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Type: PublicationReport#: 14270Date: January 31, 2001
On one level, poverty exacerbates gender
disparities. Inequalities between girls and boys in access
to schooling or adequate health care are more acute among
the poor...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21776Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Mason, Andrew D. ;
King, Elizabeth M.
The purpose of this study is to compare,
and contrast the resource requirements, and effectiveness of
adult literacy programs in Uganda, assess its
implementation, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22061Date: January 31, 2001Author:
Okech, Anthony ;
Carr-Hill, Roy A [editor] ;
Katahoi
Why do we need a world bank? What is the
role of the World Bank? What are the World Bank programs?
Where does the World Bank get its money? Where does the
money go?...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21168Date: January 31, 2001
This report provides an up-dated
assessment of the situation in Ukraine's financial
sector (banks as well as non-banks) and defines a policy
agenda for the next stages...
Type: PublicationReport#: 62480Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Forgacs,Katalin ;
Olenchyk,Andriy ;
Peachey,Stephen John ;
Prygozhyna,Angela ;
Roe,Alan R. ;
Vlasenko,Yuriy ;
Zhyliaev, Ihor
The brief report focuses on setting the
goals for international development, addressing the most
compelling of human desires - a world free of poverty, and
of the misery...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30984Date: January 1, 2001
Foreword by James D. Wolfensohn. Welcome
addresses by Jan Piercy, and Elizabeth McAllister. Synthesis
and overview by Osvaldo Feinstein, and Detlev Puetz.
Valuation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43623Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Braun, Joachim von; Lustig, Nora; Picciotto, Rob ;
Damiani, Octavio; Cohen, Monique; Malhotra, Mohi ;
Eriksson, John; Weiss, Carol H.; Jackson, Edward ;
Girishankar, Navin; Zaki, El Sayed; Ahrned, Sale ;
Legovini, Arianna; Gaiha, Raghav; Stout, Susan; ;
Mensah, Moise; Dabelstein, Niels; Ezemenari, Ken ;
Wolfensohn, James D.; Piercy, Jan;
McAllister, E
Statistics show crime and violence in
Latin America are extremely high in comparison the rest of
the world. Studies on crime and violence in the region are
scarce and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 33314Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Fajnzylber,Pablo ;
Lederman,Daniel ;
Loayza,Norman V.
The goal of this report is twofold.
First, this report aims to report on the condition of
Earth's ecosystems. To focus attention on what is
known, this report presents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20402Date: January 1, 2001
This publication brings together the
papers presented in the workshop, "Social Exclusion and
Poverty Reduction workshop in the Latin America and the
Caribbean Region",...
Type: PublicationReport#: 36407Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Davis, Shelton H. (editor) ;
Gacitua, Estanislao (editor) ;
Sojo, Carlos (editor)
The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden contain
some of the world's most important coastal and marine
environments and resources. In view of their environmental
uniqueness, the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22004Date: January 1, 2001
Johannesburg 2002 must be about people,
planet, and prosperity; by Mohammed Valli Moosa. Making
sustainable commitments - an environment strategy for the
World Bank;...
Small farmers produce much of the
developing world's food. Yet they are generally much
poorer than the rest of the population in these countries,
and are less food secure...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63492Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Dixon, John ;
Gulliver, Aidan ;
Gibbon, David ;
Hall, Malcolm
The book examines the impacts of medium-
and large-scale mines on local communities, through six case
studies, analyzing both the socioeconomic and cultural
effects,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23606Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Alvarado,Mario ;
Araya, Rodrigo ;
Barsi,Ron G. ;
Castillo, Julio ;
Damonte, Gerardo ;
Diez Hurtado, Alejandro ;
Diez-Viejobueno,Carlos ;
Fort Meyer,Ricardo ;
Franco Gonzales,Ismael Eduardo Wilson ;
Kunze, Veronica ;
Loayza, Fernando ;
McMahon, Gary [editor] ;
Ortega Girones,Enrique ;
Parsons, Graham F. ;
Pasco-Font Quevedo,Alberto ;
Santibanez Quezada,Fernando Rene ;
Remy, Felix [editor] ;
Ritter, Archibald R.M. ;
Salas, Guillermo ;
Sanchez, Jose Miguel
The countries of the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) are blessed with an extraordinary
cultural patrimony, secular and religious, of huge
importance for each country...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22559Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Cernea, Michael M.
Partnerships for Development is a
compilation of diverse World Bank materials - flagship
publications, technical papers, and innovative research -
that aims at providing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22268Date: January 1, 2001
The book contains complementary essays
on the use of tax incentives, to attract foreign direct
investment (FDI). The first essay presents results of the
authors' original...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23032Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Wells, Louis T., Jr. ;
Allen, Nancy J. ;
Morisset, Jacques ;
Pirnia, Neda
Circumstance and choice: the role of
initial conditions and policies in transition economies; by
Martha de Melo, Cevdet Denizer, Allan Gelb and Stoyan Tenev.
Multi-tier...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35055Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Alderman,Harold H. ;
Beck,Thorsten ;
Bourguignon, Francois [editor] ;
Clarke, George ;
Collier,Paul ;
Denizer,Cevdet A. ;
Gelb, Allan ;
Glewwe,Paul W. ;
Groff, Alberto ;
Gunewardena,Dileni N. ;
Hoeffler,Anke Elisabeth ;
Keefer,Philip E. ;
King,Elizabeth M. ;
Pattillo, Catherine ;
Ravallion,Martin ;
Tanev, Stoyan ;
Walsh, Patrick ;
de Melo, Martha ;
Van De Walle,Dominique
This volume questions what have we
learned from a decade of empirical research on growth. The
response, that " It ' s not factor accumulation:
stylized facts and growth...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31558Date: January 1, 2001Author:
Bourguignon, Francois [editor] ;
Brock, William A. ;
De Gregorio, Jose ;
Durlauf, Steven N. ;
Easterly,William R. ;
Kaminsky, Graciela L. ;
Klenow,Peter J. ;
Levine,Ross Eric ;
Lyons,Richard K. ;
Pritchett,Lant Hayward ;
Romer,Paul M ;
Sala-y-Martin, Xavier ;
Schmuckler, Sergio L. ;
Solow, Robert M. ;
Valdes, Rodrigo O.
The 1999 Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics, the eleventh anniversary, was held at
the Bank on April 28-30, 1999. The discussions focused on
three...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21837Date: December 31, 2000Author:
Pleskovic, Boris ;
Stiglitz, Joseph E. [editors]
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