• A benefit-cost analysis of nutritional interventions for anemia reduction
    Iron deficiency anemia is one of the most prevalent nutritional disorders in both the industrialized and less developed countries. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate potential interventions for reducing...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8512 Date: July 31, 1985 Author: Levin, Henry M
  • Optimal taxation and public production in an open dual economy
    This paper analyses the determinants of optimal government policy in a dual economy. It concentrates on tax policy, trade policy and the selection of shadow prices for cost-benefit analysis. The paper...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8538 Date: July 31, 1985 Author: Heady, Christopher ; Mitra, Pradeep K.
  • Methodological issues in the evaluation of extension impact
    The impact of extension is an imprecise term. Does it, for example, mean the full set of changes, direct and indirect, resulting from an extension initiative or does it have narrower connotations of change?...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: ARU47 Date: July 31, 1985 Author: Feder, Gershon ; Slade, Roger H.
  • Communication support for population activities in sub-Saharan Africa
    Communications support activites play an important role in population programs. They provide information to potential users about family planning and, if appropriately planned, are a means of mediating...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: PHN8510 Date: July 31, 1985 Author: Bryan, Paula J. ; Zimmerman, Margot L. ; Kazi, Carol
  • Agricultural household models : a survey of recent findings and their policy implications
    Semi-commercial farms that produce multiple crops make up a large part of the agricultural sector in developing countries. These farms or agricultural households combine two fundamental units of microeconomic...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8526 Date: July 31, 1985 Author: Singh, Inderjit ; Squire, Lyn ; Strauss, John
  • Gabon - Country economic memorandum
    This report is based on findings of a 1984 economic mission to Gabon and describes the productive sectors -- agriculture, forestry, fisheries, petroleum, mining, and industry -- and the impact of the extractive...
    Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report#: 5337 Date: July 31, 1985
  • Announcement of Turkey to Upgrade Power Facilities With World Bank Loan on July 5, 1985
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan to Turkey for a project to upgrade the efficiency of its power generation plants, and improve the reliability of its electric transmission...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 156708 Date: July 5, 1985
  • Announcement of Project in Fiji will Assist Industrial, Agricultural Enterprises on July 5, 1985
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of six million five hundred thousand US dollars to finance projects in Fiji's agricultural, industrial, and service sectors on July 5, 1985.
    Type: Announcement Report#: 156704 Date: July 5, 1985
  • Announcement of World Bank Approves Sixty-Seven Million US Dollars Loan for Rail Project in Korea on July 5, 1985
    This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of sixty-seven million US dollars to Korea to help finance a project to improve the efficiency of transport and increase the capacity of...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 156706 Date: July 5, 1985
  • Developing country debt : policies and prospects
    This paper examines recent changes in the external debt of the developing countries and the adjustment policies followed by these countries following the first oil shock, the second oil shock, and the...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD149 Date: July 1, 1985 Author: Balassa, Bela
  • Household economic strategies and support networks of the poor in Kenya - a literature review
    This literature review was prepared as a background paper in support of ongoing research activities on the role of interhouse transfers as survival and development strategies for the urban poor. The purpose...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD69 Date: July 1, 1985 Author: Clark, Mari H.
  • Outward orientation
    This paper examines the choices between outward and inward orientation, when the former provides similar incentives to sales in domestic and in foreign markets and the latter discriminates in favor of...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD148 Date: July 1, 1985 Author: Balassa, Bela
  • Issues in human settlements policy
    This document presents some sylized facts on the nature of, and preconditions for, decentralized urban development, with special reference to tradeable goods and services. Given this framework, the implications...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD75 Date: June 30, 1985 Author: Hamer, A.
  • Fuel peat in developing countries
    Extensive fuel peat reserves exist in developing countries, but much is yet to be done in defining the type, fuel value and reserves. This study presents a review of fuel peat formation, types, energy...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP41 Date: June 30, 1985
  • Thailand - Transport sector review
    This report documents the situation in Thailand's transport sector towards the end of the Fifth Development Plan (1982-86) and highlights issues that merit attention in preparation for the Sixth Development...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 4950 Date: June 30, 1985
  • Education, experience and imperfect processing of information in the adoption of innovations
    Education, experience and the processing of information play key roles in a decision maker's choice of adopting various innovations. Before a decision maker decides whether or not to adopt a new production...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: ARU42 Date: June 30, 1985 Author: Fischer, Alastair
  • The allocation of textile and apparel export quotas among companies
    Optimal allocation of textile and apparel export quotas among various companies in an exporting country necessitates appropriate policies to maximize efficiency and increase output of a particular commodity....
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8524 Date: June 30, 1985 Author: Rottenberg, Simon
  • Ghana - Transport sector strategy note
    This memorandum presents an overview of the present situation and main problems in Ghana's transport sector brought on by more than a decade of political turmoil and economic decline, serious shortages...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 5737 Date: June 30, 1985
  • Decentralized urban development : stylized facts and policy implications
    This document presents stylized facts on the determinants of location behaviour, city size, and decentralized development. Given hypotheses about spatial outcomes of household, business, and government...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD73 Date: June 30, 1985 Author: Hamer, A.
  • Indonesia : the challenge of urbanization
    In Indonesia, and across the developing world, policymakers are apprehensive about increasing urbanization, fearing that it will concentrate population in one or very few centers, drawing resources away...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD74 Date: June 30, 1985 Author: Hamer, A. ; Steer, A. ; Williams, D.
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