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
Is privatization necessary? By John Nellis. The privatization experience of Latin America, by Mateen Thobani. Privatization by capitalization- a popular participation recipe for cash-starved SOEs in Bolivia,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 45284Date: December 1, 1994Author:
Nellis,John R. ;
Thobani,Mateen ;
Ewing,Andrew John ;
Goldmark,Susan G. ;
Lieberman,Ira W. ;
Bond,James P. ;
Anayiotos,Andrea ;
Habeck,Odo G. ;
Khemani, Shyam ;
Klein,Michael Ulrich ;
Roger,Neil D. ;
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Schware,Robert ;
Hume,Susan Judith
A new program for trade recovery in the new independent states. Averting a debt crisis in the Russian economy. What's next? Strategies for enterprise restructuring in Russia. Czechs are optimistic - but...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 16457Date: November 30, 1994Author:
Michalopoulos,Constantine ;
Tarr, David G. ;
Fan,Qimiao ;
Lee,Une J. ;
Boycko, Maxim ;
Shleifer,Andrei
The note describes integrated soil management (ISM), focused on the humid tropics, outlines the conditions that are conducive to wide adoption of ISM, and identifies the steps needed to foster these techniques...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21081Date: November 30, 1994
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: From Paper Clips to Protocol; The Bank Breaks into Internet; World Wide Web at the World Bank; Waltzing into the Arms of love; To catch...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 119238Date: November 1, 1994
On September 21, 1994, Brazil and the World Bank signed the grant agreement for the Science Centers and Directed Research - Phase I project. The grant agreement was the first to be signed under the Pilot...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18610Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Luz,Karen Anne
Privatization in St. Petersburg: challenges in the post-Soviet era. Russian cities on the road to a market economy: the housing sector. Privatization: changing the nature of Buenos Aires. Albania: creating...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17445Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Limonov, Leonid ;
Miagkov, Vladislav ;
Kaganova, Olg
A cost of transition: 50 million new poor and growing inequity. Hopes, tears, and transformation - social policy suggestions for post socialist Europe Mission possible: a World Bank loan to Shenyang advances...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 16456Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Barr,Nicholas ;
Harbison,Ralph W. ;
Milanovic,Branko L.
This note examines the techniques of participatory rural assessment (PRA), and its uses, particularly suited to local-level investigations, where the qualitative information, and recommendations can be...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21057Date: October 31, 1994
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