This Note is prepared by the World Bank Colombo Office to review the trends of some of the key indicators which have an impact on the financial sector performance. The main indicators identified in the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36038Date: January 1, 2003
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: introduction; funding source; activity size; geographical focus; sectoral...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41716Date: January 1, 2003
Contents: The great Euro debate. Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest: the least expensive cities in Eastern Europe. China's reform focuses on streamlining government. Revisiting good and bad globalizers. World...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 28424Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Bems, Rudolfs ;
Chowdhury, Abdur ;
Dempsey, James X. ;
Denisova,Irina ;
Enthoven,Adolf J. H. ;
Fulin, Chi ;
Kekic, Laza ;
Krassilchtchikov, Victor ;
Lehrer,David Craig ;
Milanovic,Branko L. ;
Misnikov, Yuri ;
Scacco, Alexandra ;
Slinko, Irina ;
Verbina, Inna ;
Volchkova, Natalya ;
Walton, Richard ;
Yakovlev, Yevgeny ;
Zamulin,Oleg A. ;
Zanini,Gianni ;
Zhuravskaya,Ekaterina
In this issue: Part I: The Second GEF Assembly: A brief note. New focal areas. Side events. Part II: Reports from countries: Bangladesh - country dialogue. Workshops: a vehicle for capacity building....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37617Date: January 1, 2003
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: introduction; funding source; activity size; geographical focus; sectoral...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41716Date: January 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: A review of infrastructure...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36348Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Müller-Jentsch, Daniel ;
Capannelli,Elisabetta
This issue focuses on the lessons learned by protected area project managers, both within and outside the World Bank, regarding the issues related to incentives for participatory conservation. Participatory...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 35235Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Diamond, Nancy K. ;
Platais,Gunars H.
"India has reduced poverty but needs faster reform," An interview with the World Bank's new Country Director for India. Trade an important tool for poverty reduction, says Chief Economist. News and events....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33465Date: January 1, 2003
This Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region poverty team newsletter includes some of the following headlines: first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) forum for the Balkans; third PRSP forum for Seventh...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 49197Date: January 1, 2003
Southeast Europe enterprise development (SEED) highlights of Q3 FY03: Lili sh.p.k. International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) conditions of contract for construction. Municipalities take...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37495Date: January 1, 2003
In response to shrinking budgets and growing demands, many developing countries have adopted formal or informal user fees in government health facilities. While they raise revenue, in the absence of special...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33359Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Bitran Dicowsky,Ricardo A. ;
Giedion,Ursula
Contents: Overcoming institutional barriers in China. China removes barriers for private firms. China becoming a manufacturing powerhouse. Wolfensohn and Putin praise relations. The great divide and beyond:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 25208Date: December 31, 2002Author:
Hirschler, Richard [editor] ;
Chi Fulin ;
Berglof, E
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Social Fund Project aims to foster lasting development in ARMM by reducing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 25553Date: December 31, 2002Author:
Gonzales,Leonora Aquino
This Lebanon quarterly update includes the following headings: impact of the war to be variable across region; toward a more demand driven system of vocational and technical education in Lebanon; bank...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26584Date: December 31, 2002
The newsletter discusses activities organized by the Bank's Cairo Office during the last quarter of 2002. Contents include: Launching of Egypt Development Market Place, aimed at engaging organizations...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37109Date: December 30, 2002Author:
Ayub, Mahmood [editor] ;
Haddad, Sami [editor]
This is the 11th issue of a quarterly economic monitoring report on Yemen. The report consists of four sections. The first section highlights key political, and major economic and policy developments....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33561Date: December 1, 2002Author:
Al-Sabbry,Mohammed Mohammed ;
Handal,Maria A. ;
Mohammed,Nadir
Contents : New amendments of the regulations and rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Membership news. Disputes before the Centre. New designations to the ICSID Panels...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33321Date: December 1, 2002Author:
Brinar, Robert ;
Parra,Antonio R.
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the West Bank and Gaza office. This issue features: Long-term policy options for the Palestinian economy. The recently released World Bank study, "Long-term...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26336Date: December 1, 2002
In this issue: CGIAR annual general meeting. Challenge programs launched. New members expand CGIAR alliance. Fish for all initiative. First Robert McNamara seminar held in Tokyo. Private sector support...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33140Date: December 1, 2002
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