This paper deals with economic rents
arising from the development of hydroelectric generation on
international watercourses. The paper briefly defines the
concept of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP419Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Rothman, Mitchell
This study provides an overview of the
issues and challenges related to the private financing of
hydropower projects in developing countries. From the very
limited pool...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP420Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Head, Chris
This report reviews the recent history
and current state of Bulgarian agriculture and
agro-industry. It examines the status of the sectoral
reforms program, including...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP481Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Csaki, Csaba ;
Nash, John ;
Fock, Achim ;
Kray, Holger
This paper argues that new, more
automatic fundraising approaches promise to be more
effective than the traditional approach in raising adequate
and predictable resources...
Type: PublicationReport#: 109677Date: July 1, 2000Author:
Clemencon,Raymond
The purpose of this handbook is to bring
together in a single source guiding principles and tools
that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable
institutions....
Type: PublicationReport#: 18771Date: July 1, 2000Author:
Ledgerwood, Joanna
In the 1990s Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC) began to resurface from the lost decade of
the 1980s after a sustained reform effort by the countries
to enhance the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20655Date: June 30, 2000Author:
De Ferranti, David ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Gill, Indermit S. ;
Serven, Luis ;
Ferreira, Francisco H.G. ;
Ilahi, Nadeem ;
Maloney, William F. ;
Rama, Martin
This discussion paper examines in its
first part, the role of private investment in economic
growth. While theoretical growth models developed in the
economics literature,...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD41Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Bouton, Lawrence ;
Sumlinski, Mariusz A.
This paper sets out an environmental
strategy for the World Bank Group in the energy sector,
building on existing Bank policies and activities and
drawing from lessons...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20740Date: June 30, 2000
This report is a tool for preliminary
assessment of the feasibility of introducing large-scale
incineration plants into the waste management systems of
major cities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21091Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Rand, T. ;
Haukohl, J. ;
Marxen, U.
This study presents the main findings of
an evaluation of the impact of the World Bank's support
of projects for agricultural extension services in Kenya
during 1982...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20744Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Gautam,Madhur
The main objective of the health,
nutrition, and population (HNP) strategy is to improve the
Bank's effectiveness in HNP in the East Asia and the
Pacific (EAP) region....
Type: PublicationReport#: 20654Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Saadah, Fadia ;
Knowles, James
Solid waste management is in crisis in
many of the world's largest urban areas as populations
attracted to cities continues to grow. This has led to ever
increasing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP462Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Rand, T. ;
Haukohl, J. ;
Marxen, U.
The report provides a diagnostic
assessment of recent, ongoing structural and, regulatory
reforms in Hungary's infrastructure sectors:
electricity, oil and gas, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP474Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Kessides, Ioavannis N. [editor] ;
Newbery, David M. ;
Pierce, Richard J. Jr. ;
Rosston, Gregory L.
"Much of the early work on poverty
was highly quantitative:... It became increasingly clear,
however, that while numbers are essential for policy and
monitoring purposes,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 25270Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Bamberger, Michael [editor] ;
Chung, Kimberly ;
Spal
The study analyzes the complex,
inter-linked non-payments system in Russia, to include its
origins, evolution, and factors contributing to its
development. To the contrary,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP471Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Pinto, Brian ;
Drebentsov, Vladimir ;
Morozov, Alexander
This book presents papers on several
events organized by the World Bank's Disaster
Management Fund (DMF). The DMF's objectives are to help
the Bank provide a more strategic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20738Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Kreimer, Alcira ;
Arnold, Margaret [editors]
This report analyzes the evolution of
poverty and inequality in the Latin American and Caribbean
region (LAC) from 1986 to 1996, with projections to 1998. It
reviews...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP467Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Wodon, Quentin T. ;
Ayres, Robert ;
Barenstein, Matias ;
Hicks, Norman ;
Lee, Kihoon ;
Maloney, William ;
Peeters, Pia ;
Siaens, Corinne ;
Yitzhaki, Shlomo
The study reviews the developments in
the financial markets after 1996-97 economic, and financial
collapse in Bulgaria, and aims at assessing financial
restructuring,...
The paper aims at providing a
comprehensive diagnostic framework for revenue
administration, that would take into account, in an
integrated manner, both the traditional...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP472Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Gill, Jit B.S.
This report is organized in nine parts.
In addition to the Executive Summary which outlines the main
findings and key messages, Chapter 1 addresses the main
agricultural...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20639Date: June 30, 2000Author:
International Food Policy Research Institute
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