This issue, which serves as the annual
review on the environment and looks back on the World
Bank's environmental activities from July to June 2000,
describes many of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20955Date: June 30, 2000
The World Bank's long-standing
efforts to build a framework of integrity around its
operations reached a watershed in September 1996, when
President Wolfensohn announced...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21571Date: June 30, 2000
This compendium of papers by Russian
experts on the rural sector seeks to explore the
institutions, policy outcomes, and adaptive responses of
enterprises and households...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20653Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Norsworthy, L. Alexander [editor]
The 1990s saw a dramatic increase in the
liberalization of transport policies and a strengthening of
the role played by private operators and investors in
transport...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20742Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Estache, Antonio [editor] ;
De Rus, Gines [editor]
The report proposes a strategy for
assisting the rural, environmental, and social development
in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, in compliance with the
Bank's mandate...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20938Date: June 29, 2000
Knowledge is fast becoming a key factor
in economic and social development worldwide. Rapid
innovations in science, communications and computing
technologies are opening...
Type: PublicationReport#: 57664Date: June 21, 2000Author:
Dahlman, Carl ;
Anderson, Thomas
This report builds on the third system
review of the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and is responsive to the
challenges posed regarding...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20743Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Shah, Mahendra ;
Strong, Maurice
The objective of this book is to provide
detailed advice on how to design multi-topic household
surveys based on the experience of past household surveys.
The book will...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20731Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Grosh, Margaret [editor] ;
Glewwe, Paul [editor]
The objective of this book is to provide
detailed advice on how to design multi-topic household
surveys based on the experience of past household surveys.
The book will...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20731Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Grosh, Margaret [editor] ;
Glewwe, Paul [editor]
This report is the proceedings of the
fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin
America and the Caribbean, held on June 20-22, 1999, in
Valdivia, Chile....
Type: PublicationReport#: 20732Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Burki, Shahid Javed ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Eid, Flo
This programming guide and the related
resources on CD-ROM provide an extensive and rich collection
of learning materials and examples of good practice from
around the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20642Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Evans, Judith L. ;
Myers, Robert G. ;
Ilfeld, Ellen M.
In an effort to better understand the
interactions between violent conflict and social capital,
the authors undertook an exploratory investigation f four
conflict-affected...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20564Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Colletta, Nat J. ;
Cullen, Michelle L.
Very little is known about the actual
impact of projects on the poor. Many are reluctant to carry
out impact evaluations because they are deemed expensive,
time consuming,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20745Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Baker, Judy L.
This paper discusses key findings and
policy proposals for modernizing Hungary's subnational
government system. It looks at fiscal decentralization,
local capacity building,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP417Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Kopanyi, Mihaly ;
El Daher, Samir ;
Wetzel, Deborah ;
Noel, Michel ;
Papp, Anita
This study seeks to clarify and
concretize the real administrative requirements of accession
for selected Central and Eastern European countries.
Throughout the study,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP466Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Nunberg, Barbara
This report presents the findings of a
study which examined agricultural price and trade
interventions, and their impact on farm income,
consumers' real income, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP470Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Valdes, Alberto [editor]
While the recent economic and financial
crises in East Asia and elsewhere had a multitude of
underlying causes, weak corporate governance has
consistently been seen...
This book documents Mexico's
decentralization experience as well as conceptualizing its
main trends, policies, and options, and brings them into the
light of international...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20563Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Guigale, Marcelo M. [editor] ;
Webb, Steven B. [editor] ;
Lafourcade, Olivier ;
Vinh Nguyen ;
Rojas, Fernando ;
Courchene, Thomas ;
Martinez-Vazquez,Jorge ;
McLure, Charles E., Jr. ;
Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto ;
Mendoze, Enrique Cabrero ;
Trillo, Fausto Hernandez ;
Oliveira, Joao C.
The World Bank has participated, along
with other financing agencies and many client countries, in
notable improvements to basic visible transport
infrastructure, through...
This report presents a summary of key
issues and options relating to the development of a
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in China and is based on
two more detailed...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP414Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Girdis, Dean ;
Tavoulareas, Stratos ;
Tomkins, Ray
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