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...
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...
Each issue of this newsletter includes
the following sections: Leadership Forum, Featured Reading,
Event, Bulletin Board, Archives and information on
newsletter subscription....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Over the past five years there has been
a veritable explosion of technology and consumerism in
India, but this has occurred largely in urban and middle
class communities....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36231Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Hay, Keith A.J.
Promoting access and effective use of
ICTs in rural and isolated areas is decisive for economic
and social development, poverty reduction and achievement of
the Millennium...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36233Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Navas-Sabater, Juan
When China's payments system --
arguably the world's most modern -- is fully
operational, it may make that nation the world's most
financially competitive. China's payments...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38947Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Keppler,Robert
A recent cross-country study published
by the World Bank answers the important question about the
linkage between financial flows and poverty reduction. It
finds robust...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38948Date: June 1, 2005Author:
Beck,Thorsten ;
Demirguc-Kunt,Asli
In principle, trade preferences can
assist development if they provide temporary margins of
preference to enable industries to adjust and compete more
effectively in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33126Date: May 16, 2005Author:
Brenton,Paul ;
Izezuki, Takako
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: Wolfowitz to be
new Bank President; global development finance 2005; events;
development...
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