This first catalogue featuring pieces
from the World Bank's permanent art collection focuses
on African traditional artwork--textiles, sculptures,
pottery, and paintings...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18255Date: January 31, 1998Author:
Marc, Alexandre [editor]
The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden contain
some of the world's most important coastal and marine
environments and resources. In view of their environmental
uniqueness, the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 22004Date: January 1, 1998
For more than 30 years, successive
Brazilian governments have engaged in programs aimed at
opening up the Amazon region for settlement and development.
Since the 1980s,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19674Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Mahar, Dennis J. ;
Ducrot, Cecile E.H.
Reproductive health is a state of
physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters
related to the reproductive system and to its functions and
processes. It therefore...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17926Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Tinker, Anne ;
Merrick, Tom ;
Jonas, Edna ;
Adeyi, Alu
The gap between rich and poor - between
and within nations - is widening. Consumption and
population trends alike spell serious trouble, and
environmental issues, like...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18248Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Livernash, Robert [editor]
This eighth report of the series
introduces a new design and format for presenting data and
analysis on global environment and development issues. Part
1 focuses on...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17781Date: January 1, 1998Author:
WRI ;
UNEP ;
UNDP ;
World Bank
The study presents a vision of
Bangladesh in the year 2020. In articulating that
"vision", the authors have chosen the path of
cautious optimism, by recognizing the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 30623Date: January 1, 1998
This volume includes papers that
illustrate the classic Northian principle that
"institution matter." They explore not only how to
get the institutions "right" but also...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21840Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Picciotto, Robert ;
Wiesner, Eduardo [editors]
The report examines the ten-year history
of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the
initial challenges during start-up, its innovative and
dynamic evolution,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23196Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Restrepo, Edgar F. [editor]
At its October 1995 meeting the council
of the global environment facility (GEF) asked the
scientific and technical advisory panel (STAP) of the GEF to
review for the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 109669Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Williams, Robert ;
Karakezi, Stephen ;
Parikh,Jyoti ;
Watanabe, Chihiro
The Economic Development Institute
(EDI), in cooperation with the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and the Inter-American Foundation, launched
the Partnerships...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29830Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Fiszbein, Ariel; Lowden, Pamela
Reducing poverty and improving social
conditions in the developing world is central to the World
Bank's mission. But just how difficult is this task,
and how attainable...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31090Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Demery,Lionel ;
Walton, Mchael
The two papers included in this set
review the impacts of tourism on the environment in the
State of Goa, India and in the Republic of the Maldives.
Tourism plays an...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19681Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Sawkar, Kalidas ;
Noronha, Ligia ;
Mascarenhas, Antonio ;
Chauhan, O.S. ;
Saeed, Simad
The fall issue of the annual review on
the environment highlights the World Bank's work in
FY98 in the promotion of sustainable use of resources. Each
operational region...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18540Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Watson,Robert T. ;
Mercier, Jean-Roger ;
Dore, Giovanna ;
Eliste, Paavo ;
Soderstrom, Sari ;
Redwood, John ;
Collier, J.B. ;
Arif, Sherif ;
Brandon, Carter ;
Miller, Shawn ;
Doran, Lee ;
Margulis, Sergio ;
Vetleseter, Tonje ;
Hirji, Rafik ;
Dixon, John ;
Feinstein, Charles ;
Payton, Odil ;
Poore, Kerri ;
Bradford, Bonnie ;
Newcombe, Ken ;
Blaser, Juergen ;
Canby, Kerstin ;
Rees, Colin ;
Hanrahan, David ;
Wheeler, David ;
Keene, Michelle ;
Shaman,David
After global environment facility
(GEF's) establishment in 1991, more than 120 heads of
state adopted the principles of sustainable development for
international waters...
Type: PublicationReport#: 109676Date: January 1, 1998Author:
DOLZER, RUDOLF
This study analyzes the role of the Bank
in helping client countries to implement financial sector
reforms. It focuses on the country as the unit of analysis,
rather...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27617Date: January 1, 1998Author:
Mathieu, Nicolas
The close connection between knowledge
and final product makes the pharmaceutical industry unique.
Pharmaceuticals depend heavily on high level manpower and
substantial...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP392Date: December 31, 1997Author:
Felker, Greg ;
Chaudhuri, Shekhar ;
Gyorgy, Katalin ;
Goldman, Melvin
This report aims to assist policy makers
in the design and implementation of policies, monitoring,
and management tools to restore air quality in Kathmandu,
the political...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP378Date: December 31, 1997Author:
Larssen, Steinair ;
Gram, Frederick ;
Haugsbakk, Iva
This technical paper considers how
various dimensions of institutional uncertainty affect the
developing countries' investment rates. The paper is
the first to present...
During the past three decades the World
Bank, in partnership with member countries, has pursued
expenditure policy reform through its adjustment lending
programs. These...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP382Date: December 31, 1997Author:
Huther, Jeff ;
Roberts, Sandra ;
Shah, Anwar
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