Since 1964 Brazil has experienced rapid economic growth, exclusionary politics and a persistently unequal distribution of income. After 1973 rapid growth was maintained only at the cost of accelerating...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP203Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Knight,Peter T.
Studies have shown that preschool age children of the lower socioeconomic groups in developing countries perform substantially worse in tests of cognitive development than children from higher income groups....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP218Date: January 31, 1981Author:
SELOWSKY, M.
This paper calls attention to a particular type of misallocation of resources having important efficiency and distributional losses within the educational sector of developing countries. It proposes that...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP192Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Pinera,Sebastian E. ;
Selowsky,Marcelo
Until the 1960s all telephone switching systems used electromechanical components and progressed from step-by-step to machine-driven to crossbar exchanges. The rapid and unprecedented advances in the 1960s...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: TWT3Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
An analysis of local government structure and finance in Karachi reveals a number of problems due largely to inadequate amounts of public sector resources available to local governments and to the fragmentation...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF68Date: January 31, 1981Author:
Kee, W. ;
Development Economics Department (DED)
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-five million US dollars for Bangladesh to improve the distribution...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 154001Date: January 26, 1981
This press release announces the International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of the World Bank, has approved a credit of twenty-three million US dollars to Burma for a grain storage...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153997Date: January 8, 1981
Food distribution schemes have acquired increasing popularity as a basic instrument for the alleviation of poverty. However, high leakages to unintended beneficiaries and the penalties paid by the farming...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP19Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ;
Graves, Judith ;
AGR
This paper is a proposal for the development of an economics that would be based on satisfaction of the unvarying and universal human needs and not of desires or wants. This economics would deal with the...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN253Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Kamenetzky,Mario
This report, issued in two volumes, represents the first two steps in a three step process as agreed upon within the project staffs of the World Bank. The first step, presented in volume 1, is to develop...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: AGP63Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Howe, Charles W.
Because widespread availability of textbooks in the United States preceded research on the effectiveness of instructional materials, there has been little systematic study of their impact on student achievement....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP391Date: January 1, 1981Author:
Jamison,Dean T. ;
Searle,Barbara W. ;
Galda, Klaus ;
Heyneman, Stephen P
The purpose of this manual is to provide early dissemination of research results to field workers, to summarize selected portions of the other publications that are needed for sanitation program planning,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11509Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Kalbermatten, John M. ;
Julius, DeAnne S. ;
Mara, D.
This paper analyzes the effects of agricultural policies in industrialized nations on their domestic economies, the world commodity markets, and developing countries. A selective review of major theoretical...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP174Date: December 31, 1980Author:
BALE, M. ;
LUTZ, E.
Efficient and economic external transport is vital to the small landlocked countries of Rwanda and Burundi, both of which must import industrial products as well as a large proportion of their primary...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3224Date: December 31, 1980
Efficient and economic external transport is vital to the small landlocked countries of Rwanda and Burundi, both of which must import industrial products as well as a large proportion of their primary...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 3224Date: December 31, 1980
This paper is a review of partial and general equilibrium approaches to analysis of distributional consequences of technical change, using examples from the agriculture sector. Some existing models are...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP212Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Binswanger,Hans P.
This report is an attempt to set the Bank's initial diagnosis of the problems and prospects of the Maldivian economy in the context of the country's historical background and of its society, polity, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2739Date: December 31, 1980
In all societies, commercial banks are instrumental in transferring surplus monetary resources from savers to users. A study of the Indian commercial banking system reveals that concerns about profitability...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF66Date: December 31, 1980Author:
Mampilly, P. ;
Development Economics Department (D
Jordan, a country of limited natural resources and a traditionally service and trade-oriented economy, has enjoyed a high rate of growth and made good progress in diversifying commodity production, increasing...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 3135Date: December 31, 1980
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