Papua New Guinea is a newly-independent country, richly endowed with good soils, abundant rainfall, considerable mineral resources, and with forestry and fisheries resources of good commercial potential....
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB1150Date: January 1, 1978
The growth strategies for small farmer development available to any one country are limited. The alternatives are limited primarily by the basic resources situation, the rate of expansion in the non-agricultural...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP31Date: January 1, 1978Author:
Egbert,Alvin C. ;
AGR
The impacts of Singapore's Area License Scheme were assessed. Travel behavior interviews were conducted, interview surveys were made of business conditions and public opinions, and observations were made...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP75Date: January 1, 1978Author:
HOLLAND, E. ;
Watson,Elizabeth P.
Formalization and extension of a recent proposal for adjusting initial unbalanced estimates of components of a matrix allows them to satisfy accounting requirements imposed by tabular form in an optimal...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP65Date: January 1, 1978Author:
Byron,R. Neil
The purpose of the United Nations International Comparison Project (ICP) is to compare the purchasing power of currencies and the real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of different countries. It...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11907Date: January 1, 1978Author:
Heston,Alan Wiley ;
SUMMERS, ROBERT ;
Kravis, Irving B.
Although the countries of the Near East and East Africa have declared the objectives of increasing meat production, drastic changes in their present livestock development policies are essential if demand...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: UNN50Date: December 31, 1977
Major flows in world trade in beef are analyzed. The two most important international trade flows in beef are from Australia to the United States and Argentina to the EEC-9. The EEC's policy of restricting...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN1Date: December 31, 1977Author:
P. Yeung
There are a number of well-known difficulties in the interpretion and projection of cross-sectional relationships over time. One problem is the assumption that the parameters of a cross-sectional relationship...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP77Date: December 31, 1977Author:
SRINIVASAN, T.
The purpose of this paper is to examine operational aspects and provide some assistance to project staff in pursuing ways of promoting non-farm rural employment through Bank projects. The Bank will support...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: UNN56Date: December 31, 1977Author:
AGR
The growth of employment in nonhousehold manufacturing repairs, and servicing industries in India and its states during 1961 to 1971 are estimated using census figures. Data are provided separately for...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER42Date: December 31, 1977Author:
Banerjee,Kirti B.
Recent trends in the supply and demand of tobacco leaf are examined. The role of tobacco in world trade and its importance to the economies of certain producing countries is also discussed. Production,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN2Date: December 31, 1977Author:
Hadler,Sandra C.
In 1970, a first roadlink was opened between Andapa, a formerly isolated valley community in the northeast of Madagascar accessible only on foot or by airplane, and the port of Sambava. A socio-economic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 10273Date: December 31, 1977Author:
MITCHELL, BRIGITTA ;
Rakotonirina, Xavier ;
Ministry to the Presidency in charge of Finance and Planning, Madagascar
This report reviews the prospects and problems of exporting manufacturing industries; the policies affecting those industries; and the administrative, financial, and technical measures needed for the development...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 1695Date: December 27, 1977
This report reviews the prospects and problems of exporting manufacturing industries; the policies affecting those industries; and the administrative, financial, and technical measures needed for the development...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 1695Date: December 27, 1977
This report reviews the prospects and problems of exporting manufacturing industries; the policies affecting those industries; and the administrative, financial, and technical measures needed for the development...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 1695Date: December 27, 1977
This news release, dated December 23, 1977, announces the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, approved a 10.5 million dollars credit that will finance the construction...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155172Date: December 23, 1977
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC) making a second investment, of approximately on million two hundred thousand US dollars in Banque Nationale pour le Developpement...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 148875Date: December 21, 1977
This news release, dated December 15, 1977, announces the International Development Association (IDA) approved a credit of 87 million dollars to India for the Second Calcutta Urban Development Project.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155170Date: December 15, 1977
This study had its origin in a recurrent concern about the cost, appropriateness, and effectiveness of the very large and growing amounts of Bank finance provided to borrowers in recent years for the purchase...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 1824Date: December 8, 1977Author:
OED
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