This report is the main output of a
medium-sized project supported by the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) known formally as 'towards a lake basin
management initiative:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63920Date: January 1, 2005
This report analyzes the
government's decision on the outcome of a series of
small power shifts triggered by pro-reform players. Reform
advocates devised them whenever...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31672Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Aw,Djibril ;
Diemer,Geert
As the world marketplace becomes ever
more globalized, much is at stake for the prosperity of
hundreds of millions of people in Europe and Central Asia as
the region's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35349Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Broadman, Harry G. [editor]
Health services can make an important
contribution to improved health conditions among
disadvantaged groups. Yet as the contents of this volume
make clear, the health...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34716Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Gwatkin, Davidson R. [editor] ;
Wagstaff, Adam [editor] ;
Yazbeck, Abdo S. [editor] ;
Qamruddin, Jumana ;
Waters, Hugh ;
Grabowsky, Mark ;
Farrell, Nick ;
Chimumbwa, John ;
Nobiya, Theresa ;
Wolkon, Adam ;
Selanikio, Joel ;
Montagu, Dominic ;
Prata, Ndola ;
Campbell, Martha M. ;
Walsh, Juli ;
Orero, Solomon ;
Thiede, Michael ;
Palmer, Natasha ;
Mbatsha, Sandi ;
Anwar, A.T.M. Iqbal ;
Killewo, Japhet ;
Chowdhury, Mahbub-E-Elahi ;
Dasgupta, Sushil Kanta ;
Schwartz, J. Brad ;
Bhushan, Indu ;
Ranson, M. Kent ;
Joshi, Palak ;
Shah, Mittal ;
Shaikh, Yasmin ;
Peters, David ;
Rao, Krishna ;
Ramana, G.N.V. ;
Malhotra, Anju ;
Mathur, Sanyukta ;
Pande, Rohini ;
Roca, Eva ;
Gasparini, Leonardo C. ;
Panadeiros, Monica ;
Barros, Aluisio J.D. ;
Victora, Cesar G. ;
Cesar, Juraci A. ;
Neumann, Nelson Arns ;
Bertoldi, Andrea D. ;
Valdivia, Martin
How will developing countries fare in
this new international environment? This book brings
together empirical research that assesses the effects of
changing intellectual...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34436Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Fink, Carsten [editor] ;
Maskus, Keith E. [editor]
This book explores the outstanding
issues in global agricultural trade policy and evolving
world production and trade patterns. Its coverage of
agricultural trade issues...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34429Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Aksoy, M. Ataman [editor] ;
Beghin,John C.
Nations around the world (both large and
small, rich and poor) are engaged in debate over how to
reform their social security systems and care for the aged.
For many...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34433Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Packard,Truman G. ;
Pugatch,Todd ;
Yermo,Juan
This compact but comprehensive expose of
the best international practical experience in catastrophe
risk management at the country level outlines the key
challenges...
Type: PublicationReport#: 193290Date: December 31, 2004Author:
World Bank
Many countries have enacted or attempted
to pass legislation supporting the rights of indigenous
peoples, and countries have directed greater shares of
national resources...
Type: PublicationReport#: 193289Date: December 31, 2004Author:
Hall,Gillette H. ;
Patrinos,Haralambos Anthony
This volume takes a critical look at the
country's social protection "system" -
broadly defined to include policy interventions, public
institutions, and the regulation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34421Date: December 22, 2004
This publication brings together
original sociological research, evaluations of programs, and
the first comparative cross-country household survey on
ethnicity and poverty....
This report covers the Western
Hemisphere payments and securities settlement forum center
for Latin American monetary studies and focuses on several
issues. The first...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45355Date: December 1, 2004
Analyzing the experience of Mexico under
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
"Lessons from NAFTA" aims to provide guidance to
Latin American and Caribbean...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34435Date: November 15, 2004Author:
Lederman,Daniel ;
Maloney,William F. ;
Serven,Luis
This study assesses key issues and
recommendations for development, and reviews the specific
changes which are necessary in four areas: structural
reforms, market institutions,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30991Date: November 1, 2004
The proliferation of regional trade
agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade
landscape. The number of agreements in force surpasses 200
and has risen eight-fold...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34437Date: November 1, 2004
The aim of this volume is to draw
international attention to the key role that education can
play in both preventing conflict and in reconstructing
post-conflict societies....
Type: PublicationReport#: 34419Date: October 15, 2004Author:
Buckland,Francis Peter
This report aims to provide an objective
assessment of the condition of Rwanda's infrastructure
sectors and of the institutional and policy frameworks that
are associated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34417Date: October 14, 2004
Zambia's economy is not growing
fast. Poverty is on the rise. The quality of economic
governance is on the decline. And public resources are not
well spent. The badly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34424Date: October 12, 2004Author:
Adugna, Adebe ;
Dinh,Hinh Truong ;
Myers,C. Bernard
This volume presents a collection of
studies on the dynamics of income inequality based on micro
data. Using a simple but powerful empirical methodology, the
authors...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30596Date: October 1, 2004Author:
Bourguignon,Alain Jean-Francois ;
Ferreira,Francisco H. G. ;
Lusting, Nora
The Russia corporate governance manual
has been divided into and is published in six parts: (i)
corporate governance introduced; (ii) good board practices;
(iii) shareholder...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43182Date: September 22, 2004Author:
Karapetyan, Davit
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