This strategy report identifies broad
directions the Bank's work should take in developing
infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia. They include the
following: 1)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19886Date: September 30, 1998
This third Annual Bank Conference on
Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) focuses
on trade liberalization policy, specifically "open
regionalism," a...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18444Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Burki, Shahid Javed ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Calvo, S
The primary purpose of this report is to
inform about Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency's
(MIGA's) contribution to development. Section I
describes MIGA's development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18497Date: September 30, 1998Author:
West, Gerald T. ;
Tarazona, Ethel I.
This book contains a series of papers
presented at the final conference sponsored by the Trade
Expansion Program (TEP). The first chapter provides an
overview of some...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18577Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Nash, John (Editor) ;
Takacs, Wendy (Editor) ;
de Melo, Jaime ;
Collier, Paul ;
Panagariya, Arvind ;
Hood, Ron ;
Chia-Seng Wu ;
Shui-Chi Chuang ;
Finger, J. Michael ;
Hardy, Rebecca ;
Harrison, Ann ;
Revenga, Ana ;
Valdes, Alberto ;
Berg, Elliot
This paper draws on the growing
experience with decentralization in developing countries, to
explore how a wide range of variables can affect
decentralization efforts,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21491Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Litvack, Jennie ;
ahmad, Junaid ;
Bird, Richard
This volume aims to provide a
comprehensive description of one country's experience
of public finance reform in a former socialist economy. Its
ambition is to make the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18435Date: September 30, 1998
The basic mandate of evaluation in any
organization is twofold: to measure to what extent and how
efficiently operational programs and activities are
producing the desired...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29783Date: September 1, 1998
Over the past two decades, the World
Bank has taken the lead in lending for projects that support
nutrition, health, population, reproductive health, and
education programs...
Type: PublicationReport#: 56362Date: September 1, 1998Author:
Chaubey, Selina
The massive migration of people from
rural into urban areas is the most spectacular gemographic
upheaval that Africa has experienced in recent decades.
While Africa...
This report attempts to provide the most
recent information on the social sectors in Ethiopia, and
raise issues for further consideration and discussion.
Earlier versions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18482Date: August 31, 1998
Lithuania could now consolidate and
complete the achievements of its first structural adjustment
effort, create an environment that will allow private
entrepreneurs...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18383Date: August 31, 1998
This publication is an outcome of the
International Workshop on Social Funds, held in May 27-30,
1997, in Washington D. C. The workshop's objectives
are: 1) to assess...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18379Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Bigio, Anthony G. [editor]
This paper examines the likely causes
for deteriorating enrollment rates in Africa. While a causal
link is difficult to establish, several studies suggest that
declining...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP395Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Bredie, Joseph W. B. ;
Beeharry, Girindre K.
Lithuania could now consolidate and
complete the achievements of its first structural adjustment
effort, create an environment that will allow private
entrepreneurs...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18383Date: August 31, 1998
Reforming Russian agriculture is vital
for the successful transition to a market economy.
Russia's agricultural research system continues to face
serious problems. Unless...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP396Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Mudahar, Mohinder S. ;
Jolly, Robert W. ;
Srivastava
West Bank and Gaza's health system
is at an evolutionary crossroads. Its improvement will
depend largely on the Ministry of Health's ability to
mobilize political support...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18378Date: August 31, 1998
This paper summarizes the current status
of land reform in Moldova. There has been clear progress in
creating a market-based agriculture and food sector in
Moldova....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP398Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Lerman, Zvi ;
Csaki, Csaba ;
Moroz, Victor
Promoting efficient rural financial
intermediation, by Jacob Yaron, McDonald Benjamin, and
Stephanie Charitonenko. The role of long-term finance :
theory and evidence,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18424Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Yaron, Jacob ;
Benjamin, McDonald ;
Charitonenko, Stephanie ;
Caprio, Gerard, Jr. ;
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ;
Baffes, John ;
Meerman, Jacob ;
Alderman, Harold ;
Lindert, Kathy ;
van de Walle, Dominique ;
Hoekman, Bernard ;
James, Estelle
Over 245 river basins are shared by two
or more states. About 40 percent of the world population and
50 percent of its land are either dependent on or stand to
benefit...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP414Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Boisson De Chazournes,Laurence ;
Salman,Salman M. A.
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