• Annotated bibliography of nutrition-related research by the World Bank
    This review of Bank research on nutrition was conducted as part of the Nutrition Lending Review, completed in 1984. It provides a synopsis of 54 documents covering various aspects of nutrition published...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8609 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Ahmad,Nazir K.
  • Fees for health services and the concern for equity for the poor
    There is widespread interest in the use of fees to collect revenues for health services in developing countries. Much of the argument for the use of fees has been made in terms of increased efficiency...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8610 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Akin,John S.
  • An analysis of the welfare implications of alternative exchange rate regimes : an intertemporal model with an application
    The paper constructs a two-period model of an open economy and uses the model to analyze the welfare implications of fixed and floating exchange regimes. The parameters of the model are estimated for...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8610 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Sibert, Anne ; Feltenstein, Andrew ; Lebow, David
  • Recurrent government expenditure in Nigeria
    This study begins by formulating some simple guidelines for the reduction of recurrent government expenditure while minimizing the adverse effects of such a reduction on the growth of output and the welfare...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8614 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Khan, A. R.
  • A reappraisal of the sectoral incidence of government expenditure cutbacks
    This study reassesses the analysis of the observed incidence of government expenditure cutbacks by functional category. The study introduces differential sectoral deflators and information on the context...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8611 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Meyers,Kenneth Kerry
  • Cost savings from alternative treatments for tuberculosis
    This paper estimates the cost effectiveness of turberculosis treatment in Botswana using short treatment regimes based on the antimycobacterial drugs, Rifampicin (R) or Ethambutol (E), compared to long...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8611 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Barnum,Howard Nelch
  • Cameroon - Population growth and land resources : a case study
    This paper reviews Cameroon's demographic situation, examines the many different components involved in agricultural production (land availability, labor, land laws, input systems, etc.) and the implications...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8522 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Chester,Lauren Adkins
  • Essays on the Indonesian tax reform
    The study which follows contains a report of the development of the Indonesian tax reform. Special emphasis is placed on the interaction of administrative issues and economic analysis. Chapters contain...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8608 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Conrad,Robert F
  • Determinants of private investment in LDCs : the case of Colombia
    This paper aims at identifying the economic indicators involved in the process of determining the speed of adjustment of actual private investment to notional demand. We test the statistical significance...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DWA8601 Date: February 28, 1986 Author: Cheriff, M'hamed ; Montes, Carlos
  • Announcement of Morocco to Rehabilitate Ports of Casablanca and Mohammedia on February 27, 1986
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of twenty-two million US dollars for Morocco to improve the operational performance of its major ports on February 27, 1986.
    Type: Announcement Report#: 157117 Date: February 27, 1986
  • Notice of Meeting and Agenda for the Meeting of the Executive Directors of the Bank and IDA to be Held on February 25, 1986
    Type: Agenda Report#: 132506 Date: February 20, 1986
  • Balancing large social accounting matrices with nonlinear network programming
    The Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) framework is a convenient way of giving a comprehensive and consistent picture of an economy. A SAM database can only be used as the basis of a planning model if it is...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD167 Date: February 15, 1986 Author: Zenios, Stavros A. ; Mulvey, John M.
  • An analysis of the Nigerian labor market
    This paper provides a coherent picture from labor market data and imposes some analytic interpretations on this picture. Thus, a brief overview of the Nigerian economy is carried out, with emphasis on...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD155 Date: February 1, 1986 Author: Collier,Paul
  • Export incentives and export growth in developing countries : an econometric investigation
    This monograph reports the results of an econometric investigation of the effects of export incentives on exports in Greece and Korea. The estimates cover the period from the first half of the sixties...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD159 Date: February 1, 1986 Author: Balassa, Bala ; Fylaktos, Panagiotis ; Suh, Suk Tai ; Voloudakis, Evangelos
  • Liberalizing trade between developed and developing countries
    Despite repeated declarations made by developed country governments of their intention to resist protectionist pressures and to roll back protection in the world trading system, new measures have been...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP389 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Balassa, Bela ; Michalopoulos,Constantine
  • Guidelines for conducting and calibrating road roughness measurements
    Road roughness is gaining increasing importance as an indicator of road condition, both in terms of pavement performance, and as a major determinant of road user costs. This paper defines roughness measurement...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP46 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Gillespie, Thomas D. ; Paterson,William D. O. ; Sayers, Michael W.
  • The International Road Roughness Experiment (IRRE) : establishing correlation and a calibration standard for measurements
    Road roughness is gaining increasing importance as an indicator of road condition, both in terms of road pavement performance, and as a major determinant of road user costs. This need to measure roughness...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP45 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Sayers, Michael W ; Gillespie, Thomas D ; Queiroz, Cesar A.V
  • A framework for studying the supply response of perennial crops
    This paper develops a model of supply of perennial crops which is an alternative to the traditional Nerlovian model. It is argued that a cost-of-adjustment investment model in which capital is heterogeneous...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: DWC8601 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Trivedi,Pravin K.
  • Cost and benefits of controlling parasitic diseases
    This paper is a review of the literature on the costs and benefits of control programs designed to combat major parasitic diseases, including protozoal and helminthic diseases. Over one hundred studies...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8517 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Barlow, Robin ; Grobar, Lisa M.
  • The international constraints on macroeconomic policies in interdependent economies
    This paper examines, within a theoretical framework, some of the constraints that the openness of the economy impose upon policy making. The openness of the economy imposes constraints on the effectiveness...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8626 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Frenkel,Jacob S.
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