This study compares the financial costs
and returns to tobacco growing with twelve (traditional and
non-traditional) alternative crops, looking at
profitability, costs,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24909Date: June 1, 2002Author:
Keyser,John C.
This study is the first independent
evaluation of social fund projects by OED. It reviews the
development effectiveness of social fund projects and draws
implications...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24615Date: May 31, 2002Author:
Carvalho,Soniya ;
Perkins,Gillian M. ;
White,Howard Nial ;
Bahnson,Caroline ;
Kapoor, Anju Gupta ;
Weber-Venghaus,Svenja Andrea
An analyst using household survey data
to construct a welfare metric is often confronted with
onfronted with An analyst using household survey data to
construct a welfare...
This document assesses the quality of
financial accountability and transparency in Bangladesh, and
makes recommendations for improvement. With respect to
public funds,...
The report reviews the Bank's
development assistance to Lesotho, a poor country, of
predominantly rural populations, landlocked and completely
surrounded by, and economically...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24526Date: May 31, 2002Author:
Hassan,Fareed M. A.
Globalization represents an opportunity
to add local value to emerging markets. That opportunity is
the underlying theme of this volume, which brings together
in edited...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24495Date: May 31, 2002Author:
Lazarus, Suellen Lambert [editor]
This book focuses on how the demand for
microfinance can be met on a global scale. It documents the
contributions of institutions and of people who have led the
development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23250Date: May 31, 2002Author:
Fidler,Peter J. ;
Robinson,Marguerite S.
These Guidelines: Selection and
Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (January
1997, revised September 1997, January 1999, and May 2002)
replace the 1981...
Governments worldwide have increasingly
recognized the economic potential and fiscal advantages of
privatization. What is less well recognized is that, under
the right...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP426Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Lovei, Magda ;
Gentry, Bradford S.
Conventional fiscal analysis fails to
address contingent fiscal risk. The government budget
process and documentation generally fail to scrutinize the
substantial claims...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24888Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Brixi, Hana Polackova ;
Schick, Allen
This study examines the poverty, and
growth experience of six villages in rural Ethiopia, from
1989 to 1995. The time period was one of relative peace
politically, which...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23951Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Dercon, Stefan
This volume presents data from 53
African countries, arranged in separate tables or matrices
for more than 500 development indicators. The indicators are
grouped into...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24895Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Badr, Ziad ;
Delcour, jose ;
Khan, Tariqul ;
Mpanu-Mpanu, Tosi ;
Mungai, Rose ;
Pandit, Joan
Access to information, and
communications technologies has become crucial to a
sustainable agenda of economic development, and poverty
reduction, and yet access remains...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP432Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Navas-Sabater, Juan ;
Dymond, Andrew ;
Juntunen, Nii
Information and communication
technologies provide the basis for increasing and applying
knowledge in the private and public sectors. Countries with
strong information...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24152Date: April 30, 2002
Poverty among Roma is closely linked to
four main factors: (i) regional economic conditions; (ii)
the size and concentration of the Roma population in a
settlement;...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28768Date: April 1, 2002Author:
World Bank; Foundation S.P.A.C.E.; INEKO;
The Op
A project that involves involuntary
resettlement, the economic and/or physical displacement of
people, represents a significant challenge for IFC. Without
proper planning...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24674Date: April 1, 2002
Knowledge has always been central to
development. It is necessary for markets and governments to
function, for the process of innovation, and for the
application of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 80088Date: April 1, 2002Author:
Schware, Robert ;
Kenny, Charles ;
Foster, Vivien ;
Wellenius, Bjorn ;
Dokeniya, Anupama ;
Wheeler, David ;
Kerr-Smith, Bill ;
Zhen-Wei Qiang, Christine ;
McNamara, Kerry ;
Smith, Peter ;
Durier, Sabine ;
Kirchner, Lizmara
Increasingly, the consequences of
globalization call for the involvement, not only of national
governments, but of the international development community
as a whole....
Type: PublicationReport#: 24884Date: March 31, 2002Author:
Barrett,Scott ;
Ferroni, Marco [editor] ;
Hewitt,Adrian P. ;
Mody, Ashoka [editor] ;
Morrissey,Oliver ;
Sandler,Todd ;
Willem te Velde, Dirk
Brazil has put significant resources
into developing its higher education system over the past
three decades. As a result, a system has evolved in which
some institutions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23872Date: March 31, 2002
Weathering the storm : the impact of the
East Asian crisis on farm households in Indonesia and
Thailand; by Fabrizio Bresciani, Gershon Feder, Daniel O.
Gilligan, Hanan...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24774Date: March 31, 2002Author:
Bresciani,Fabrizio ;
Devarajan, Shantayanan [editor] ;
Fallon,Peter R. ;
Feder,Gershon ;
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Gilligan,Daniel O. ;
Hammer,Jeffrey S. ;
Henderson,John Vernon ;
Hertel,Thomas W. ;
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Jack,William G. ;
Jacoby,Hanan G. ;
Lucas,Robert E. B. ;
Martin, Will ;
Onchan,Tongroj ;
Pritchett,Lant Hayward ;
Quizon,Jaime B.
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