• The incidence of sales and excise taxes, or where do we put the transfers?
    Whether sales or excise taxes are regressive or progressive depends on how the question is asked, and the implicit or explicit definition of what incomes would be were there no taxes is of crucial importance....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP503 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Meerman,Jacob P.
  • The impact of trade policies on income distribution in a planning model for Colombia
    This paper develops a multisector Computable General Equilibrium model to simulate the effects of trade on the distribution of income among socioeconomic groups defined both by the factors of production...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP170 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: DE MELO, J. ; ROBINSON, S.
  • Portugal in face of the Common Market
    With a view toward Portugal's entry into the European Common Market, this paper reviews the experience of the Portuguese economy during the post-Revolutionary period, the quadrupling of oil prices, and...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP164 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Balassa, Bela
  • Food security in food deficit countries
    The central proposition of this paper is that periodic shortfalls in aggregate food consumption in the developing countries are primarily related to poor harvests in the countries and not short world supplies....
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN186 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Reutlinger, S. ; Knapp, K.
  • Integrated national energy planning in developing countries
    In recent years, decision makers in an increasing number of countries have realized that energy sector planning should be carried out on an integrated basis within the framework of a national energy master...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP165 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: MUNASINGHE, M.
  • Selected case studies on monitoring and evaluation of rural development projects - Volume I : Eastern Africa
    This paper contains a selection of case studies presented at the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in Eastern Africa, which was held in Nairobi in April 1979...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN137 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Deboeck, Guido J. ; Rubin, Deborah [editors] ; AGR
  • Estimating counterfactual incomes in studies budget incidence
    The relationship between economies with indirect taxes and total factor incomes is discussed. Comprehensive statistical studies (CSS) of budget incidence assume ceteris paribus conditions for technology,...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP171 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Meerman,Jacob P. ; Shome, P.
  • India - Bihar Agricultural Extension and Research Project
    The Bihar Agricultural Research Project will reorganize and strengthen Bihar's agricultural extension services, and help upgrade and develop adaptive research with the objective of achieving early and...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN175 Date: January 31, 1980
  • Spatial differences in poverty : the case of Peru
    Using Peru as a case study, the implications of spatial differences in living costs for measures of poverty are examined. To obtain location specific poverty lines that reflect comparable levels of consumer...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP153 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Thomas,Vinod
  • Resource allocation to housing investment : comments and further results
    Using a 39 country sample, Burns and Grebler show that there is a systematic nonlinear relationship between investment in residential construction and the per capita output of a country. An obvious test...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP183 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Renaud, Bernard
  • Project evaluation in risky markets
    This paper analyzes the implications of production risk for shadow price in the economic and social evaluation of investment projects. The analysis shows how income distribution and risk aversion considerations...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP184 Date: January 31, 1980 Author: Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
  • Papua New Guinea : transport sector review
    Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an island country of 3 million people located in the tropics about 100 miles north of Australia. PNG's geography, topography and early stage of economic development has affected...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 2819 Date: January 29, 1980
  • State manufacturing enterprise in a mixed economy : the Turkish case
    The author raises questions that are relevant to most developing countries. Turkey's emphasis in the past on capital-intensive import substitution in preference to light labor-intensive export industries...
    Type: Publication Report#: 10115 Date: January 1, 1980 Author: Walstedt,Bertil
  • Report on the status of women in the Bank
    For almost a decade, the status of women working group of the staff association has addressed itself to the issue of equalizing the status of women and men in the Bank. As part of this effort, the group...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 52744 Date: January 1, 1980
  • Producers' price expectations and the size of the welfare gains from price stabilization
    This paper uses a simulation model to measure the size of the social welfare gains from price stabilization within the general setting of a non-linear multiplicative risk and lagged expectations model...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP27 Date: January 1, 1980 Author: Scandizzo,Pasquale L. ; Hazell, Peter B.R. ; Anderson,Jock R. ; AGR
  • Economics of supplemental feeding of malnourished children : a case study of leakages, benefits and costs
    This paper describes the economic issues involved in the supplemental feeding of malnourished children. The paper is divided into four major sections. The first section discusses the potential leakages...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: AGP28 Date: January 1, 1980 Author: Knudsen,Odin K.
  • Implementation and impact of poverty oriented rural development projects : World Bank experiences
    Over the past five years, the Bank has effected a major change in the volume and direction of its lending for the rural sector. Over half of this lending is now being directed towards rural development...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN159 Date: December 31, 1979 Author: Thoolen, Ben A. ; AGR
  • Some World Bank projects and women in Africa
    Recent years have seen a growing awareness in the Bank's need to give explicit attention to the effects of its projects on women. It is being recognized that women are disproportionately represented among...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: WID6 Date: December 31, 1979
  • Regional workshop on monitoring and evaluation of rural development projects in East Asia and the Pacific
    The workshop was organized to cover three broad themes: (i) management use of information; (ii) data collection, processing, analysis and presentation; and (iii) institutional and sociological aspects...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN136 Date: December 31, 1979 Author: AGR
  • Accounting and fixed price multipliers in a social accounting matrix framework
    The relationship between output, factor demands, and income and the decomposition of these relationships into separate effects as suggested by the structure of a social accounting matrix are examined....
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP125 Date: December 31, 1979 Author: PYATT, G. ; ROUND, J.
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