The objective of this study is to
examine the degree to which foreign direct investment (FDI)
and technological activity have contributed to export
competitiveness and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 46448Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Lall, Sanjaya; Urata, Shujiro;
Macro and micro perspectives of growth
and poverty in Africa; by Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery,
and Stefano Paternostro. Risk sharing in labor markets; by
Arne Bigsten,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28411Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Bigsten,Arne L ;
Birdsall,Nancy M. ;
Christiaensen,Luc ;
Claessens, Stijn ;
Collier,Paul ;
Contreras,Dante ;
Demery,Lionel ;
Dercon,Stefan ;
Diwan,Ishac ;
Fafchamps,Marcel ;
Gauthier,Bernard P. ;
Gomez-Lobo,Andres ;
Gunning, Jam Willem ;
Mann,Catherine Louise ;
Oduro,Abena F. D. ;
Oostendorp,Remco H. ;
Otsuki,Tsunehiro ;
Paternostro,Stefano ;
Pattillo, Cathy ;
Soderbom,Mans Martin ;
Teal,Francis John ;
Wilson,John S. ;
Winters, L. Alan [editor] ;
Zeufack,Albert G.
Recent research undertaken by the Bank
and others, suggest that developing countries face
substantially higher risks of violent conflict, and poor
governance if highly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28245Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Bannon,Ian ;
Collier, Paul [editors] ;
Ross, Mich ;
Roule, Trifin J. ;
Le Billon,Philippe ;
Bray,John
The question of how best to run our
hospitals has been a subject of intense interest for decades
with a strong focus over the past 15 years. Hospital care is
the largest...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26100Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Harding,April L. ;
Preker,Alexander S.
This book is organized as follows:
Introduction; by William Easterly and Luis Serven Latin
America's Infrastructure in The Era of Macroeconomic
Crises; by Cesar Calderon,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27162Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Easterly, William [editor] ;
Serven, Luis [editor]
The events of the last few years have
directed even more attention to the relationships among
religion, education and social cohesion in the context of
development in...
Child labor and development : an
introduction, by Kaushik Basu and Zafiris Tzannatos. The
global child labor problem : what do we know and what can we
do, by Kaushik...
Type: PublicationReport#: 38875Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Basu, Arnab K. ;
Basu,Kaushik ;
Bhalotra,Sonia R. ;
Bourguignon,Alain Jean-Francois ;
Rosati,Furio Camillo ;
Chau, Nancy H. ;
Ferreira,Francisco H. G. ;
Fyfe, Alec ;
Heady,Christopher J. ;
Humphries, Jane ;
Leite, Phillipe G. ;
Roseiaers, Frans ;
Rossi,Mariacristina ;
Satz, Debra ;
Tzannatos,Panagiotis Zafiris
Most wars are now civil wars. Even
though international wars attract enormous global attention,
they have become infrequent and brief. Civil wars usually
attract less...
Type: PublicationReport#: 56793Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Collier,Paul ;
Elliott,Lydia Victorine ;
Hegre,Havard ;
Hoeffler,Anke Elisabeth ;
Reynal-Querol,Marta ;
Sambanis,Nicholas
Many of the distortions in poorly
performing economies do not originate in the banking sector,
but where state banks still control a large share of the
resources in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25832Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Sherif, Khaled ;
Borish, Michael ;
Gross, Alexandra
The Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE)
for Russia, covering the period 1992-2001, showed
disappointing, but improving results for the Bank's
activities in the Russian...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25397Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Zanini, Gianni
The report starts by consolidating
information on the extent and location of fires. Then it
focuses on the definition of the policy problems. Some of
the major apparent...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63042Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Tacconi,Luca
This volume presents the available
relevant data for 1980-2000, grouped into fourteen chapters:
background data, national accounts, prices and exchange
rates, money...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25831Date: January 1, 2003
The report analyzes India ' s
continued good progress in increasing incomes, and improving
living standards over the past decade, which after the
setback associated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29782Date: January 1, 2003
The report looks at how the private
infrastructure paradigm played out in developing countries
between 1990-2001, examining trends globally, and in
particular sectors,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26762Date: January 1, 2003
This report suggests measures to help
Russia develop a formal, competitive labor market over the
medium term. The study addresses four major questions: (1)
How well...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29018Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Andrews,Emily S. ;
Betcherman,Gordon ;
Broadman,Harry G. ;
Earle,John Sutherland ;
Kuddo,Arvo ;
Rashid,Mansoora ;
Rescanitini, Francesca ;
Sabirianova, Natalia ;
Tchetvernina,Tatyana ;
Zotova,Elena
Grandmothers and granddaughters : old
age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa,
by Esther Duflo. Public policy and extended families :
evidence from...
Type: PublicationReport#: 38873Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Duflo, Esther ;
Bertrand, Marianne ;
Mullainathan, Sendhil ;
Miller, Douglas ;
Beck, Thorsten ;
Webb, Ian ;
Younger, Stephen D. ;
Haddad, Lawrence ;
Alderman, Harold ;
Appleton, Simon ;
Song, Lina ;
Yohannes, Yisehac ;
Wallack,Jessica ;
Gaviria, Alejandro ;
Panniza, Ugo ;
Stein, Ernesto
This evaluation report synthesizes the
findings of a multi-partner effort to assess implementation
of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF). The
evaluation's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27154Date: January 1, 2003
Collectively, the six country case
studies provide an unusually rich source of material on the
local dynamics of the aid business and the realities that
countries face...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27149Date: January 1, 2003
The purpose of this legal and judicial
sector assessment is to evaluate Slovak Republic's
legal and judicial systems and institutions, and identify
their strengths and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28767Date: January 1, 2003
Informational and Communication
Technologies (ICT) plays a fundamental role for social and
economic development. Similarly, it is recognized that there
cannot be an...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30075Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Dempsey, James X. ;
Greenberg, Alan ;
Mack, Barbara J. ;
Sadowsky,George ;
Schwartz, Alan
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