The objectives of the Bank's rural development policy, enunciated in 1973, include sustained increases in per capita output and incomes, expansion of productive employment and greater equity in the distribution...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76834Date: December 1, 1977
The term urban surplus labor is defined and its magnitude is measured using Tanzania as a case study. The sensitivity to alternative specifications of labor force participation, the measurement of the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP56Date: November 30, 1977Author:
SABOT, R.
This newsletter includes following headings: world fertilizer outlook; annexes to World Bank fertilizer news briefs and regional fertilizer planning (with DED, DRC, and IPD); current export price indications...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 140997Date: November 30, 1977
The nature and interactions of the variables involved in decision making on the African farm, based on observations of adjustments to economic pressures, are discussed. The African farm is, typically,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP92Date: November 30, 1977Author:
Cleave,John H.
This note is the report prepared by the Bank participants on the Tenth World Energy Conference which took place in Istanbul on September 19 to 23, 1977. It includes the following sections: (i) summary...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN33Date: November 30, 1977Author:
Friedman, E. ;
Linder, M. ;
Russell, T. B. ;
Salazar,
This news release, dated November 17, 1977, announces the condition of some 600,000 low-income farmers in Cameroon will be improved through a 4.6 million dollars loan approved by the World Bank and a 6.5...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154763Date: November 17, 1977
This news release, dated November 17, 1977, announces India will implement a 216 million dollars project designed to increase the country’s food grain storage capacity and to improve grain distribution...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154760Date: November 17, 1977
This news release, dated November 10, 1977, announces the International Development Association (IDA) approved a 10 million dollars credit to Benin’s Third Highway Project. Benin, one of the world’s 29...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154759Date: November 10, 1977
This report contains a compilation of data on the external public and publically guaranteed debt of 84 developing countries. It also contains an account of the relationship of data on external public dent...
Type: Global Development Finance - formerly World Debt TablesReport#: 67469Date: November 9, 1977
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: mad dash at annual bash, by Katie Fawcett; Abidjan mission heads into its twelfth year, by Carole Devillers; area park has many facilities;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64244Date: November 1, 1977Author:
Schwartz,Pushpa Nand
The effects of price uncertainty in an international trade model where the possibility of storage is taken into account are investigated. The model's economy comprises two food production sectors where...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP58Date: October 31, 1977Author:
FEDER, G. ;
JUST, R. ;
SCHMITZ, A.
An analysis of international agencies (IAs) is presented, with a view toward defining their role in the future New World Order. These IAs fall into two broad categories: private transnational corporations...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP93Date: October 31, 1977Author:
Gulhati,Ravi
This news release, dated October 20, 1977, announces the World Bank and its affiliate the International Development Association (IDA), approved a 23 million dollars loan and a 5.2 million dollars credit...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154756Date: October 20, 1977
This news release, dated October 6, 1977, announces Tanzania received a 15 million dollars credit from the International Development Association, the World Bank affiliate, for a project that will improve...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154251Date: October 6, 1977
The objectives and concerns of Bank operations have been broadened to include income distribution, employment, and other poverty-related problems. Earlier preoccupations were primarily with overall growth,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN183Date: September 30, 1977Author:
David, Wilfred L. ;
AGR
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: voltaic mission heads into its fourth year, by Carole Devillers; schools rated, by Yolanda P. Gilmore; letters to the editor; coping...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64242Date: September 1, 1977Author:
Schwartz,Pushpa Nand
The Indian birth-rate has started declining as a result of socio-economic progress and the family planning effort. About 19 percent of couples in the reproductive-age-group are practicing contraception....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP265Date: August 31, 1977Author:
GULHATI, R.
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