Like the 2003 Fifth World Parks Congress
in Durban, South Africa, this publication is structured
around themes and issues on the cutting edge of research,
policy, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34847Date: August 30, 2003
The authors explore the ecological
worldviews of eleven major world religions, and consider how
these can help shape effective environmental policy. At the
heart of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26975Date: August 30, 2003Author:
Palmer, Martin; Finaly, Victoria;
The study is the first-ever Public
Expenditure and Institutional Review (PEIR) on Bulgaria by
the World Bank. It outlines public expenditure issues, and
policy directions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26974Date: August 30, 2003
This is the first full-scale World Bank
Public Expenditure Review for Armenia, which reviews the
main fiscal trends in the country for the period 1997-2001,
and develops...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26973Date: August 30, 2003
India's trade policy establishment
is perceived to be somewhat wary of multilateral engagement,
even though India is implementing substantial economic, and
trade policy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26971Date: August 30, 2003Author:
Chadha, Rajesh; Brown, Drusilla K.;
Deardorff, A ;
Mattoo, Aaditya; Stern, Robert M. [editors] ;
Singh, Harsha Vardhana; Agrawal, Pradeep;
Das, S
International barriers to services trade
are deeply intertwined with national regulatory, investment,
and immigration policies. Accordingly, the liberalization of
trade...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26977Date: August 30, 2003Author:
Evans, Peter C.; Luff, David; ;
Iida, Keiya; Nielson, Julia; Trachtman, Joel P.; ;
Mattoo, Aaditya; Sauve, Pierre [editors]
This report focuses on one specific
interaction: the role of forests, and particularly protected
forests, in maintaining quality of drinking water for large
cities....
Type: PublicationReport#: 29283Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Dudley,Nigel ;
Stolton, Sue
Development is about fundamental change
in economic structures, about the movement of resources out
of agriculture to services and industry, about migration to
cities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26890Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Bourguignon, Francois ;
Pereira da Silva, Luiz A.
The objective of this report is to
design an integrated strategy for rural poverty reduction in
Brazil. It contains an updated and detailed profile of the
rural poor...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26760Date: August 1, 2003
HIV/AIDS in Latin America falls within
the framework of a low endemic setting. In the majority of
the countries, the epidemic is still concentrated in
high-risk populations:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27581Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Anabela Garcia Abreu, Isabel Noguer, and
Karen Cowgill
The richness of the research papers in
this volume makes it difficult to quickly capture the main
themes and implications of their research. But three
repeated themes...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27210Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Yazbeck, Abdo S.[editor] ;
Peters, David H. (editor)
The channels through which geography
influences economic and social development can be studied at
different levels and perspectives of time. Countries are the
basic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27161Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Gallup, John Luke ;
Gaviria, Alejandro ;
Lora, Eduardo
"From Vision to Action", the
Bank's previous rural development strategy launched in
1997, had a decisive influence on global thinking - but
disappointing results on...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26763Date: August 1, 2003
The development story in Vietnam in
recent years has been one of remarkable progress (Dollar
2002). Over the 1990s, the economy doubled and the incidence
of poverty...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26976Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Stoyan Tenev, Amanda Carlier, Omar Chaudry,
and Quynh-Trang Nguyen
Money convenient, and inexpensive means
of transferring funds into Afghanistan and among its
provinces. They offer a diverse range of financial and
non-financial business...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26972Date: August 1, 2003Author:
Samuel Munzele Maimbo
The United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) and the World Bank joined forces in April 1999 to
provide a fresh perspective on the global effort to address
malnutrition,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26594Date: July 31, 2003Author:
Gillespie, Stuart [editor] ;
McLachlan, Milla [editor] ;
Shrimpton, Roger [editor]
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest and
historically most productive estuary in the United States.
It is approximately 200 miles long and 35 mile wide at it
broadest point....
Type: PublicationReport#: 26599Date: July 1, 2003Author:
Rita Cestti, Jitendra Srivastava, and Samira Jung
The document is structured in three
parts covering the key thematic areas of water supply
service delivery, sanitation service delivery, and overall
policy. Each part...
The Californian power crisis appears to
have greatly rekindled the latent doubts on moving to more
competitive market structures for such an essential service
as electricity....
Type: PublicationReport#: 26516Date: July 1, 2003Author:
Venkataraman, Krishnaswamy, and Gary Stuggins
This document is designed to promote the
development of infrastructure services in Honduras, with the
aim of improving the country's competitiveness and
contributing...
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