• Bank's World
    This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: EDI, China-a new partnership, by Thierry Sagnier; art and development go hand in hand, by Muriel Sirken; behind the scenes with the...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 59522 Date: December 1, 1983 Author: Enriquez Mejia, Luis Mariano ; Gehringer, Michael E. ; Nepomuceno, Patricia D. ; ROESSNER, J. JILL ; Sagnier, Thierry ; Sirken, Muriel ; Tillier, Ellen
  • International prices, wages, and inflation in the open economy : a Chilean model
    This paper presents a macroeconomic model to explain the dynamics of Chilean inflation during 1976-82. The model extends the Australian and Scandinavian open economy models by making a finer distinction...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD69 Date: December 1, 1983 Author: Corbo, Vittorio
  • Agricultural pricing and marketing policies in an African context : a framework for analysis
    The paper describes an analytical framework designed to address some of the important agricultural pricing issues that frequently arise in many African countries. The paper contains a description of producer,...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8508 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: Kirchner, James ; Singh, Inderjit ; Squire, Lyn
  • International ramifications of the external debt situation
    The scope and complexity of the external debt situation defy simple solutions. The links between trade and finance, between domestic and international policies, and between short-term action and longer-term...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP294 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: de Vries, B.
  • Rural ventilated improved pit latrines : a field manual for Botswana
    This field manual has been specifically prepared for Village Sanitation Assistants (VSA's) and village householders who, as part of Botswana's rural sanitation program, are working together in the construction...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: TAG8 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: Technical Advisory Group (TAG) ; UNDP ; van Nostrand, John ; Wilson, James G.
  • Patterns of agricultural protection
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: ARU15 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: Binswanger, Hans P. ; Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
  • Factor inputs and Japanese manufacturing trade structure
    The Japanese international trade structure in manufactured goods has been analyzed using cross-section regression analysis in which labor, capital, human capital, and energy are regressed on Japanese net...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP299 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: Urata, Shujiro
  • The Uruguayan experience with liberalization and stabilization, 1974-1981
    Uruguay achieved a dramatic turnaround in the face of very poor initial conditions from 1974-l981, an interesting case study in the role of stabilization cum liberalization programs. An important part...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP302 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: de Melo, J. ; Hanson, J.
  • Asante culture and low-income housing policies : an examination of antithesis
    Housing decisions in urban Africa depend heavily on access to land, marriage and household patterns, and clients' locational intentions. This paper describes the Asante attitude to property as it springs...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD45 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: Tipple, Frida Elisabeth
  • Power system load management technologies
    In recent years, techniques referred to as load management have begun to play an important role in shaping the patterns of electricity consumption in industrial countries. Along with pricing, a variety...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: EGY11 Date: November 30, 1983
  • Participant-observer evaluation of urban projects in La Paz, Bolivia and Guayaquil, Ecuador
    To formulate this report on the evaluation of urban projects, the author conducted evaluative research by living with project beneficiaries for 14 months, divided equally between a low-income settlement...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD36 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: Salmen, Lawrence F.
  • The intermediate sector, unemployment, and the employment - output conflict : a multi-sector model
    This paper analyzes urban intermediate sector expansion as a policy alternative for labor absorption. Introduction of an intermediate sector into the Harris-Todaro framework demonstrates that the migration...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP305 Date: November 30, 1983 Author: Steel, W. ; Takagi, Y.
  • Announcement of IDA in the Commonwealth held on November 23, 1983
    IDA is the single most important source of concessional assistance and is crucial for the further development of the low-income countries. It has a record of solid achievements, it is essential that negotiations...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 151539 Date: November 23, 1983
  • Announcement of Two Loans Totaling Sixty-Five Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to Panama on November 17, 1983
    This press release announces the World Bank has granted two loans totaling Sixty-Five Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to Panama on November 17, 1983. The loans will be used on projects involving trade...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 155951 Date: November 17, 1983
  • Adjustment to external shocks in socialist and private market economies
    This paper examines policy responses to external shocks in socialist and in private market economies during the 1973-78 period. The distinction between the two groups is made on the basis of the ownerships...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD61 Date: November 1, 1983 Author: Balassa, Bela ; Tyson, Laura
  • Welfare consequences of capital inflows
    This paper addresses the question of the welfare consequences of international indebtedness, in order to determine whether there exists a presumption in favor of policy interventions in the process by...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8412 Date: October 31, 1983 Author: Harberger, Arnold
  • On compensation for losses and policy
    This paper deals with the issue of adjustment compensation on policy changes. These changes may produce gains for some sectors of the population and losses for others. The premise that an effective responsive...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8413 Date: October 31, 1983 Author: Rottenberg, Ian
  • Public inputs and child schooling in Brazil
    Household data from a one percent sample of the 1970 Brazilian census are used to analyze the effect of public inputs, i.e. the supply of schooling, on children's school attainment in Brazil. The household...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: CPD8315 Date: October 31, 1983 Author: Birdsall, Nancy M.
  • Concordance to PPAR issued by the OED March 1972 to June 30, 1983
    This document has been prepared to facilitate reference to the large number of project performance audits and other reports issued by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED). A revised project auditing...
    Type: IEG Evaluation Report#: 4739 Date: October 31, 1983
  • Economic appraisal of rural roads : simplified operational procedures for screening and appraisal
    This paper suggests simple operational approaches to the screening and economic appraisal of road components of rural roads and rural development projects. It is based on a review of appraisal reports...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP610 Date: October 31, 1983 Author: BEENHAKKER, H. ; LAGO, A.
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