The Indonesian crisis and its impact on the forestry sector, by Jeffrey A. Sayer. Message from the chairman, by Ismail Serageldin. Dr. Nelson receives MacArthur's Genius Award. CGIAR honors the Year of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23550Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Sayer, Jeffrey A. ;
Serageldin, Ismail ;
Reeves, Tim
Underneath the formal economy: why are Russian enterprises not restructuring?, by Clifford Gaddy & Barry W. Ickes. The virtual economy : a closer look, by Edwin G. Dolan. The summer the ruble collapsed...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18851Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Hirschler,Richard ;
Gaddy,Clifford ;
Ickes, Barry W. ;
Dolan, Edwin G. ;
Davies, Peter ;
Rutkowski,Michal J. ;
Cord, Richard A.
This Energy and Mining newsletter includes the following articles: Excellence in project quality at entry; Europe Central Asia (ECA) energy strategy forum with external participants; Independent power...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18395Date: August 28, 1998
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: can your children act, talk, and swing through trees? Sharing the burdens, by Kevin Rafferty; board consensus boosts capital and International...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56997Date: August 27, 1998Author:
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Marc,Alexandre ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shakow,Alexander ;
Shen,Anna
Emissions from fossil fuel combustion, especially coal combustion, are major contributors to air pollution. Concentrations of suspended particles and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the air of many cities in developing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26348Date: August 1, 1998Author:
Takahashi,Masaki
The shadow economy (Dana Wickware). Microentrepreneurs: the unacknowledged borrowers (Lucy Conger). A conversation with Elaben Bhatt (Margaret Bergen and Paralekha Chatterjee). Waste not, want not (Michael...
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,Jorge 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 the achievement of project objectives,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21130Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Maguire,Charles John
The Business Partnership Center forges ahead. Italy: a dynamic business partnership. MIGA creates specialized Investment Guarantee Trust Funds. Jean-Francois Rischard appointed the Bank's first Vice-President...
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, by Anna Shen; Wolfensohn praises 11-17...
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 are now cloaked in smog, the cost...
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 i.e. in standalone (DC - Direct...
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, or could be directly harmed by a project...
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 - a primer. Lending for biodiversity...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18155Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Garg,Prem Prakash
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 later - after a radical set or...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18330Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Hall,Gillette H.
"Economic Neoliberalism became almost irrelevant..." : Poland's Grzegorz W. Kolodko on new trends in development strategies (Grzegorz W. Kolodko and Richard Hirschler). Beyond the Washington Consensus...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18309Date: June 30, 1998Author:
KOLODKO, GRZEGORZ W. ;
Ferge, Zsuzsa ;
Aslund,Anders ;
Scott, Evan ;
Gao, Shangquan ;
Dollar,David R. ;
Litvack,Jennie I. ;
Davies, Peter ;
Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene ;
Hirschler,Richard
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; volunteers seek to create greener...
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 vision for ICRISAT; by Shawki...
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 cities for the bond market (Akin L....
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 (Global Environment Facility) projects...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18249Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
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