The main report analyzes economic developments in the EU8 in the first half of 2005. In an addendum to the main report, we take stock of performance after one year in the EU-with the retrospective extending...
Despite more than 25 years of large financial investments and technical assistance programs, access to financial services in rural markets has not expanded at the massive scale and on the financially sustainable...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38950Date: July 1, 2005Author:
Gallardo,Joselito ;
Goldberg,Michael J. ;
Randhawa,Bikki
The newsletter discusses activities at the Bank's Cairo Offices during the first quarter of 2005. Contents include: New Bank president assumes leadership. Wolfowitz's statement following his appointment....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37112Date: June 30, 2005Author:
El Kouesny, Nehal [editor] ;
El Naggar, Dina [editor]
Almost two-thirds of the economic gains that would come from dismantling all merchandise trade barriers and farm subsidies globally would come from agriculture. Developing countries are therefore right...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33128Date: June 27, 2005Author:
Anderson,Kym ;
Martin, Will
The first 20 completed WTO accessions have raised systemic concerns that ought to be of interest to existing WTO members as well as to applicants. The first concern is that the growing price of WTO accession,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33127Date: June 6, 2005Author:
Evenett,Simon J. ;
Braga,Carlos Alberto Primo
Contents: Tertiary Education Project in the West Bank and Gaza. The humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt): year in review 2004. Recent economic developments. WBG: the economy...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33539Date: June 5, 2005Author:
Koussa, Mary [editor]
In this issue: Fast Track Initiative (FTI) in the news; G8 finance ministers agree to cancel debt of 18 low-income countries; FTI Catalytic Fund update; FTI working groups update; United States Agency...
World Bank grants $10 million for the Cambodia Trade Facilitation and Competitiveness Project. Merit-based pay for civil servants to spur work on reforms. World Bank's new Public Information Center opens.
Each issue of this newsletter includes the following sections: Leadership Forum, Featured Reading, Event, Bulletin Board, Archives and information on newsletter subscription. The featured reading in this...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 121251Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Southby, Richard F.
The civil society engagement eNewsletter includes the following issues: World Bank (WB) President visits Africa, meets with communities and local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs); rolling back malaria:...
This note reviews the trends of some of the key indicators which have an impact on the financial sector performance. The main indicators identified are: 1) banking sector performance in terms assets, deposits,...
This fifth edition contains: new and upcoming publications; trade notes series; new policy research working papers of interest; announcements; and for the record.
IFC's strategies in Romania have tracked the trajectory of the country's progress from socialism to the free market and European Union (EU) candidacy, all within the past decade. Until the late 1990s,...
IFC's frontier country strategy, which was adopted in 1998, has been successful in steering IFC's resources toward high-risk and, or, low-income countries where IFC's additionality is greatest. Historically,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 32871Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Burke,Nicholas James
This note reviews the trends of key indicators which have an impact on the financial sector performance. The main indicators identified in the note are: 1) banking sector performance in terms assets, deposits,...
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