This book summarizes social policy
reform during the transition and European Union accession
and analyses the social policy challenges which continue to
face both old...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34383Date: May 18, 2005Author:
Adeyi,Olusoji O. ;
Barr, Nicholas [editor] ;
Fretwell,David Herbert ;
Hanushek,Eric A. ;
Mertaugh,Michael T. ;
Preker,Alexander S. ;
Rashid,Mansoora ;
Ringold,Dena ;
Rutkowski,Jan Jerzy ;
Rutkowski,Michal J. ;
Sipos,Sandor
With a special focus on strategic
purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental
providers, this title reviews ways to make public spending
on health care...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34425Date: May 15, 2005Author:
Langenbrunner, John C. [editor] ;
Preker, Alexander S. [editor]
The strategy builds on the earlier
reform agenda in the sector by leveraging the achievements
to date of Sub-Saharan African countries to advance the
essential goal...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34366Date: May 10, 2005Author:
Ampah,Mavis A. ;
Besancon,Laurent ;
Guislain,Pierre ;
Niang,Cecile Thioro ;
Serot,Alexandre
Health Systems Innovations in Central
America reports on how these experiences fared -- a hospital
in Panama, a nutrition program in Honduras, primary care
extension...
Type: PublicationReport#: 33004Date: May 1, 2005Author:
La Forgia, Gerard M. [editor]
The book has a comprehensive
introduction and two main parts. Part I presents the
conceptual underpinnings for the Bank's thinking on
pension systems and reforms, including...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32672Date: May 1, 2005Author:
Holzmann,Robert ;
Hinz,Richard Paul ;
Von Gersdorff,Hermann A. ;
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Impavido,Gregorio ;
Musalem,Alberto Roque ;
Rutkowsk, Michal ;
Palacios,Robert J. ;
Robalino,David A. ;
Sin,Yvonne Yee Mun ;
Subbarao,Kalanidhi ;
Schwarz,Anita M.
Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other
natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds
of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in
economic losses...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34423Date: April 30, 2005Author:
Agwe,Jonathan N. ;
Arnold,Margaret ;
Buys,Piet ;
Chen, Robert S. ;
Deichmann,Uwe Klaus ;
Dilley, Maxx ;
Kjevstad, Oddvar ;
Lerner-Lam, Arthur L. ;
Lyon, Bradfield ;
Yetman, Gregory
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
and the Monterrey Consensus have created a powerful global
compact for development. But the continued credibility of
this compact...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32518Date: April 30, 2005
This book finds that there is a strong
positive association between including social development
themes and project success. The Bank's social
development resources...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34427Date: April 25, 2005Author:
Parker, Ronald Steven
In the wake of the periodic financial
crises of the late 1990s, the international financial
institutions and many experts have recognized the need for a
strategy to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34415Date: April 10, 2005Author:
Pomerleano, Michael [editor] ;
Shaw, William [editor]
Poverty reduction on a large scale
depends on empowering those who are most motivated to move
out of poverty-poor people themselves. But if empowerment
cannot be measured,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34410Date: April 8, 2005Author:
Narayan, Deepa [editor]
This study describes the status of the
emerging carbon market, as of May 2004. The carbon market
encompasses trades of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission
allowances (under...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34388Date: April 1, 2005Author:
Lecocq,Franck Michel
This evaluation assesses the relevance
and effectiveness of Bank support for public sector capacity
building in Africa, over the past 10 years. It draws on
studies of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34351Date: April 1, 2005
This issue includes the following:
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor: understanding
political incentives for providing public services by Philip
Keefer and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 38879Date: March 21, 2005Author:
Baffes,John ;
Das,Jishnu ;
Do,Quy-Toan ;
Keefer,Philip E. ;
Kessides,Ioannis N. ;
Khemani,Stuti ;
Ozler,Berk ;
Rawlings,Laura B. ;
Rubio, Gloria M.
Privatization is under attack. Beginning
in the 1980s, thousands of failing state-owned enterprises
worldwide have been turned over to the private sector. But
public...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34428Date: March 15, 2005Author:
Anuatti-Neto, Francisco ;
Barossi-Filho, Milton ;
Capra, Katherine ;
Chong, Alberto [editor] ;
Fischer,Ronald ;
Galiani,Sebastian Franco ;
Garron, Mauricio ;
Gertler,Paul J. ;
Gledson De Carvalho,Antonio ;
Gutierrez,Rodrigo ;
Lopez de Silanes, Florencio [editor] ;
Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio ;
Macedo, Robert ;
Machicado, Carlos ;
Pombo, Carlos ;
Ramirez, Manuel ;
Schargrodsky,Ernesto S. ;
Serra,Pablo J. ;
Sturzenegger,Federico ;
Torero,Maximo
This report provides key insights into
the social exclusion processes that affect Roma and Egyptian
communities in Albania - two of the most vulnerable minority
communities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32181Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Beddies,Sabine W. ;
De Soto,Hermine ;
Gedeshi, Ilir
Economic Growth in Latin America and the
Caribbean analyzes whether economic reforms have been
beneficial to growth in the region. In doing so, it
recognizes that growth...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32180Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Calderon,Cesar ;
Fajnzylber,Pablo ;
Loayza,Norman V.
Examining the experience of the
Canada-Vietnam remittances corridor over the past several
years, this title is a first step towards identifying the
main features and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32179Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Hernandez-Coss,Raul E.
This report looks at the issue of aid
effectiveness as it is affected by harmonization, alignment,
and managing for results. It recognizes that aid
effectiveness, important...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39020Date: March 1, 2005
On May 1, 2004 Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania joined the European Union. This had a significant
impact on day-to-day trade practices with other EU countries
and with...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31121Date: February 1, 2005Author:
Hoffmann,Torsten M. ;
Naula,Tapio Kalle Olavi ;
Ojala,Lauri M.
Agricultural water management is a vital
practice in ensuring reduction, and environmental
protection. After decades of successfully expanding
irrigation and improving...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34361Date: February 1, 2005Author:
Abdel-Dayem,Mohamed Safwat Youssef ;
Abdel-Gawed, Shaden ;
Bahtia, Ramesh ;
Bastiaanssen, Wim ;
Bazza, Mohamed ;
Burt,Charles M. ;
Burton,Martin A. ;
Chisholm,Richard H. E. ;
Davis,James Richard ;
De Jong, Cor ;
Dinar,Ariel ;
Doraiswamy, R. ;
Eisa,Hamdy M. ;
Farah,Jumana ;
Fernandes,Erick C.M. ;
Gardiner, Peter ;
Hachum, Ahmed ;
Herman,Theodore ;
Keller,Jack ;
Koenig,Peter ;
Linares, Carol ;
Mcglynn,Tony ;
Molinga, Peter ;
Naugle,Jonathan A. ;
Noordman,Edwin ;
Ochs,Walter John ;
Oliemans, William ;
Olson,Douglas C. ;
Oweis, Theib ;
Pearce,Geoffrey ;
Perry,Christopher J. ;
Plusquellec,Herve L. ;
Reddy,Rama Chandra ;
Scott, Christopher ;
Sellen, Danielle ;
Shah, Tushar ;
Shetty,Shobha ;
Simpson,Larry D. ;
Smaling,Eric ;
Smedema, Bert ;
Smith,Ross William ;
Van Steenbergen,Frank W. M. ;
Stoutjesdijk,Joop ;
Sur,Mona ;
Tuinhof,Albert ;
Vermillion,Douglas Lynn ;
Ward,Christopher S. ;
Wilhite,Donald Addison ;
Xie,Mei
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