This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: program councel news, technical advisory panel news, notable PPIAF products,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41723Date: December 31, 2004
The newsletter discusses activities organized by the Bank's Cairo Office during the last quarter of 2004. Contents include: World Bank president and Managing Director visit Egypt to discuss future cooperation...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37110Date: December 30, 2004Author:
El Kouesny, Nehal [editor] ;
El Naggar, Dina [editor]
This special issue of the ESMAP Connection surveys renewables activities, a field in which ESMAP has pioneered. The main focus on solar energy is intended to complement -not displace- the successful and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 34567Date: December 30, 2004
The World Bank's Board approved on November 30, 2004 a loan to the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), backed by a Government of India guarantee. The loan, which is the first Bank financial...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38847Date: December 1, 2004Author:
Basu,Priya
In order to determine the impact of many water and energy reforms, analysts need to elicit the preferences of users and their demand for the goods in question. When these goods are not routinely bought...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37480Date: December 1, 2004Author:
Devicienti,Francesco ;
Klytchnikova,Irina I. ;
Paternostro,Stefano
In this issue: Education for All - Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI) fourth partnership meeting Brasilia, Brazil; key highlights of partnership conclusions: full text of the co-chairs summary can be found...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 48538Date: December 1, 2004
Russian oligarchs : a quantitative assessment; by Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky. What do firms disclose and why? Enforcing corporate governance and transparency in Central and Eastern Europe; by Anete...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 32568Date: December 1, 2004Author:
Berglof,John Erik Anshelm ;
Browder,William F. ;
Chong-En Bai ;
Claessens, Stijn ;
Desai, Mihir ;
Goetzman, William ;
Guriev,Sergei M. ;
Gyarfasova, Olga ;
Iwasaki, Ichiro ;
Joe Lu ;
Junxi Zhang ;
Knot, Ondrej ;
Koren, Miklos ;
Linn,Johannes F. ;
Mitra,Pradeep K. ;
Moel, Alberto ;
Nikitin, Georgiy ;
Obloj, Krystof ;
Pajuste, Anete ;
Pittman,Russell W. ;
Pleskachevsky, Viktor ;
Qiao Liu ;
Rachinsky,Andrei ;
Rousso, Alan ;
Song, Frank M. ;
Vychodil, Ondrej ;
WEISS, ANDREW M.
In this issue: Interview with a donor: CIDA. Program launch. Program update: Georgia. The partnership's programming strategy. Impact on the ground: Magadam.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39531Date: December 1, 2004
Close attention has been paid since the mid-1980s, initially by central banks and then by other regulators and participants, to the design and operation of payments and securities settlement systems. This...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38848Date: December 1, 2004Author:
Cirasino, Maximo ;
Guadamillas,Mario
In the second half of the current year a number of important laws were adopted by the Albanian Assembly and several pivotal strategies and action plans were adopted by the Government of Albania (GoA)....
The civil society engagement eNewsletter includes the following headings: revised World Bank draft operational policy on indigenous peoples available for public comment; World Bank launches its conditionality...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 60547Date: December 1, 2004
In the early hours of August 1, 2004, the World Trade Organization General Council reached a decision on frameworks to continue with the multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 32110Date: November 5, 2004Author:
Braga,Carlos Alberto Primo
This ICSID (International Center for Settlement of Investment Dispute) News gives possible improvements of the framework; as well as membership news. In this issue: Disputes before the centre; ICSID and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33325Date: November 2, 2004Author:
Antonietti,Aurelia
Stagnation or revival? Israeli disengagement and Palestinian economic prospects. Four years Intifada, closures and Palestinian economic crisis. Infrastructure assessment in the West Bank and Gaza. Poverty...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 31305Date: November 1, 2004Author:
Koussa, Mary [editor] ;
Wetter, John [editor]
More than 93 billion dollars in remittances poured through formal channels into developing countries in 2003, and these cash flows have nearly quadrupled over the last seven years. While the explosion...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38846Date: November 1, 2004Author:
Taber,Lisa
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