The paper reports on the results of an extension of the testing of the efficiency of metal trades at the London Metal Exchange (LME). The results are predominantly positive. The seven LME metals all...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8709Date: October 31, 1987Author:
Gilbert,Christopher L.
By the early 1980s, average per capita income of industrialised market economies was about forty times greater than that of low-income countries, signalling not only slow real growth in the latter countries,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWS8801Date: October 31, 1987Author:
Wood,Adrian J. B.
This press release announces on October 29, 1987, the President of the World Bank, Barber B. Conable, arrives in Karachi on Saturday, October 31, for a four-day visit to Pakistan.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158908Date: October 29, 1987
This is the Thirteenth Annual Review of Project Performance Results. The main purpose of the review is to assess the performance of World Bank supported projects evaluated in 1986 and to draw the lessons...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 6976Date: October 19, 1987
This press release announces the World Bank loan of sixty-eight million US dollars for Yugoslavia to benefit the primary road system in three republics and two provinces on October 15, 1987.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158295Date: October 15, 1987
The developing world's road building boom in the 1960s and 1970s created an infrastructure that has been crumbling in the 1980s leading to adverse implications for economic development in those countries....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 6968Date: October 15, 1987
This press release announces the World Bank providing a loan of sixty-three million US dollars, and the International Development Association (IDA) a credit of twenty-five million US dollars to China for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158293Date: October 8, 1987
This press release announces two World Bank loans totaling two hundred fifteen million US dollars for Mexico to improve its federal highway network and strengthen its manpower training system on October...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158292Date: October 8, 1987
This press release announces the World Bank lending to developing countries in fiscal year 1987 totalled seventeen billion seven million US dollars, according to the institution's annual report 1987, published...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158851Date: September 18, 1987
This press release announces that for the major borrowing countries in the Europe, Middle-East, and North Africa region, the past year continued to be one of stabilization and adjustment, despite some...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158852Date: September 18, 1987
This press release announces a World Bank loan of thirteen million US dollars for Thailand to improve the efficiency and financial viability of its state system on September 17, 1987.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158289Date: September 17, 1987
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is pleased to announce the promotion of Richard H. Frank to Vice President, Finance and Planning.
He will replace Mr. Hilary Reddy who had served as IFC' s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158154Date: September 9, 1987
The International Finance Corporation is providing a loan to help the development of oil fields in the Khalda concession area in the Western desert of Egypt. The IFC loan is part of a larger program of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158155Date: September 9, 1987
This press release announces Fiji's agricultural and tourism sectors to benefit from a road improvement project being supported by a twenty-three million four hundred thousand US dollars World Bank loan...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158288Date: September 8, 1987
This paper is a continuation of an earlier study on the way in which port managements prepare their tariffs. This paper seeks to define a procedure for tariff evaluation which takes advantage of the capabilities...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU3Date: August 31, 1987Author:
Arnold,John H. ;
INU
This paper reports the results of an application of spectral analysis to the short- and medium-term forecasting of primary commodity prices. The study posited and set out to identify three categories...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8707Date: August 31, 1987Author:
Buchinsky,Moshe
This note describes the links between the transport industry and other economic sectors of production or demand, in Cote d'Ivoire, India, Mexico, Philippines and the United States. The account is based...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU2Date: August 31, 1987Author:
Bennathan,Esra ;
Johnson, Mark ;
INU
Due to a general lack of knowledge concerning personal and rural travel in poor countries which creates difficulties in assessing transport projects, this study attempts to dispel some of the ignorance...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU1Date: August 31, 1987Author:
Deaton,Angus S. ;
Thomas,Duncan ;
Neelin, Janet ;
Bhattacharya,Nikhilesh ;
INU
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