This document provides the historical perspective of Korea's unique policy environment, and includes profiles of current urban and regional policies. It recognizes four types of definitions for urban areas...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8102Date: May 31, 1981Author:
SONG, B. ;
CHOE, S. ;
DED
Traditionally, the empirical analysis of the effects of trade policy on resource allocation has relied both on a partial equilibrium framework using effective rates of protection and on a multisector general...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP214Date: May 31, 1981Author:
DE MELO, J. ;
ROBINSON, S.
The most appropriate research design for the impact of urban shelter programs seems to be one of the variants of the quasi-experimental design. In this case, this means the interviewing of a sample of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8105Date: May 31, 1981Author:
BAMBERGER, M. ;
DED
A survey of 581 manufacturing companies recently establishing new plant locations in Sao Paulo, Brazil was undertaken in the summer of 1980. It was designed to determine the relative importance of alternative...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8109Date: May 31, 1981Author:
DED
This article, On the Development of a General Algebraic Modeling System in a Strategic Planning Environment, was reprinted with permission from the 1982 volume of Mathematical Programming Study. It highlights...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP308Date: May 31, 1981Author:
Bisschop,Johannes J. ;
Meeraus,Alexander
This press release announces the World Bank has approved loans to six countries - Central African Republic, Egypt, Republic of Korea, Niger, Tunisia,
and Zaire.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154424Date: May 28, 1981
This press release announces World Bank approved loans in the amount over one hundred fifty-eight million dollars to Colombia, Kenya, Tunisia, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen , and Zimbabwe.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154422Date: May 21, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of eleven million thirty thousand US dollars to Benin...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154252Date: May 18, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of twenty million US dollars to Togo for a fourth highway...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154248Date: May 14, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank has approved loans totaling three hundred seventy-six million seven hundred thousand to India, Jordan, Mali, Philippines, and Turkey.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154415Date: May 11, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank has approved loans totaling over five hundred fifty-two million dollars to Benin, Burundi, Haiti, Jamaica, the Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Paraguay,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154326Date: May 4, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of ten million US dollars to Sierra Leone for a second...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154204Date: May 4, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-five million US dollars to improve communications between...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154208Date: May 4, 1981
The findings of this survey on health, nutrition, and family planning include: (a) integration of services for health, nutrition, and family planning is the most cost-effective; (b) community participation...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DPH8114Date: May 1, 1981Author:
Faruqee, R. ;
Johnson, E.
Questions of importance for the negotiations on the extension of the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles focus on: (i) relative importance of trade in textiles and clothing; (ii) the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP202Date: April 30, 1981Author:
KEESING, D. ;
Wolf,Richard M
Discussions on the cost of credit in less developed countries seldom include the transaction costs of lending. These costs consists of the cost of administering credit and the cost of risk of default....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP226Date: April 30, 1981Author:
SAITO, K. ;
VILLANUEVA, D.
This paper shows how an approximate competitive market equilibrium may be computed as the solution to a linear programming model, when production possibilities are described by activity analysis vectors...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP189Date: April 30, 1981Author:
Norton, R. ;
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
The potential benefits of education as a consumption good and source of pleasure cannot be separated from its utility in transmitting the skills necessary to help people meet their basic needs, such as...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP450Date: April 30, 1981Author:
NOOR, A.
The paper distinguishes between two types of uses of income distribution data and argues that they require different treatments of demographic factors. In a descriptive, static analysis, these factors...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DPH8108Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Meesook,Oey Astra
Price policy is an important tool of government intervention in the market for agricultural goods and a primary way of influencing consumption, production, income distribution and trade. This paper specifically...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP41Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Knudsen, Odin K ;
Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
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