In 2001,the Egyptian government
announced its intention to build on progress toward improved
child health, and education by increasing enrollment rates
in kindergarten...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24772Date: September 30, 2002
Kazakhstan is exceptionally endowed with
petroleum, and mineral resources. However, since
independence, the vast majority of new investment in the
sector has been devoted...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24708Date: September 30, 2002
The report provides a synthesis of the
main results obtained on the evolution of poverty, and other
indicators of well being over the 1990s, and is intended to
facilitate...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23366Date: September 20, 2002
This report evaluates the shortcomings
of current housing policies, and provides a framework for
analysis of alternative policies. Its message is threefold:
First, housing...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22534Date: September 16, 2002
This report evaluates the shortcomings
of current housing policies, and provides a framework for
analysis of alternative policies. Its message is threefold:
First, housing...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22534Date: September 16, 2002
This regional economic report, evaluates
the strategy that the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have
chosen towards liberalizing their economies, and, analyzes
as well...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24417Date: September 10, 2002
This study reviews the available
quantitative and qualitative information on urban poverty
issues and trends in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region,
with particular...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 31421Date: September 1, 2002
This study reviews the available
quantitative and qualitative information on urban poverty
issues and trends in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region,
with particular...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 31421Date: September 1, 2002
The convertibility law, and economic
liberalization in the early 1990s in Argentina, brought
about dramatic changes in economic performance. To adjust to
increasing...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22803Date: August 31, 2002
The recent economic shock provided an
incentive for carrying out the analysis of Colombia's
safety net of national social assistance. Even though
economic growth recovered...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22255Date: August 30, 2002
Malnutrition is crippling Bolivia, and
the country must now face the political, and bureaucratic
failure in addressing malnutrition. This study defines the
nature, and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24691Date: August 20, 2002
The purpose of this study is to increase
knowledge about state capacity in Nigeria by taking stock of
governance issues, including public financial management and
civil...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24477Date: July 23, 2002
The study aims to contribute towards a
national urban strategy, in an effort to maximize
Mexico's cities competitiveness, and livelihoods, in
the urban economists' terms...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22525Date: July 15, 2002
The world's worst nuclear accident
occurred in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, releasing at least
100 times as much radiation as the atomic bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23883Date: July 15, 2002
The study aims to contribute towards a
national urban strategy, in an effort to maximize
Mexico's cities competitiveness, and livelihoods, in
the urban economists' terms...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 22525Date: July 15, 2002
This sector note aims to assist the
Government, and the Ministry of Education in developing a
joint strategy, and action plan for the education, and
training sector,...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24448Date: July 8, 2002
In light of deteriorating economic
relations between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza, and
suspended peace negotiations, it is timely at this juncture
between the lapsed...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 23765Date: July 1, 2002
This Policy and Strategy Paper
contributes to an ongoing policy debate-within the Bank but
also with its client governments-about the role of tree
crops in various production...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 26203Date: July 1, 2002
The Thailand Country Development
Partnership for Social Protection (CDP-SP) is a
collaborative program of policy development and technical
assistance between the Ministry...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24378Date: June 30, 2002
The report is the third in a series of
reports that evolved from a collaboration between the local
government of the City of Johannesburg, and the World Bank
in 1999-2000...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24449Date: June 30, 2002
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