This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, making its first investment in the health field by helping finance sixty-four million US dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152918Date: December 9, 1981
The analysis of commodity price stabilization is extended to deal with imperfectly competitive commodity markets. The paper summarizes the analysis of the case for international price stabilization in...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD32Date: December 1, 1981Author:
Newbery, David M.
This project, as part of a larger study on the use of social accounting matrices (SAMs) in agricultural sector analysis, aims to estimate an agricultural SAM for Fiji. The report first outlines the main...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP53Date: December 1, 1981Author:
Throsby, C. ;
McColl, G.
Two of the most striking features of institutional credit in rural Africa since the 1960s are increases in government activity intended to provide more credit to farmers, and the size of the resource transfer...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP69Date: December 1, 1981Author:
VON PISCHKE, J. ;
Rouse, Michael J. ;
AGR
Credit projects have provided substantial amounts of liquidity in rural areas and are frequently thought to produce high economic returns. However, critics have argued that the impact of these projects...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP50Date: December 1, 1981Author:
VON PISCHKE, J. ;
AGR
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, considering providing part of the equity to a major urea fertilizer project in Bangladesh, and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152790Date: December 1, 1981
This paper provides background material for the food security and agricultural marketing work program. It aims at developing an analytical framework based on available research and operational experience...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP52Date: December 1, 1981Author:
ATENG, B. ;
AGR
The paper proposes a new approach to econometric modeling and parameter estimation which permits the construction of Macro econometric models from general Microeconomic foundations. It provides, inter-alia,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD44Date: December 1, 1981Author:
Hartley, Elichael J.
The paper proposes a new approach to econometric modeling and parameter estimation which permits the construction of Macro econometric models from general Microeconomic foundations. It provides, inter...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD45Date: December 1, 1981Author:
Hartley, Michael John
It is the purpose of this paper to describe one method of extending the empirical applicability of the theory of the farm-household to multi-crop economies by integrating the econometric and linear programming...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP222Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Ahn, C. ;
Singh, I. ;
Squire, Lyn ;
Harvard University
Slow growth in overall employment and unequal distribution of benefits from the new foodgrain technologies continue to be two of the most pressing current problems of many low income countries. The food...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP205Date: November 30, 1981Author:
LELE, U. ;
MELLOR, J.
These guidelines for the design of monitoring and evaluation systems have two main purposes: to ensure the efficient implementation of a particular project and to improve the planning of other similar...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN132Date: November 30, 1981
This paper suggests that rurally oriented development projects stand a greater chance of success if more consideration is given to the role that women play in society. In the past, economic betterment...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: WID13Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Carr, Marilyn N.
This review of education sector work in 1981 synthesizes the previous year's findings, updates the data and records significant changes over the year. In addition, it attempts a first qualitative review...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN268Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Prosser, R.C. ;
EDC
From the perspective of the Bank there are three basic reasons for the importance of Brazil and world food security. First, Brazil is the Bank's most important borrower and agriculture is a critical component...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN106Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Yudelman, Montague ;
AGR
The acquisition of technological mastery is critical to the achievement of self-sustaining development. Transfers of technology are substitutes for local mastery rather than sources of it. Consequently,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP217Date: November 30, 1981Author:
DAHLMAN, C. ;
WESTPHAL, L.
The two models presented in this paper attempt to explain how the spatial pattern of economic activities in a developing economy may be linked directly to the economy-wide policies used to promote economic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8128Date: November 30, 1981Author:
RUANE, F. ;
DED
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, arranging long term foreign exchange loans to Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), and its subsidiary,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152916Date: November 30, 1981
A political commitment to health programs aimed at those populations in greatest need of them, the rural and peri-urban, and competent managerial capability to implement them are essential if the goal...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP209Date: November 30, 1981Author:
EVANS, J. ;
Hall, Christine K. ;
WARFORD, J.
The purpose of this paper is to consider whether and under what circumstances developing countries can benefit from investments in international shipping. In recent years, much has been said and written...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP502Date: November 30, 1981Author:
Hansen, Harold
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.
