This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: WB (World Bank) President visits the Philippines. WB OKs 3 projects to help the poor. The Club of 29 News: government,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23274Date: March 31, 1998Author:
Gonzales, Leonora A. [editor]
ARPP reports portfolio performance on the upswing. Staff honored for excellence in project supervision. "Quagging" the QAG: off to a good start, but scope for further improvement. Findings from the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18167Date: March 31, 1998Author:
Garg,Prem Prakash
Competition in the natural gas industry - the emergence of spot, financial, and pipeline capacity markets. Natural gas markets in the United Kingdom - competition, industry structure, and market power...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17728Date: March 31, 1998Author:
Juris, Andrej ;
Mostefai, Djamal ;
Crousillat, Enriq
The purpose of this note is to describe the public consultation program to date for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) hydroelectric project and share lessons learned regarding the process and methodologies that were...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18205Date: March 31, 1998Author:
Mcphail,Kathryn ;
Callieri, Christian
Targeting based on geographic location is a useful mechanism for transferring benefits to the poor. Programs are relatively simple to implement. No complicated means testing is required in order to distribute...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17477Date: March 31, 1998Author:
Culhane, Brian [editor]
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: for Walker security is not enough, by Anna Shen; jumbo $13billion fundraising, by Kevin Rafferty; Human Development (HD) week brings...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56988Date: March 23, 1998Author:
Goto,Shihoko ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Tuller,Alexandra
Benin offshore oil field development - a model project for mitigating potential environmental threats. Global power pricing study. EU natural gas market liberalization.
Will China resist the Asian flu? an economic roundup. China's state-owned companies need urgent reform. The sale goes on: transforming small enterprises in China. Local governments: testing grounds for...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17458Date: February 28, 1998Author:
Ainsworth,Martha ;
Buyske,Susan Gail ;
Chi Fulin ;
Hirschler,Richard ;
Medvedev, Katalin ;
Weingast,Barry R. ;
Qian,Yingyi ;
Yuanzheng Cao
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, is it true love?; Luigi's café helps set the financial agenda by Kevin Rafferty; answerline; Eschew gobbledygook;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56987Date: February 27, 1998Author:
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Goto,Shihoko ;
HENRIOD, ERNESTO E. ;
Mejia,Cristina ;
Miller, Annabel ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Radhika,Yeddanapudi
A bank of one's own, by Ela Bhatt. China's emerging micro-finance industry, by Mike Goldberg. Strengthening Asian MFIs, by Joyita Mukherjee. Asian Development Bank operations to support micro-finance,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18677Date: January 31, 1998Author:
Mukherjee,Joyita ;
Isern,Jennifer ;
Bhatt,Ela ;
Goldberg, Mike ;
Staub, William ;
Fernando,Nimal A. ;
Chen,Gregory C. ;
Bullock, Tamara ;
TARMANN, ALLISON
This paper discusses the ways in which severance payments may protect workers, as well as reducing the political opposition to liquidation. Specifically, the paper considers the identification of candidates...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18558Date: January 31, 1998Author:
Sherif,Khaled F. ;
Clarke,George R. ;
Djankov,Simeon
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: RP wins donor's confidence: new commitment of US$3B in Paris meet. FVR signs Executive Order on Special Zone of Peace...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23219Date: January 31, 1998Author:
Gonzales, Leonora [editor]
In 1994, the Federal Government of India launched an ambitious nationwide program of decentralized community-based watershed development. The National Watershed Development Program (NWDP) is a centrally-sponsored...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22764Date: January 31, 1998Author:
Esmail,Talib B. K.
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: Bank & Uganda: the inside story; the long goodbye to NRS, by Kevin Rafferty; first class envelop ban stirs controversy, by BW reporter;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56986Date: January 28, 1998Author:
Cullen,Timothy W. B. ;
Goto,Shihoko ;
Keynes ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Sopher,Jamil
Making sure social funds help the poorest, by Anthony G. Bigio. Regulators push investment awareness in Latin America, by Sophia Lynn. Korean Journal : aftermath of the crisis, by Shinok Park. World...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 81025Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Bigio,Anthony G. ;
English,Edward Philip ;
Lynn,Sophia ;
Mcneil,Mary L.
Water demand exceeds supply in most parts of the world. To address such deficits, agencies at the national, regional, and local levels often import water through inter-basin transfers, which can have enormous...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22675Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Hirji,Rafik Fatehali
During February and March 1998, accidental fires raged out of control in parts of the northern Amazon state of Roraima, a consequence of a pronounced drought brought on by El Nino combined with normal...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18624Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Lisansky,Judith M. ;
Sprissler,Loretta
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