Water is being transferred out of
agriculture to meet the g rowing demand in other areas,
often without an agreement of or compensation to farmers
with irrigated land...
Overall, assistance provided by the
International Development Association (IDA) to Bangladesh
has been effective, and the partnership forged with the
government has...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21274Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Ansari, Homayoun ;
Gisselquist, David ;
Greene, Davi
This technical guide seeks to
demonstrate that, by encouraging small, continuous
improvements in landfill siting, construction, and
operation, the accumulative effect...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP426Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Rushbrook, Philip ;
Pugh, Michael
In 1997, the financial system in
Thailand went into crisis, rapidly followed by declining
economic output, employment, and incomes. The statistics
show clearly that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21388Date: January 1, 1999
This volume brings together the main
papers presented at a workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal,
during April 22-24, 1996. The volume has four sections. The
first one comprises...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20904Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Blarel, Benoit ;
Pursell, Garry ;
Valdes, Alberto
Mass privatization has transformed
thousands of state-owned Ukrainian enterprises into open
joint stock companies. Millions of Ukrainians now own shares
in such firms,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63388Date: January 1, 1999
The purpose of these guidelines is to
inform those carrying out a project that is financed in
whole or in part by a loan from the International Bank for
Reconstruction...
Type: PublicationReport#: 95471Date: January 1, 1999
Conflict over natural resources, such as
land, water, and forests, has for ages been widespread.
Whether it be a local dispute or an international debate
over shared...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20007Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Buckles, Daniel [editor]
This report on India's rural water
supply and sanitation points out that India has achieved
considerable success in providing safe drinking water to
about 85% of her...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41673Date: January 1, 1999
These Guidelines: Selection and
Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (January
1997, revised September 1997 and January 1999) replace the
1981 Guidelines:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 95660Date: January 1, 1999
This book seeks to document the impact
of economic reforms on China's industrial sector and to
explain why China's reforms have had such wide-reaching
effects. The volume...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18786Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Jefferson, Gary H. ;
Singh, Inderjit [editors]
This paper is adapted from Perry's
book entitled Health for All in Bangladesh: Lessons in
Primary Health Care for the Twenty First Century, published
by University...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73352Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Perry,Henry B.
India faces an increasingly urgent
situation; its finite and fragile water resources are
stressed and depleting while different sectoral demands are
growing rapidly....
Type: PublicationReport#: 41672Date: January 1, 1999
This statistical handbook is intended to
provide a comparative perspective on country performance and
to point to future challenges in the health sector. This
volume...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18772Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Preker, Alexander ;
Bos, Eduard ;
Akiko Maeda ;
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj ;
Hon, Vivian
This report presents the main findings
of a recently completed desk study undertaken for the Social
Development Family of the World Bank's Environmentally
and Socially...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18789Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Moser, Caroline O. N. ;
Tornqvist, Annika ;
Van Bron
The financial crises that have gripped
developing countries and the global economy in the past 12
months or so have exposed several weaknesses that
individually and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18777Date: December 31, 1998
This glossary in banking and finance is
a product of the technical assistance and training program
of the World Bank Institute for the former Soviet Union.
This is a...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19660Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Faruqi, Shakil [editor] ;
Yakov M. Mirkin and Asso
This report addresses issues of
modernization of the industrial enterprises as a critical
point for the enhancement and sustainability of
Russia's economic prosperity....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP400Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Broadman, Harry G. [Editor] ;
Goldberg, Itzhak ;
Desai, Raj ;
Mirsky, Arlene ;
Hendley, Kathryn ;
Ickes, Barry ;
Ryterman, Randi ;
Djankov, Simeon
Poverty is a key underlying contributing
factor to all the categories of children in especially
difficult circumstances covered in this report. Poverty
pulls children...
Type: PublicationReport#: 189365Date: December 31, 1998Author:
World Bank
The theme of the Ashgabat seminar and
this publication is implementing health sector reform in
Central Asia. The seminar focused on topics central to
restructuring health...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18787Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Feachem, Zuzana ;
Hensher, Martin ;
Rose, Laura [editors]
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