In the wake of Hurricane Mitch. International city design competition. Renaissance art fuels commerce. Crime drives Johannesburg stock exchange out. Neighborhood park in Hamburg. Rating Russia. Letters...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21717Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Graef, Roger ;
Chatterjee, Patralekha ;
Kalbermatten, John M. ;
Cowen, Penelope J. Brook ;
Vines, Stephen ;
Johnson, Curtis Eugene
Some of the headings included in this newsletter of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) news are: MIGA to play important role in Asian growth and recovery program: President Clinton; council...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63023Date: January 1, 1999
Two workshops were sponsored by the Demonstration Projects in October-November 1998 to identify lessons learned from projects involving agroforestry systems and recuperation of degraded lands. Both workshops...
In this issue: International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) home page on the web. Disputes before the Centre. New designations to the ICSID Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 46563Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Parra, Antonio R.
Natural gas reservoirs are plentiful around the world, but many of them currently seem too small, or too remote from sizable population centers, to be developed economically. Furthermore, gas associated...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26345Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Kojima, Masami
We introduce - the International Finance Corporation (IFC) : Leasing Development Project. Theory and practice - what is leasing : significance of the leasing sector for economic development. Leasing in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39569Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Garadja, Marina ;
Likhachova, Irina ;
Pisarenko, Andrei ;
Sabitov, Albert ;
Shtelmakh, Veronica ;
Zhuravleva, Nina Grigorievna
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: our dream is a world free of poverty; soccer teaches lessons for life, by Jamil Sopher; Bolivia shows that stabilization is not enough;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57002Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen, Anna ;
Sopher, Jamil
In a world facing future food shortages, the global importance of aquaculture continues to rise. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics, 1995 worldwide production from aquaculture...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21132Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Zweig, Ronald D.
Board wrestles with energy and environment. ESSD Council retreat confronts key issues. Flash from the field. IFC implements revised environmental review process. World Commission on dams seeks continued...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23118Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Jechoutek, Karl ;
Liebenthal, Andres ;
Marroquin, Ma
Expert panel charts 21st century challenges. ICW98 (International Centers Week) tackles scientific, environmental, and organizational issues. CGIAR acts on "terminator technology." New IWMI (International...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23556Date: December 31, 1998
The social assessment (SA) on Moldovan land reform was undertaken as economic and sector work to study farm communities; assess the impact of land reform on stakeholder groups; and identify the perspectives,...
Development based on participation - a strategy for transforming societies, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Deflation: a new challenge for China's policymakers, by Chi Fulin. The "D: word: it can be both good and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18810Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Stiglitz, Joseph Eugene ;
Ellman, Michael ;
Tauber, Theresia M. ;
Ellerman, David P. ;
Zheleznyak, Anatoliy ;
Morck, Randall K ;
Bernard Yeung ;
Wayne Yu ;
Berkovitch, Elazar ;
Israel, Ronen ;
Mitchell, Janet ;
Kemp, Garry ;
Kaminski, Bartlomiej ;
Lyle, Robert
World Bank Group partners with Australia. World Bank - Keidanren joint venture in Vietnam's power sector. Learning lessons from partnerships. World Bank guarantee for Thai bond issue. Japan and U.K. announce...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18693Date: December 31, 1998
Innovative projects: an unfolding story. Partnerships: strategic alliance signed. News briefs. Editorial, by Palat Mohandas. NGOs: Johad - river runs through it. States: Karnataka rural water and sanitation...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23534Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Mohandas, Palat
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: Philippines, World Bank sign US$600m package. Government of Philippines, WB identify actions to improve project performance....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23221Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Gonzales, Leonora Aquino
Private participation in the electricity sector - recent trends, by Ada Karina Izaguirre. World Bank guarantees for oil and gas projects, by Scott Sinclair. Bidding for concessions - how contract design...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18682Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Bradley, Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Sinclair, Scott ;
Klein, Michael Ulrich ;
Boubakri, Narjess ;
Cosset, Jean-Claude ;
Pomerleano, Michael
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: Rio street artist shows the brutality of poverty, by Kevin Rafferty; basic economics to solve parking problem; Africa day, victim of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57001Date: December 3, 1998Author:
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen, Anna
Feeding megacities : a worldwide viewpoint. A tale of two cities : feeding Beijing and Delhi. Nobody need starve. Business takes a new look at inner cities. Farming inside and around cities. The global...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18336Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Tinker, Irene ;
Chatterjee, Patralekha ;
Sen, Amarty
This issue focuses on the experience of private sector involvement in Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects from Batangas Bay in the Philippines. The Batangas Bay Demonstration Project was part of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21208Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
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