The report examines, and compares the
strategies, and policies implemented in Korea, and Mexico to
manage, and resolve their banking crises. It identifies:
systemic...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP413Date: March 31, 2000Author:
De Luna-Martinez,Jose
This study recognizes that cities and
towns form the front line in a global campaign to address
issues of poverty and development opportunity. Guided by a
vision of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20356Date: March 31, 2000
The penetration of the Hungarian economy
by foreign economies is enormous. This paper addresses these
questions: What explains an improvement in overall
profitability...
This report outlines a comprehensive
approach to regional development and integration in South
Eastern Europe. It develops a comprehensive strategic
framework for development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20264Date: March 31, 2000
This report presents the first
multi-dimensional comparative analysis of two large groups
of the world's displaced populations: resettlers
uprooted by development and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20358Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Cernea, Michael M. ;
McDowell, Christopher
This report examines the constraints
countries face in implementing vocational education and
training (VET) systems and related policies; analyzes how
some countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20384Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Gill, Indermit S. ;
Fluitman, Fred ;
Dar, Amit [editors]
This report documents the development
experience in rural, natural resources, and environment
projects, as well as research and technical assistance
activities through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20265Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Norsworthy, L. Alexander [editor]
Indonesia has one of the lowest rates of
urban sewerage coverage in Asia, causing a widespread
contamination of surface and ground waters. The low coverage
is partly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 37312Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Foley,Adam Sean ;
Pollard,Richard W. ;
Published by the Water and Sanitation
Program - ;
Soedjarwo, Anton
This book is the first in a three-part
series, about the common patterns that emerged from the poor
people's experiences in many different places. Chapter
1 sets out...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20246Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Naraya, Deepa ;
Patel, Raj ;
Schafft, Kai ;
Rademacher
The Standard Prequalification Document
(SPD) has been prepared for use by the Bank's Borrowers
and their implementing agencies in the procurement of works
primarily...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19856Date: March 31, 2000
Over the past decade, the production of
intellectual property rights (IPRs) has undergone tremendous
changes--fostered on the one hand, by a widening of the
range of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP412Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Braga, Carlos A. Primo ;
Fink, Carsten ;
Sepulveda,
This report outlines actions the bank
has taken to integrate gender equality into its work since
the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
Gender issues...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20560Date: February 29, 2000
This paper discusses issues and problems
related to private sector involvement in China's power
section in two parts. The first part consists of a summary
of the conference...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP406Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Zhao,Jianping
Will developing countries be able to
compete in the knowledge economy or do they face a future of
increasing exclusion, unable to develop skills required for
the twenty-first...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20182Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Task Force on Higher Education and Society
Crisis, adjustment, and reform in
Thailand's industrial firms; by David Dollar and Mary
Hallward-Driemeier. Corporate performance in the East Asian
financial crisis;...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22911Date: February 29, 2000Author:
ARON, JANINE ;
Brock,Philip L. ;
Claessens, Stijn ;
Djankov,Simeon ;
Dollar,David R. ;
Hallward-Driemeier,Mary C. ;
Lixin Colin Xu ;
Pack,Howard ;
Tsetsekos, George ;
Varangis, Panos
Coral reefs, also referred to as
"rainforests of the sea", are vital to the source
of food and livelihood of millions of people. However, in
1997 and 1998 elevated sea...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20263Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Gustavson, Kent ;
Huber, Richard M. ;
Ruitenbeek, Ja
This book was developed as part of a
five-year program of policy seminars on economic development
and environmental management as well as economic
globalization and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20262Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Furtado, Jose I. dos R. ;
Belt, Tamara ;
Jammi, Rama
The social assessment process is
relatively new in the World Bank. Since its use is
particularly relevant to countries in transition -
politically, socially, economically,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP461Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Kudat, Ayse ;
Peabody, Stan ;
Keyder, Caglar [editors]
The focus of the contributions in this
book is on trade and trade policy. Contributors review
recent trends in trade performance, assess current trade and
investment...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20322Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Hoekman, Bernard ;
Kheir-El-Din, Hanaa [editors]
Following the publication in 1993 of the
World Bank's policy paper on "Water Resources
Management," the World Bank Institute/Learning and
Leadership Center initiated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20247Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Groenfeldt, David ;
Svendsen, Mark
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