• Grain storage and distribution in the 1980s : an approach paper
    This paper examines the role of storage in food distribution systems which are adjusting to new conditions and assesses current needs in terms of recent changes. The nature and location of foodgrain production...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN93 Date: February 29, 1980 Author: AGR
  • Guatemala - Country economic memorandum
    The economic boom of 1976-1977 in Guatemala, which was due in part to earthquake reconstruction activites and high export earnings, was followed by a significant drop in growth in 1978 as reconstruction...
    Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report#: 2654 Date: February 29, 1980
  • Measuring the indirect effects of an agricultural investment project on its surrounding region
    An approach to measuring the magnitude and incidence of regional downstream effects of an irrigation project is described. The approach is applied to the Muda River project and surrounding region in Northwestern...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP154 Date: February 29, 1980 Author: Bell,Simon Cairns ; Hazell, P.
  • The evaluation of the benefits of basic need policies
    A theoretical framework for the analysis of market intervention policies of goods related to the satisfaction of basic human needs is presented. The method allows quantification of such social benefits...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP138 Date: February 29, 1980 Author: Scandizzo,Pasquale L. ; Knudsen, O. ; AGR
  • Ownership and efficiency in urban buses
    Efficiency in urban bus operation depends on, among other things, the institutional form of the bus business. For certain cities in LDCs where there are parallel private and publicly owned operations,...
    Type: Staff Working Paper Report#: SWP371 Date: February 29, 1980 Author: WALTERS, A. ; FEIBEL, C.
  • Resolutions, Significant Decisions and Loan Approvals by IBRD Executive Directors
    This board report lists resolutions and certain decisions adopted by the Executive Directors of the Bank between January 1 and December 31, 1979.
    Type: Board Report Report#: 139291 Date: February 13, 1980
  • Technology in agricultural development
    The development process generally envisions agriculture increasing its aggregate output and the productivity of its prime resources, perhaps diversifying its range of products for domestic consumption...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP32 Date: February 1, 1980 Author: Donaldson, Graham ; AGR
  • The prevalence of calorie-efficient diets in developing countries
    Nutritional well-being has become a major concern in recent years, particularly in the context of general food and basic-needs policies. Obviously, the design of policies and monitoring their effectiveness...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP158 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: REUTLINGER, S. ; ALDERMAN, H.
  • Selected case studies on monitoring and evaluation of rural development projects - Volume II : East Asia and the Pacific
    These case studies include experiences from agricultural and rural development projects in East Asia and the Pacific. They include papers from seven countries on monitoring and evaluation of agricultural...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN138 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Deboeck, Guido J. ; Rubin, Deborah [editors] ; AGR
  • Spatial differences in the cost of living
    A method that represents income and poverty differences within a country more accurately than do methods based on money income measures is described. Focusing on the cost of basic requirements of food...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP157 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Speer,Thomas V.
  • The distribution of income by factor components
    A rigorous and exact formulation of the relationship between the Gini measure of inequality in total income across families and corresponding measures of inequality in such components of total income as...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP162 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: PYATT, G. ; CHEN, C. ; FEI, J.
  • Basic needs : the case of Sri Lanka
    This article has two related objectives: to judge Sri Lanka's success in meeting its basic needs and growth objectives, and to use Sri Lanka's experience to cast light on general hypotheses regarding basic...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP197 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Isenman,Paul
  • Price distortions in developing countries : a bias against agriculture
    This article evaluates the effects of government intervention in agricultural commodity markets for a sample of developing countries. It also presents a review of the methodology for quantifying the effects...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP175 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Lutz, E. ; Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
  • Consumer search and alternative market equilibria
    A general model is presented for studying the connection between imperfect information and imperfect competition, comparing the methodology involved in generating monopolistic competition due to consumers'...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP137 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Braverman,Avishay
  • Nepal - First rural development project
    Nepal is one of the least developed countries in the world, and serious attempts at development have been under way only since the 1960s. The rural development - I project was the first Bank operation...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN174 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: AGR
  • A cost of siblings : child schooling in urban Colombia
    The factors that influence the persistent and negative relation between number of children and allocation of resources to investment in those children are discussed. Data used for the analysis are a 1967...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP160 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: BIRDSALL, N. ; DEDPH
  • Choice of technique in Sahelian rice production
    This paper reports on investigations of the social and private profitability of alternative ways of growing rice in four Sahelian countries. Efforts were made to ensure that methods are technically feasible...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP199 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Humphreys, C. ; Pearson, S.
  • A model for analyzing lenders' perceived risk optimal international borrowing, capital allocation, and creditworthiness control
    A model that facilitates inferences about lenders' subjective default probabilities is presented. The models' underlying assumption is that the probability of default is determined by factors not controlled...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP159 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Feder,Gershon ; Just, R. ; DRC ; BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
  • Workers' self-management and planning : the Yugoslavia case
    The rules, procedures, and theoretical premises of Yugoslavia's 1974 new constitution as they apply to workers' self-management are described. One feature of the constitutional changes is that, in addition...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP161 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Ardalan,Cyrus
  • Predicting agricultural output response
    The prediction of output response to price changes in the agricultural sector of developing countries is often an extremely important aspect of policy formation since variations in the price of major crops...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP167 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: BARNUM, H. ; SQUIRE, L.
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