Evaporative air-conditioning (EAC)
technologies - which rely on water as coolant rather on
chemical refrigerants - are economical to produce and use.
This paper introduces...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP421Date: March 31, 1999Author:
Bom, Gert Jan ;
Foster, Robert ;
Dijkstra, Ebel ;
Tumm
This books focuses on a) the performance
of labor markets in the Latin American and Caribbean region
since the beginning of the significant structural reforms
most countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19161Date: March 31, 1999Author:
Guasch, J. Luis
This country study consists of two
volumes. Volume I is a summary report that condenses main
findings and conclusions. This volume focuses mainly on
elimination of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19020Date: March 31, 1999
A scorecard for energy reform in
developing countries; by Robert Bacon. Private
participation in the transmission and distribution of
natural gas - Recent trends; by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29776Date: March 1, 1999Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Gomez-Lobo, Andres and Foster, Vivien ;
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Juris,Andrej ;
Law, Peter L. and Svensson, Bent R. ;
Law, Peter L. and de Franco, Nelson ;
Lehmann, Peter ;
Lovei,Laszlo ;
Rasmussen,Karen T. ;
Shepherd, Rob ;
Sinclair,Scott ;
Smith, Suzanne [editor]
A scorecard for energy reform in
developing countries; by Robert Bacon. Private
participation in the transmission and distribution of
natural gas - Recent trends; by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29776Date: March 1, 1999Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Gomez-Lobo, Andres and Foster, Vivien ;
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Juris,Andrej ;
Law, Peter L. and Svensson, Bent R. ;
Law, Peter L. and de Franco, Nelson ;
Lehmann, Peter ;
Lovei,Laszlo ;
Rasmussen,Karen T. ;
Shepherd, Rob ;
Sinclair,Scott ;
Smith, Suzanne [editor]
Recent economic reforms and political
changes within Southern Africa have opened up new
opportunities for intra-regional agricultural trade and
other forms of agribusiness...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP424Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Jaffee, Steven [editor]
This County Assistance Review (CAR)
examines the Bank's assistance to the Philippines since
1986, a turning point in the economic and social policy
landscape of that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19032Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Zanini,Gianni
For the use of water markets to
introduce improved water resources management, the existence
of adequate institutional arrangements, is one of the key
elements of success....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP427Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Marino, Manuel ;
Kemper, Karin E. [editors]
The evolution of poverty and inequality
in Indian villages; by Rajshri Jayaraman and Peter Lanjouw.
Appraising workfare; by Martin Ravallion. Public social
spending...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22910Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Jayaraman, Rajshri ;
Lanjouw, Peter ;
Ravallion, Martin ;
Castro-Leal, Florencia ;
Dayton, Julia ;
Demery, Lionel ;
Mehra, Kalpana ;
Anglesen, Arild ;
Kaimowitz, David ;
Easter, K. William ;
Rosegrant, Mark W. ;
Dinar, Ariel ;
Messick, Richard E. ;
Guasch, J. Luis ;
Hahn, Robert W.
This volume contains selections by
theorists and practitioners of governance work, with
in-depth case studies of corruption in Tanzania, Uganda, and
Sierra Leone. Part...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19017Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Stapenhurst, Rick ;
Kpundeh, Sahr J. [editors]
The purpose of this report is to take
stock of the state of the current thinking on rural
infrastructure issues. It is based on an evaluation of the
World Bank's operations...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21753Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Pouliquen, Louis Y.
This forum is associated with the Fifth
Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally and Socially
Sustainable Development, held at the Bank, October 9-10,
1997. How...
This Bibliography of Publications of the
Africa Region, the World Bank, makes available a list of
formal and informal publications produced by the staff and
consultants...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP425Date: February 1, 1999
Significant reform took place in the
Victorian irrigation industry in the decade 1984 to 1994.
This reform has positioned irrigated agriculture to take
advantage of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP413Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Langford, K. John ;
Forster, Christine L. ;
Malcolm, Duncan M.
Commodity prices continued to fall in
the fourth quarter, with energy and non-energy price indices
falling 8.9 percent and 0.7 percent respectively due to
weakness in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18910Date: January 31, 1999
Public sector downsizing: an
introduction, by Martin Rama. Cross-country evidence on
public sector retrenchment, by John Haltiwanger and Manisha
Singh. The efficient...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19241Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Rama, Martin ;
Haltiwanger, John ;
Singh, Manisha ;
Doh-Shin Jeon ;
Laffont, Jean-Jacques ;
MacIsaac, Donna ;
Assaad, Ragui ;
Ruppert, Elizabeth ;
Scott, Kinnon
This volume is intended as a potential
tool for Central and Eastern European policy makers inside
and outside the public sphere who are trying to craft a new
model of...
The note focuses on the global effects
of land degradation, but emphasizes other important levels
of land degradation: at the field level, it may result in
reduced productivity;...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20321Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Pagiola,Stefano P.
This report identifies
'milestones' in impact assessment research by the
international research centers of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63502Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Pingali, Prabhu L.
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