This report, based on an overview of
recent regional developments, summarizes the revised World
Bank assistance strategy for rural development in the
Eastern Europe...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP484Date: September 30, 2000Author:
Csaki, Csaba ;
Tuck, Laura
The objective of this report is to
consider one important part of the transition process for
countries in Central and Eastern Europe: that is, the role
that urban policy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20941Date: September 30, 2000Author:
Buckley, Robert M. ;
Mini, Federico
This book is presented in the spirit of
continuous inquiry and feedback in framing development
thinking. It reaffirms the crucial contribution of
market-friendly policies....
The most intensive area of empirical
research on transition countries has been the examination of
enterprise-level data to ascertain whether enterprises have
responded...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20942Date: September 30, 2000Author:
Djankov, Simeon ;
Murrell, Peter
The importance of the monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) function within public administration
has been magnified by the growing voice of civil society,
which has brought...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27819Date: September 29, 2000Author:
Kannae, Lawrence A. ;
Earl, Sahar ;
Smutylo, Terry ;
Mackay,Keith ;
Odhiambo, Karen T. ;
Segone, Marco ;
Shawa, Enock ;
Pityana, Barney ;
Mattes, Robert ;
B ;
Spring, Kate ;
Kopachevsky, Joe ;
Adrien, MArie-He ;
Thorne, Aid [editor] ;
Hamdock, Abdalla A. ;
Essam,Timothy
During the last decade, capital markets
increasingly became the main funding source for
infrastructure finance and provision worldwide, including
investments in developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP488Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Bubnova, Nina B.
Urban air pollution is a matter of
increasing concern in many of the newly independent states
(NIS). This study has reviewed the current status of three
principal areas...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20873Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Fodor,Martin ;
Kojima,Masami ;
Lovei,Magda
A farm-level survey was carried out in
Belarus in the second half of 1999, providing a detailed
examination of changes in the three main components of the
farming sector...
International approaches to global
climate change; by Richard N. Cooper. Comments on Cooper; by
Kenneth J. Arrow. Understanding how contagion spreads; by
Rudiger Dornbusch,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21164Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Arrow, Kenneth J. ;
Claessens, Stijn ;
Cooper,Richard N. ;
Dornbusch,Rudiger ;
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Hammer,Jeffrey S. ;
Narayan,Deepa ;
Pritchett,Lant Hayward ;
Srinivasan,Thirukodikaval N. ;
Williamson, John ;
Woolcock,Michael ;
Park,Yung Chul
Virtually all transition countries
experienced a collapse in economic output in the initial
years of the transition. This book explores the different
responses to this...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20920Date: August 31, 2000
Even as globalization annihilates
distance and bring countries closer together, pressure for
local autonomy and a shift toward urbanization are diffusing
economic and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20808Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Yusuf, Shahid ;
Weiping Wu ;
Evenett, Simon [editors]
Since the early 1990s the transition
economy countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA)
have had to adapt their pension systems in both minor and
often very...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20872Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Lindeman, David ;
Rutkowski, Michal ;
Sluchynskyy, O
More than one third of world trade
occurs within actual or prospective trading blocs. This
report attempts to understand the political economy of
regional integration,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20809Date: August 31, 2000
Is irrigation sustainable, and if so,
how and under what conditions? That is the question that has
impelled the writing of this report. This report examine the
nature...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20842Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Hillel,Daniel
This Annual Report, which covers the
period August 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000 was prepared by the
members of the Inspection Panel for the International Bank
for Reconstruction...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29798Date: August 1, 2000
This report, "Payments and
Securities Clearance and Settlement Systems in Peru",
is one of several public reports in the World Bank series,
Western Hemisphere Payments...
Type: PublicationReport#: 46259Date: August 1, 2000
This report, "Payments and
Securities Clearance and Settlement Systems in
Argentina", is one of several public reports in the
World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments...
Type: PublicationReport#: 46257Date: August 1, 2000
This study reviews the use of
residential institutions for the care of children, the
elderly and people with disabilities (mental, physical, or
sensory impairment) in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20943Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Tobis,David
In January 1977 the Government of the
Philippines awarded two long-term concession contracts,
handing over to private consortia the responsibility to
operate and expand...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20766Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Dumol, Mark
The study documents how people living in
poor urban communities in Colombia, perceive violence, and
identifies, the categories of violence affecting
communities, the...
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