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:
DEDER ;
LINDAUER, D.
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:
DED ;
PINEDA, J.
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
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
In Bolivia's vast territory, problems of access and communication have always been particularly acute. Large, potentially productive regions remain unexploited, partly because access to them is impossible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61812Date: July 1, 1981Author:
Wilbur Smith and Associates
Since 1973 attempts to adjust the structure of the world economy to rapidly rising costs of energy have dominated all other economic issues. This paper argues that the energy transition is closer to completion...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP204Date: June 30, 1981Author:
Chenery, Hollis B.
This paper presents estimates of housing demand equation parameters separately for owners and renters in Bogota and Cali, Colombia in 1978, and for Bogota renters only in 1972. The demand estimation procedure...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8111Date: June 30, 1981Author:
Ingram, G.
It is well known that there is a strong relationship between urbanization and economic development in many countries of the world. Urbanization provides many benefits to the economy, such as efficient...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8112Date: June 30, 1981Author:
Lee, Irene Y.
The focus of the literature concerned with economic development has shifted its focus to attempting to understand the institutions and the behavior of individuals and families in rural areas. This critical...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SER67Date: June 30, 1981Author:
BINSWANGER, H. ;
DEDER ;
ROSENZWEIG, M.
This paper reports on the initial findings of the program of studies on the impact of developing-country exports of manufactures on the market of the principal industrial countries. A discussion of the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP194Date: June 30, 1981Author:
HUGHES, H. ;
WAELBROECK, J.
The purpose of this paper is to promote discussion among decision-makers, from both public and private sectors of a developing country, on the topic of orienting technological change and innovation in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN244Date: June 30, 1981Author:
Kamenetzky, Mario ;
Maybury, Ro ;
Weiss, Charles Jr.
Public health is of central importance in the design and implementation of improved excreta disposal projects. Improvements in health are the main social and economic benefit which planners and economists...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11508Date: June 30, 1981Author:
Bradley, David J. ;
Feachem, Richard G. ;
Garelick
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