The sustained high rate of expansion in incomes over 15 years has transformed Korea from one of the poorest developing countries, with heavy dependence on agriculture and a weak balance of payments financed...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 1489Date: February 23, 1977
This paper illustrates the application of a new type of planning model to the study of the relationship between demographic phenomena and the workings of the economy, especially the distribution of income...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD25Date: February 1, 1977Author:
Adelman,Irma ;
Robinson,Sherman
Cross-national data seem to support the hypothesis that as development proceeds, income inequality worsens before it improves. However, this is not an iron law of development, as is evident from the variations...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP76Date: January 31, 1977Author:
SRINIVASAN, T.
Malnutrition, the silent food problem, is a poverty problem and is separate from the overt food problem of scarcities of food in markets. Caloric deficiency is not often revealed by aggregate food consumption...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP47Date: January 31, 1977Author:
REUTLINGER, SHLOMO
During the past two decades an increasing number of reports have called attention to the existence of indigenous savings and credit societies in the LDCs. Most deal with rotating credit associations, which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN66Date: January 31, 1977Author:
Bouman, F.J.A.
In two studies, simulation models were applied to Nigerian smallholders' development needs and decision-making processes. A simulation model based on the resources and characteristics of a sample of 100...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP152Date: January 31, 1977Author:
ZUCKERMAN, P.
An examination of the uneven spread of industry among countries as a central feature of the international transformation required by a developing economy and as a part of the process by which a rapidly...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP61Date: January 31, 1977Author:
CHENERY, H.
The weighting of the consumption increments accruing to people in various income groups that result from project implementation has been suggested. This paper takes the private valuation of the utility...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP41Date: January 31, 1977Author:
BALASSA, B. ;
DRC
This report is concerned with the changing spatial dimensions of production, employment, and consumption in Mexico. Its aims are to organize and analyze available information on this relatively unexplored...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 1081Date: January 31, 1977
An empirical analysis of the factors affecting the allocation of aid to LDCs in the recent past provides a basis for judging the possibilities for improving aid allocation in the future. Since even the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP72Date: January 31, 1977Author:
EDELMAN, J. ;
CHENERY, H.
This document comprises a set of blank forms for the gathering of completion study data on education projects. They include forms for: (i) comparison of originally required and actually provided premises,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN282Date: January 31, 1977Author:
Lewis, David H. ;
EDC
This document comprises a set of blank forms to be used by borrowers for the submission of quarterly progress reports on education projects. These include forms for: (i) summary of data; (ii) appointment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN281Date: January 31, 1977Author:
Lewis, David H. ;
EDC
This paper was prepared in response to a need expressed by a number of staff members involved in public utility projects for more specific information concerning the subject of insurance. At present the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: GAS12Date: January 31, 1977Author:
Rydell,Ferd
Time-series evidence on rural poverty over the past two decades in India is examined. In general, the time series shows a pattern of fluctuation, with the incidence of poverty falling during periods of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP60Date: January 31, 1977Author:
AHLUWALIA, M.
The Highlands Highway in Papua New Guinea will be improved as a result of a Government project being assisted by the World Bank. The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157156Date: January 27, 1977
A microstudy of the determinants of technological choice utilizing sample observations at the man-machine level from operating plants in Korea is presented. The study focuses on the choice between imported...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP50Date: January 1, 1977Author:
RHEE, Y. ;
WESTPHAL, L.
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: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD22Date: January 1, 1977Author:
Byron,R. Neil
The numerical projections in certain classes of planning models are sometimes distorted due to truncation of the time horizon. Attempts to overcome this problem have led to various algebraic specifications...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD23Date: January 1, 1977Author:
Inman, Richard ;
Norton,Roger D. ;
Yoon Hyung Kim
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