Charcoal plays an important role in both the energy sectors and the economies of most African countries. However, the inefficiencies inherent to the production and use of charcoal, rapid urbanization,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17617Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Van Der Plas,Robert J.
One of the main constraints to animal production in developing countries, is livestock disease. Unfortunately, the lack of means of public animal health services, and unavailable financial options for...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21084Date: April 30, 1995
Measuring transition is tough: observations of EBRD's first "Transition Report" editor (Jennifer P. Walker). The EBRD in Russia--concentrating limited resources (Jennifer P. Walker). Cost-cutting at...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17829Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Cannon, Lucja Swiatkowski ;
Walker, Jennifer P. ;
Ners, Krzystof J. ;
Buxell, Ingrid T. ;
Wedel, Janine R. ;
Brunner,Hans-Peter ;
Oxford Analytica
During the first quarter of 1995, four pilot program grant agreements were declared effective by the World Bank, clearing the way for the three projects they govern to begin receiving funds from the Bank...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18612Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Luz,Karen Anne
Ministers in Lucerne develop strategy for international agricultural research. Scientists reap wheat crop at end of dry summer in northern Syria. Weeding with weeds while restoring soil fertility - African...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23539Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Pinstrup Andersen,Per
Post-communist parties and the politics of entitlements (Jeffrey Sachs). Privatizing profits of Bulgaria's state enterprises (Zeljko Bogetic and Arye L. Hillman). Oxford Analytica reports on red conglomerates...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17828Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Bird,Richard M. ;
Bogetic,Zeljko ;
Ebel,Robert D. ;
Fazso, Ferenc L. ;
Hillman,Arye L. ;
Perez-Lopez, Jorge ;
SACHS, JEFFREY D. ;
Wallich,Christine I.
Franchising and privatization; by Antony W. Dnes. Tradable property rights to water; by Mateen Thobani. Privatization through broad-based ownership strategies; by Stuart Bell. Bettering banking: privatize...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 47578Date: March 1, 1995Author:
Dnes, Antony W. ;
Thobani,Mateen ;
Bell,Stuart W. ;
Ramachandran, S. ;
Charpentier,Jean-Pierre ;
Schenk,Kurt F. ;
Condon,Timothy J. ;
Fleisig,Heywood W. ;
Montes-Negret,Fernando ;
Keppler,Robert ;
Mozes,Dan ;
Scott, David H.
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: the trainees, 46 years later, by Jill Roessner; beyond headquarters: major challenges for local staff, by Sangam Iyer; networking in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57340Date: March 1, 1995Author:
Baig,Omar I. ;
Baldwin,Harriet B. ;
Baranshamaje,Etienne ;
Hayes,Elizabeth M. ;
Heneveld, Ward ;
Iyer, Sangam ;
Keough,Lucy H. ;
ROESSNER, J. JILL ;
Swanson,Eric Valdeman
Cities and the information revolution. The city in the age of information. Defining the information revolution. The internet: the network of networks. Linking Hong Kong and the mainland. Eastern Europe:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17446Date: February 28, 1995Author:
DuBard, Trip ;
Dennis, Everett E. ;
Ziegler, Dominic
This note outlines the principles, management structure, and operating features behind many effective grant funds. It identifies the types of grant funds, legal status, and measures to ensure financial...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21083Date: February 28, 1995
The 'New and Noteworthy in Nutrition' newsletter highlights following issues: turning nutrition research and training on its head, a bevy of new nutrition projects -- and new project ideas, nutrition and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 78389Date: February 17, 1995
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: conserving China's cultural relics by Taboroff, June; brining primary education to indigenous peoples: impressions from Viet Nam by...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57339Date: February 1, 1995Author:
Blakeney,Kelso Jay ;
ROESSNER, J. JILL ;
Soeftestad,Lars T. ;
Sterne, Rod ;
Swanson,Eric Valdeman ;
Taboroff,June
Four more grant agreements for Pilot Program projects were signed in the last quarter of 1994, bringing to five the number of projects poised to begin implementation. One of them, the Natural Resources...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18611Date: January 31, 1995Author:
Luz,Karen Anne
Entering a higher grade-proposals to reform Russia's education system. EDI disseminates transition know-how. Breeding a new generation of economists in the FSU - Eurasia Foundation President William Bader...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 16458Date: January 31, 1995Author:
Heyneman,Stephen Paul ;
Borish,Michael S. ;
Long,Millard F. ;
Noel,Michel Desire R ;
Nelson, Daniel N. ;
Dobozi,Istvan ;
Pohl,Gerhard
The note identifies key issues to take into account, in the design of investments supporting biotechnology development, which range from straightforward, inexpensive procedures of tissue culture, to advanced...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21082Date: January 31, 1995
In this issue: Argentina and Nicaragua ratify the ICSID convention; twenty-eighth annual meeting of the administrative council; towards an international set of rules for investment: the OECD initiative;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 99085Date: January 1, 1995
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: 'Portes ouvertes' on the Dakar resident mission by Jones, David; rediscovering indigenous knowledge systems in Southern Africa by Davis,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57335Date: January 1, 1995Author:
Davis,Shelton H. ;
Haji, Jeanne ;
Jones, David ;
Mukherjee,Mohua ;
Munro,Miranda ;
ROESSNER, J. JILL ;
Swanson Eric V.
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the World Bank; Development is for People; Guatemala's Urban Poor Become Their Own Task...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 119239Date: December 1, 1994
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