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Lessons from the Mexican experience in land reform

Mexico's land reform policy is evaluated. The Mexican experience with land reform shows that after fundamental land redistribution has taken place, the success of the reform depends upon access to complementary...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: SER19 Date: June 30, 1975 Author: Eckstein,Shlomo
Social rate of return for project evaluation : an estimate for Yugoslavia

Based on the premise that the choice of projects can help achieve both growth and more equitable distribution of growth benefits, the paper attempts to apply the techniques of such project evaluation as...
Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP205 Date: June 30, 1975 Author: YANG, S.
Announcement of Forty Million Dollars for Two Development Projects in Kenya on June 23, 1975

Two loans and one credit totaling 40 million dollars equivalent will support two development projects in Kenya, the World Bank Group announced today.
Type: Announcement Report#: 155915 Date: June 23, 1975
Announcement of IFC Assists Zambia Private Sector One Million US Dollars for Packaging Venture on June 11, 1975

This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, is joining with a Zambian entrepreneur and a technical sponsor from Pakistan to establish a flexible...
Type: Announcement Report#: 151512 Date: June 11, 1975
Announcement of Twenty Million Dollars Credit to Haiti for Road Rehabilitation on June 9, 1975

The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a 20 million dollars credit to Haiti for a road rehabilitation project.
Type: Announcement Report#: 155909 Date: June 9, 1975
Caribbean Region - Regional study (Vol. 5 of 9) : Transportation

This study concerns the problems and prospects of economic integration among small developing countries, focusing on the Caribbean Community as a basis for other such countries seeking economic viability...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 566 Date: June 9, 1975
Announcement of Zaire Receives Twenty Six Million Dollars for Railway and River Transport on June 5, 1975

An IDA Credit of 26 million dollars will assist Zaire in the improvement and expansion of its river and rail transport system, known as the 'Voie Nationale~^!!^.
Type: Announcement Report#: 155159 Date: June 5, 1975
Training for development : a report of the World Bank's Economic Development Institute (EDI)

The Economic Development Institute continues to expand its program for the provision of training for senior officials in developing countries who are concerned with development programs and projects. Since...
Type: Working Paper Report#: 93220 Date: June 1, 1975
The effect of sample composition on the estimation of development patterns

A technical annex to Chenery and Syrquin's Patterns of Development 1950-1970 describes the methodology used. The original study provides a comprehensive description of the structural changes that accompany...
Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP204 Date: May 31, 1975 Author: Syrquin,Moises
Urban transport

This paper on urban transport is set in the broader context of the critical problem for developing countries of urbanization. The paper states that urban development and rural development complement each...
Type: Policy Paper Report#: 11024 Date: May 31, 1975
The structuralist approach to development policy

Structuralist methodology and development policy are examined and compared to other major development policy approaches. The structuralist approach focuses on various types of structural disequilibria....
Type: Journal Article Report#: REP20 Date: May 31, 1975 Author: Chenery,Hollis B.
Brief on bank group lending for telecommunications

This paper briefly reviews two principal questions: (1) the merits of telecommunication investments in developing countries; and (2) the rationale for Bank Group involvement. It further studies the priority...
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: PUN17 Date: May 31, 1975
Costing and financing education in LDCs : current issues

This paper reviews two different issues of current concern to educational planners and policy-makers involved in the costing and financing of education. The first one highlights the financial impossibility...
Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP216 Date: May 31, 1975 Author: HULTIN, M. ; JALLADE, J.
Notice of Meeting and Agenda for the Meeting of the Executive Directors of the Bank and IDA to be Held on June 3, 1975

Type: Agenda Report#: 130577 Date: May 28, 1975
Announcement of 15.5 Million Dollars for Highways in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen on May 23, 1975

The International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, is extending a credit of 15.5 million dollars to help finance a 32 dollars million highway project in the People's Democratic...
Type: Announcement Report#: 155002 Date: May 23, 1975
Announcement of Ten Million Dollars for Education Expansion in the Sudan on May 1, 1975

A credit of 10 million dollars from the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, will help to expand and improve the educational system in the Sudan.
Type: Announcement Report#: 154904 Date: May 1, 1975
A review of highway design practices in developing countries

This review is a sequel to the World Bank's previous Guide to Highway Design Standards dated June 1957, which has been out of print for a number of years. This guide proved so popular, and the requests...
Type: Working Paper Report#: 40967 Date: May 1, 1975 Author: Cron, Frederick W.
Announcement of IDA Provides Thirty Two Million Dollars for Sixth Highway Project to Ethiopia on May 1, 1975

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, is providing 32 million dollars for a Sixth Highway Project in Ethiopia.
Type: Announcement Report#: 154905 Date: May 1, 1975
Undernutrition and poverty, magnitude and target group oriented policies

This paper reports on one of several studies undertaken by a task force on urban poverty. The paper consists of two parts: an assessment of the nature and magnitude of several aspects of malnutrition in...
Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP202 Date: April 30, 1975 Author: REUTLINGER, SHLOMO ; SELOWSKY, M.
Papua New Guinea - Economics of telecommunications

This note contains the description of a study on the economics of telecommunications in Papua New Guinea. The study is in part a reflection of a problem commonly encountered by telecommunications enterprises....
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: PUN16 Date: April 30, 1975 Author: Warford,Jeremy James