This paper argues that the interlinking of labor, output, and credit contracts often observed in rural economies can be regarded as an attempt to improve allocative efficiency in the face of moral hazard....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP260Date: February 28, 1982Author:
DRD ;
Mitra, P.
Continuing population growth and a steady rise in incomes have created a rapidly increasing demand for food. Meeting this demand has necessitated significant changes in production, trade, and distribution....
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN101Date: February 28, 1982Author:
AGR ;
Yudelman, Montague
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: EDs deal with shortfall, Bank~^!!^s graduation policy; development in Sub-Saharan Africa; new advisor for IFC, by Monique Amaudry; what...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59375Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Amaudry, Monique A. ;
Drattell, Alan M. ;
Sagnier, Thierry
This paper uses household survey data on consumption to analyze the determinants of calorie intakes in developing countries. It relies on characteristic demand analysis for a demand function specification...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP26Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Knudsen, O. ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
This paper surveys a sample of issues which government planners and policy makers face when confronted with the need to supply growing amounts of meat and dairy products to their domestic markets. Resolution...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP45Date: February 1, 1982Author:
AGR ;
GIRARDOT - BERG , I
This discussion of commodity stock-piling originated from the political call for commodity price stabilization. It has two main objectives. The first is to characterize the competitive stockpiling rule,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD38Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Newbury, Jacqueline L. ;
Princeton University ;
Stiglitz, Joseph Eugene
This paper argues that the interlinking of labor, output, and credit contracts often observed in rural economies can be regarded as an attempt to improve allocative efficiency in the face of moral hazard....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD33Date: February 1, 1982Author:
Mitra, Pradeep K.
Despite inevitable problems, the experience of both upgrading and sites-and-services projects has generally been positive and has proved the feasibility of producing, on a large scale, housing which is...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP264Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Bamberger, J. Michael
The value of squatter dwellings for a sample in the Philippines is estimated, and the statistical relationship between value and housing characteristics is described. The results of a survey approach indicate...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP243Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Jimenez, Emmanuel Y.
This report reviews agricultural performance and policies in Brazil in recent decades. In view of the energy crisis and balance-of-payments problem, a high priority has been placed on the sector to expand...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3305Date: January 31, 1982
The major developing country forestry issues in the 1980s are all related to the impact of increasing population pressure on a declining tropical forest resource. These issues include: the impact of continued...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN123Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Spears, John S.
Biological control is the use of living beneficial organisms as pest control agents. The most widely-used and successful method is the introduction and establishment of beneficial organisms, which aims...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN62Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Greathead, D.J. ;
Waage, J.K.
Development policies of Turkey traditionally favored import substitution over exports and industry over agriculture. The 1980 policy reforms aimed at changing this strategy by moving towards outward orientation...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB3641Date: January 31, 1982
Because of increasing oil prices since 1974, a geographical restructuring of bauxite processing is under way in a wholesale manner. Since sources of low-cost electricity have been largely exhausted in...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8202Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Hashimoto, Hideo
This report examines the issues related to, and the prospects for, the growth of local processing of tropical hardwood in log-producing areas. While the report covers the broad issues of mechanical processing...
Type: Commodity Working PaperReport#: DWC8201Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Takeuchi, Kenji
This paper explores quantitatively the macroeconomic and distributional impacts on non-oil producing, semi-industrial developing countries of external shocks originating in the world economy - in particular,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP271Date: January 31, 1982Author:
de Melo, Jaime ;
Robinson, S.
An understanding of the relationship between education and development requires an understanding of the process whereby decisions are made to educate children in the first generation and the consequences...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP247Date: January 31, 1982Author:
BIRDSALL, N. ;
COCHRANE, S.
This paper presents a macro-model of the Korean economy that focuses on short-run macro-economic adjustment and, more in particular, on the transmission channels of monetary policy between the financial...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP236Date: January 31, 1982Author:
Van Wijnbergen, Sweder
It is not possible to make a quantitative assessment of the need for or of the merits of infant-industry promotion without empirical evidence concerning costs and benefits. This report reviews the evidence...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP253Date: January 31, 1982Author:
WESTPHAL, L.
This paper describes the sampling strategy of the establishment survey conducted in Bogota to study the determinants of manufacturing employment location, and reports descriptive findings based on the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8103Date: January 31, 1982Author:
DED ;
LEE, K.
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