• The public-private wage differential in a poor urban economy : The public / private wage differential in a poor urban economy
    The occupational structure of wages is generally more compressed in high than in low income countries. The role of non-market forces in determining the structure of wages is of interest for reasons of...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP261 Date: January 31, 1983 Author: Lindauer, David L. ; Sabot, Richard H.
  • Education sector memorandum No. 5.2 - implementation of the construction components of education projects
    This paper restates some of the considerations on which, satisfactory design and execution of project construction components depend. The report presents: project management arrangements; construction...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN274 Date: January 31, 1983
  • The relationship between urbanization and economic development
    This paper places urbanization in India in the context of the process, worldwide. It first surveys the pattern of urbanization in relation to economic development, employing both time series and cross-sectional...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: UDD1 Date: January 31, 1983 Author: BECKER, C. ; MILLS, E. ; URB
  • West Africa - Agriculture strategy paper
    As the majority of West Africa's labor force is employed in agriculture and as this sector is experiencing slow growth, this report focuses on a potential agricultural strategy for West Africa. Accordingly,...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 4319 Date: January 31, 1983
  • Penetration of industrial country markets by agricultural products from developing countries
    Approximately 55 percent of food and 60 percent of non-food agricultural exports of the developing countries are sold in industrial country markets. Market access is therefore important. While the developing...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP274 Date: January 31, 1983 Author: DUNCAN, R. ; LUTZ, E.
  • A linear two - level programming problem
    Multi-level programming, as defined in this paper, refers to a problem situation wherein outer decision makers affect the solution space of inner decision makers within a strictly hierarchical structure....
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD28 Date: January 31, 1983 Author: Candler, Wilfred V. ; Townsley, Robert
  • Institution building for traffic management
    This paper explains the fundamental importance of institutional development and the need for institutional self-sufficiency in order to obtain the objectives of traffic management. In addition to suggesting...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP8 Date: January 31, 1983 Author: Barrett, Richard
  • The anti-export bias in commercial policies and export performance : some evidence from the recent Brazilian experience
    The literature provides ample empirical evidence of the ill effects of heavy protection on the economic performance of developing countries, but there is little evidence directly linking export behaviour...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP273 Date: January 31, 1983 Author: Tyler, David W.
  • Unemployment, labor market segmentation, and the returns to educated labor
    This paper addresses the following question: what is the (shadow) marginal product of labor classified by education and its relation to observed market wages when: (i) educated and non-educated labor...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD15 Date: January 31, 1983 Author: Pinera, S. ; Selowsky, M.
  • Summary of discussions at the meeting of the Executive Directors of the bank and IDA, December 23, 1982
    The Executive Directors approved without discussion a loan of US$125 million equivalent to Korea for a Provincial and Country Roads Project. The staff said that this fifth project in a series of Bank...
    Type: Board Report Report#: 72306 Date: January 28, 1983
  • Economic appraisal in the health sector
    This paper discusses the role of economic appraisal in the formulation of health sector policy in less developed countries (LDCs). Specifically, it focuses on the application of economic analysis to public...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP322 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Prescott, Nicholas M. ; Warford, Jeremy James
  • Macroeconomic adjustment in Thailand : demand management and supply conditions
    This 1983 article, Macroeconomic Adjustment in Thailand: Demand Management and Supply Conditions, was reprinted with permission from the Journal of Policy Modeling. Within the framework of a fix-price,...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP298 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Drud, Arne ; Grais, Wafik
  • International grain trade, 1950-80
    International trade in cereals represents one of the fastest growing segments of agricultural trade. Contrary to general presumptions, the data suggest that declines in domestic production explain only...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP64 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: AGR ; Monke, Eric
  • Credit policy, inflation and growth in a financially repressed economy
    This report analyzes credit policy in an open economy macro-model incorporating stylized facts about the financial sector of LDC's (absence of security markets, existence of a curbmarket). These facts...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP318 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Van Wijnbergen, Sweder
  • Intra-industry trade and the stage of development : a regression analysis of industrial and developing countries
    The concept of intra-industry trade (IIT) is applied to a broad range of countries, including the industrial countries, several advanced developing countries, and a large number of lower income developing...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP306 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: CIVAN, E. ; HAVRYLYSHYN, O.
  • Social feasibility analysis in low-cost sanitation projects
    This report is intended to show the importance of the findings of sociologists or anthropologists to the project as a whole. It discusses the eight key questions that should be answered to ensure that...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: TAG5 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Perret, Heli E. ; Technical Advisory Group (T ; UNDP
  • Lending versus giving : the economics of foreign assistance
    Historically, very little attention has been devoted to assessing the costs and benefits of concessional loans vs. grants as the means of transferring resources to developing countries. This paper argues...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP291 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Leipziger, Alexander Lewis
  • Risk attitudes of subsistence farmers in northeast Brazil : a sampling approach
    The risk attitudes of samples of small farm owners and sharecroppers in Brazil were investigated. Data were derived by posing two sets of simple, realistic mind experiments involving choice between risky...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: DRD17 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Dillon, J. ; Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
  • Pit latrine ventilation : field investigation methodology
    This report describes a suitable methodology for the investigation in the field of the ventilation performance of ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines. The methodology is based on monitoring the temperature...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: TAG4 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Mara, D. Duncan ; Ryan, Beverley A. ; Technical Advisory Group (TAG) ; UNDP
  • Financier : Interview - A.·W. Clausen : World Bank Turns to Private Sector
    A.W. Clausen, President of the World Bank Group spoke in his interview by Bahram Nowzad and Shuja Nawaz on following: does the World Bank's current emphasis on the private sector represent a change in...
    Type: President's Speech Report#: 131490 Date: January 1, 1983 Author: Clausen, A. W.
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