The chapters in this book examine the
data on infrastructure and the poor in developing countries
and consider how policies centered on private provision can
address...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26061Date: March 31, 2003Author:
Brook, Penelope J. ;
Irwin, Timothy C.
Tight money in a post-crisis defense of
the exchange rate : what have we learned?, by Peter J.
Montiel. Foreign bank entry : experience, implications for
developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25578Date: March 31, 2003Author:
Botero,Juan Carlos ;
Clarke, George ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ;
Keinan,Yoram ;
Kleinheisterkamp,Jan ;
Kumar, Ajay ;
La Porta,Rafael ;
Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio ;
Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad ;
Montiel,Peter J. ;
Pistor,Katharina ;
Sanchez,Susana M. ;
Shleifer,Andrei ;
Volokh, Alexander ;
West,Mark D.
This is a documentation of effective
partnership that helped to improve Reproductive and Child
Health (RCH) outcomes for the urban poor in Kolkata, India.
This partnership...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73353Date: March 1, 2003Author:
Duza, M. Badrud ;
Ramana, G.N.V. ;
Chowdhury, Sanchita
The growth of regional trading blocks is
now a major feature of international relations. This book
examines regionalism from the viewpoint of developing
countries, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25506Date: February 28, 2003Author:
Schiff, Maurice ;
Winters, L. Alan
This book is intended to help regulators
learn about the tools needed to measure efficiency. It is
based on lecture notes from courses the World Bank Institute
offers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26062Date: February 28, 2003Author:
Coelli, Tim ;
Estache, Antonio ;
Perelman, Sergio ;
Tr
Pension reform is an important topic,
high on the agendas of most European countries, where
countries are profoundly affected by an aging population,
the result of lower...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26292Date: February 28, 2003Author:
Holzmann, Robert ;
Orenstein, Mitchell ;
Rutkowski,
This report analyzes regulatory and
efficiency issues in the telecommunications, natural gas,
urban water and sanitation, and transport sectors. After
reviewing recent...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29796Date: February 1, 2003
This report analyzes regulatory and
efficiency issues in the telecommunications, natural gas,
urban water and sanitation, and transport sectors. After
reviewing recent...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28822Date: February 1, 2003
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: February 1, 2003
Strong cyclical dynamics, together with
an easing of macroeconomic policies in the United States and
elsewhere, have boosted large parts of the global economy,
into...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25305Date: January 31, 2003Author:
World Bank
Heating is a critical issue for the
livelihoods of Eastern Europe and Central Asia's
people. The region's gold climate, the legacy of
central planning, and the drop...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP529Date: January 31, 2003Author:
Lampietti, Julian A. ;
Meyer, Anke S.
The book analyzes five major bilateral
treaty regimes on the South Asian subcontinent: between
India and Bangladesh for the Ganges River; between India and
Nepal for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25580Date: January 31, 2003Author:
Rudolf V. Van Puymbroeck [editor] ;
Salman,Salman M. A. ;
Uprety,Kishor
This is a collection of papers that
study the constraints on fiscal systems, imposed by problems
of institutions, administration, and incentives in
developing, and post-Socialist...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP539Date: January 31, 2003Author:
McLaren, John [editor] ;
Kobb, Dan ;
Gang, Ira ;
Das G
Cooperative management, and development
of Africa's international rivers holds real promise for
greater sustainability, and productivity of the
continent's increasingly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25396Date: January 31, 2003Author:
Sadoff, Claudia W. ;
Whittington, Dale ;
Grey, David
Private participation in health services
is often a controversial issue, although many countries
already make use of private services to further aims in
health care....
Type: PublicationReport#: 26063Date: January 31, 2003Author:
Harding, April ;
Preker, Alexander S.
This is an overview of the Global
economic Prospect (GEP) 2003. The report outlines steps that
rich countries and developing countries can take in the
current uncertain...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27781Date: January 31, 2003
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is the
informal dialogue, and cooperative process linking the 15
European Union member states with 10 Asian nations, and who
financed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25302Date: January 31, 2003
The report discusses the set of public
expenditure policies that might be conducive to rapid
growth, and convergence among Central and Eastern European
countries. It...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP533Date: January 31, 2003Author:
Funck, Bernard [editor]
This booklet is based on a Revised
Forest Strategy for the World Bank Group endorsed in 2002.
The revised Forest Strategy has been built on three equally
important and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35535Date: January 30, 2003
This document assesses the quality of
financial accountability and transparency in Nepal and makes
recommendations for improvement. The financial
accountability assessment...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25675Date: January 1, 2003
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