This study evaluated present levels of
access to financial services in Brazil and government
policies that have had an impact on access. Based on these
findings, the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30858Date: August 1, 2004Author:
Kumar,Anjali
This latest Voices of the Poor study
advances the participatory research tradition of the
previous World Bank Voices works with new modules focusing
on poor peoples'...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29890Date: July 1, 2004Author:
Arboleda,Jairo A. ;
Blackburn,James ;
Petesch,Patti L.
This study, perhaps the first of its
kind in this region, is based on a study that explores the
practice of casual sex among truck drivers, and commercial
sex workers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29891Date: July 1, 2004Author:
Kulis, Marzena; Chawla, Mukesh;
Kozierkiewicz, A
This paper takes stock of
Madagascar's first 10 years of decentralization. As it
happened in many other developing countries, particularly in
Africa, Madagascar's decentralization...
This volume reports on research projects
initiated, under way, or completed from July 2003 through
June 2004. It covers 151 research projects on several broad
development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34041Date: July 1, 2004Author:
World Bank
Brazil entered the 1990s suffering the
consequences of a lost decade of high inflation and slow
growth. Between 1980 and 1990, per capita income declined in
real terms,...
This book is designed primarily to help
readers broaden their knowledge of global issues, gain
insight into their country's situation in a global
context, and understand...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24894Date: July 1, 2004Author:
Soubbotina, Tatyana P.
The paper cover two broad themes in the
recent reform of fiscal and economic management in
Afghanistan. The first part, The Journey So Far, sets out
the impressive policy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29698Date: July 1, 2004Author:
Bontjer,Richard ;
Carnahan,Michael Edward ;
Guimbert,Stephane ;
Manning, Nick
A major section of over 720 million
rural poor in India continue to depend on biomass sources
for meeting their energy requirements. Most of these poor
people continue...
Type: PublicationReport#: 38124Date: June 30, 2004Author:
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) / edit
How should governments respond to the
increasing domestic and international pressures to finance
antiretroviral therapy for AIDS patients? Once prohibitively
expensive...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29706Date: June 23, 2004Author:
Gold,Julian ;
Gupta,Indrani ;
Heywood,Peter F. ;
Hira,Subhash Khimandas ;
Marseille,Elliot Alexander ;
Over,A. Mead
This study analyzes the fiscal,
efficiency, social, and environmental impact of power sector
reforms in seven countries in the ECA region. It finds
sector deficits have...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29788Date: June 1, 2004Author:
Lampietti, Julian
This study aims to contribute to the
debate about the appropriateness of health-related
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the countries of the
Europe and Central...
This study serves as the preliminary
basis for further rounds of discussions and analyses among
stakeholders to arrive at a strategic vision for the Eritrea
health sector....
The objective of the study is to analyze
conflict-induced displacement from the point of view of
vulnerability, using a multifaceted definition of
vulnerability. As...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29697Date: June 1, 2004Author:
Holtzman,Steven B. ;
Nezam,Taies
China's accession to the WTO
requires a great many specific policy reforms. However, if
the best results are to be obtained, it is important that
these reforms be implemented...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29897Date: June 1, 2004Author:
Bhattasali,Deepak ;
Martin, Will ;
Li,Shantong
The purpose of this study, carried out
in the Kyrgyz Republic in 1999, was to investigate the
impact of socioeconomic change on the characteristics and
functions of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29789Date: June 1, 2004Author:
Dudwick,Nora ;
Kuehnast,Kathleen Rae
The study provides a detailed
quantitative analysis, based on standard econometric models,
of the trends and the configuration of trade of the CIS
countries, with an...
This study argues that adoption
strengthening of a competition law regime is a key component
of the regulatory reforms, which are required to allow a
market economy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29702Date: June 1, 2004Author:
Geradin,Damien
This Global Monitoring Report is the
first in a series of annual reports assessing the
implementation of policies and actions for achieving the
Millennium Development...
This report presents the results of an
assessment of poverty conditions in Mexico, and of the
Government strategies to reduce poverty. It constitutes the
first phase...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31115Date: June 1, 2004Author:
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C. ;
Walton,Michael
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