• Wage policy and the structure of wages and employment in Zambia
    The paper examines real wage trends in the government, parastatal and private sectors in Zambia and the evolution of the wage structure over time. Special attention is given to the management of wages...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8601 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Meesook, Oey A ; Lindauer, David ; Suebsaeng, Parita
  • Cost effectiveness of potential immunization interventions against diarrhoeal disease
    In this paper estimates are made of the costs per death averted and the costs per case prevented by three possible immunization interventions against diarrhoeal disease in children: measles, rotavirus...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8602 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Creese, Andrew L.
  • Agricultural trade and pricing policies : lessons from five countries
    The issues discussed in this paper are based on recent studies on agricultural pricing and trade policy in developing countries conducted by the Trade and Adjustment Policy Division of CPD in the context...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD2 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Bale,Malcolm D.
  • Rules of thumb for external borrowing
    During the perid 1983-85, most indebted LDC's undertook major adjustment efforts in order to achieve trade balance surpluses aimed at "repaying their debt." In Latin America, the results have been, on...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8618 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Cohen,Daniel
  • Argentina : in search of growth
    This paper discusses the critical factors that are preventing sustainable growth of the Argentine economy. Three major constraints are identified: (1) the unsettled political system, which has continuously...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8606 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Barandiaran,Edgardo E.
  • Guidelines for country economists for the review and evaluation of trade policies
    This paper suggests a framework and provides an outline for a systematic analysis and evaluation of a country's trade policies. The definition of the area of trade policies includes, however, the conduct...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8607 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Michaely,Michael
  • Project evaluation in theory and practice
    This paper provides a survey of project appraisal techniques in theory and practice. It identifies three levels of sophistication in the theoretical literature. The first, and simplest, is based on partial...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8609 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Squire,Lyn
  • Optimal borrowing and overborrowing : some simple simulation lessons
    This paper examines optimal foreign borrowing in a certainty world with a lending constraint that ensures that countries never have an incentive to repudiate. We find that the informational conditions...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8558 Date: January 31, 1986 Author: Kharas, Homi J ; Hisanobu Shishido
  • Announcement of Meeting of the Consultative Group for Malawi on January 22, 1986
    This press release, dated January 22, 1986, announces the first meeting of the consultative group for Malawi was convened in Paris on January 21 and 22, 1986, under the chairmanship of Mr. Jochen Kraske,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152071 Date: January 22, 1986
  • Announcement of Ecuador Signs Important Loans on January 15, 1986
    This press release, dated January 15, 1986, announces the signing of two loans, amounting to 106 million dollars, to enhance the economic growth prospects of Ecuador. The loans were signed in Washington,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 152067 Date: January 15, 1986
  • Study of the substitution of labor and equipment in civil construction (SOL) : project completion report : Study of the substitution of labor and equipment in civil construction (SOL) : project completion report
    This Research and Implementation Project under the title of the Study of the Substitution of Labor and Equipment in Civil Construction, the Project was implemented in several stages. Research work in the...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 43239 Date: January 4, 1986
  • The World Bank annual report 1986
    This annual report covers the period July 1, 1985 to June 30, 1986.
    Type: World Bank Annual Report Report#: 20096 Date: January 1, 1986
  • Handpump laboratory test results
    This report contains the laboratory evaluations and conclusions on seven handpumps which were tested in 1984 and 1985. The main objectives of laboratory work related to handpumps are the following: (i)...
    Type: Publication Report#: TEC2 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Consumers' Association Testing and Research Laboratories (CATR)
  • Child malnutrition and school performance in China
    This paper uses data on the height, weight, age and grade level of over 3000 children in five quite different locations to measure the impact of the nutritional variables on the available measure of school...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP393 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Jamison,Dean T.
  • The educational composition of the labour force : an international comparison
    Policy-makers and analysts typically use differences between the school enrolment ratios of different countries or regions to justify educational investment. The authors argue that although the enrolment...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP402 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Psacharopoulos,George ; Arriagada,Ana-Maria
  • Childhood malnutrition and schooling in the Terai region of Nepal
    Data on 350 primary school age children from subsistence farm households in the Terai (southern plains) region of Nepal are analyzed to assess the relationship between nutritional status and school participation....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP379 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Mook, Peter ; Leslie,Joanne J.
  • Adjustment policies in socialist and private market economies
    The paper shows that although the outward oriented newly industrializing countries (NIC's) suffered cosiderably external shocks than the inward oriented NIC's and two socialist countries, Hungary and Yugoslavia,...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP387 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Balassa,Bela
  • Intra-industry specialization : a cross country analysis
    This paper tests various hypotheses as to the determinants of intra-industry trade in thirty-eight developed and developing countries exporting manufactured goods. The econometric estimates for the entire...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP388 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Balassa,Bela
  • Practical application of integrated national energy planning (INEP), using microcomputers
    This paper describes the use of a practical microcomputer based, hierachical modelling framework for Integrated National Energy Planning (INEP), and policy analysis. The rational for the concept and the...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP374 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
  • The Brazilian labor market : an overview
    In this paper an analysis of long term adjustment of the Brazilian labor market is carried out. During the last years of the "miracle period," shortage of unskilled labor could well characterize the situation...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD151 Date: January 1, 1986 Author: Macedo, Roberto
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