The first central message of this report
is that Brazil has over the last years achieved great
progress in its social policies and indicators. The second
central message...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20475Date: March 31, 2001
This report draws on limited, available
data to analyze selected economic, and social issues, which
include better understanding of poverty, and inequality in
relation...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21833Date: March 30, 2001
A major policy objective of the
Government of Nepal is to develop its vast hydro power
resource potential, to serve electricity needs, and generate
export revenue. But,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21912Date: March 19, 2001
The report assesses the "Bolsa
Escola" programs in Brazil, which are poverty-targeted
social assistance programs, that provide cash grants to poor
families with school-age...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20208Date: March 15, 2001
The Ministry of Water and Irrigation,
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, invited the Bank to assist in
updating the Water Sector Review of 1997 as an input into
the formulation...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21946Date: February 15, 2001
The report discusses the principal
economic, and social reform policy tasks, Kosovo is facing,
following the decade-long losses due to civic exclusion of a
major part...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21784Date: February 1, 2001
A Structural Policy Review (SPR) for
Malaysia, prepared in late 1998 and early 1999, was shared
with the government of Malaysia in February 1999 and
subsequently appeared...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20813Date: January 17, 2001
The report reviews the Bank's
private sector development strategy in Indonesia,
stipulating that the country's potential will not be
realized without a pattern of private...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21581Date: January 10, 2001
The objective of this paper is to serve
as an input into the on-going discussions concerning
sectoral and cross-sectoral aspects of the strategy.
Following this introduction,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 26297Date: January 1, 2001
The study examines Bangladesh's
extreme vulnerability to climate change, whose low-lying
topography, and funnel-shaped coast, further exposes the
land to cyclones, and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21104Date: December 19, 2000
This private sector assessment (PSA)
aims at evaluating conditions for private sector development
in Tunisia, how they evolved since 1994, and what are the
remaining...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20173Date: December 14, 2000
This private sector assessment (PSA)
aims at evaluating conditions for private sector development
in Tunisia, how they evolved since 1994, and what are the
remaining...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20173Date: December 14, 2000
This private sector assessment (PSA)
aims at evaluating conditions for private sector development
in Tunisia, how they evolved since 1994, and what are the
remaining...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20173Date: December 14, 2000
The study outlines the socioeconomic
development strategy for Vietnam, during the first decade of
the twenty first century, envisaging sustainable economic
development,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21411Date: November 29, 2000
The study reviews the strategy for a
prospective health development, and the health benefits
associated with decentralization, in a likely challenging
near to medium...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21318Date: November 17, 2000
The study reviews Uruguay's
financial sector, identifying a well-developed banking
sector, which reflects off-shore banking growth stimulated
by regional macroeconomic...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20199Date: November 15, 2000
Public finances in Pakistan have been
characterized by unsustainably, high fiscal deficits; poor
revenue mobilization; a persistent trend of centralization;
massive...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21362Date: November 10, 2000
The intensive development of tourism in
the Gulf of Aqaba presents both an opportunity and a dilemma
for Egypt. Intensive tourism, if left unmanaged, can inflict
irreversible...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21059Date: November 6, 2000
The Gulf of Aqaba Environmental Action
Plan (GAEAP) represents for the Government of Israel a step
towards achieving the national environmental objectives
outlined in...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 21060Date: November 6, 2000
The report assesses the main factors
which constrain the sustainable development of the Gezira
Scheme (GS), to develop medium, to long term plans,
including short-term...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 20398Date: October 27, 2000
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