• Paying for health and schooling services in rural Africa : a Mali case study
    This study reports on an analyses of household demand for health, schooling and water supply services in an impoverished region of the African Sahel. The purpose of the analysis is to assess the ability...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8615 Date: December 31, 1986 Author: Birdsall, Nancy ; Orivel, Francois ; Ainsworth, Mart
  • On import substitution, quality uncertainty and development policy
    This paper relates the consumer bias towards foreign goods in developing countries to the quality reputation of locally produced goods. It argues that consumers may be perceived to be discriminating if...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DWA8605 Date: December 31, 1986 Author: Agbonyitor,Alberto D. K.
  • Action - planning workshops for development management : guidelines
    The Action-Planning approach, as opposed to the conventional development planning and implementation techniques, is directed toward improving the borrowers' institutional capacity to efficiently and effectively...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP56 Date: December 31, 1986 Author: Silverman, Jerry M ; Kettering, Merlyn ; Schmidt, Te
  • Distance education : an economic and educational assessment of its potential for Africa
    Distance education includes the use of correspondence courses, the work of open universities, and education in-school and out-of-school based on broadcasting by radio or television. It is defined as an...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: EDT43 Date: December 31, 1986 Author: Perraton,Hilary David
  • Bangladesh - Food Grain Storage Project
    This is an impact evaluation of the Food Grain Storage Project in Bangladesh. The project was selected by Operations Evaluation Department (OED) for impact evaluation because of its effect on Government's...
    Type: IEG Evaluation Report#: 6567 Date: December 31, 1986
  • The Bank's approach to direct foreign investment in developing countries : an evaluation
    The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Bank's involvement in assisting member countries to attract and benefit from direct private foreign investment, and to suggest a set of general principles within...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD4 Date: December 31, 1986 Author: Bannon,Ian
  • Managing commodity export booms : the case of coffee
    This paper suggests a number of important policy issues for countries currently benefitting from the temporary coffee export boom. First and foremost among these policy concerns is the tendency of these...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8645 Date: December 31, 1986 Author: Cuddington,John T.
  • Announcement of Development Finance Project to Provide Capital for Many Subprojects on December 18, 1986
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans totaling sixty-five million US dollars to two development banks in Malaysia to be used for financing subprojects in manufacturing, transportation,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 157414 Date: December 18, 1986
  • Improving Indonesia's cities : a case study of economic development (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report
    This book is part of Learning Kit No.5 in the World Bank's series of multimedia kits about economic development, Toward a Better World. This book includes the following headings: the developing countries...
    Type: Publication Report#: 74581 Date: December 10, 1986 Author: Baldwin,Harriet B. ; Rosen, Carol [editor]
  • Ethiopia - Agricultural residue briquetting pilot projects for substitute household and industrial fuels (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annexes
    Agricultural residues briquettes are a viable economic alternative to increasingly scarce and costly fuelwood for both domestic and industrial fuel. If necessary, the entire production from the pilot projects...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM62 Date: December 1, 1986
  • Resource endowments, farming systems and technology priorities for sub-Saharan Africa
    Sub - Saharan Africa, owing to its large diversity of agro-climates, farming systems and endowments in land and labor resources, necessitates different types of technology to enhance agricultural production....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: ARU60 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Binswanger,Hans P. ; Pingali, Prabhu
  • Foreign investment incentives and restrictions in developing countries : an analysis of World Bank policy recommendations
    In recent years the World Bank has advised member countries on how they could improve their policies toward private foreign direct investment, by means of policy conditionality in adjustment lending as...
    Type: Publication Report#: CPD8641 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Hallberg,Kristin
  • Health finance planning model
    This technical note is the first of two notes prepared as part of the ongoing work by the Population, Health and Nutrition Department on financing health care in developing countries. By means of a model...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8629 Date: November 30, 1986
  • The planning of education : where do we stand?
    Educational planning is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of education. It has been practiced, malpracticed, or simply paid lip service in most countries, especially in developing ones, since...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP401 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Psacharopoulos,George
  • Import elasticities of African countries : some empirical evidence
    This paper investigates import behavior in selected Sub-Saharan countries. Using time series data, estimates are made of disaggregated import elasticities. The results of which suggest systematic patterns...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: DWA8604 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Agbonyitor,Alberto D. K.
  • The Bank's approach to subsidies
    This paper on the Bank's approach to subsidies is written primarily as an explanation for policy practitioners and as a contribution to the discussions of policy issues in the Bank's dialogue with its...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8644 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Myers, Robert ; Brondolo, John
  • Trade, employment and growth in Peru since World War II
    During the post World War II years, Peru's per capita income growth rates went down from around 3 percent during the 1960s and 1970s to 0.5 percent between 1970 and 1981. Since then, the average per-capita...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8640 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Nogues,Julio
  • Interest rate management in a multisector economy : theory and country expectations
    This paper addresses the questions of whether lending rates which are administratively set, should be made uniform across sectors or whether they should differ. Secondly, it asks what the effects are...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8643 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Ghanem, Hafez ; Lamdany, Ruben
  • Brazil - Finance of primary education
    The focal point of this study addresses public educational spending problems for primary education in Brazil and presents some possible solutions. Brazilian investment in education has increased in recent...
    Type: Publication Report#: PUB6120 Date: November 30, 1986
  • Rural factor markets in China after the household responsibility system reform
    Although transactions in factor markets such as land, labor and credit were severely constrained by government policies in the past, recent reforms in rural areas have brought exchanges in these factors...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: ARU61 Date: November 30, 1986 Author: Lin, Justin Yifu
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