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.
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
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
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.
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
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