This partial transcript, from the session of the meeting of the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IDBI) and International Development Association (IDA),...
This paper analyses the structure of the bauxite, alumina and aluminum market and its implications for the prospects of developing countries' exports. The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter I...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 77703Date: March 16, 1977
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: Secretarial stream system inaugurated; ocean's riches: no substitute for dwindling land resources; bell retires from bank; and bank calendar.
Although the behavior of a system may be adequately described by a mathematical programming model, external conditional controls may be imposed on the system. If the values of these controls depend upon...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD20Date: March 1, 1977Author:
Candler,Wilfred V. ;
Norton,Marlee R.
The way in which farmers form their price and yield expectations and the consequences of these expectations on ensuing market equilibrium when production is risky are examined. If rational expectations...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP37Date: February 28, 1977Author:
Hazell,Peter B. ;
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
This report evaluates the past performance of Ivory Coast's economy to identify trends which may have relevance for the future. It also addresses the questions of whether it is possible or desirable to...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 1147Date: February 28, 1977
Various approaches have been used for energy demand forecasting in the past. These have varied from simple traditional approaches such as extrapolating past trends in energy consumption or relating energy...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN26Date: February 28, 1977Author:
Mukherjee,Shishir K.
Energy use has always been linked to economic growth and prosperity. However, the energy crisis of late 1973 has made the role of energy in development quite prominent. This has made it necessary to devote...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT10Date: February 28, 1977Author:
Mukherjee,Shishir K.
The World Bank will provide 60 million dollars for a railway project in Pakistan. The project will help meet increases in demand for freight and passenger services and contribute to the improvement of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157174Date: February 24, 1977
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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