This publication presents a framework
that emphasizes the economic and policy incentives needed to
create competitive firms and national economies. It also
explains...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25068Date: September 30, 2002Author:
Ijaz Nabi ;
Manjula Luthria
This book examines progress within
Russia's financial sector and provides a road map for
promoting dialogue on and implementing improvements. The
book is intended to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24972Date: September 30, 2002Author:
Fuchs, Michael [editor]
This report assesses the pharmaceutical
sector in India, particularly focusing on four key issues
related to the production, procurement, and distribution of
drugs in...
East Asian economies are at different
stages of development, but to preserve-and to increase-their
competitiveness through innovation and the opportunities
presented...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24971Date: September 30, 2002Author:
Yusuf, Shahid ;
Evenett, Simon J.
Income risk, coping strategies, and
safety nets; by Stefan Dercon. The gender implications of
public sector downsizing: the reform program of Vietnam; by
Martin Rama....
Type: PublicationReport#: 30412Date: September 1, 2002Author:
Dercon,Stefan ;
Devarajan, Shantayanan [editor] ;
Gisselquist,David P. ;
Mackinnon,John ;
Nash,John D. ;
Pray,Carl E. ;
Rama,Martin G. ;
Reinikka,Ritva S. ;
Saggi,Kamal
In 1994, the World Bank significantly
expanded the information that it makes available to the
public. In 2001, after a major review of the information
disclosure policy,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24100Date: September 1, 2002
This study argues that the 15 European
Union (EU) countries and their 12 Mediterranean Partners
should complement their Euro-Mediterranean free-trade area
for industrial...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP527Date: August 31, 2002Author:
Muller-Jentsch,Daniel
The report's objectives are i) to
better understand the nature and magnitude of urban
transport problems, particularly in respect of the poor, and
ii) to articulate...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24910Date: August 31, 2002Author:
Gwilliam,Kenneth M.
The Millennium Development Goals were
reaffirmed by the member states of the United Nations on
September 2000, towards working together in achieving a
world of peace,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24613Date: July 31, 2002
The overall finding of this report is
that much agricultural policy is made at the regional level,
and here the explicit price, and trade policy distortions
are significantly...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP523Date: July 31, 2002Author:
Csaki, Csaba ;
Nash, John ;
Matusevich, Vera ;
Kray, H
The importance of social capital for
sustainable development, is by now well recognized.
Anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and
economists have in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24465Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Grootaert, Christiaan ;
Van Bastelar, Thierry [edi
Poverty will not be reduced on a large
scale, without tapping into the energy, skills, and
motivation of the millions of poor people around the world.
This book offers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24800Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Narayan, Deepa [editor]
This report sets out the principal
aspects of civil service reform that were discussed at a
workshop for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
staff on September...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24494Date: June 30, 2002
This environment strategy outlines the
current thinking in the World Bank Group Africa Region about
priorities and actions for the institution in the
environmental arena....
Type: PublicationReport#: 24562Date: June 30, 2002
This annual review on the environment
looks back on the Bank's work during FY02, and
highlights future challenges, and opportunities. Feature
subjects are as follows....
Type: PublicationReport#: 24770Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Livernash, Robert T. ;
Cassells, David S. [editors
Early in 2000, Ecuador, confronted with
a serious economic crisis, adopted the US dollar as its
national currency, This book examines the conditions that
led to this...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24556Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Beckerman, Paul ;
Solimano, Andres [editors]
The comprehensive approach advocated in
the 1993 water strategy is highly relevant to the sound and
sustainable management of water resources. And implementing
the strategy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24527Date: June 30, 2002
Globalization has increased competitive
pressures on firms. Together with rapid technological
change, it has altered the environment in which firms
operate. While globalization...
This publication includes readings
related to the U.N. International Conference on Financing
for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March
2002:(a) "A Partnership...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24461Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Wolfensohn, James D. ;
Stern, Nicholas ;
Goldin, Ian
Developing countries are increasingly
confronted with the need to address trade policy related
issues in international agreements, most prominently the
World Trade Organization...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29799Date: June 12, 2002Author:
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
English,Edward Philip ;
Mattoo,Aaditya
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