The report examines two components of
new technology adoption by Mexican manufacturing firms.
First, it questions which firms, under what circumstances,
and performance...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22797Date: December 13, 2001
The report examines two components of
new technology adoption by Mexican manufacturing firms.
First, it questions which firms, under what circumstances,
and performance...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22797Date: December 13, 2001
Indonesia's recovery was already
slowing several months before the events of September 11.
Political instability had raised social tensions and slowed
reforms--fueling...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23341Date: December 10, 2001
The study selectively looks at the
complex set of issues surrounding the effectiveness of
Brazil's teachers, in the context of the "ensino
fundamental" program changes,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20408Date: December 6, 2001
The report reviews evidence of child
labor in Brazil, and the Government's efforts to
eradicate its worst forms, by examining background
assessments of ongoing programs...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21858Date: December 6, 2001
The Mongolia Participatory Living
Standards Assessment 2000 (PLSA) was the first exercise of
its kind in Mongolia to use participatory learning and
action methods to...
This report reviews growth trends in
Armenia for the period 1994-2000, outlines major weaknesses
of existing development patterns, and suggests a package of
policy recommendations...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22854Date: November 30, 2001
This report reviews growth trends in
Armenia for the period 1994-2000, outlines major weaknesses
of existing development patterns, and suggests a package of
policy recommendations...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22854Date: November 30, 2001
In recognition that poverty and
vulnerability are mutually reinforcing, because the poor
lack the ability to insure against risks, often shaping
behavior and decision...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23509Date: November 30, 2001
In the one hundred days since assuming
office, the new administration of Megawati Soekarnoputri has
made little progress on structural and governance reforms.
The events...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23093Date: November 30, 2001
Iran's economic performance in the
last two decades has been very disappointing. This is
highlighted by the fact that per capita GDP was 16 percent
lower in 1998 than...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22953Date: November 1, 2001
The objective of this paper is to
examine the challenges in the water sector faced by Armenia
today, and outline options for management and allocation of
its water resources...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23658Date: November 1, 2001
Over the last thirty years, Bahia has
transformed itself from a somnolent rural economy to the
leading manufacturing state of the Northeast. In the
process, the state...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21377Date: October 26, 2001
This study aims to analyze how economic
shocks and macroeconomic volatility affect urban Argentine
households, the mechanisms that households employ to survive
economic...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22426Date: October 16, 2001
The war against corruption in the
Philippines has taken a fresh turn with the inauguration of
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on January 20, 2001, and
the subsequent...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23687Date: September 30, 2001
The report focuses on preschool, as an
effective early childhood development (ECD) intervention,
especially for improving the status of the poorest groups in
Brazil's...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22841Date: September 24, 2001
The study explores the interactive clash
resulting from reforms, and institutional capacity at the
provincial level, as the main element to explain current
limitations,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21557Date: September 17, 2001
The study analyzes Chile's strong
economic growth, and well directed social programs, a
combination that reduced the poverty rate in half, during a
period of just eleven...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22037Date: August 30, 2001
The study analyzes Chile's strong
economic growth, and well directed social programs, a
combination that reduced the poverty rate in half, during a
period of just eleven...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22037Date: August 30, 2001
The study aims at assisting the
Government in undertaking an evaluation of the system of
secondary education, and skills development, in order to
plan the many complex...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22660Date: August 25, 2001
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