Infrastructure industries and services
are crucial for generating economic growth, alleviating
poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. Safe
water is essential...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28985Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Kessides,Ioannis N.
Fish species that migrate within the
great rivers of South America support important local
fisheries but are little known outside their native range.
This book, written...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29828Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Carolsfeld, Joachim ;
Harvey, Brian ;
Ross, Carmen
This book identifies the economic and
social obstacles that women in the Middle East and North
Africa face in seeking employment. It also analyzes the
potential economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28115Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Chamlou,Nadereh ;
Nabli,Mustapha Kamel
Many East Asian economies have grown
briskly in the past few years. However, future development
will depend on the quality and timeliness of regional and
national policy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29880Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Altaf, M. Anjum ;
Nabeshima, Kaoru [editors] ;
Yusuf,Shahid
A universal concern in infrastructure
reforms is the effect such reforms have on labor.
State-owned infrastructure firms often employ more people
than required for efficiency,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28823Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Kikeri,Sunita ;
Smulders,Olaf ;
Terry Green ;
Brend
The book clarifies many policy, and
technical issues that confront resettlement policymakers,
and practitioners. It provides guidance on resettlement
design, implementation,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30118Date: January 1, 2004
In developing countries the twin tasks
of building more dispersed and democratic governments and
opening economies to freer markets and greater private
ownership have...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27711Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Mila Freire, and John Petersen [editors],
with M
This book highlights the gender
dimensions of conflict, organized around major relevant
themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal
and informal peace...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30494Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Bannon,Ian ;
Bouta, Tsjeard ;
Frerks, Georg
This evaluation builds upon OED's
earlier work to assess how well the PRS Initiative has
helped thus far in putting the CDF principles into action,
how relevant it is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30226Date: January 1, 2004
Part One provides a first look from the
"supply side" at the reaction of the political
risk insurance market to September 11, 2001, the Argentine
economic crisis, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28044Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Moran H., Theodore [Editor]
This study addresses three questions :
why do inequalities matter for Brazil's development?
Why does Brazil occupy a position of very high inequality in
the international...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30114Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Bourguignon, F.; Ferreira, F.H.G.; Menendez, M.; ;
Medeiros, M.; Soares, S.; Blom, A. ;
Velez, C.E.; de Barros, R.P.; Ferreira, F.; Elbe
Controlling corruption is an essential
part of good governance, and poverty reduction, and it poses
an enormous challenge for governments around the world. This
report...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28401Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Gray,Cheryl W. ;
Hellman,Joel ;
Ryterman,Randi Susan
China's accession to the World
Trade Organization, policy reform, and poverty reduction :
an introduction; by Deepak Bhattasali, Li Shantong, and Will
Martin. Impacts...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29663Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Bhattasali,Deepak ;
Chang, Min ;
Chen,Shaohua ;
Francois, Joseph F. ;
Huang, Jikun ;
Martin, Will ;
Messerlin,Patrick A. ;
Ravallion,Martin ;
Rozelle,Scott Douglas ;
Li,Shantong ;
Spinanger,Dean ;
Winters, L. Alan [editor]
The world of religion has been
unacknowledged and often unseen by many development
practitioners. The areas of common concern and activity,
though, are numerous and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29879Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Keough,Lucy H. ;
Marshall,Katherine
The book clarifies many policy, and
technical issues that confront resettlement policymakers,
and practitioners. It provides guidance on resettlement
design, implementation,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30118Date: January 1, 2004
The evolution of the right to water can
be traced to the developments of the early 1970s. This Study
analyzes the resolutions and declarations of the various
conferences...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30229Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Mcinerney-Lankford,Siobhan ;
Salman,Salman M. A.
This sourcebook aims to support efforts
by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector
in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was developed in response
to numerous...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28259Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Bundy,Donald A. P. ;
Beasley,N. Michael ;
Valerio,Alexandria
The articles in this volume were
presented at the fifth annual Berlin Workshop, held in July
2002, and sponsored by InWEnt-Capacity Building
International, Germany,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28403Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Pleskovic,Boris ;
Kochendorfer-Lucius,Gudrun
Government debt management has a long
tradition. More than three centuries ago, the Bank of
England was managing government debt, and the origins of
Sweden's National...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28988Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Wheeler,Graeme Paul
This review of the active portfolio of
World Bank projects aimed at improving urban environmental
quality was carried out during 2002-03 in order to assess
the level...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28817Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Bigio,Anthony G. ;
Dahiya,Bharat
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