The report reviews basic growth, as
being one of four pillars for Nicaragua's poverty
reduction strategy. The well-being of the rural poor will
continue its dependence...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26383Date: June 30, 2003
Land policies are of fundamental
importance to sustainable growth, good governance, and the
well-being of, and the economic opportunities open to, both
rural and urban...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26384Date: June 30, 2003Author:
Deininger,Klaus W.
This issue, which serves as the annual
review on the environment, looks at the Bank's work
from July 2002 through June 2003, dedicated this year to
Water and the Environment,...
During the course of 2002-03 the
Bank's Operations Evaluation Department (OED) held a
series of major events, including seminars and workshops,
leading up to the thirtieth...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26356Date: June 30, 2003Author:
Grasso,Patrick G. ;
Wasty,Sulaiman S. ;
Weaving,Rachel V.
This report is based on the first
empirical study of the microfinance industry in Central and
Eastern Europe and the New Independent States (CEE and NIS).
The main source...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73203Date: June 30, 2003Author:
Forster, Sarah ;
Greene, Seth ;
Pytkowska, Justyna
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is
today dealing with an issue that lies at the interface of
two major challenges the world faces, trade liberalization
and international...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26970Date: June 30, 2003Author:
Mattoo, Aaditya and Carzaniga, Antonia [editors]; ;
Self, Richard J.; Zutshi, B.K.; Winters, L. Alan; ;
Nielson, Julia; Cattaneo, Oliver; Hatcher,
Mark; Parikh, Vaibhav; Wibulpolparsert, Suwit; Francisco,
Josephine J.; Brown, Enos, A.; Waghorne, Mike; ;
Page, Pierre E.; Henry, Paul; Christen,
Torsten; Dobson, Howard R.; Lambinon, Ivan; Oriani-Abrosini,
Mario G.R.;
This book talks about participation,
from the first to the last page. And that is its strength,
for participation is a road leading to democracy. The true
participation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26291Date: June 30, 2003Author:
Ruster, Jeff ;
Imparato, Ivo
The Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics seeks to expand the flow of ideas
among development policy researchers, academics, and
practitioners from around...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26355Date: June 30, 2003Author:
Pleskovic, Boris ;
Stern, Nicholas [editors]
Despite the existence of about one
billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs
make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they
remain severely...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26286Date: June 30, 2003Author:
Abadzi,Helen
This book is intended for the wide range
of people around the world who need basic information about
the work of the Bank Group. This audience includes people
working...
This volume examines the possibilities
and pitfalls to successful financial sector tax reform from
theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives. It
explores the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26511Date: June 1, 2003Author:
Honohan,Patrick Thomas
To improve the likelihood of reaching
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), or more generally
to improve their social indicators, countries (or states and
provinces...
The report - the fourth in a series -
consolidates the work developed in the last eighteen months
by the Bank's water resources and sanitation team, and
discusses some...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26379Date: June 1, 2003Author:
Azevedo,Luiz Gabriel ;
Baltar,Alexandre Moreira ;
Gambrill,Martin P. ;
Mejia,Abel ;
Triche,Thelma A.
In June 2002, the countries of
Southeastern Europe (SEE) recommitted themselves to scale up
action on the prevention and treatment of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26287Date: May 31, 2003Author:
Novotny, Thomas ;
Haazen, Dominic ;
Adeyi, Olusoji
The book provides information, and
guidance for policymakers, the development community, and
others in the critical area of "behind the border"
barriers to trade. With...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26335Date: May 31, 2003Author:
Wilson, John S. ;
Abiola, Victor O. [editors] ;
Hezr
This publication was commissioned and
published in the hope that descriptions of strategies,
successes, and setbacks in promoting stronger tobacco
control policies around...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25950Date: May 31, 2003Author:
de Beyer, Joy ;
Brigden, Linda Waverley
This report examines youth development
in the Caribbean today. The objectives of the report are
threefold, it aims to 1) identify the risk and protective
factor and...
The purpose of this report is to assess
progress to date in implementing the World Bank's
strategy for governance and public sector reform, Reforming
Public Institutions...
Civil war conflict is a core development
issue. The existence of civil war can dramatically slow a
country's development process, especially in low-income
countries,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26121Date: May 31, 2003Author:
Collier, Paul ;
Elliott, V. L. ;
Hegre, Havard ;
Hoeff
Consideration of lifelong learning
extends the World Bank's traditional approach to
education, in which subsectors are looked at in isolation.
Three years ago, when...
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