Global economic prospects and developing
countries. Oil prices expected to weaken. Grains lead
declines in food prices Metals and minerals post small declines.
Type: PublicationReport#: 17321Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Mitchell, Donald [editor]
This paper investigates the kind of
policy changes and institutional conditions necessary to
ensure the economic viability of market-based solution to
inter-sectoral...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP395Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Saleth, R. Maria ;
Dinar, Ariel
Japan's casting and foundry sector
has been integral to the developmental success of a range of
machine-based industries. Although casting technology is
mature, institutional...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP384Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Sakura Kojima ;
Yoshitaka Okada
This report has been prepared as a
technology selection guide for the use of power system
planners and engineers to facilitate the selection of
cost-effective, environmentally...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP387Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Berglund,Anders ;
Deling,Rolf ;
Fritz,Jack J. ;
Oskarsson,Karin ;
Snellman,Ulrika ;
Stenback,Olle
This is the summary of the report of the
same name, no. 17285, published separately. It includes the
forward and introduction to the report and the table of
contents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17286Date: October 31, 1997
This paper examines the changing role of
the public sector in financing and provision of social
services and safety nets in Vietnam, and assesses its
efficiency in targeting...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP376Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Prescott,Nicholas M.
This book contains papers produced from
1992 to 1994 on Chinese macroeconomic policy by the
Department of Macroeconomic Regulation Studies (DMRS), under
the direction...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP374Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Jiwei Lou [editor]
The Fourth Annual World Bank Conference
on Environmentally Sustainable Development was convened in
September 1996, with the aim to pursue four key goals: 1)
poverty...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17149Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Serageldin, Ismail ;
Steeds, David [editors]
This book argues that the global
epidemic of HIV/AIDS can be overcome. It draws from three
bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV, public health
insights into...
This paper uses the Socioeconomic Survey
of Cambodia (SESC) of 1993/94 to estimate poverty measures
for Cambodia. The SESC was administered over four rounds to
5578...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP373Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Prescott,Nicholas M. ;
Pradhan,Menno Prasad
Integrated Conservation-Development
Projects (ICDPs) link the conservation of biodiversity in
protected areas with the socio-economic development of
adjoining communities....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP388Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Sanjayan, M. A. ;
Shen, Susan ;
Jansen, Malcolm
This rural sector strategy outlines the
steps the Bank and its partners must take to spur rural
development. Key elements of the strategy include (a) taking
a broad...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17388Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Ayres,Wendy Schreiber ;
Mccalla,Alexander F.
This study reveals the power and utility
of participatory methods for policy research. It
demonstrates practices and processes that can tap the
knowledge the poor have...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17387Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Narayan,Deepa
This report presents water pricing
experiences across 22 countries in various sectors and over
time. Country case studies provide a perspective of recent
and future...
This is a report of the panel
commissioned by the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to assess the potential of
crop bioengineering as...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17067Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Kendall, Henry W. ;
Beachy, Roger ;
Eisner, Thomas ;
Gould, Fred ;
Herdt, Robert ;
Raven, Peter H. ;
Schell, Jozef S. ;
Swaminathan, M. S.
This report is the proceedings of a
concurrent meeting of the Fifth Annual World Bank Conference
on Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development,
entitled "Partnerships...
The report reviews lessons from the
International Finance Corporation's (IFC) investment,
and advisory experience in the developing world, which show
the interactions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23472Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Gregory, Neil F. ;
Wagle,Dileep M. ;
Weigel,Dale R.
This study examines the impact on
farmers of the radical changes in agricultural policy which
have taken place in Zambia during the 1990s. Drawing on the
findings of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP375Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Francis, Paul A. ;
Milimo, John T. ;
Njobvu, Chosani A. ;
Tembo, Stephen P. M.
Good health, nutrition, and reproductive
policies, and effective health services, are critical links
in the chain of events that allow countries to break out of
the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17092Date: September 30, 1997
This report discusses the challenge of
extending the benefits of growth to all members of Chinese
society. Government policies, or their absence, are
heightening inequalities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17088Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan
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