• Priorities of developing countries in weather and climate
    The state of the art and the potential of climatology, weather forecasting, weather modification, and long-term trends in the earth's climate are discussed. Applied climatology should have the highest...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP115 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: SAH, R.
  • Industrialization and employment : the role of small- and medium-sized manufacturing firms
    The potential contribution of small-sized manufacturing units to the creation of new employment is analyzed. When considering the employment consequences of industrial development, the investment per job...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP116 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: DE VRIES, B.
  • Choice technology : criteria, search, and interdependence
    The issues underlying the choice of technology for LDCs are discussed: those concerning the establishment of the criterion to use to select one technique from among alternatives; those involving the acquisition...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP103 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: RHEE, Y. ; WESTPHAL, L.
  • Mexico - The PIDER Rural Development Project
    This case study is designed to serve as the basis for seminar discussion, rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a project. The Investment Program for Rural Development in...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN179 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: AGR ; Sachdeva, Pammi
  • Optimal price intervention policies when production is risky - chapter 19
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN151 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Hazell, Peter B.R. ; Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
  • Economics and the design of small-farmer technology : chapter 8 - implications of sharecropping for technology design in Northeast Brazil
    This is chapter 8, entitled Implications of Sharecropping for Technology Design in Northeast Brazil, from the publication entitled Economics and the Design of Small-Farmer Technology. The chapter analyzes...
    Type: Publication Report#: UNN92 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Dillon, John L ; Scandizzo, Pasquale L. ; Scobie, Grant M. [editor] ; Valdes, Alberto [editor]
  • An econometric model of the world rubber economy
    An econometric model of the world market for natural rubber is presented. The behavioral equations of the model can be grouped into three major blocks: supply, demand for all elastomers, and demand for...
    Type: Commodity Working Paper Report#: SCP3 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Grilli, Enzo ; Helterline, Ray ; Pollak, Peter
  • Economic forces underlying urban decentralization trends : a structural model for density gradients applied to Korea
    The rapid pace of urbanization is discussed, with reference to the structure of cities in developing countries, and the pressures of increasing population, rising incomes, and shifting factor prices. The...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP107 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Follain, Jean-Luc ; Lim, G. ; Renaud, Bertrand M.
  • Implications of sharecropping for technology design in Northeast Brazil
    The purpose of this chapter is to analyze some effects of the economic dependence between sharecroppers and landlords on technological progress in Northeast Brazil. The model takes into account risk and...
    Type: Publication Report#: UNN189 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: DRC ; Scandizzo, Pasquale L.
  • Address to the fifth ministerial meeting of the World Food Council
    Type: Working Paper Report#: UNN98 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Yudelman, Montague
  • Latin America : food and rural development
    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 Paper Report#: UNN109 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Yudelman, Montague
  • Growth vs. basic needs : is there a trade-off?
    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 Article Report#: REP139 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Hicks, Norman L.
  • An econometric application of the theory of the farm-household
    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...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: REP109 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Barnum, Howard Nelch ; DEDER ; Squire, Lyn
  • Economic criteria for optimizing power system reliability levels
    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 Article Report#: REP112 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: GELLERSON, M. ; MUNASINGHE, M.
  • Financial institutions and technology policy
    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#: SDF54 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Bhatt, Vinayak V.
  • Growth and poverty in developing countries
    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 Article Report#: REP118 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: AHLUWALIA, M. ; CARTER, N. ; CHENERY, H.
  • Mobilizing technology for world development
    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: Publication Report#: UNN251 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Ramesh, Jairam ; Weiss, Charles Jr. [editors]
  • The cost of sample survey designs
    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 Article Report#: REP151 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Humphreys, C.
  • The behavior of a dual economy under different "closing rules"
    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 Report Report#: REP123 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: BELL, C.
  • Indian export incentives
    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 Article Report#: REP105 Date: January 31, 1979 Author: Lal, Deepak K.
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