This Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region poverty team newsletter includes some of the following headlines: scaling up poverty reduction - Shanghai conference; advancing the Roma initiative; bridging the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 49200Date: October 1, 2003
This newsletter provides information on PPI-related news in the Maghreb and Mashrek regions on telecommunications, energy, water and sanitation, transport. It includes the article: Regulation of E-Commerce...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36354Date: October 1, 2003Author:
Ghoneim,Ahmed Farouk Hamed
Export subsidies, like import taxes, highly distort trade. Consequently, the WTO should act vigorously to achieve their phaseout. Commitments in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) on export...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 31911Date: September 10, 2003Author:
Ingco,Merlinda Dador ;
Ruiz, Lilian ;
De Gorter,Harry
Cotton is an example where rich countries trade policy negates the otherwise positive effects of their development policies. Even though its share in world trade is small, cotton is important to developing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 32096Date: September 10, 2003Author:
Baffes,John
The conversion of all non-tariff measures into bound tariffs with reduction commitments and the introduction of minimum access commitments in the form of import quotas (as a share of domestic consumption)...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26924Date: September 10, 2003Author:
De Gorter,Harry ;
Ingco,Merlinda Dador ;
Ignacio,Laura ;
Hranaiova,Jana
Much of the public discourse on the Doha Development Agenda has focused on trade in goods, particularly protectionist policies in agriculture. The negotiations on trade in services have received surprisingly...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 32097Date: September 10, 2003Author:
Mattoo,Aaditya
Beginning in the 1980s, but especially during the 1990s, Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries launched trade policy reforms that remain controversial partly due to the mixed overall economic performance...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 32095Date: September 10, 2003Author:
Perry,Guillermo ;
Suescun,Rodrigo De Jesus ;
De Ferranti,David ;
Lederman,Daniel
This newsletter provides information on PPI-related news in the Maghreb and Mashrek regions on telecommunications, energy, water and sanitation, transport. It includes the article: Telecommunications reform...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36353Date: September 1, 2003Author:
Capannelli,Elisabetta
The newsletter discusses activities organized by the Bank's Cairo Office during the fourth quarter of 2003. Contents include: New world development report launch; Annual meetings in Dubai; Ongoing projects;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38594Date: September 1, 2003
A new scenario is rising in Latin America: that of increasing indigenous governance. One decade after the emergence of the region's indigenous peoples, the traditional political order of power is facing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 42049Date: September 1, 2003
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Lebanon Country Office. This issue features: Editorial: Moving together on the portfolio. Privatization - From panacea to preconditions. Bank Group operations....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 34604Date: September 1, 2003Author:
Bou Habib,Chadi ;
Dessus,Sebastien C. ;
El Khalil,Zeina ;
Razzaz,Omar Ahmad Munif ;
Saba,Joseph P. ;
Zacchia,Paolo B.
This is a quarterly economic monitoring report on Yemen. The report consists of five sections. The first section highlights key political, and major economic and policy developments. The second section...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33564Date: September 1, 2003Author:
Mohammed,Nadir ;
Handal, Maria
Government, NGOs, and communities are discussing ways to make sure that eco-tourism in Virachay National Park will benefit local communities as well as the rest of the country, while protecting the park's...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26874Date: September 1, 2003
The road to prosperity : saving capitalism from capitalists; by Raghuram G. Rajan, and Luigi Zingales. Investment climate in China : a tale of five cities; by David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anqing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 27280Date: September 1, 2003Author:
Rajan,Raghuram Govind ;
Zingales,Luigi G. ;
Dollar,David R. ;
Hallward-Driemeier,Mary C. ;
Shi,Anqing ;
Wallsten,Scott ;
Wang,Shuilin ;
Xu, Lixin Colin ;
Halpern, Laszlo ;
Reznik, Bruce A. ;
Enthoven,Adolf J. H. ;
Zeng,Zhihua ;
Guriev,Sergei M. ;
Yudaeva,Ksenia ;
Ringold,Dena ;
Wood, Barry D.
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: In this edition: World Bank Contacts; World Bank Training on Public Expenditure Analysis and Management; Recent...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37119Date: September 1, 2003
Contents: Fiscal and budgetary developments in 2003. UNSCO closure update, October 2, 2003. Recent economic developments. West Bank and Gaza portfolio. Recent middle East and North Africa publications....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 43620Date: September 1, 2003
This note summarizes key findings of the 2002 Project Performance Report (PPR). The PPR is to a large extent based on GEF's Project Implementation Review (PIR), which is carried out annually by the GEF...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 34120Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
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