Pollution charges are becoming an
increasingly popular instrument for environmental policy.
Currently, they are widely applied in OECD countries, play a
key role among...
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,...
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...
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)....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17839Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Popson, Nancy E. ;
Winiecki, Jan ;
Nellis, John ;
Estrin, Saul ;
Stone, Robert ;
Koch-Weser, Caio ;
Drummond, Paulo ;
Horvath, Balazs ;
Thacker, Nita ;
Miller, Stephanie ;
Rutherford, Richard
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;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64269Date: November 25, 1996Author:
Cowan, Coventry ;
Howard,Ted L.
Forum: toward global partnerships, by
Alexander von der Osten. Forum: global program to develop
late blight resistant potato cultivars, by Peter Gregory.
Editorial:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23543Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Von der Osten, Alexander ;
Gregory, Peter ;
Echeverr
Nearly all countries worldwide are now
experimenting with decentralization. Their motivation are
diverse. Many countries are decentralizing because they
believe this...
The demand-driven rural investment fund
(DRIFs) is a new mechanism for decentralizing
decision-making authority and financial resources to local
governments and communities...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22759Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Aiyar, Swaminathan S. ;
Piriou-Sall, Suzanne ;
Williams, Melissa
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...
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...
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...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17471Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Grosh, Margaret ;
Steele, Diane ;
MacDonald, Lawrence [editor] ;
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:...
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...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18674Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Malhotra, Mohini ;
Mukherjee, Joyita [editors] ;
Cha
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...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18208Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Taylor, Marilyn
How to catch up with the industrial
world - achieving rapid growth in Europe's transition
economies (Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew M. Warner). How
democracy fosters growth:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17838Date: September 30, 1996Author:
Sachs, Jeffrey D. ;
Warner, Andrew M. ;
Tavares, Jose ;
Wacziarg, Romain ;
Bruno, Michael ;
Squire, Lyn ;
Open Media Research Institute ;
Oxford Analytica ;
Wolfensohn, James ;
Goran, Vladimir ;
Gray, Cheryl W. ;
Holle, Arnold ;
Vernikov, Andrei ;
Hirschler, Richard [editor]
Problems in comparing year to year
poverty surveys demonstrate that researchers need to take
into account changes in survey design. The method described
here points...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17470Date: September 1, 1996Author:
Lanjouw, Peter ;
Ravallion, Martin ;
Culhane, Brian [editor]
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