This document summarizes the proceedings of the Africa Infrastructure Symposium sponsored by the Africa Region Infrastructure Group Team. The Symposium gave staff an opportunity to address three main areas;...
No discussion of applied ecology in the service of economic development can be complete without a segment on agricultural pest management. This is a field which epitomizes the application, or frequently...
Increasing the growth and efficiency of the agricultural and rural sectors of the developing countries is of prime concern to the international community. The large quantities of scarce resources, both...
Increasing the growth and efficiency of the agricultural and rural sectors of the developing countries is of prime concern to the international community. The large quantities of scarce resources, both...
As an integral part of its appraisal, and supervision function, the Bank is required to evaluate the adequacy, and effectiveness of pollution control measures, for projects involving industrial operations...
In the last decade there has been increasing interest in aiding the economies of developing countries by expanding local processing of primary products. This report presents the findings of a joint research...
In the last decade there has been increasing interest in aiding the economies of developing countries by expanding local processing of primary products. This report presents the findings of a joint research...
The central message of this book is that the World Bank has had a substantial impact on the development and diffusion of technology in the Third World, and has become one of the main technological institutions...
Argentina is among the most important oil-producing countries, but as a result of discontinuous and uncoordinated evolution of the petroleum industry, the body of technical knowledge about its oil and...
This paper outlines the theoretical structure and empirical implementation of a real trade general equilibrium model of a small open economy incorporating some features associated with the 'industrial...
This paper restates some of the considerations on which, satisfactory design and execution of project construction components depend. The report presents: project management arrangements; construction...
A primary aims of a tracer system should be to measure the following: whether this is the work which was explicitly intended by the curriculum content of schooling or training; what use they make of further...
Efficient transport is a key factor in economic, social and political development. It is the cutting edge of economic activity in areas being opened up for settlement. Once established, it requires constant...
Increasing the growth and efficiency of the agricultural and rural sectors of the developing countries is of prime concern to the international community. The large quantities of scarce resources, both...
This report consists of a collection of appendices related to the experiment to establish correlation and standard calibration methods for road roughness measurements. Appendix A describes the various...
Most theoretical analysis of alternative trade restrictions have looked at the effects on the country imposing the restrictions. Here the emphasis is on the effects of exporting countries of trade restrictions...
The general issues examined in this report is the extent to which transport services that should complement investments in rural roads can be presumed to materialize and satisfy movement demands efficiently...
This memo gives out general instructions for doing calculations on comparative indicators in education.
This paper intends to describe the main features of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and to discuss its uses and limitations for making decisions about development projects and programs. CBA is a quantitative...