The Bank's approach to country poverty assessments (PAs) is increasingly stressing the involvement of stakeholder groups, with the aim of building in-country capacity to address the problems of the poor....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18190Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Norton, Andrew ;
Stephens,Thomas W.
Operations in the education sector can be greatly improved by increasing the participation of government officials, education professionals, local communities, and the private sector. Such participation...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18184Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Colletta,Nat J. ;
Perkins,Gillian M.
The irrigation sector provides a rich source of experiences and lessons in user participation. Participation by farmers in system design and management helps to ensure the sustainability of the system,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18186Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth ;
Reidinger,Richard B. ;
Manzardo,Andrew E.
Bombay: one city - two worlds. The human face of the urban environment. Urban development program in Calcutta integrates environmental concerns. The changing face of Shanghai. Quality water for Shanghai....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17447Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Biswas, Kalyan ;
Leman, Edward ;
Burley ;
McNeil, Mary
The full participation of both men and women in policymaking, in economic and sectoral analysis, and in project design and management, may be impeded by cultural and legal constraints which limit women's...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18195Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Bamberger, Michael ;
Blackden, Mark ;
Taddese, Abeba
Using a participatory approach in the Bank's country economic and sector work may involve extra costs, as well as some loss of control over timing and quality of work. Experience suggests, however, that...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18188Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Aronson,Dan R.
The newest Bank supported social funds are designed explicitly to increase the participation of beneficiaries in identifying and managing microprojects, with the aim of making project activities more relevant...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18189Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Schmidt,Mary E. ;
Marc,Alexandre
World Bank discussion on second-generation transition issues: growth, restructuring, corruption (Michael Bruno, Stanley Fischer, Jana Matesova, and Susan Rose-Ackerman). Anticorruption crackdown in China...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17830Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Bruno,Michael P. ;
Cohen, Ariel ;
De Masi, Paula ;
Fischer,Stanley ;
Hirschler,Richard ;
Koen, Vincent ;
Matesova,Jana ;
Oxford Analytica ;
Rose-Ackerman, Susan ;
Schrenk,Martin
The characteristics of indigenous groups make participatory approaches especially critical to safeguarding their interests int he development process. Such approaches, recognizing the right of indigenous...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18191Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Davis, Shelton H. ;
Soefestad, Lars T.
The participation of users - in designing and implementing projects and managing water and sanitation services - is now being built into Bank-funded projects with the aim of increasing efficiency, equity,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18183Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Watson, Gabrielle ;
Jagannathan, N. Vijay
NGOs can be effective intermediaries in Bank funded projects which depend on participation and capacity building at the community level. Successful collaboration depends on identifying an organization...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18192Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Carroll,Thomas F. ;
Schmidt,Mary E. ;
Bebbington, Tony
When properly designed, community based programs can be highly effective in managing natural resources, providing basic infrastructure or ensuring primary social services. Participation in community based...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18187Date: June 30, 1995Author:
Narayan,Deepa
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: glass ceilings-bad for business, by Sheila Reines; who's reading the policy research bulletin? By Heather Imboden; and who's reading...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57342Date: June 1, 1995Author:
Aflalo,Brigitte ;
Desai, Pant ;
Frank, Richard ;
Imboden, Heather ;
Okonjo-Iweala,Ngozi N. ;
Preston,Lewis T. ;
Reines,Sheila ;
Rice, Gerry ;
Sandstrom,Sven ;
Stern,Ernest ;
Swanson,Eric Valdeman
A global market of US$30 billion a year. Company strategies. Reality checks for power forecasts. The real world of power sector regulation. Competitive contracting for privately generated power. Fiscal...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 47579Date: June 1, 1995Author:
So, Jae ;
Shin,Benjamin J. ;
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Tenenbaum,Bernard W. ;
Khelil,Chakib ;
Atzyas, 1Zak ;
Razzaz,Omar Ahmad Munif ;
Scott, David ;
Talley,Samuel H.
Independent Power Projects (IPPs) are a major source of new power generation capacity in the United States and some European countries, notable the United Kingdom and Portugal. Faced with serious capacity...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17618Date: May 31, 1995Author:
Hoskote,Mangesh
When considering trade policies and the environment, there are two basic questions: First do these trade policies reduce or increase economic distortions, which may be caused by either by government subsidies,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18282Date: May 31, 1995Author:
Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan ;
Gupta,Shreekant
In Sub-Saharan Africa, problems of agricultural development, population growth, and the environment are linked in a nexus of mutually reinforcing causality chains. Indeed so negative are the connections...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18278Date: May 31, 1995Author:
Cleaver, Kevin ;
Schreiber, Gotz
Natural gas is a clean fuel of high economic value to the burgeoning energy markets of developing countries. Gas is often found in greatest abundance in remote locations, making it necessary to construct...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: James D. Wolfensohn is new President; meet Anette Pedersen; human capital and poverty alleviation; from K Street to Kenai, by Bob Satin;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57341Date: May 1, 1995Author:
Fremy, Cecilia ;
Holste,Susanne ;
Macdonald,Lawrence ;
Pedersen,Anette S. ;
Satin, Bob ;
Stern,Ernest ;
Swanson,Eric Valdeman ;
Vedavalli, Rangaswami ;
Wolfensohn,James D.
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