This report continues the data
publication series started by the World Bank in 1989 with
"African Economic and Financial Data" (published
jointly with the United Nations...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20042Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Verbeek-Demiraydin, Vildan ;
Hammad, Ronnie ;
Pandit
This report presents selected papers
from the proceedings of the World Bank conference
"Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and
Central Asia," held on June...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP411Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Lazreg, Marnia [editor]
The purposes of this report are to
analyze the nature of the current problems of Russia's
educational system, and to discuss policy options open to
the government. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP457Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Canning, Mary ;
Moock, Peter ;
Heleniak, Timothy
New strategies, strengthened
partnerships; by Robert T. Watson. The Bank's evolving
environmental agenda - achievements and future challenges;
by Magda Lovei, and Anjali...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20104Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Watson, Robert T. ;
Mercier, Jean-Roger ;
Lovei, Mag
The oilseed crushing industry in India
faces significant challenges related to price instability,
crushing margins, and the lack of access to modern risk
management...
Type: PublicationReport#: 188356Date: December 31, 1999Author:
World Bank
Developing countries are now recovering
from the worst ravages of the financial crisis of 1997-98.
However, the recovery is both uneven and fragile, and many
countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20039Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Nabli, Mustapha ;
Shaw, William ;
Riordan, Mick ;
Mody
Despite an implied civil turmoil and
constant crime and violence, Colombia is nevertheless one of
the oldest middle-income democracies in South America.
However, its...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20006Date: December 31, 1999
Hungary's economic performance
improved dramatically in the second half of the 1990s as a
result of strong stabilization measures and deep structural
reforms. During...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19923Date: November 30, 1999
The structure of this report follows
closely the design and format of the seminar on
"Groundwater: Legal and Policy Perspectives" held
in Washington on April 19,1999....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP456Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Salman, Salman M.A. [editor]
In search of an optimal judicial role in
social and economic development, many initiatives and
meetings on judicial reform have been undertaken in the past
few years...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP450Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Sureda, Andres Rigo ;
Malik, Waleed Haider [editors]
Reforms of Russia's budgetary
system at the subnational level are vital to preserve
macroeconomic stability, improve the efficiency and
accountability of government,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP452Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Freinkman, Lev ;
Treisman, Daniel ;
Titov, Stepan
This paper presents an innovative yet
practical framework to assess corporate sector vulnerability
and the links to exchange rates and financial crises that
bridges...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP455Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Gray, Dale F.
Moldova is having an arduous transition
from being a centrally-planned economy to one that is guided
by market signals, and this has contributed to poverty. Its
agriculture-dominated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19926Date: November 30, 1999
Gender issues, particularly with respect
to women's status and rights, have for a considerable
period, been in the forefront of donor's dialogue on
social issues with...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29831Date: November 1, 1999Author:
Gopal,Gita ;
Salim,Maryam
This paper provides information about
the burden of disease among the poor members of society. It
is designed to complement the data about society as a whole
that have...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29182Date: November 1, 1999Author:
Guillot, Michael ;
Gwatkin,Davidson R
Commodity prices were mixed in the third
quarter, with energy and metals increasing because of
production cuts, while agricultural and fertilizer prices
continued to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19880Date: October 31, 1999
Traditionally the Bank's periodic
economic studies on borrowing member countries, known as
"country economic memorandum" (CEM), are prepared
by Bank staff based on a...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP407Date: October 31, 1999Author:
Hansen, John ;
Nanivska, Vira [editors]
This report describes an approach to
assessing how the institution of cabinet responds to the
threats that government faces and provides some practical
strategies for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19935Date: October 31, 1999Author:
Manning, Nick ;
Barma, Naazneen ;
Blondel, Jean ;
Pilichowski, Elsa ;
Wright, Vincent
In 1997, the state of Andra Pradesh (AP)
embarked on an irrigation sector reform program. At the
heart of the program is the transfer of irrigation
management to farmers:...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP449Date: October 31, 1999Author:
Oblitas, Keith ;
Peter, J. Raymond ;
Pingle, Gautam
Is pollution simply the price of
development? Recent evidence shows that many developing
countries have already turned the corner in the fight
against industrial pollution....
Type: PublicationReport#: 19851Date: October 31, 1999
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