The shadow economy (Dana Wickware).
Microentrepreneurs: the unacknowledged borrowers (Lucy
Conger). A conversation with Elaben Bhatt (Margaret Bergen
and Paralekha...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18316Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Wickware, Dana ;
Conger, Lucy ;
Bergen, Margaret ;
Chatterjee, Patralekha ;
Sanio, Michael ;
Hanson, Frank ;
Auclair, Christine ;
French, Patrick ;
Biles, Annabel ;
Peirce, Neal ;
Saint, Andrew ;
Taillant, J. Daniel
Including project-related training (PRT)
components in development projects is a sensible strategy.
By ensuring that knowledge and skill levels are adequate to
support...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21130Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Maguire, Charles
The Business Partnership Center forges
ahead. Italy: a dynamic business partnership. MIGA creates
specialized Investment Guarantee Trust Funds. Jean-Francois
Rischard...
This Bank's World newsletter
includes some of the following headings: new aid to lift
Asia's crisis hit economies, by Kevin Rafferty; Asia,
Africa boost FY98 lending,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56996Date: July 16, 1998Author:
Drattell,Alan M. ;
George,Morallina Fanwar ;
Oyewole,Olufunke Olabisi ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Sopher,Jamil
Deteriorating urban air quality causes
significant economic losses in many developing countries. In
some of the more industrialized developing countries, whose
cities...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26347Date: July 1, 1998Author:
Masami Kojima, and Eleodoro Mayorga-Alba
The results of technical tests on a
range of lamps provide a guide to an optimal choice of lamps
for improved lighting, mainly in rural areas in distributed
applications...
The note describes the objectives of the
Inspection Panel (IP), i.e., to provide an independent forum
to private citizens, who may believe their interests have
been,...
82 percent of projects found
satisfactory in quality at entry assessment. Staff honored
for excellence in project quality at entry. Rapid quality at
entry assessment...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18155Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Garg, Prem
Vietnam's development over the past
decade represents one of the more dramatic turnarounds in
economic history. In the mid-80s the country was in dire
straits. Ten years...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18330Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Hall, Gillette [editor]
"Economic Neoliberalism became
almost irrelevant..." : Poland's Grzegorz W.
Kolodko on new trends in development strategies (Grzegorz W.
Kolodko and Richard Hirschler)....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18309Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Kolodko, Grzegorz W. ;
Ferge, Zsuzsa ;
Aslund, Anders ;
Scott, Evan ;
Gao Shangquan ;
Dollar, David ;
Litvack, Jennie ;
Davies, Peter ;
Stiglitz, Joseph E. ;
Hirschler, Richard [editor]
This Bank's World newsletter
includes some of the following headings: Ruiz aims for the
top of the world, by Juan Pablo Ruiz; income debate begins,
by Kevin Rafferty;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56995Date: June 25, 1998Author:
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Ruiz,Juan Pablo ;
Shen,Anna ;
Tuller,Alexandra
1998 CGIAR Mid-Term Meeting : mobilizing
science for global food security. New appointment for CGIAR
Chairman. The CGIAR in the twenty-first century; by Mahendra
Shah....
A new economic reality on Asian city
streets (Patralekha Chatterjee). City war zones (Sultan
Barakat). Beirut: the lights are back on (May Farah).
Preparing African...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18337Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Chatterjee, Patralekha ;
Barakat, Sultan ;
Farah, May ;
Mabogunje, Akin L. ;
Bergen, Margaret ;
Auclair, Christine
Private companies must be involved in
finding and carrying out solutions to global environmental
problems. Otherwise, the technologies and approaches piloted
by GEF...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18249Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
In this example, the social assessment
(SA) alerted the World Bank and the Government of Argentina
to social differences among beneficiary groups and to
problems and...
This Banks World newsletter includes
some of the following headings: Naqvi in search of identity;
emergency airlift; spouses' soapbox; airmiles save
lives; TV for people;...
"The management of the Fund favors
greater transparency" - Stanley Fischer responds to IMF
critics. Conditionality : this time, attached to the IMF :
the US Congress's...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18332Date: April 30, 1998Author:
Eberstadt, Nicholas ;
Fischer,Stanley ;
Gray,George Michael ;
Kim,Junki ;
Mertzanis, Harilaos ;
Mustafa,Muhamet ;
Oks, Danil ;
Orszag-Land, Thomas ;
Petrakos, George ;
Pfeffermann,Guy Pierre
This note provides a look at the World
Bank's commitment to re-activate the existing
production facilities among its client countries, allowing
these facilities to obtain...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18559Date: April 30, 1998Author:
Watkins, Alfred ;
Ruhl, Onno ;
Tar, Marie-Sophie
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