Understanding patterns of economic
growth: searching for hills among plateaus, mountains, and
plains, by Lant Pritchett. Macroeconomic fluctuations in
developing countries:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20954Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Pritchett, Lant ;
Agenor, Pierre-Richard ;
McDermott, C. John ;
Prasad, Eswar S. ;
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ;
Detragiache, Enrica ;
Semenick Alam, Ila M. ;
Morrison, Andrew R. ;
Ravallion, Martin ;
Ray, Ranjan ;
Larson, Donald F. ;
Butzer, Rita ;
Mundlak, Yair ;
Crego, Al
These Standard Bidding documents, and
Technical Note, have been prepared by the World Bank for use
by the borrowers, and their implementing agencies in the
procurement...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20735Date: May 31, 2000Author:
The World Bank
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]
East Asia is once again the world's
fastest-growing region. This report examines the East Asia
region's recovery, assesses its sustainability, and
explores the challenges...
The workshop provided a forum for the
exchange of experiences in the design and implementation of
competitive grant programs for research and extension
(CGPs). This...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31902Date: May 18, 2000Author:
Abington, John B. ;
Becker Reifschneider, Francisco Jose ;
Blandón Rivera, Victor ;
Bozic,Miroslav ;
Bresnyan,Edward William ;
Brinkerhoff, Derick W. ;
Byerlee,Derek R. ;
Dordevic, Mina ;
Elliott,Howard ;
Kabir, Wais ;
Lele,Uma ;
Lopes, Mauricio Antonio ;
Lukac Havranek, Jasmina ;
Meneses Peña, Orlando ;
Owusu-Bennoah, Emmanuel ;
Rockey, Sally ;
Villegas, Luis Ernesto ;
Woolley, Jonathan Nigel
Crude oil prices surged higher during
the first quarter due to falling inventories and supply
restraint by oil producers. Prices are likely to rise again
later in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20638Date: April 30, 2000
Major changes are needed if Africans and
their children are to claim the 21st century. With the
rapidly growing population, 5 percent annual growth is
needed simply...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20469Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Ali,Ali Abdel Gadir ;
Dinka,Tesfaye ;
Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed ;
Gelb,Alan Harold ;
Soludo,Charles Chukwuma ;
Tidrick,Gene
This book comprises two parts that
attempt to explain the political economy of water pricing
reforms. The three sections of part 1 provide the
theoretical and empirical...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20401Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Dinar, Ariel [editor]
The importance of an appropriate legal
framework reflecting the cultural, sociopolitical, and
economic circumstances of a country is now widely considered
to be an important...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20377Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Ofusu-Amaah, W. Paatii
This volume examines the reforms and
policy changes necessary in the food and agriculture sectors
of the ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries that
have started...
This book grew out of the keynote
address delivered to the 1996 ninth World Congress of Rural
Sociology, organized by the International Rural Sociology
Association in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22376Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Serageldin,M. Ismail
The World Bank has participated, along
with other financing agencies and many client countries, in
notable improvements to basic visible transport
infrastructure, through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20379Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Raven,John A.
This report presents the main findings
of surveys of 3,700 manufacturing firms in Indonesia, Korea,
Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, conducted by the
governments...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20381Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Dwor-Frecaut, Dominque ;
Colaco, Francis ;
Hallward-
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: April 30, 2000
The paper examines the economic
rationale for intervention in support of small and medium
scale enterprises (SME), on both theoretical and empirical
grounds. It argues...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD40Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Hallberg,Kristin
This report has three main objectives.
The first is to assess the extent and determinants of
poverty, malnutrition, and inequality in Panama. The second
involves examining...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20307Date: April 30, 2000
This report analyzes the Kazakhstan
Government's reform measures to overhaul the farm
sector. The report focuses on farm restructuring measures
that were implemented...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP458Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Gray, John
This study is the revised edition of the
same title "Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool
for Attracting Foreign Investment" (Report No. 8649),
which was published...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20357Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Wells, Louis T., Jr. ;
Wint, Alvin G.
Groundwater is of major importance to
rural development in many countries of the world. As a
result of its widespread distribution, low development cost,
and generally...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP463Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Foster, Stephen ;
Chilton, John ;
Moencg, Marcus ;
Car
There is widespread consensus among the
authors of this report that the benefits accruing to the 10
Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) joining the
European...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20380Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Tang, Helena [editor]
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