Eight myths surrounding the unregulated development by the informal housing supply market are examined. They are: (i) Unregulated development is out of control. Actually, the District has reduced pockets...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8119Date: August 31, 1981Author:
HAMER, A. ;
DED
This paper provides a brief historical background of the evolution of extension services in India. It highlights the need for an effective extension system and provides a short, but comprehensive picture...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN88Date: August 31, 1981Author:
SAS ;
AGR
This paper comprises the introductory section, apparently in a draft stage, to Domestic Finance Study No. 71 dated October 1981, entitled The Nature of Credit Markets in Less Developed Countries: A Framework...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF72Date: August 31, 1981Author:
Virmani,Arvind ;
Development Economics Department (DED)
The purpose of this handbook is to present factual historical information on the trade of the developing countries and to provide 80 market price quotations for 51 commodities which figure importantly...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40970Date: August 1, 1981
This paper evaluates the 1973-74 Household Expenditure Survey in Bangladesh and the estimates of income distribution derived from it. Based on this evaluation, the survey data were adjusted for biases...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8108Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Kansal,Satish M.
The author focuses on the four myths of: growing hunger; increasing agricultural scarcity; an ominous turn away from self-sufficiency and toward a reliance on foreign grain; and superiority of socialist...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: UNN104Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Eberstadt, Nick
As part of the City Study to develop tools to estimate spatial and economic impacts of policy interventions in LDC urban centres, this volume provides a comprehensive, uniform and systematic description...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8115Date: July 31, 1981Author:
LEE, Y. ;
DED
Polarization reversal (PR) is the term given to the turning point in the spatial pattern of growth and development in a nation when continuing relative concentration ceases and urban deconcentration or...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8116Date: July 31, 1981Author:
KEEN, D. ;
TOWNROE, P. ;
DED
The purpose of this note is to outline simple methods that may be useful to analyze the nutritional impact of agricultural projects. All agricultural projects may have important implications for the nutritional...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN86Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ;
AGR
The growing volume of private commercial loans to LDCs has heightened concern about the ability of countries to service their accumulated external obligations on schedule, and reawakened interest in analyzing...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF73Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Kharas, H. ;
Development Economics Department (DED)
This paper provides a summary of recent developments in electricity supply reliability, pricing, and system planning with emphasis on the close interrelationships among these aspects. By focusing attention...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP201Date: July 31, 1981Author:
MUNASINGHE, M.
The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical base for future discussion of policy issues related to housing subsidies. A survey was conducted to collect data on the amount of direct and indirect...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8106Date: July 31, 1981Author:
HINH, D. ;
SANYAL, B. ;
VALVERDER, N. ;
BAMBERGER, M. ;
DED
An analysis of wage and employment trends in Africa provides a descriptive account and some conceptual approaches to this dimension of the labor market. In Africa, as in the rest of the developing world,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER68Date: July 31, 1981Author:
LINDAUER, D. ;
DEDER
The number of workers per household in Bogota is increasing as women and other household members join the labor force in greater numbers. Increasing the number of workers per household has virtually no...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8110Date: July 31, 1981Author:
PINEDA, J. ;
DED
This paper surveys and evaluates the data on the distribution of income in Papua New Guinea. The data which come from the Household Expenditure Survey of 1975/76 and the Urban Population Survey of 1977,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8109Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Downes, E. Beverley
The purpose of this paper is to investigate three related issues concerning the urban land market in Bogota, Colombia. First, an attempt is made to quantify the extent to which land unit prices vary in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8114Date: July 31, 1981Author:
Wagner,Andrew M.
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of four hundred million US dollars to India for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154558Date: July 9, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank and its affiliate, lnternational Development Association, have approved loans totaling $967 million to six countries: Argentina, lndia, Nigeria, Romania, Thailand,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 149258Date: July 9, 1981
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, The Kedaung Group of Indonesia, Corning Glass Works of the United States, and two international...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 152788Date: July 8, 1981
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