Best wishes for a happy Khmer New Year 2006: women leaders gather to discuss their challenges, strengthen their networks, and have some fun. Making poverty history in Asia by the year 2015.
This China Project and Development Facility (CPDF) newsflash includes: recent business highlights -- IFC approves funding for Extension beyond Sichuan; Lars Thunell officially launches Private Enterprise...
Especially in Africa and Central Asia, cotton is an important cash crop. It is receiving attention of late because four poor cotton-exporting West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali)...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 35929Date: March 30, 2006Author:
Anderson,Kym ;
Valenzuela,Ernesto
Limiting trade-distorting domestic support to farmers, and phasing out agricultural export subsidies are important and necessary disciplines. However, the potential income gains from abolishing these measures...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 35115Date: March 21, 2006Author:
Anderson,Kym ;
Martin, Will ;
Valenzuela,Ernesto
Message from the Chairman and Director. Announcements. News and views from the Alliance chairs. Promises made and kept: an interview with Dr. Marilyn Warburton. Business unusual. Transforming the...
T he World Bank's Board of Executive Directors discussed on 10 January 2006 the new Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Albania. The new CAS - the fourth CAS the World Bank Group has produced for Albania...
The newsletter describes the index-based livestock insurance program in Mongolia designed in the context of a World Bank lending operation with the Government of Mongolia. It goes on in describing a livestock...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38956Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Mahul,Olivier ;
Skees,Jerry R.
In this issue: Latest News. Pledges, Commitments and Deposits. Status of ITF-Financed Projects. ITF Sources and Uses of Funds. Use of Future Deposits. Focus On: Building and Rehabilitating schools in Iraq.
Youth outcomes are directly affected by a range of risk and protective factors. If properly identified, these factors can be used as a signal for policy interventions to increase the likelihood of a positive...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37269Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Blum, Robert ;
Mcginnis,Linda
Highlight of challenging development events. Key World Bank Group releases of the month. Understanding IDA - the World Bank body that deals with the poorest countries. Summary of key country events...
This newsletter highlights some of the many policies, programs, and initiatives of the World Bank (WB) which may involve or be of interest to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). This includes: spring meetings...
In this issue: Highlights of November Council Meeting. Focal Point News. Country Dialogue News. Focal Area News. GEF-NGO Network News. News from the GEF Office of Monitoring and Evaluation. News from...
In this issue: Highlights of November Council Meeting. GEF Chairman and CEO to Retire. Achim Steiner Elected New UNEP Executive Director. GEF Resource Allocation Framework. Focal Point News. Focal Area...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Public Private partnership (PPP) for handwashing newsletter are as follows: updates from ongoing programs; new handwashing programs; publication and research:...
Each issue of this newsletter includes the following sections: Leadership Forum, Featured Reading, Event, Bulletin Board, Archives and information on newsletter subscription. The paper featured in the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 121259Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Langenbrunner,John C.
This briefing covers oil imports and their affect on tax revenue. Because revenues are highly dependent on a combination of the price and demand for oil in Kosovo, the changeable nature of both these elements...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39399Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Bush,Neil Richard ;
Ahmeti,Shpend ;
Intini,Vito
Some of the headings included in this newsletter of the World Bank in India are: Kerala Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Project; development dialogue: bringing Orissa out of poverty; events;...
Yemen Economic Update is a quarterly report that consists of five sections. The first section highlights major economic and policy developments. The second section provides a special topic on the Yemeni...
Businesses are hit hard by HIV/AIDS, but they are also in a unique position to help fight back. The private sector interacts with most HIV infected people in a country-directly in employment relations...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36469Date: March 1, 2006Author:
Atacik,Mehmet Can ;
Gehna, Kebour ;
Jarvis,Michael
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