A linked five-country agricultural model (MOCA), which describes conditions of production, demand, trade, and price and income formation in each of five Central American countries, is described. The model...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP82Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Cappi, C. ;
Fletcher, L. ;
Norton, R.
Income distribution trends in West Pakistan during the 1960s and 1970s are examined in relation to the assumption that as countries approach economic maturity, distribution begins to improve. The experience...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP87Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Guisinger,Stephen E. ;
Hicks,Norman L.
This paper presumes that broad, generally applicable policies can be framed even though most settlements are suited to a particular set of conditions in a country or region. Although agricultural improvement...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1670Date: January 31, 1978
Findings concerning the results of Korea's industrial incentive policies are summarized in relation to export-led industrial development. By the mid-1960s, Korea was following an outward-looking policy...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP54Date: January 31, 1978Author:
WESTPHAL, L.
Increasing concern with distribution has led to numerous recent estimates of the incidence of aspects of public activity. A broadening in perspective and analysis has led to increased controversy concerning...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP502Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Meerman,Jacob P.
An investigation of the effect that sources of income and investment opportunities have on savings behavior of farm households in rural India was designed to use panel data from agricultural years 1968-1969,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP73Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Bhalla,Surjit S.
The need for and main elements of a strategy aimed at the abolition of absolute poverty within a short period of time are discussed. Both employment orientation and redistribution with growth have correctly...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP53Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Streeten,Paul P. ;
Burki,Shahid Javed
These guidelines attempt to provide a complete list of the general principles which should be observed by lenders when they fix the terms on which they can provide credit. These include interest, maturity...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: UNN68Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Von Pischke, J.D.
One of the salient characteristics of financial markets in low developing countries (LDCs) is the large proportion of saving and lending activities that take place outside of the framework of banks, credit...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN75Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Barton, Clifton
The social efficiency of labor markets in developing countries in the allocation of the supply of labor time and skills is assessed. Conventionally, open urban unemployment and disguised unemployment in...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP85Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Berry, A. ;
Sabot,Richard H.
The construction of three social accounting matrices (SAMs) for Iran, Sri Lanka, and Swaziland is described. The SAMs focus particularly on the distribution of income through disaggregation of household...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP74Date: January 31, 1978Author:
PYATT, G. ;
ROUND, J.
The policy instruments deployed in the past and planned for the future to reduce India's birthrate are examined. Family planning variably contributed to the decline in marital fertility, having the greatest...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP78Date: January 31, 1978Author:
GULHATI, R.
The paper is divided into four parts. Part one presents some general views on the relationship between nutrition and economic development. Part two briefly outlines the methodological approach utilized....
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN96Date: January 31, 1978Author:
David, Wilfred L. ;
Knudsen, Odin
This paper is organized with four sections: first, a brief discussion of the type of socioeconomic data currently collected in project preparation studies is presented, along with a consideration of data...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN156Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Coward, E. Walter ;
Levine, Gilbert
The relevance of a recently refined theory of shadow pricing to poverty and employment policy formulation is discussed. There is a three stage process that underlies the proposed analytical framework for...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP131Date: January 31, 1978Author:
LAL, D.
As a result of student repetition, class sizes tend to increase, school budgets rise, and access to schooling extends more slowly to hitherto excluded populations. This paper analyzes the impact of the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP91Date: January 31, 1978Author:
Jamison, D.
The derivation of shadow prices for use in project evaluation when the existing allocation is characterized by ad valorem trade distortions is described. A simple mode of trade, with primary factors producing...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP57Date: January 31, 1978Author:
SRINIVASAN, T. ;
BHAGWATI, J.
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), lending two million three hundred thousand US dollars for a new flour milling project in Bolivia that will help meet the country's...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148878Date: January 12, 1978
This report introduces a new series of research publications, the planning of investment programs, by outlining a systematic approach of sectorwide investment analysis, placing special emphasis on complications...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10104Date: January 1, 1978Author:
Choksi,Armeane M. ;
Kendrick, David A. ;
Meeraus,Alexander ;
Stoutjesdijk, Ardy J.
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