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
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 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
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.
Nearly all countries worldwide are now experimenting with decentralization. Their motivation are diverse. Many countries are decentralizing because they believe this can help stimulate economic growth...
The demand-driven rural investment fund (DRIFs) is a new mechanism for decentralizing decision-making authority and financial resources to local governments and communities to use for investments of their...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22759Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Aiyar,Swaminathan S. ;
Piriou-Sall,Suzanne ;
Williams,Melissa
Forum: toward global partnerships, by Alexander von der Osten. Forum: global program to develop late blight resistant potato cultivars, by Peter Gregory. Editorial: the World Food Summit. News: a regional...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23543Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Von der Osten, Alexander ;
Gregory, Peter ;
Echeverr
The Third Annual Meeting of the Participants of the Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forest provided evidence of broadening political support in Brazil and internationally for protecting the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18618Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Lisansky,Judith M. ;
Sprissler,Loretta
One of the world's greatest challenges is to feed a growing population while sustaining the global natural resource base. How the relationship between human needs and natural resource requirements will...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21125Date: October 31, 1996Author:
De Haan, C. ;
Steinfeld, H. ;
Blackburn, H.
As more Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys have been completed and the value of household data in policy design has become more widely appreciated, demand has grown for assistance in designing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17471Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Steele,Diane E. ;
Macdonald,Lawrence ;
Culhane, Brian [editor]
This Bank World newsletter includes some of the following headings: 15000 join in annual meeting marathon; Bank looks outside for a change, by Liz Miller; seminars 1996: new role of Bank as broker, by...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64268Date: October 11, 1996Author:
Maripuu,Anna E. ;
Mccolgan,Rachel Correan ;
Miller, Liz ;
Ptito,Lauren S. ;
Severson, Alan A.
Village banks in Pays Dogon: a successful home-grown approach, by Renee Chao-Beroff. Perspectives on micro-finance in West Africa, by the CGAP Secretariat. Micro-finance as a breakthrough service, by Elisabeth...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18674Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Malhotra,Mohini ;
Mukherjee,Joyita ;
Chao-Beroff, Renee ;
Rhyne, Elisabeth ;
Kibui,Phyllis Wanjiku ;
Beinpuo, Francis ;
Seck,Ibrahima ;
Jackelen,Henry R.
Poverty is at the root of the problems facing many public housing projects in the U.K. today. Experience emerging from 100 low-income housing estates echoes findings from urban upgrading for the poor...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18208Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Taylor, Marilyn
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