The International Finance corporation (IFC) to invest in infrastructure fund in Africa. World Bank lending up in fiscal 1999. Road accidents : a global problem requiring a global response. Facilitating...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19763Date: September 30, 1999
This note reviews the outcomes of the First Highway Rehabilitation Project, and its resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) activities, with significant involuntary resettlement. Although the project was...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21273Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Rapp, Kenn ;
Agrawal,Pramod K.
Innovative initiatives : flush with loans : micro-credit for rural sanitation - a low-cost credit scheme for rural sanitation is turning out to be a path-breaker. Editorial; by Ajay Nayak. News briefs:...
From reconstruction to reconciliation; by Nat J. Colletta and Taies Nezam. The war and reconstruction in Sierra Leone; by Paul Richards. Macedonia: the hardships of a peaceful neighbor; by German Filkov....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23208Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Mcneil,Mary L. ;
Colletta,Nat J. ;
Nezam,Taies ;
Richards,Paul ;
Filkov, German ;
Kanbur,Ravi ;
Sandler,Todd ;
Morrison,Kevin M. ;
Collier,Paul ;
Dollar,David R. ;
Lancaster,Carol J. ;
Piot, Peter ;
Koro,Emmanuel ;
Ngunjiri, Philip ;
Paruwani, Agrippa
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: LOGOFIND: strengthening local government units. World Development Report launched. Global poverty issues discussed at...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23223Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Gonzales,Leonora Aquino
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: the comprehensive development framework: a compass, not a blueprint, for development; strategic compact: the road traveled; the Heavily...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57007Date: September 1, 1999Author:
Cambridge, Sarah E. ;
Floyd,Thomas Jerry ;
Gaeta,Anthony A. ;
George,Morallina Fanwar ;
Jackson,Vivian R. ;
Tufan,Kristin Lado ;
Ritchey,Steven ;
Wamey,Julius Mberiley ;
Yusuf,Shahid
Contents: Theory and practice: legal conflicts and leasing company practice; municipal transport and leasing; leasing Ford automobiles. Expert opinion: licensing leasing activities; leasing statistics....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39575Date: September 1, 1999
A changing development landscape : globalization and localization, by Shahid Yusuf. What went wrong with foreign advice in Ukraine?, by Vira Nanivska. How to better manage China's state owned enterprises:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20000Date: August 31, 1999Author:
Belkindas,Misha V. ;
Brown,Annette N. ;
Dinc,Mustafa ;
Hedlund, Stefan ;
Heleniak,Timothy E. ;
Hirschler, Richard [editor] ;
Ivanova, Olga ;
Johnson, Simon ;
Kaufmann,Daniel ;
Lidong Wu ;
McMillan, John ;
Nedolas, Sarah ;
Ninivska, Vira ;
Popova,Tatiana V. ;
Li,Weian ;
Woodruff,Christopher Marshall ;
Yashuang Zhang ;
Yeung, Bernard ;
Yusuf,Shahid
A changing development landscape : globalization and localization, by Shahid Yusuf. What went wrong with foreign advice in Ukraine?, by Vira Nanivska. How to better manage China's state owned enterprises?,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19677Date: August 31, 1999Author:
Belkindas,Misha V. ;
Brown,Annette N. ;
Dinc,Mustafa ;
Hedlund, Stefan ;
Heleniak,Timothy E. ;
Hirschler, Richard [editor] ;
Ivanova, Olga ;
Johnson, Simon ;
Kaufmann,Daniel ;
Lidong Wu ;
McMillan, John ;
Nanivska,Vira ;
Nedolas, Sarah ;
Popova,Tatiana V. ;
Li,Weian ;
Woodruff,Christopher Marshall ;
Yashuang Zhang ;
Yeung, Bernard ;
Yusuf,Shahid
Competitive research grant programs are increasingly used to finance agricultural research within loans supported by the World Bank. Under competitive grant programs (CGPs), research providers are selected...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21134Date: August 31, 1999Author:
Byerlee,Derek R. ;
Alex,Gary E.
Octroi was traditionally one of the major sources of revenue for urban local bodies in India, contributing between 50 to 90 percent of total tax revenues. However, during the past few years, the states...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23751Date: August 31, 1999
In rural areas, land is an essential productive asset and a means to sustain a livelihood. Access to land is important for household welfare, aggregate economic growth, and sustainable reduction of poverty....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20876Date: July 31, 1999Author:
Deininger, Klaus ;
Feder, Gershon
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: International Finance Corporation (IFC) investment in West Bank and Gaza on the rise : hotel and housing mortgage projects to spur...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57006Date: July 1, 1999Author:
Beatrice Dehasse,Joelle ;
Dorst,Stephen Michael ;
Floyd,Thomas Jerry ;
George,Morallina Fanwar ;
George-Alleyne,Ramatoulaye ;
Mook,Elizabeth ;
Vito,Jennifer ;
Sopher,Jamil ;
Stern, Richard
In this issue: Exchanging International Experience; by Anita Peltonen. Cuba's Urban Entrepreneurs. Leaving Soot and Slag Behind in Pittsburgh; by Nick Harrison. The Competitive City. Hands Across The Highway;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37249Date: July 1, 1999Author:
Annabel Biles, Nick Harrison, Claudia Conti
Theory and practice -- vendor guarantees : leasing practices of foreign and Russian vendors. Expert opinion -- equipment suppliers' participation in the leasing business. Small business -- ZAO Biont. Regions...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39574Date: July 1, 1999Author:
Gazman, Victor ;
Jones, Rick ;
Likhachova, Irina ;
Pisarenko,Andrei ;
Shishlyannikova, Olga
Interview with World bank President James D. Wolfensohn - The new development approach and the transition economies; editor (Richard Hischler). Situation of Russia's poor aggravates - World Bank proposes...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19581Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Hirschler,Richard ;
Rose,Richard ;
Conggan, Jiang ;
Liu,Zheng ;
Antal, Laszlo ;
Morita, Tsuneo ;
Carly, Wendy ;
Estrin,Saul ;
Schaffer,Mark E. ;
Perotti,Enrico C. ;
Gelfer, Stanislav ;
Brovkin, Vladimir ;
Tutak, Ryan James
A scorecard for energy reform in developing countries. Private participation in the transmission and distribution of natural gas - recent trends. Regulation in new natural gas markets - the Northern Ireland...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19690Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Izaguirre, Ada Katrina ;
Lehmann, Peter ;
Rasmussen,Karen T. ;
Green, Richard ;
Gomez-Lobo,Andres ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Komives,Kristin ;
Brook Cowen, PenelopeJ. ;
Saghir,Jamal ;
Sherwood,Elisabeth ;
Macoun,Andrew ;
Tynan,Nicola Caroline ;
Rebelo,Jorge M.
Roundup : a big bank sale in Prague; Thailand's model restructuring. Corporate governance goes global - riding the rising tide; by Rob Wright. A new look at African privatization; and the ten commandments...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23478Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Wright, Rob [editor] ;
Samuel, S. Brian ;
Best, Ken
Innovative initiative : by, of, and for the people - successful self-financing management in Maharashtrian village communities. Editorial; by Palat Mohandas. News Briefs : arsenic mitigation center. States...
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