This paper proposes an overarching strategy for rural development in Latin America that will both increase food supplies and improve the standard of living in its rural areas. It cites three major problems...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN109Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Yudelman,Montague
The major elements of a technology policy that promotes financial institutions are identified, and the cruicial role of the Technical Consultancy Service Centers (TCSC) and the Financial System (FS) is...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: SDF54Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Bhatt,Vinayak V.
The tradeoff between growth and basic needs was examined by undertaking econometric estimates of the variables explaining LDCs' growth during the 1960 to 1973 period. Regression analysis indicates that...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP139Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Hicks,Norman L.
An econometric model of household production, consumption and labor supply behavior for a semicommercial farm with a competitive labor market is presented, using a Cobb-Douglas specification for the production...
A generalized simulation model for optimizing the reliability level of electrical supply is described. The model is applied to a case study of Cascavel, Brazil to determine a range of optimum reliability...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP112Date: January 31, 1979Author:
MUNASINGHE, M. ;
GELLERSON, M.
The so-called North-South dialogue involves discussion between the rich and poor nations as to whether common interests, mutual needs, and a convergence of policies can be discerned or whether confrontation,...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN251Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Ramesh, Jairam ;
Weiss, Charles Jr. [editors]
A quantitative framework for projecting levels of poverty under different assumptions about GNP growth, population growth, and changes in income distribution is described. Differences in distributional...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP118Date: January 31, 1979Author:
AHLUWALIA, M. ;
CARTER, N. ;
CHENERY, H.
Methods to analyze and reduce the costs of surveys must receive greater attention if research budgets are to be utilized efficiently. This paper analyzes two of the factors that contribute to the unit...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP151Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Humphreys, C.
Indian export incentives are analyzed within the framework of piecemeal "second-best" welfare economics, taking the extant import control system as a binding constraint. A condensed account of recent Indian...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP105Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Lal,Deepak K.
The behavior of a dual economy, having a capitalistic sector and subsistence sector, under different closing rules is investigated. If the central analytical issue when examining a dual economy is how...
Type: Board ReportReport#: REP123Date: January 31, 1979Author:
BELL, C.
The project was designed to support two of the governments high priority programs in rural development. These were: administrative reorganization and decentralization of public sector development program;...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN176Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Edgerton, J. ;
AGR
A compact form of the Taylor/Lysy model is presented. It consists of the commodity and factor price frontiers, the saving-investment equilibrium condition and the neoclassical relationship between relative...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP106Date: January 31, 1979Author:
LLUCH, C.
The objective of a basic needs approach is to provide opportunities for the full development of the individual. The essence of the case for the basic needs approach is that the gap between requirements...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP62Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Streeten,Paul P.
Issues raised by the LDCs' demand for freer access for their export of semimanufactures to developed countries are discussed. The issues are categorized into the topics of nontariff trade barriers, surveillance...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP130Date: January 31, 1979Author:
LAL, D.
The approaches and concepts associated with the measurement of development efforts in developing countries are reviewed. These efforts have generally focused on the growth of GNP per capita and related...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP104Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Hicks,Norman L. ;
Streeten,Paul P.
This paper reviews the experience of the Quinault Indians, who have made substantial progress in monitoring the development of a 77,000 hectare reservation with the help of a minicomputer. There is a growing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN134Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Deboeck, Guido ;
AGR
The pricing and investment rules appropriate to a unified transportation trust fund (UTTF) are described. It is possible to envisage a UTTF that would collect revenues that broadly reflect economic user...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP145Date: January 31, 1979Author:
ROTH, G.
Data concerning the relationship between demographic factors and income distribution are reviewed. Application of the Kuznets curve to the data, as well as to fertility information, suggests that the inequility...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP129Date: January 31, 1979Author:
Visaria,Pravin
This news release, dated January 18, 1979, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan affiliate of the World Bank, approved a 20.5 million dollars credit for a project to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157377Date: January 18, 1979
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