The Latin American depression : it hit the poor hard. The right and wrong address : how residence affects income in Bogota. Sites and services and subsidies : the economics of low-cost housing. How not...
China's budding markets : how the big industrial enterprises are responding-or not. Total factor productivity : its growth varies widely, for good and bad reasons. Making textiles more competitively :...
Liberalizing trade bank research on the hows and whats. Trade barriers : who does what to whom. Restraining a country's steel exports : it costs the restrainers. Stabilizing national food supplies through...
What can be done in Africa. Is education really important. Mechanization is slow in Africa. Urban labor markets work. Exchange rates matter.
Measuring people's well-being : to build a solid base for policy. Financial crisis in the southern cone : what went wrong and why. China's industrial reforms : some sweeping changes. What PCs add to surveys...
Research during Fiscal 1985 : a distinct slant toward policy. The best school investments : more on quality and more on rural areas, at least in Brazil. Global crowding out : who's shoving whom on international...
In this issue : main article, The city study : strengthening the developing metropolis, by Rakesh Mahan. Completed research : social account and development models. Programming and designing investment...
In this issue : main article: Measuring levels of living: the contribution of World Bank research by Christiaan Grootaert and Dennis De Tray. Completed research: Standards of rural electrification. A framework...
In this issue : main article: Urban finances in developing countries, research and findings, by Roy W. Bahl and Johannes Linn. Completed research: Appropriate industrial technology (phase I and II). Determinants...
In this issue: Feature article: World Bank research on adjustment to external shocks; by Pradeep K. Mitra. Completed research: Linkage of commodity and country models. Improved technology for animal-powered...
In this issue: Feature article: Affordable shelter and urban development: 1972-82; by Douglas Keare. Completed research: Natural resources and planning: issues in trade and investment. Analytics of change...
Contents: Feature article - Education al research at the World Bank. Completed research - Evaluation of Latin American data on income distribution. Evaluation of Asian data in income distribution. Labor...
In this issue: Feature article-World Bank Research on the Hunger Dimension of the Food Problem; by Shlomo Reutlinger. Completed Research: Rural Development in China. Marketing manufactured exports: Clothing...
In this issue: Feature article: Price intervention analysis in agriculture; by Vinod Thomas and Deepak Bhattasali. Completed research: Narangwal population and nutrition project. New research: Pricing...
In this issue: Feature article: World Bank research in water supply and sanitation. Completed research: Socioeconomic aspects of fertility behavior in rural Botswana. Prototype country models. Food deficits...
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...
In this issue: Feature article: World Bank research on population problems, by Susan S. Cochrane. Completed research: Development strategies in semi-industrial countries. A model of Zambian agriculture...
In this issue: Feature Article: World Bank research in electric power, by Mohan Munasinghe. Completed research: Labor migration and manpower in the Middle East and North Africa. The agricultural economy...
In this issue: Feature Article: An overview of World Bank research on urban land measures, by Rachel Weaving. Completed research: Land reform in Latin America. New research and applications: Development...
In this issue: Feature Article: The World Bank's research program: how operationally relevant is it? by Gobind Nankani. Completed research: Distributive impact of public expenditures. Commercial Bank behavior...