This paper provides a demographic description of Nepal that shows regional differentials in order to show how the sample area compares with the rest of Nepal. The sample used compares age structure, fertility,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DPH8109Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Cochrane, S. ;
Joshi, N. ;
Nandwani, K.
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: King, in farewell, bids the Board to place interest of the Bank first, by Colbert I. King; ten years old and going strong, by Christine...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59320Date: April 1, 1981Author:
Abel, Christine ;
Fawcett,Katie L. ;
King,Colbert I. ;
Knapp,J. Burke ;
Nasem-Ports,Jeanette C. ;
Sagnier,Thierry
The paper estimated the distribution of household income in Panama for 1970, using data from the country's first national household survey. It found that the inequality in income distribution by household...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8103Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Park,Jong-Goo
Trends in world sugar production, consumption, and prices are analyzed; projections are made under various scenarios regarding the operation of an International Sugar Agreement, and the occurrence of a...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN10Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Brook,Ezriel M. ;
Nowicki,Danuta
The report estimates Nepals houwehold income distribution using the country's first nationwide household survey (1976-1977). Results show that rural income inequality is considerably higher than its urban...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DWE8102Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Kansal, Satish
Korea's concern about the spatial distribution of economic activity is manifested in several policy initiatives, as well as in public planning and zoning powers to a remarkable degree in attempting to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: URR8101Date: March 31, 1981Author:
Meyer,Tanya J. ;
DED
The twentieth century has witnessed a profound increase in the world's population and an equally remarkable increase in the proportion of the world's population living in urban areas. This paper analyzes...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP211Date: March 31, 1981Author:
INGRAM, G. ;
CARROLL, A.
This press release announces the World Bank and International Development Association (IDA), announced the approval of sixty-five million US dollars for an imports program to support the rehabilitation...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154159Date: March 30, 1981
This press release announces International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's affiliate for concessionary lending, has approved a credit of eleven million US dollars for the expansion and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154160Date: March 30, 1981
This press release announces the World Bank has approved loans totaling three hundred and sixty-seven million dollars to Bahamas, Bangladesh, Haiti, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154324Date: March 30, 1981
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of World Bank, has approved a credit of one million fifty thousand US dollars to the Solomon Islands...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154155Date: March 19, 1981
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessionary lending, has approved a credit of three hundred fourteen million US dollars for a telecommunications...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154121Date: March 19, 1981
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessionary lending, has approved a credit of fourteen million US dollars to Egypt for fish farming development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154120Date: March 19, 1981
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessionary lending, has approved a credit of ten million twenty thousand US dollars for an education project...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154079Date: March 5, 1981
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessionary lending, has approved a credit of seventeen million US dollars for a road maintenance project...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154075Date: March 5, 1981
Labor market discrimination by sex and by race in poor urban economy is analyzed using a survey of manufacturing employees in Tanzania. There are large differences in mean wages by both sex and race....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: DPH8107Date: March 1, 1981Author:
Sabot, R. ;
University of Oxford ;
Knight, J.
The central thesis of this paper is that agricultural pricing policies pursued by developing countries produce effects that are diametrically opposite to those produced by the pricing policies of many...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP173Date: February 28, 1981Author:
BALE, M. ;
LUTZ, E.
This handbook is part of a collection of basic information handbooks on various commodities, which are designed to allow new or updated information to be inserted accordingly. The rubber handbook is divided...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 12900Date: February 28, 1981
Events during the late seventies have served to emphasize Zambia's economic and political vulnerability. Defense expenditures have been increased, and access routes to the sea have been disrupted thereby...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 3007Date: February 28, 1981
Prospects for rural development in sub-Saharan Africa appear to be much poorer than in the rest of the developing world, especially since the oil price increases. If present trends continue, African dependence...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP186Date: February 28, 1981Author:
Lele,Uma
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