This volume presents the key findings of
analytical work on important issues facing selected
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the new
WTO round of trade...
Type: PublicationReport#: 110213Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Ingco,Merlinda Dador ;
Nash,John D. ;
Njinkeu,Dominique
National Health Accounts (NHA)
constitutes a systematic, comprehensive, and consistent
monitoring of resource flows in a country's health
system. They are a tool specifically...
Type: PublicationReport#: 62476Date: January 1, 2003
This public expenditure review is
produced jointly by the World Bank and the Inter-American
Development Bank, and focuses on social sectors spending and
leaves aside...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26606Date: January 1, 2003
This is the first edition of The World
Bank Legal Review, which is a publication for policy makers
and their advisers, attorneys, and other professionals
engaged in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25835Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Puymbroeck, Rudolf V. Van [editor]
The dialogue initiated at Lambeth --
continued at a second meeting of faith and development
leaders in November 1999 and then at the third meeting in
Canterbury, on...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27209Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Marshall, Katherine ;
Marsh, Richard
The paper discusses how developing
countries can generate some of the resources they need for
sustainable development. Developing country government
already spend significant...
Malnutrition is crippling Bolivia, and
the country must now face the political, and bureaucratic
failure in addressing malnutrition. This study defines the
nature, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25581Date: December 31, 2002
This book documents the experiences of
men, women, and children in Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz
Republic, Latvia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan as they...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25306Date: December 31, 2002Author:
Dudwick, Nora ;
Gomart, Elizabeth ;
Marc, Alexandre
The book intends to trigger, and support
policy debate in Colombia. The first part distills four
thematic chapters, responsive to the country's current
realities, as...
Including health issues at the top of
the political agenda, is an indictor for national
development. Breaking the vicious cycle of low resources
leading to illness,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 26528Date: December 30, 2002Author:
Dror, David M. [editor] ;
Preker, Alexander S. [editor]
Turkey has become one of the largest
consumers of cigarettes, while world cigarette consumption
declined by 4 percent between 1990 and 1999. The rapid
increase in tobacco...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25401Date: November 30, 2002Author:
Onder,Zeynep
This book synthesizes, and elaborates on
the results of a series of country studies, completed under
the Poverty Dynamics in Africa Initiative, organized by the
Africa...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25244Date: November 30, 2002Author:
Christiaensen, Luc ;
Demery, Lionel ;
Paternostro, S
A free press is not a luxury. It is at
the core of equitable development. The media can expose
corruption. They can keep a check on public policy by
throwing a spotlight...
ROMA are the main poverty risk groups in
many of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
However, information on their living conditions, and the
characteristics...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP531Date: November 30, 2002Author:
Revenga, Ana ;
Ringold, Dena ;
Tracy, William Martin
High and sustained rate of economic
growth in Yemen is a necesary, though not sufficient,
condition for reduction of the high incidence of poverty and
for raising the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24976Date: October 31, 2002
This study is a comparative assessment
of the regulatory frameworks applicable to dam safety in 22
countries. It is divided into three parts. The first part is
a description...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25069Date: October 31, 2002Author:
Bradlow, Daniel D. ;
Palmieri, Alessandro ;
Salman,
Infrastructure plays a crucial role in
supporting Cambodia's growth and development. Improving
access to efficient and affordable water, electricity,
transport, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24980Date: October 31, 2002
Developing countries have an enormous
stake in the new round of World Trade Organization (WTO)
negotiations, taking place now, and scheduled to be
completed by January...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25242Date: October 31, 2002Author:
Ingco, Merlinda D. [editor] ;
Cleaver, Kevin ;
Johns
Bulgaria's economic progress in
recent years has been notable. Since 1997, the country has
implemented a range of structural reforms alongside
substantive fiscal and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66420Date: October 29, 2002Author:
Ringold, Dena
This publication provides guidance to
water-sector decision makers and planners on how to deal
with the quality dimension of groundwater resources
management in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25071Date: September 30, 2002Author:
Foster, Stephen ;
Hirata, Ricardo ;
Gomes, Daniel ;
D'
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