The study provides two recent analyses,
spurred by the recent East Asian crisis, of government
responses to financial distress, and, also presents a
comprehensive database...
The second overall performance study
(OPS2) is designated to assess the extent to which the GEF
has achieved, or is in its way to achieving, its main
objectives as specified...
Type: PublicationReport#: 33242Date: January 25, 2002
The report contributes to the debate
surrounding land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It sets the
context by reviewing the evidence concerning the deleterious
effect of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP515Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Arima,Eugenio ;
Barreto,Paulo Goncalves ;
Schneider,Robert R. ;
Souza, Carlos, Jr. ;
Verissimo,Adalberto
Gender effects of social security reform
in Chile, by Alejandra Cox Edwards. Low schooling for girls,
slower growth for all? Cross-country evidence on the effect
of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25579Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Cox Edwards, Alejandra ;
Klasen, Stephan ;
Newman, C
The Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics is a forum for discussion, and debate
of important policy issues facing developing countries. This
report for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25492Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Pleskovic, Boris ;
Stern, Nicholas [editors] ;
McCarthy, F. Desmond ;
Wolfensohn, James D. ;
O'Rourke, Kevin H. ;
Cohen, Daniel ;
Cooper, Richard N. ;
Venables, AnthonyJ. ;
Rostrup, Morten ;
Lanjouw, Jean O. ;
Case, Anne ;
Philipson, Tomas ;
Soares, Rodrigo R.
This publication surveys the challenges
facing coastal and marine environments in Sub-Saharan Africa
and describes the World Bank's strategy for supporting
sustainable...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24634Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Hewawasam, Indu
In the Middle East and North Africa
Region, forest resources are generally limited, as is their
contribution to GDP, and it is for this reason their
importance is often...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP521Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Pswarayi-Riddihough,Idah Z.
The dramatic events of the late 1990s,
which followed a wave of financial crises going back to the
early 1980s, brought to center stage the issue of financial
sector...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24907Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Caprio, Gerard ;
Honohan, Patrick ;
Vittas, Dimitri
The present study focuses on four main
objectives. First, it presents an update of poverty, and
income distribution measures, reported in 1997 by the Bank;
second, it...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24331Date: January 1, 2002
This study aims at providing an overview
of policies affecting services trade in seven countries of
the Balkan region, and stresses the growing importance of
services...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP530Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Michalopoulos, Constantine ;
Panousopoulos, Vasile
This report describes how tertiary
education contributes to building up a country's
capacity for participation in an increasingly
knowledge-based world economy and investigates...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24973Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Court, David ;
Crawford,Michael F. ;
Darvas,Peter ;
Golladay,Fredrick ;
Holm-Nielsen,Lauritz B. ;
Hopper,Richard R. ;
Markov,Andrei R. ;
Van Meel,Rosita Maria ;
Millot,Benoit ;
Moock,Peter Russell ;
Mukherjee,Hena G. ;
Saint,William ;
Salmi,Jamil ;
Shrivastava,Shashi K. ;
Steier,Francis A.
The paper highlights that the education
of children, and youth merits the highest priority in a
world afflicted by HIV/AIDS, specifically because a good
basic education...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24718Date: January 1, 2002
This report focuses on four areas of the
health system in which reforms, and innovations would make
the most difference to the future of the Indian health
system: oversight,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24124Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Peters, David H. ;
Yazbeck, Abdo S. ;
Sharma, Rashmi R. ;
Ramana, G. N. V. ;
Pritchett, Lant H. ;
Wagstaff, Adam
Environmental impact assessment, or EIA
as it is known, is a procedures for evaluating the impact,
proposed activities may have on the environment. In recent
years,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24131Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Bekhechi, Mohammad A. ;
Mercier,Jean-Roger Roger
Bolivia made progress in health status
and equity in the last decade, thanks to the implementation
of a series of health policies directed primarily at
reducing maternal...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27929Date: January 1, 2002
This sourcebook was written to assist
low-income countries with the development and strengthening
of their poverty reduction strategies. This book has been
designed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29800Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Achikbache,Bahjat ;
Alkire,Sabina ;
Ames,Brian ;
Aoki,Aya ;
Baharoglu,Deniz ;
Bamberger,J. Michael ;
Bebbington,Anthony J. ;
Belkindas,Misha V. ;
Blackden,C. Mark ;
Bojö, Jan ;
Bosch,Christophe E. ;
Brown, Ward ;
Bruns,Barbara ;
Bucknall,Julia ;
Christiaensen,Luc ;
Claeson,Mariam ;
Cord,Louise J. ;
Coudouel,Aline ;
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Dinc,Mustafa ;
Domelen, Julie Van ;
Dongier,Philippe ;
Donnelly-Roark,Paula ;
Drabble,Michael ;
Eele,Graham ;
Esmail,Talib B. K. ;
Ezemenari,Kenechukwu Maria ;
Fort,Lucia ;
Fozzard,Adrian ;
Gannon,Colin A. ;
Girishankar,Navin ;
Griffin,Charles C. ;
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ;
Hamilton,Kirk E. ;
Hammergren,Linn A. ;
Hentschel,Jesko S. ;
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Holmes,Malcolm R. G. ;
Hommann,Kirsten ;
Izquierdo, Alejandro ;
Johnston,Timothy A. ;
Kenny,Charles J. ;
Kessides,C. Fallert ;
Kishor,Nalin M. ;
Klugman, Jeni [editor] ;
Knack,Stephen ;
Kraus,Christiane ;
Lamech,Ranjit J. ;
Levy,Brian David ;
Litvack,Jennie I. ;
Liu,Zhi ;
Malmberg Calvo,Christina ;
Manning,Nicholas Paul ;
Manoukian,Violeta ;
Marope,Mmantsetsa ;
Mclachlan,Mildred ;
Messick,Richard E. ;
Michalopoulos,Constantine ;
Mingat,Alain Jean Louis ;
Moock,Peter Russell ;
Mozammel,Masud ;
Murphy,Patrick D. ;
Navas-Sabater,Juan ;
O'Sullivan,Kyran ;
Ostrom,Elinor ;
Paci,Pierella ;
Patrinos,Harry Anthony ;
Pillai,Poonam ;
Polski,Margaret M. ;
Prennushi,Giovanna ;
Rinne,Jeffrey James ;
Ryan Rizvi,Andrea C. ;
Rubio Soto,Gloria Martha ;
Sadoff,Claudia W. ;
Schiff,Maurice ;
Scott, Christopher ;
Shah,Parmesh ;
Sherburne-Benz,Lynne D. ;
Soucat,Agnes L. B. ;
Subbarao,Kalanidhi ;
Sutch,M. Helen ;
Swanson,Eric Valdeman ;
Tan,Jee-Peng ;
Tarr,David ;
Thomas,Christopher J. ;
Tikare,Seema ;
Travers,Sumter Lee ;
Wagstaff, Adam ;
Wakeman,Wendy E. ;
Winter,Carolyn ;
Withers, Kate ;
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Yang,Hongyu ;
Yazbeck,Abdo S. ;
Yitzaki, Shlomo ;
Youssef,Deborah ;
Zatlokal,Barbara
The study questions whether, after a
decade of remarkable progress in trade reform, Latin America
and the Caribbean really integrates into the global market,
offering...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23440Date: January 1, 2002Author:
de Ferranti, David ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Lederman, Daniel ;
Maloney, William E.
Although many of the problems that Cali
is experiencing - social and human capital deterioration, a
declining economy, and institutional crisis - are a
reflection of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 24327Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Ortiz, Alexandra [editor]
Realizing the promise of the new global
initiatives to expand trade requires concerted effort to
move development to center stage in trade policy
formulation. This report...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23590Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Newfarmer, Richard ;
Timmer, Hans ;
Varoudakis, Aris
This is an overview of the Global
Economic Prospect (GEP) 2002, the Bank's yearly report
on prospects for developing countries. It addresses the
reshaping the world~^!!^s...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27780Date: January 1, 2002
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