The key finding of this report is that
the euro is not likely to cause any single major change in
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). There will, however,
be a lot...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20181Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Verner, Dorte
This report examines the implications
for Poland of complying with the European Union's
environmental directives. It starts by discussing the
importance of establishing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP454Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Bucknall, Julia ;
Hughes, Gordon
This report describes the increasing
social fragmentation in Albania since the fall of communism
and offers a series of proposals to stabilize the situation
and help...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP460Date: February 29, 2000Author:
La Cava, Gloria ;
Nanetti, Rafaella Y.
Many models exist for the analysis of
banks and other corporate entities. This publication aims to
complement existing methodologies by establishing a
comprehensive...
Type: PublicationReport#: 190190Date: February 11, 2000Author:
Hennie van Greuning ;
Brajovic-Bratanovic,S.
Costa Rica's present social
security system contains many inequitable characteristics,
including the fact that the highest ratio of benefits to
contributions goes to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20100Date: January 31, 2000
This book deals with the perceptions of
the author, Shahid Javed Burki, on world economies and the
World Bank's work with them. It is complied from
various speeches...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20035Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Burki,Shahid Javed
This is a revised version of the book
"The World Bank Inspection Panel" (report no.
13719) detailing the mechanisms and possible effects of the
Panel on the operations...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20101Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Shihata, Ibrahim F.I.
Contents : series of presentations by
each of the 16 international agricultural research centers
of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 37313Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Commodity prices in 2000 are expected to
continue the recovery which began in 1999, due to higher
economic growth and reduced surpluses in some markets.
Petroleum prices...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20306Date: January 31, 2000
Prometheus, according to Greek
mythology, was a Titan, responsible for introducing fire to
humans, a remarkable innovation at the time, but having
benefits and risks,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21140Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Serageldin, Ismail ;
Persley, G. J.
East Asian corporations differ from
their counterparts in other countries in important ways.
Before the recent financial crisis these differences were
viewed as one...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP409Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Claessens, Stijn ;
Djankov, Simeon ;
Larry H.P. Lang
A study conducted in 1998 by the World
Bank in cooperation with USAID took stock of various farm
restructuring initiatives in Ukraine, including projects
managed and...
At the September 1999 Annual Meetings of
the World Bank Group and IMF, Ministers endorsed the
proposal that country-owned poverty reduction strategies
provide the basis...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20374Date: January 31, 2000
International knowledge flows and
economic performance - a review of the evidence; by Giorgio
Barba Navaretti and David G. Tarr. Do trade patterns and
technology flows...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20868Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Bourguignon, Francois [editor] ;
Zable, Ilyse [editor] ;
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio ;
Tarr, David G. ;
Keller, Wolfgang ;
Djankov, Simeon ;
Hoekman, Bernard ;
Bee Yan Aw ;
Sukkyun Chung ;
Roberts, Mark J. ;
Soloaga, Isidro ;
Takacs, Wendy ;
Gisselquist, David ;
Grether, Jean-Marie ;
Bigman, David ;
Fofack, Hippolyte ;
Hentschel, Jesko ;
Lanjouw, Jean Olson ;
Lanjouw, Peter ;
Poggi, Javier ;
Dercon, Stefan ;
Lambotte, Michel
This review is one of a series of
field-based country studies assessing the Bank's recent
experiences with post-conflict reconstruction. Other studies
in this series...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20565Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Arnold,Margaret ;
Collier,Paul ;
Kreimer,Alcira I. ;
Scott,Colin S.
This case study is one of six
evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's
1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Brazil,
China, Costa Rica, India,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21245Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Essama-Nssah, B. ;
Gockowski,James Jerome
As the second book in a three-part
series entitled Voices of the Poor, "Crying out for
Change" accounts for the voices from comparative
fieldwork among twenty three...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21936Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Narayan, Deepa ;
Chambers, Robert ;
Shah, Meera K. ;
Petesch, Patti
World Bank missions to Ghana were
undertaken in June and October 1999 as part of a diagnosis
of M&E capacities and related development options in
Ghana. The government...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27615Date: January 1, 2000
Following on the work of previous,
recent publications - Voices of the Poor, and the World
Development Report 2000/01 - this report provides missing
mechanisms by which...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23463Date: January 1, 2000
The private sector, as an increasingly
significant catalyst for positive change, and as an
innovative challenger, is faced with demonstrating
responsibility, and accountability...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23481Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Nigam,Amit ;
Pastuszek Iii,Harry P.
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