FSU firms keep on providing social services. The price tag of Russia's organized crime. New currency boards come to the Balkans. Bulgaria in crisis. Vox populi -what do people in Central and Eastern Europe...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 16720Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Hanke, Steve H. ;
Koronowski, Adam ;
Linn,Johannes F. ;
Mabert, Vincent ;
Marer, Paul ;
Shelley, Louise I. ;
Thomas, Scott ;
Vecernik,Jiri
Farmers are aware of natural resource degradation, but environmentally unsustainable agricultural practices remain widespread. Like other differences among farmers, many factors affect the adoption of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21126Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Kerr, John ;
Magrath,William B.
Out of the tunnel of urban childhood. Learning to get better. Unraveling the dilemma of child labor. Children in development. Picture Cape Town: images of South Africa. Delhi's children take arms against...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17515Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Helmore, Kristin ;
Bundy, Don ;
Thakkar,Mitesh ;
Winter,Carolyn ;
Boyden, Jo ;
Myers,William E. ;
Hart, Roger ;
Chatterjee,Patralekha ;
Le Breton, Juliet ;
Freeman, Hugh ;
Backus, Emily ;
de la Barra, Ximena ;
Graef, Roger ;
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy ;
Hoffman, Daniel ;
Bergen,Margaret ;
Conger,Lucy ;
Sweet, David
High interest rates place banking systems under stress and create the potential for crisis by squeezing firms' profits and encouraging banks to undertake riskier projects than they otherwise would. Because...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17861Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Vieira Da Cunha,Paulo ;
Brock,Philip L.
Accessing commercial capital for micro-finance: the ACCION experience, by Maria Otero. Short-term micro-finance: commercial banks can do it! by Klaas Kuiper. Micro-finance: the new emerging market? by...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18675Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Malhotra,Mohini ;
Mukherjee,Joyita ;
Villegas Otero,Maria Cecilia ;
Kuiper, Klass ;
Wright,David L. ;
CHIDZERO, ANNE-MARIE N. ;
Smith,Anne Marie
Agricultural science forum strengthens global agricultural research system. CGIAR honors six world food prize laureates. Editorial - The global forum - an agricultural science summit. Global challenges...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23544Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Baxter, Joan ;
Brader,Lukas ;
Cribb, Julian ;
Ozgediz, Selcuck ;
Serageldin,M. Ismail
As Hungary institutes a market economy, it presents a model for how a previously centralized state has to rethink dealing with poverty. Given the budget constraints and economic volatility inevitably...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17472Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Culhane, Brian [editor]
Under the Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest, protected areas will be concentrated in seven rain forest corridors located in the Amazon and Atlantic forest regions. These corridors include...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18619Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Anderson, Anthony ;
Lisansky,Judith M. ;
Sprissler,Loretta
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: a survival guide to 1997: if you thought last year was filled with change, hold on to your hat by Howard, Ted; Banks World interviews...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56973Date: January 23, 1997Author:
Howard,Ted L.
During the Fourth Annual Participants Meeting of the Pilot Program in Manaus (October 28-30, 1997), the participants reaffirmed their overall satisfaction with the progress made over the past 12 months,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18622Date: January 1, 1997Author:
Lisansky,Judith M. ;
Sprissler,Loretta
Manila : private water works, by Scott MacLeod, Tony Clamp, and Luc Dejonckheere. Managing for change ...in Africa, by Alexander Nicolas Keyserlingk and Charles Minor. Chiapas : a chance for change, by...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18585Date: January 1, 1997Author:
Wright,Robert Palmer ;
MacLeod, Scott ;
Dejonckheere,Luc V. ;
Clamp, Tony ;
Keyserlingk, Alexander Nicolas ;
Minor Jr.,Charles F. ;
Clarke,Denis J. ;
D'Amato,Erik ;
Francisco-Tolentino, Maria Au
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: World Bank - Government of the Philippines agree on U$S 1.3 billion in new loans. Dialogue with NGOs. Access to World...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23272Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Gonzales,Leonora Aquino
The new role of mayors in a changing global context. Interview with Jamie Ravinet, Mayor of Santiago, Chile. Devolution of power in Allahabad. Interview with Beverly O'Neill, Mayor of Long Beach, California....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17513Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Rabinovitch, Jonas ;
Chatterjee,Patralekha ;
Padula, Giovanni ;
Farres, Nabila ;
Laquian, Aprodicio ;
Warnkie, Benjamin ;
Mourad, Mustafa
Pollution charges are becoming an increasingly popular instrument for environmental policy. Currently, they are widely applied in OECD countries, play a key role among environmental policy instruments...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18288Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Lvovsky,Kseniya
The program-based approach to providing development assistance, especially sector investment programs (SIPs), has recently attracted attention in the development community, especially in Africa. The key...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22761Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Okidegbe, Nwanze ;
Deininger, Klaus ;
Ayres, Wendy [
Field guides are useful tools for promoting conservation awareness and action, and are implicitly supported by at least five Articles of the Convention on Biological Diversity. They can be used directly...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18289Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Whitten, Tony
Expanding NGO participation in World Bank's activity (Quigley and Associates). Success story of a Hungarian NGO: helping Romany to help themselves (Nancy E. Popson). Professors Kabaj and Kowalik versus...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17839Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Popson, Nancy E. ;
Winiecki, Jan ;
Nellis,John R. ;
Estrin,Saul ;
Stone, Robert ;
Koch-Weser,Caio K. ;
Drummond, Paulo ;
Horvath, Balazs ;
Thacker, Nita ;
Miller,Stephanie J. ;
Rutherford,Richard W.
This Banks world newsletter includes some of the following headings: bank's world Interviews Mark Baird on corporate strategy; three days in Huehuetenango, by Ted Howard; tailor-made training: professional...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64269Date: November 25, 1996Author:
Cowan, Coventry ;
Howard,Ted L.
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