Examining the experience of the
U.S.-Mexico remittances corridor over the last eight years,
this title derives specific lessons that could be applicable
to other remittance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31671Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Hernandez-Coss,Raul E.
This book reviews the role of addressing
within the array of urban management tools and explores the
links between addressing and civic identity, urban
information systems,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32923Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Toyos-Chavez,Roberto C. ;
Farvacque-Vitkovic,Catherine D. ;
Godin,Lucien M. ;
Leroux, Hughes ;
Verdet, Florence
In the global knowledge economy of the
twenty-first century, India's development policy
challenges will require it to use knowledge more effectively
to raise the productivity...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32924Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Dahlman,Carl J. ;
Utz,Anuja
This handbook aims to make a positive
contribution to the efforts that many countries are
undertaking to modernize their customs administrations. The
handbook views...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31477Date: January 1, 2005Author:
De Wulf, Luc [editor] ;
Sokol, Jose B. [editor]
This paper is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 investigates the extent to
which the supply of banking services has increased or
diminished over...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34379Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Beck,Thorsten ;
De Xavier Pinto,Cristine Campos ;
Chattopadhyay,Soumya ;
Kumar,Anjali
This paper proposes a systematic and
pragmatic approach to planning and conducting
self-assessments of country and program strategies. The
approach, which is grounded...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34375Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Rodriguez-Garcia,Rosalia ;
White,Elizabeth M.
While the countries of Eastern Europe
and the Former Soviet Union have made significant progress
in reducing poverty in the past five years, poverty and
vulnerability...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34043Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Alam,Asad ;
Dudwick,Nora ;
Hamilton,Ellen ;
Murrugarra,Edmundo ;
Murthi,Mamta ;
Tiongson,Erwin H. R. ;
Yemtsov,Ruslan G.
The book is organized in two parts. The
first part looks at issues of long-term growth and
development patterns, and the second part focuses on issues
of macroeconomic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34434Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Ocampo, Jose Antonio [editor]
The main objective of this regional
paper is to provide an in-depth diagnostic of where Central
American countries stand along several education dimensions,
underscoring...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34349Date: January 1, 2005
This book evaluates the relevance and
effectiveness of Bank assistance to China since the early
1990s. The author finds that the Bank has made important
contributions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32332Date: January 1, 2005
This publication intends to improve the
chances of success of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) in
two ways: 1. To show policymakers how strategic
communication can...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35881Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Mozammel,Masud ;
Odugbemi,Adesinaola Michael
Deeper economic integration with the
enlarged European Union - which accounts for a quarter of
global GDP and foreign direct investment - could become a
main driver...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32530Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Muller-Jentsch,Daniel
This book brings together the insights
and experiences of some of the world's leading
policymakers and global thought leaders, individuals who
have had substantial influence...
Type: PublicationReport#: 32921Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Besley, Timothy [editor] ;
Zagha, Roberto [editor] ;
Ahluwalia, Montek S. ;
Aninat, Eduardo ;
Balcerowicz, Leszek ;
Blejer, Mario I. ;
Botchwey, Kwesi ;
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique ;
Dervis, Kemal ;
Foxley, Alejandro ;
Gaidar, Yegor ;
Hunaidi, Rima Khalaf ;
Summers, Lawrence H. ;
Williamson, John ;
Xiaochuan, Zhou
Microfinance institutions of four types
have emerged to meet the unfulfilled financing needs of
micro-entrepreneurs: commercial banks, specialized NGO-type
microfinance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39649Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Bossoutrot, Sylvie K.
This issue includes the following:
globalization, poverty, and inequality since 1980 by David
Dollar; data and dogma: the great Indian poverty debate by
Angus Deaton...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43613Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Dollar, David; Deaton, Angus; Kozel,
Valerie; Graham, Carol; Buckley, Robert M.; Kalariclta,
Jerry; Montiel, Peter J.
If illegal logging was a crime involving
only poor forest-dependent people, truck drivers or
underpaid forest rangers, it would not be difficult to stop.
With involvement...
The Center for International Forestry
Research (CIFOR) receives its major funding from
governments, international development organizations,
private foundations and...
The nine Pacific Member Countries (PMCs)
of the World Bank Group are Fiji Islands, Kiribati, the
Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau,
Samoa,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35627Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Danilova,Danuta ;
De Silva,Asita R. ;
Hope,Nicholas C. ;
Joshi,Janice ;
Peters, R. Kyle ;
Tidrick,Gene
Tunisia has successfully shifted from
resource-based exports dominated by oil and gas to
manufactures and services. The economy is now driven mainly
by textile, electrical,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 33348Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Hassan,Fareed M. A.
Protection of sound management of
coastal and marine areas is acknowledged as important
mechanisms for alleviating poverty in the developing
tropics. Tanzania has had...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34380Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Hewawasam, Indumathie [editor] ;
Ngoile, Magnus [editor] ;
Ruitenbeekm Jack [editor]
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