It is well known that there is a strong relationship between urbanization and economic development in many countries of the world. Urbanization provides many benefits to the economy, such as efficient...
This paper presents estimates of housing demand equation parameters separately for owners and renters in Bogota and Cali, Colombia in 1978, and for Bogota renters only in 1972. The demand estimation procedure...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate three related issues concerning the urban land market in Bogota, Colombia. First, an attempt is made to quantify the extent to which land unit prices vary in...
This volume deals with issues of the design and preparation of evaluation survey data for computer analysis. It is common to find that after great care and expense has been invested in the collection of...
The purpose of this volume is to present a functional design for a basic evaluation system (BAS) which will provide a simple and easily understandable tool to help improve the efficiency of project implementation...
The purpose of this volume is to counteract a tendency to equate evaluation research with the use of sophisticated sample survey techniques and the application of complex, structured questionnaires. While...
The present volume is intended for researchers in developing countries who are involved in the design and interpretation of studies whose objective is to evaluate the impact of urban shelter projects...
The paper discusses how two factors lead to an unwillingness of financial institutions to finance small-scale industry and agriculture in developing countries: (a) controls on interest rates, and (b) the...
This volume is intended as a handbook for project managers on how to plan and implement an evaluation system which not only will be economical and simple to implement without requiring a highly specialized...
Pollution control, once considered a luxury in LDCs, has become a necessity in large metropolitan areas. The effectiveness of different forms of pollution control is not clear. This paper examines the...
The paper surveys fourteen experiments and special projects in health, nutrition, and family planning in India. They fall into three broad categories--research projects, pilot projects, and service projects...
The main theme of this paper is the systematic exploration of the interrelated difficulties of rural credit and insurance markets. The difficulties are traced to an identical set of information, incentives...
This paper first examines the changing size distribution of industry in developing countries by region and over time, and, by reference to firm-level surveys, it discusses the underlying causes. The importance...
This paper describes the sampling strategy of the establishment survey conducted in Bogota to study the determinants of manufacturing employment location, and reports descriptive findings based on the...
The focus on the hunger dimension of the food problem has led researchers in the World Bank to look increasingly at the link between hunger and poverty. In this regard, there is a clear symmetry between...
This paper concentrates on advances which have relevance for the controversy about relative roles of risk aversion and credit constraints in limiting farmers' investment levels, especially for purchased...
This paper is part of a series of papers produced on small-scale enterprise development. This paper surveys the development of the Indian textile industry and its three sectors: the handloom industry...
Bogota and Cali are cities of considerable size populated by households which have fairly high incomes by the standards of the developing world. Residences are more concentrated in particular macro-zones...
A survey of powerlooms and handlooms was conducted in the provincial town of Mau, in Easter Uttar Pradesh, which is essentially a center of production and trade in textiles. There are a large number of...
A behavioral measure of travel accessibility is derived for Bogota. It uses multinomial logit estimation techniques and describes an individual traveler's perception of his or her travel potential as defined...