Viet Nam is an economic success story -
it transformed itself from a country in the 1980s as one of
the poorest in the world, to a country in the 1990s with one
of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29086Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Glewwe, Paul [editor] ;
Agrawal, Nisha [editor] ;
Dollar, David [editor] ;
Gallup, John Luke ;
Vijverberg, Wim P.M. ;
Haughton, Jonathan ;
Benjamin, Dwayne ;
Brandt, Loren ;
van de Walle, Dominique ;
Minot, Nicholas ;
Baulch, Bob ;
Truong Thi Kim Chuyen ;
Haughton, Dominique ;
Wagstaff, Adam ;
Nga Nguyet Nguyen ;
Koch, Stefanie ;
Bui Linh Nguyen ;
Trivedi, Pravin K. ;
Edmonds, Eric ;
Tirk, Carrie ;
Phong Nguyen ;
Cox, Donald
The extent of premature death and ill
health in the developing world is staggering. In 2000 almost
11 million children died before their fifth birthday, an
estimated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29673Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Wagstaff, Adam; Claeson, Mariam
This Annual Review of Environment
Matters, dedicated to Economic Growth and the Environment,
brings together a wide variety of external and internal
viewpoints on the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30956Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Acharya,Anjali ;
Ahmend, Kulsum ;
Aparakka-Hermantha, Ayesha ;
Cardenas Jimenez, Alberto ;
Gelb,Alan Harold ;
Ghosh,Prodipto ;
Hamilton,Kirk E. ;
Ijjasz-Vasquez, Jorge [editor] ;
Miller,Doug ;
Pearce, David ;
Seymour, Francis ;
Warford,Jeremy James ;
Watson, Robert ;
Wheeler, David ;
Xie Zhenhua
The report looks at Lesotho, a
predominantly mountainous, land-locked, poor country with a
small population, limited natural resources, and a very
fragile ecology. It...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34354Date: January 1, 2004
This study is intended to help underpin
a more coordinated, effective approach to assessing and
reforming systems for public expenditure, procurement, and
financial...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27584Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Richard Allen, Salvatore Schiavo-Campo, and Thom
Rwanda's recent history was marred
by genocide in 1994, in which at least ten percent of the
population lost their lives. Rebuilding the stock of human
capital is an...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28112Date: January 1, 2004
Drawing on a database of more than one
hundred anti-poverty interventions in 47 countries, this
report provides a general review of experiences with methods
used to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30230Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Coady, David ;
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Hoddinott,John
The overview of the Global Economic
Prospects (GEP) 2004 addresses the Doha Agenda and its
effects or failures on global trade integration. The
document contains commentary...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27765Date: January 1, 2004
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
In 1993 the Board of the World Bank
endorsed a Water Resources Management Policy Paper (WRMPP).
In that paper, and in this Strategy, water resources
management comprises...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28114Date: January 1, 2004
Forest resources directly contribute to
the livelihoods of 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people
living in extreme poverty and indirectly support the natural
environment...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29704Date: January 1, 2004
This book examines the effects of the
changing global geography of production for the growth
prospects of East Asian economies. The authors conclude that
in the face...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29888Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Yusuf,Shahid ;
Altaf, M. Anjum ;
Nabeshima, Koru
After the breakup of the Soviet Union,
the commonwealth of independent states (CIS-7) faced
exceptional challenges in building new states, democratic
institutions, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 99011Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Khan,Mohammed Mohsin ;
Katsu,Shigeo ;
Otoo,Samuel K. E. ;
Sattar,Sarosh ;
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T. ;
Helbling, Thomas ;
Mody,Ashoka ;
Sahay,Ratna ;
Lane, Philip R. ;
Pomfret,Richard W. ;
Betley,Mary ;
Falkingham,Jane C. ;
Cord,Louise J. ;
Lopez,Ramon E. ;
Huppi,Monika ;
Melo,Oscar A. ;
Jones Luong,Pauline ;
Vandycke,Nancy L. ;
Michalopoulos,Constantine ;
Kennedy, David ;
Fankhauser,Samuel ;
Raiser,Martin
Since 1989 the transition countries of
Europe and Central Asia (ECA) have undertaken massive
reforms of their economic systems, transforming
institutions, processes,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30264Date: January 1, 2004
Jamaica's economic history is one
of paradoxes, and potential - it has an English-speaking,
and reasonably well-educated labor force, is close to the
world's largest...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29101Date: January 1, 2004
This report completes the second phase
of the Operations Evaluation Department's independent
evaluation of the World Bank's involvement in global
programs. This Phase...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39647Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Lele, Uma ;
Gerrard, Chris
In 1993 the Board of the World Bank
endorsed a Water Resources Management Policy Paper (WRMPP).
In that paper, and in this Strategy, water resources
management comprises...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28114Date: January 1, 2004
This study provides the most
comprehensive and detailed analysis available on factors
behind the decline in maternal mortality in Malaysia and Sri
Lanka in the past...
The papers in this collection span 21
years of thinking and writing about health economics, first
at the Pan American Health Organization (1982-1990) and then
at the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27927Date: December 1, 2003Author:
Musgrove, Philip [editor]
The worldwide concern with deforestation
of Brazilian Amazonia is motivated not only by the
irreversible loss of this natural wealth, but also by the
perception that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27715Date: December 1, 2003Author:
Sergio Margulis
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