This review contains two parts: Part I
on public sector financial management and Part II on civil
service reform. Public sector financial management has been
improving...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17743Date: June 26, 1998
This report aims to provide an update on
the situation of poorer households in Rwanda three years
after the genocide in 1994, and to place on the table for
debate a...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17792Date: June 19, 1998
Rural development in Kyrgyz Republic
faces two problems: the need to reverse the decline in
agricultural production and sustain its recovery at
desirable long-term annual...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17734Date: June 10, 1998
Although some Caribbean countries
achieved satisfactory economic growth in 1996-97, the region
as a whole is still growing slowly. Tourism, other service
exports, and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17874Date: June 4, 1998
The sluggish agricultural growth during
most of the 1980's and the first half of the
1990's and the continued existence of significant
levels of poverty in the Philippines...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17979Date: May 29, 1998
The Eastern Caribbean has avoided the
financial crises that have hobbled economies elsewhere.
Despite this avoidance of crises, the financial sector has
serious problems....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17554Date: May 27, 1998
A brief overview of the economies of the
Caribbean provides a context to discuss the state of the
financial sector and its potential for development. The
countries or...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17556Date: May 26, 1998
The civil conflict continues to dominate
the Sri Lankan political agenda. While considerable progress
has been achieved by the Government in re-establishing
normal life...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17761Date: May 1, 1998
This report is part of a long-term
process of capacity building and mainstreaming of poverty
analysis in Bangladesh. Chapter 1 outlines the
collaborative, capacity-building...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17534Date: April 29, 1998
This report provides a preliminary
analysis of the situation in the three areas - health,
education, and poverty and social welfare - and lays out the
key issues facing...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17748Date: April 28, 1998
Transport is playing a vital role in
China's reorientation of its economy, from a planned
and centralized system to one that is increasingly
decentralized and market-based....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 15959Date: April 23, 1998
The report focuses on three key broad
areas of public policy in the health sector: the setting of
priorities for the use of public revenues; management
problems in the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 16695Date: April 22, 1998
The importance of groundwater to
India's economy and development prospects should not be
underestimated. The resource is of importance as a source of
drinking water...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 18324Date: April 22, 1998
This report describes Georgia's
present judicial system and the process of reforms designed
to increase its effectiveness and responsiveness to the
dispute resolution...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17356Date: April 10, 1998
This report analyzes trends in
agricultural credit and savings mobilization, examines the
performances of main rural financial intermediaries,
provides a diagnosis of...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17689Date: April 10, 1998
Slovenia's bid to join the European
Union (EU) provides an opportunityfor a new pushof profound
structural reforms. Membership will require Slovenia to
adjust its policies...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17741Date: March 30, 1998
This report examines the impact of the
transition of living standards in Kazakhstan, assesses the
scope for burgeoning growth to reduce poverty, and makes
recommendations...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 17520Date: March 22, 1998
Brazil suffers from a range of different
pollution problems which cause real economic damage in terms
of human health, quality of life, and ecological losses.
The most...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 16635Date: February 27, 1998
Brazil suffers from a range of different
pollution problems which cause real economic damage in terms
of human health, quality of life, and ecological losses.
The most...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 16635Date: February 27, 1998
Low income and poor social indicators
characterize the typical Ethiopia household, impoverished by
thirty years of civil conflict, three crippling droughts and
the previous...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 16860Date: February 27, 1998
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