Documents et rapports
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Public policy, urbanization and development : an introduction to a computable general equilibrium simulation model of the Indian economy (anglais)
This paper presents an outline of the Becker-Mills-Williamson (BMW) model, which is being developed to simulate urban development in India in the context of general development of the national economy...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD22 Date du document: 30 juin 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: BECKER, C.,MILLS, E.,WILLIAMSON, J.,URB
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Progressive development and affordability in the design of urban shelter projects (anglais)
The primary objective of this paper is to examine the concept and determination of affordability as a design factor in urban housing projects utilizing progressive development approaches. It is intended...
Type de document: Document de travail des services de la Banque mondiale Numéro du rapport: SWP560 Date du document: 31 mai 1983 Auteur: Keare, D.,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,URB
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Outline of issues on urban financial management policy (anglais)
This paper represents a statement of principles and practices relating to the management of urban institutions that have been developed from various papers prepared on field missions. It generalizes the...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD24 Date du document: 31 mai 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: JONES, D.,URB
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A national and state analysis of the Indian Urban Development : RPO 672-64 interim summary report (anglais)
This interim summary report explains the objectives of the research project and summarizes each of the papers produced except those designed to develop a general equilibrium model of Indian urbanization...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD23 Date du document: 30 avril 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: MERA, K.,URB
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Indian government programs to city sizes (anglais)
This paper presents a description and evaluation of a variety of national government programs to control the size and growth rate of large Indian cities. Since the l950s, the Government of India has employed...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD3 Date du document: 28 février 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: MILLS, E.,BECKER, C.,URB
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Historical analysis of Indian urbanization (anglais)
This paper places India's twentieth century urban growth in the context of the country's economic development. After a brief historical survey of economic and urban growth during the present century, it...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD2 Date du document: 31 janvier 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: MILLS, E.,BECKER, C.,URB
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The relationship between urbanization and economic development (anglais)
This paper places urbanization in India in the context of the process, worldwide. It first surveys the pattern of urbanization in relation to economic development, employing both time series and cross-sectional...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD1 Date du document: 31 janvier 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: MILLS, E.,BECKER, C.,URB
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Urban economies of scale in Brazil (anglais)
Urban economies of scale are either caused by sector-specific, or localization, effects or by city size effects. If localization effects predominate, then these types of efficiencies suggest urban areas...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD17 Date du document: 30 novembre 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: HENDERSON, J.,URB
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A model of intraurban employment location : an application to Bogota, Colombia (anglais)
This report, which examines the location behaviour of manufacturing firms in urban areas, is part of a World Bank urban study project. A theoretical model of employment location is formulated and extended...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP249 Date du document: 30 novembre 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lee,Doyoung K.,URB
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Industrialization policy, fiscal incentives and extraregional establishments in Northeast Brazil : a characterization based on the SUDENE / BNB survey (anglais)
The most important non-rural development program in Brazil is an industrialization promotion effort which provides substantial income tax credits to industrial firms willing to invest in approved own or...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD16 Date du document: 30 novembre 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: REDWOOD, J.,URB
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Brazilian industrialization and economic concentration in Sao Paulo : a survey (anglais)
This paper examines the industrial and economic growth of Sao Paulo. Around 1900, Sao Paulo city and its hinterland belonged to a national economic archipelago: the region was one of a series of small...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD14 Date du document: 31 octobre 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: HAMER, A.,URB
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Sectoral policies and the spatial concentration of industrial activities : a factor-market adjustment approach (anglais)
In order to understand the connection between non-sectoral policies and industrial location better, a theoretical model linking macroeconomic policies to the spatial response of factor markets was developed...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD12 Date du document: 30 septembre 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: RUANE, F.,URB
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A nested logit model of travel mode to work and auto ownership (anglais)
Estimating the demand for urban passenger travel is very useful in transport planning. This study estimates a joint model of choice for both auto ownership and travel mode to work in Karachi, Pakistan...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD5 Date du document: 31 août 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Thobani, Mateen,URB
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A nested logit model of travel mode to work and auto ownership (anglais)
Estimating the demand for urban passenger travel is very useful in transport planning. This study estimates a joint model of choice for both auto ownership and travel mode to work in Karachi, Pakistan...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP307 Date du document: 31 août 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Thobani,Mateen,URB
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Urbanization patterns and industrial location in Sao Paulo State, Brazil : an Atlas (anglais)
This document is a collection of the maps developed by the National Spatial Policies in Brazil research project and the Cartography Division over an 18-month period. The nineteen computer generated maps...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD9 Date du document: 31 juillet 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: KEEN, D.,LUSCOMBE, B.,URB
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Sectoral influences on spatial changes in manufacturing : Sao Paulo State, Brazil, 1960-1975 (anglais)
Over the past twenty years the State of Sao Paulo in Brazil has undergone polarization reversal in the growth patterns of urban population. This reversal has been aided by a decentralization of manufacturing...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD15 Date du document: 30 avril 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: TOWNROE, P.,ROSEMAN, J.,URB
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The location of industry and pollution control policies : a case study of Sao Paulo, Brazil (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: UDD8 Date du document: 1 mars 1982 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: TOWNROE, P.,THOMAS, V.,URB
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Evaluation of sites and services projects : the evidence from El Salvador (espagnol)
This report presents the findings of a five-year evaluation of the First El Salvador Sites and Services Project. The Project, which began in 1974, was intended to provide 7,000 serviced plots to low income...
Type de document: Document de travail des services de la Banque mondiale Numéro du rapport: SWP549 Date du document: 31 janvier 1982 Auteur: BAMBERGER, M.,GONZALEZ-POLIO, E.,SAE-HAU, U.,URB
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Evaluation of sites and services projects : the experience from Lusaka, Zambia (anglais)
This report presents the findings of a five-year evaluation of the First Lusaka Upgrading and Sites and Services Project. The evaluation formed part of a four-country cooperative research project supported...
Type de document: Document de travail des services de la Banque mondiale Numéro du rapport: SWP548 Date du document: 31 janvier 1982 Auteur: BAMBERGER, M.,SANYAL, B.,VALVERDE, N.,URB
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Evaluation of shelter programs for the urban poor : principal findings (anglais)
The World Bank has been lending to support the development and improvement of shelter for the urban poor since 1972. The sites and services and area upgrading projects supported have followed a model of...
Type de document: Document de travail des services de la Banque mondiale Numéro du rapport: SWP547 Date du document: 31 janvier 1982 Auteur: KEARE, D.,PARRIS, S.,URB