The purpose of this manual is to explain a simplified system for carrying out production studies of civil construction works. The system is especially adapted for use in developing countries and is believed...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN294Date: July 31, 1975Author:
World Bank
The Bank's policy has been to require a recovery of at least the public sector's operation and maintenance (O & M) costs, and up to 100 percent of all direct public costs of any irrigation project, with...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP218Date: July 31, 1975Author:
DUANE, P.
There are as yet no case studies applying the Little-Mirrlees (LM) method to projects in the transportation sector. This paper reports on an experimental attempt to apply the LM method to such a project....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP213Date: July 31, 1975Author:
ANAND, S.
The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, is providing a 6 million dollars credit for an agricultural development project centered on Voinjama, in Lofa County in Northwest...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156018Date: July 24, 1975
This report on the problem of delays in loan effectiveness is the first product of this effort. It is based principally on ten case reports prepared and revised on the basis of file research, discussions,...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 813Date: July 22, 1975
Since the beginning of 1974, energy became a major factor in the development process of most developing countries. This paper oultines what is the minimum information required to obtain a knowledge of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: GAS11Date: July 9, 1975Author:
Bourcier, Philippe ;
Friedmann, Efrain
Traditional small businesses in Cameroon will be assisted by a 3 million dollars credit by the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate
of the World Bank. It is the first project of its...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156005Date: July 3, 1975
The World Bank has approved a 68 million dollars loan to Indonesia to help finance a fertilizer distribution project. This brings total lending to Indonesia by the World Bank and its affiliate, the International...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156008Date: July 3, 1975
The bulk of the paper estimates the unit costs of outputs of Malaysia's public medical care services. Chief among these are various kinds of clinic visits and hospital days. In the process the paper describes...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP207Date: June 30, 1975Author:
HELLER, P.
Bolivian agrarian reform is examined as part of a comparative study of land reform in Latin America. Initiated by the campesinos themselves, agrarian reform has profoundly changed the character of rural...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER16Date: June 30, 1975Author:
DORSEY, J.
Chile's land reform experience is analyzed. The policy decision to institute land reform in Chile stemmed from the assumption that land tenure conditions, the utilization of land as a resource, the levels...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER15Date: June 30, 1975Author:
Cifuentes, Erick
Economic and social changes that have occurred in Chile's Central Valley as a result of agrarian reforms under Frei and Allende are examined. Historical antecedents to the Frei and Allende reforms are...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER25Date: June 30, 1975Author:
Stanfield,John David
Earthworks and haulage of materials generally account for a large part of the cost of civil construction. In road construction, these activities account for most of the cost of sub-base, base, and shoulder...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN289Date: June 30, 1975Author:
World Bank
Recommendations for reforming the system of incentives in developing countries that have established an industrial base behind high protective barriers are presented. While the preferential treatment of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP22Date: June 30, 1975Author:
BALASSA, B.
This note describes the nature and extent of the solid waste problem in urban centers of the developing world. It also presents the relevant issues which must be examined if cities are to carry out solid...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN18Date: June 30, 1975Author:
Saunders, Robert J. ;
Shipman, Harold
Reasons for the measured fluctuations in maize and groundnut yields in the Lilongwe, Malawi land development program are examined. Groundnut yields were set back by the growth of disease (rosette). Now...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER28Date: June 30, 1975Author:
Anderson,Dennis
A case study of the ex-haciendas Parotani and Caramarca in the Lower Cochabama Valley of Bolivia is presented. Starting from a relatively low level of agricultural development, land reform alone made possible...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER18Date: June 30, 1975Author:
DORSEY, J.
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, today announced the approval of a credit of 7.5 million dollars
for a rural roads project.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 156001Date: June 30, 1975
The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of 7 million dollars to Guinea to help finance a pineapple development project. This is the first...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155999Date: June 30, 1975
The results of agrarian reform in Chile are analyzed from a farm management point of view. The argument that the reforms caused a drop in production both in the private sector and on the newly reformed...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER26Date: June 30, 1975Author:
Stanfield,John David ;
Smith, S.
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