This report first presents a summary review of the current status of natural gas resource availability in developing countries. The potential for utilization of indigenous resources to meet the country's...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN353Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Joyce, Thomas J
The changing pattern of comparative advantage in the process of economic development is analyzed insofar as it relates to exports of the LDCs. The empirical estimates show that intercountry differences...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP136Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Balassa,Bela
The domestic resource cost (DRC) of foreign exchange methodology is extended to evaluate education programs for purposes of indigenization. Application of the DRC approach to the Ivory Coast indicates...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP117Date: January 1, 1979Author:
MONSON, T. ;
PURSELL, G.
The standards of reliability of electricity supply have previously been determined on a rule-of-thumb basis. This paper presents a generalized simulation model for optimizing the reliability level by comparing...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP311Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan ;
Gellerson,Mark
During the last two decades there have been dramatic changes in the technology of shipping and in the associated technologies of ports. Substantial capital expenditures on vessels have been accompanied...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13369Date: January 1, 1979Author:
Bennathan, Esra ;
Walters, A. A.
The vast majority of the world's poorest live in rural areas. There is no simple solution to alleviating their living conditions, and any efforts made depend on both national and international commitment...
Type: PublicationReport#: UNN191Date: December 31, 1978Author:
Christoffersen,Leif E.
Production and import/export levels of grains are predicted for 1978/79. Production of wheat, coarse grains and milled rice is expected to increase by five percent despite a 12 percent drop in U.S. wheat...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CMN9Date: December 31, 1978Author:
Bale, Malcolm D. ;
Nowicki, Danuta
A mathematical analysis of the general priciples of production scheduling and pricing when a storage capability exists demonstrates that such a capability results in a restriction on the rate at which...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP89Date: December 31, 1978Author:
Pyatt,Frank Graham
This news release, dated December 21, 1978, announces oil at a lower cost will be made available in Pakistan as a result of a project to increase domestic production through expansion of output from the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157195Date: December 21, 1978
This Bank notes newsletter includes some of the following headings: new atlas to be published, by Margaret de Tchihatchef; Feminism can set men free, at the Bank, too, By Jerri Dell; jungle expedition...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59267Date: December 1, 1978Author:
De Tchihatchef, Margaret ;
Dell,Jerri ;
Pickering,Susan F.
Portugal's political and economic systems were radically transformed after the 1974 revolution. A substantial increase in consumption took place initially, but the population has had to accept stagnant...
Type: PublicationReport#: PUB2214Date: November 30, 1978
Telecommunication utilities operating efficiently on commercial lines are able to generate a very high proportion of investment funds for maintaining a high growth rate of telecommunication facilities...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN40Date: November 30, 1978Author:
Vasudevan,C. P.
This news release, dated November 13, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s affiliate for concessionary lending, approved a 190 million dollars credit for a...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157107Date: November 13, 1978
The most prominent characteristics of Thailand's urbanization pattern are a relatively low but steadily increasing level of urbanization, the overwhelming primacy of Bangkok and a comparatively small amount...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46021Date: November 1, 1978
This study presents a generalized simulation model for optimizing the reliability level by comparing the social benefits and costs of changes in power system reliability. This part of the report covers...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT18Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan ;
Scott, Walter
This paper gives a broad outline of the needs for and factors affecting the development of telecommunications in a developing country. It identifies certain of the special conditions which may be encountered...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: PUN32Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Dickenson,Cuthbert R.
This paper discusses the role of wood as a source of energy in the developing countries, in which upwards of 1.5 billion, or 37 percent of the world's population, still depend almost entirely on wood for...
Type: Working PaperReport#: UNN114Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Spears,John S.
This paper is the Final Report in a series that presented a generalized simulation model for optimizing the reliability level by comparing changes in power system reliability. It summarizes, then analyzes...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EWT19Date: October 31, 1978Author:
Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
This news release, dated October 12, 1978, announces the World Bank and its soft-loan affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), will lend 20 million dollars to Guyana to provide foreign...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157103Date: October 12, 1978
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, help finance motorized bicycle (moped) engine project in Turkey, which assists the integration...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151817Date: October 12, 1978
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