The ESSD Advisory Service handles 300 quries a month. Safeguard policies Help Desk and CDD Help Desk launched in the ESSD Advisory Service. Upcoming World Bank Environment Week. Update on the World Bank's...
The Community Empowerment and Local Governance Project supports the creation of democratically elected village development councils in order to build accountable and participatory local institutions. Through...
This issue is about the struggle to bring gender into the mainstream of development work. Although it seems an obvious dynamic, women and, in particular, their economic and political potential, rarely...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22880Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Dell, Jerri ;
McNeil, Mary [editors] ;
Mason, Andrew
E-government: what is at stake for the developing world. E-government: lessons we can learn from developing countries. Third Global Forum on e-government. Striving for excellence in e-government. E-government...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24736Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Scaramuzzi, Elena [editor]
For over 10 years, the Metropolitan Environmental Improvement Program (MEIP) worked with communities in Asia to find innovative solutions to urban environmental problems. A participatory process to build...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24027Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Gill,Kirrin K.
Closing the gap; by Lotte Lund. Thailand after the crisis; by Lotte Lund. Toil, sweat, and trade : what can be done to improve working conditions in developing countries?; by Amy Luinstra. Decent work...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23009Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Lund, Lotte [editor]
Knowledge and learning in the 21st century. Update on distance learning. Poverty forum shares best practice in Europe and Central Asia. Online debate on globalization and poverty. New initiatives.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22353Date: March 31, 2001
Managing World Bank operations in the Balkan hot spot - interview with Country Director Christiaan J. Poortman. The virtual economy and economic recovery in Russia; by Clifford G. Gaddy and Barry W. Ickes....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22173Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Hirschler,Richard ;
Poortman,Christiaan J. ;
Gaddy, Clifford G. ;
Ickes, Barry W. ;
Steinbuka, Inna ;
Wolfensohn,James D. ;
Barbaroise, Arcadie ;
Chi Fulin ;
Manhua, Zhao ;
Braunwieser,Birgit ;
Wolfe, Richar ;
Glinka, Gleb ;
Berglof,John Erik Anshelm ;
Roland,Gerard ;
Brown, J. David ;
Earle,John Sutherland ;
Davey,Kenneth J. ;
Gaspar, Matyas ;
Laurila,Veikko Juhani ;
Vetlov, Igor
Moving in, moving on. SHARE pays dividends; by Patricia Overend. Competition, compassion, and confidence - three keys to Scotland's success; by Henry McLeish, and Gerry Rice. Present at the unraveling...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22258Date: March 31, 2001Author:
Overend,Patricia M. ;
Mcleish, Henry ;
Rice, Gerry ;
Kim,Yongbeom ;
Woicke,Peter Lutz ;
Wright, Rob ;
Moline,Ann ;
Millett,Karin C. ;
Goepfert,Peter ;
Salome,Bernard M. ;
Eyre, Dana ;
Ruhl,Onno ;
Squire,Lyn ;
Kinley,David H. ;
Fretwell,David Herbert ;
Little, Rick ;
Waugh, John ;
Nishimura,Ikuo ;
Fitz Gerald, Maurice ;
Sierra, Kathy
This report updates the activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET), established by the World Bank's Board of Governors following the December 1999 Tokyo Donors' Meeting. It gives a financial status...
The World Bank has done some work on cultural heritage in Indonesia. Much of the direct support to arts and culture organizations to date has come from the Small Grants Program (SGP). Projects supported...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 31329Date: March 1, 2001Author:
Wetterberg,Anna Maria
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are widely credited with generating the highest rates of revenue and employment growth in virtually all economies. In transition and developing countries open...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 34372Date: March 1, 2001Author:
van der Vaart, Bert
This is the fourth 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#: 33554Date: March 1, 2001Author:
Al-Sabbry,Mohammed Mohammed ;
Mohammed,Nadir
Innovative initiative : promoting healthy competition - villages in Maharashtra compete to be the cleanest in the state. Editorial; by Anil Kumar. News briefs : from shared vision to action; workshop on...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23602Date: February 28, 2001Author:
Kumar,Anil ;
Devaki, Shrimati K.
This monthly report updates the activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET), established by the World Bank's Board of Governors following the December 1999 Tokyo Donors' Meeting. The contents include:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39269Date: February 9, 2001
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the West Bank and Gaza office. This issue features: Trade options for the Palestinian economy. The note quantitatively assesses different options for the future...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22518Date: February 1, 2001
Changing course: an interview with IFC's Assaad Jabre. SME Department online. MeetVietnam.com: E-marketplace to increase business for Vietnamese SMEs, by John Mckenzie. New facility seeks innovative projects....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21624Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Mckenzie,John ;
Brinsden,John ;
Miller,Christopher ;
James, John
World Bank's Ukraine team on unchartered territories - learning from past mistakes: interview with Country Director Luca Barbone. Voices of the people: comments on the Bank's country assistance strategy...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21812Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Barbone,Luca ;
Siner, Martin ;
Stern,Jon ;
Chi Fulin ;
Balaj,Barbara Sue ;
Lizal,Lubomir ;
Singer, Miroslav ;
Svejnar,Jan ;
Sabirianova, Klara ;
Gupta, Nadini ;
Ham,John C. ;
Horvath,Tamas M. ;
Peteri,Gabor ;
Gassmann,Franziska
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