a general overview of ongoing and proposed transport development; (b) identify major unmet transport needs, gaps in preinvestment work, and prospects for improving...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 2004Date: April 30, 1978
This paper presents a proposed methodology for assessing socio-economic elements in rural development projects. In the 1970s, the composition of the Bank's lending program for the agricultural sector had...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN130Date: April 30, 1978Author:
Sfeir-Younis, A. ;
Sobhan, I. ;
AGR
As problems of pollution, safety and rising costs in all the industrial areas concerned with treatment of water and wastes and air become more difficult to handle, ozone is providing an answer from both...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN36Date: April 30, 1978Author:
Miller, G. Wade
In rural areas of developing countries, the cheapest and safest source of water is usually groundwater. Pipe suitable for PVC well casings is manufactured in a number of developing countries, but high-efficiency...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT14Date: April 30, 1978Author:
Sternberg, Yaron ;
Knight, Robert
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, making its first investment in the Yemen Arab Republic by helping to establish dairy and fruit...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148914Date: April 13, 1978
This news release, dated April 13, 1978, announces a rural infrastructure project in the Philippines designed to improve the quality of life and increase rural incomes has received approval of a 28 million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156414Date: April 13, 1978
The workshop met to consider some basic aspects of institutional development in the agriculture and rural sectors, including the role of the Bank in this field. Six issues were proposed for the agenda,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN57Date: March 31, 1978Author:
Israel, A.
A two-state empirical analysis of commodity price stabilization conducted within a simple market model from the standpoint of developing countries and in terms of specific objectives provides data that...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP66Date: March 31, 1978Author:
BROOK, E. ;
GRILLI, E. ;
WAELBROECK, J.
This news release, dated March 27, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, approved two credits totaling 47 million dollars for port and livestock...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156353Date: March 27, 1978
The question of food security in the Sahel is closely linked to average precipitation levels and the annual variation in rainfall. A major problem is the generally inadequate and highly variable nature...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP15Date: March 23, 1978Author:
Goering, Theodore ;
AGR
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