Does the use of user charges in the social sectors of poor countries cause ramifications in regard to efficiency and equity considerations? The purpose of this note is to suggest a strategy for analyzing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8309Date: September 30, 1983Author:
Birdsall, Nancy M.
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, signed in Washington, D. C. agreements creating the first specialized leasing company in the Dominican...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153096Date: September 20, 1983
This report is the ninth of an annual series. It reviews the experience of 127 World Bank-supported projects whose performance was evaluated in 1982. Given its highly differentiated readership, the structure...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 4720Date: September 16, 1983
This report is the ninth of an annual series. It reviews the experience of 127 World Bank-supported projects whose performance was evaluated in 1982. Given its highly differentiated readership, the structure...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 4720Date: September 16, 1983
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollar loan to Nigeria on September 15, 1983. The loan will be used to import about two million tons of fertilizer to help...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155735Date: September 15, 1983
After the two first oil price shocks, economists, policy makers, and the public got used to increases in energy prices and they expected them to continue. In 1982, when the oil prices dropped, all expectations...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD63Date: September 1, 1983Author:
Grais, Wafik M.
Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: economic crisis continues: update on sub-Saharan Africa, by Pushpa N. Schwartz; the annual report: a ritual since 1946, by Alex Spiliotopoulos;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59518Date: September 1, 1983Author:
Benjenk, Munir P. ;
Carroll, Jane H. ;
Drattell, Alan M. ;
Nepomuceno, Patricia D. ;
Ohuchi, Teruyuki ;
Please, Stanley ;
Schwartz, Pushpa Nand ;
Spiliotopoulos, Alex
The Yugoslav economy has weathered a number of shocks, including two increases in oil prices, two worldwide recessions, changes in the relative prices of both exports and imports, and shifts in major export...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD57Date: September 1, 1983Author:
Robinson, Sherman ;
Tyson, Laura D'Andrea
This press release announces the IBRD has granted a Seventy-Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar loan to Indonesia on September 1, 1983. The loan will be used to aid in its sugar production.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155734Date: September 1, 1983
This report consists of five sections, a main report and four annexes which include detailed discussions of poverty and growth; issues in agricultural development; the industrialization process, growth...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3350Date: August 31, 1983
The metropolitan Sao Paulo region still has substantial agglomeration economies which enhance the productivity of plants located there. A doubling of distance from the center of the metropolitan region,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD25Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Hansen, Keith E.
This report reviews the current status of the process by which the Bank evaluates the results of its operational activities and communicates them to its members and its staff. It also contains a summary...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 4679Date: August 31, 1983
This paper defines the concept of marginal costs and applies it to estimate the economic cost of natural gas in ten developing countries with a wide range of conditions. The marginal cost of natural gas...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY10Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Mashayekhi Beschloss, Afsaneh
This paper argues that the comparative R2 procedure is often less satisfactory for decomposing inequality than is simulation with the estimated "true" relation determining the distribution of interest....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP380Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Behrman, Jere R. ;
Knight, John B. ;
Sabot, Richard H.
This paper sketches some key facts concerning the Chilean economy in the past decade. Emphasis has been placed on matters related to economic fluctuations, unemployment, monetary and exchange rate policy,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8409Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Harberger, Arnold
Since 1953 the Soviet leadership has increasingly recognized that the current system of overcentralized planning has been the principal impediment to the economic development of the country. Alarmed by...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8310Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Okun, Yergeny
Since 1980 the Bank's activities in the energy sector have expanded substantially. Analysis confirms that despite the recent drop in oil prices, the Bank should continue to accord a high priority to the...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB4442Date: August 31, 1983
Analysis of the cost and financing of the education system in Upper Volta shows the system is inefficient and inequitable. The higher the level of education, the more costs increase; the lower private...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8402Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Orivel, Francois
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate quantitatively the impact of alternative pricing policies, aimed at reducing the deficits in the Grain Management Fund and the Fertilizer Fund in Korea. In comparing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8302Date: August 31, 1983Author:
Ahn, C. ;
Braverman, A. ;
Hammer, J.
This memorandum reviews developments in the transport sector in Portugal, as background for the Bank's dialogue with the Government on the sector. The major issues it finds recurring in each mode of transport...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3922Date: August 31, 1983
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