The purpose of this study is to review the trends in Thailand's accumulation of foreign debt, to assess the methods currently employed to manage and control foreign borrowing, and to propose changes in...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8404Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Kharas, Homi
This paper presents a cost effectiveness analysis of blindness prevention by the Onchocerciasis Control Program in Upper Volta, utilizing recent epidemiological data on changes in the incidence of blindness....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES7Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Prescott, Nicholas ;
Prost, Andre
Since 1968, Hungary has attempted to combine central planning of the economy with a significant decentralization of economic decision making at the enterprise level. In pursuing this objective, Hungarian...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8314Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Knight, Peter T.
The central focus of this study is on the analysis of the effects of government price intervention in the agricultural sector, with the intention of developing proposals for policies which would increase...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8311Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Robertson, J.
This paper provides a survey of the issues involved in the design of stabilization measures aimed at either correcting excessive balance of payments deficits or moderating the rate of inflation or both....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8417Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Ahamed, Liaquat A.
In this paper, Identifying the Basic Conditions for Economic Generation of Public Electricity from Surplus Bagasse in Sugar Mills, the authors posit that the most serious obstacle to economic progress...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY13Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Bouvet, P. ;
Suzor, N.
This paper attempts to examine with some detail Chile's economic performance since 1974. It evaluates the the economic policies of the period, placing emphasis in the stabilization adn liberalization programs....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8410Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Edwards, S.
This study presents estimates of borrowing functions based on rural household data for India. It improves upon existing work in three key areas. First, it is shown that existing studies have used an inappropriate...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP341Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Iqbal, Farrukh
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, helping finance a project on October 17, 1983, to rehabilitate three tea estates and associated...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153119Date: October 17, 1983
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, help finance the seventy-five million US dollars project of Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153118Date: October 17, 1983
This report presents the findings of an urban transport sector review which analyzed key urban transport issues facing the Philippine government as a basis for determining possible courses of action for...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4134Date: October 11, 1983
This report presents the findings of an urban transport sector review which analyzed key urban transport issues facing the Philippine government as a basis for determining possible courses of action for...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4134Date: October 11, 1983
The paper presents a new approach for the formulation and implementation of economywide models. The approach uses extensively Social Accounting Matrices (SAM). It starts with the observation that each...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD62Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Drud, Arne ;
Grais, Wafik ;
Pyatt, Frank Graham
The clearing of tropical forests can expose unusually fragile soil surfaces to potential water run-off and soil erosion to a degree that has significant impact on their subsequent fertility, and on downstream...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP79Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Nelson, M.
The question of whether oil importing countries should tax interest payments to Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to exploit collective monopoly power in the world capital market is...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD60Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Van Wijnbergen, Sweder
Bank policy on irrigation water charges is well defined in terms of guiding principles. However, experience in implementation of existing policies has led to a review of whether the Bank should change...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP84Date: October 1, 1983Author:
Sfeir-Younis, Alfredo
Due to the change in demand for tin, tin plate and aluminum, it is often questioned whether the pricing policies of the tin and tin plate industries have contributed to material substitution against tin...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8303Date: September 30, 1983Author:
Hashimoto, Hideo
The purpose of this paper is to prepare a methodology useful for the analysis of the housing finance systems of developing countries. This methodology is applied to Brazil which exhibits a diversity of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD35Date: September 30, 1983Author:
Tucillo, John
The Philippines transport sector displays all the weaknesses that characterize that of many developing countries. There is little intermodal coordination and a lack of infrastructure, particularly freight...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3916Date: September 30, 1983
Since the last economic report on LPDR was prepared, the government not only started a number of important investment projects, particulary in agriculture and transport, but also introduced a comprehensive...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 4125Date: September 30, 1983
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