Social assessment (SA) provides a framework for incorporating participation and social analysis into the design and delivery of Bank-assisted operations. Since there are many social variables which potentially...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18199Date: September 30, 1995Author:
McPhail, Kathryn ;
Jacobs, Sue
The conventional wisdom concerning appropriate agricultural policies was based on serious misconceptions that led to faulty prescriptions. Developing countries have faced some painful lessons in the last...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22756Date: September 30, 1995
International oil markets have evolved significantly, and a competitive market has emerged that is setting internationally accepted prices for crude and refined products. In many developing countries,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17622Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Bam,Christopher ;
Mayorga Alba,Eleodoro O.
Modern seed technology has the potential to improve diets and to boost rural incomes in developing countries, For farmers in many developing countries, however, access to improved varieties has been severely...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 51161Date: September 1, 1995
Restructuring regulation of the railroad industry. A template for power reform. Lessons from power sector reform in England and Wales. Private power financing from project finance to corporate finance....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 47580Date: September 1, 1995Author:
Kessides,Ioannis N. ;
Willig,Robert D. ;
Newbery,David M. ;
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Jechoutek,Karl Georg ;
Lamech,Ranjit J. ;
Dnes, Antony W. ;
Smith, Peter ;
Guislain,Pierre
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: learning and development by Thomas, Vinod; Economic Development Institute (EDI) in retrospect 1955 to 1995 by Oxenham, John; from privatization...
Environmental strategies are living documents that need to change as new problems arise and our understanding of the links between the economy and natural ecosystems grows. To identify good practice and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18283Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Margulis,Sergio ;
Bernstein,Janis D.
The abolition of subsidies and privileges tend to reduce the profitability of farming sharply. The impact is most severe on farmers who have borrowed large sums from banks, especially since real interest...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22754Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Aiyer, Swaminathan ;
Parker,Andrew ;
Van Zyl,Johan
The Baku Water Supply Project will be the Bank's first lending operation in Azerbaijan. As such the Bank considers two aspects of the project to be particularly important. The first is that the project...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18196Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Wildeman,Robert C.
The widespread failure of integrated rural development to bring about a sustained improvement in the living standards of rural people has left unanswered the question of how best to ensure effective rural...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22735Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Aiyar,Swaminathan S. ;
Parker,Andrew ;
Van Zyl,Johan
During the 1980s, Colombia embarked on an ambitious program to decentralize responsibilities for planning, financing, and delivering public goods and services. Despite concerns that municipal governments...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22752Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Aiyar, Swaminathan ;
Parker, Andrew ;
Van Zyl, Johan
Barge-mounted diesel generators (BMDs) can represent a useful addition to the array of power generation technologies suitable for developing countries. Where they have been adopted, BMDs have proved highly...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17621Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
Could inflation stabilization be expansionary? (Michael Bruno and William Easterly). The Latin American experience with private pension funds: lessons for Eastern Europe (Jean de Fougerolles). Who is...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17831Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Bruno,Michael P. ;
Easterly,William R. ;
de Fougerolles, Jean ;
Kabaj, Mieczyslaw ;
Kowalik, Tadeusz ;
Perlez, Jane ;
Alfandari,Gilles B. ;
Lee,Une J. ;
Schrenk,Martin
The World Bank supports development that improves human welfare and reduces poverty. Achieving this goal requires sustainable economic growth; the development of physical infrastructure, human resources,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18216Date: August 31, 1995
Many developing countries are experimenting with decentralizing power and responsibilities to local governments. These processes of decentralization have achieved some notable improvements in delivering...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22751Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Aiyar,Swaminathan S. ;
Parker,Andrew ;
Van Zyl,Johan
Historically, land reform has been implemented by government agencies expropriating land, with or without compensation, and then distributing it to the landless. Such reform is typically undermined by...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22753Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Aiyar,Swaminathan S. ;
Parker,Andrew ;
Van Zyl,Johan
Beneficiary Assessment (BA) is a qualitative, social assessment method of investigation and evaluation that consists of three kinds of data collection techniques: (i) in-depth conversational interviewing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18198Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Salmen,Lawrence F.
The study on which this dissemination note is based points to the need for awareness of the sensitivities surrounding interethnic relations in the Central Asian countries in future World Bank operations...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18197Date: August 31, 1995Author:
YOUSSEF, NADIA H.
Large, mechanized farms are often viewed as more efficient than small ones. This myth has often included policymakers and technicians who favor large commercial farms depending on mechanization and hired...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22755Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Aiyer, Swaminathan ;
Parker, Andrew ;
Van Zyl, Johan
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