This report is intended to serve as a
sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments
conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As
a sourcebook,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17094Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Benjamin, McDonald P., Jr. ;
Piprek,Gerda Lize ;
Yaron,Jacob
Although the European Union (EU) and the
United States have greatly increased access to their markets
for products from transition economies, they continue to
treat...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17427Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Ehrenhaft, Peter D. ;
Hindley, Brian Vernon ;
Michal
Rationing can backfire: the "day
without a car" in Mexico City. Prices and protocols in
public health care. Formal and informal regulation of
industrial pollution: comparative...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17657Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Eskeland, Gunnar S. ;
Feyzioglu, Tarhan ;
Hammer, Jeffrey S. ;
Pargal, Sheoli ;
Hettige, Hemamala ;
Singh, Manjula ;
Wheeler, David ;
Taylor, Mark P. ;
Sarno, Lucio ;
Hoekman, Bernard ;
Djankow, Simeon ;
Haggarty, Luke ;
Shirley, Mary M.
China, like other developing countries,
faces the challenge of upgrading and expanding its
infrastructure facilities so that economic growth will not
be jeopardized...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP377Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Kumar, Anjali ;
Gray, R. David ;
Hoskote, Mangesh ;
von Klaudy, Stephan ;
Ruster, Jeff
Hydropower and irrigation projects
involving reservoirs can displace thousands of people from
their traditional lands and deprive them of their
livelihoods. Solutions...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP369Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Costa-Pierce, Barry
China's current pension system has
two severe problems: the urgent and immediate problem of the
pension burden of state-owned enterprises, and the
longer-term problem...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17090Date: September 30, 1997Author:
de Coquereaumont, Meta [editor]
This paper compares and contrasts the
governance and regulation of power pools in England and
Wales, Victoria (Australia), Alberta (Canada), and
Scandinavia (Norway...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP382Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Barker, James, Jr. ;
Tenenbaum, Bernard ;
Woolf, Fiona
Latin America and the Caribbean is the
most urbanized region in the developing world with a rapidly
growing motor vehicle fleet. The number of urban areas with
populations...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP373Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Onursal, Bekir ;
Gautam, Surhid P.
This is the third World Bank policy
study of China's health sector. This report looks in
greater detail at the impact of China's move toward a
market economy on the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17091Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Hsiao, William ;
Jamison, Dean T. ;
McGreevey, Willi
The purpose of this report is to review
China's higher education reform efforts over the last
10 years in relation to goals delineated in the 1985
document, "Decision...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17138Date: September 30, 1997
Expanding motor vehicle population is a
major cause of air pollution in many Asian cities. This
report describes strategies, incentives, and methods to
increase the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP377Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Walsh, Michael ;
Shah, Jitendra, J.
This volume reports on research projects
initiated, under way, or completed in fiscal 1997 (July 1,
1996 through June 30, 1997). The abstracts in the volume
describe...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17385Date: September 30, 1997
This report presents the findings of a
study of enterprise-based training in Malaysia's
manufacturing sector which was jointly sponsored by the
World Bank, the United...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17136Date: September 30, 1997
China was closed economy until 1979. As
a result of open-door policies and reforms, its relationship
with the rest of the world has been transformed and its
growth has...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17231Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Dasgupta,Dipak
This study shows that, in macroeconomic
management, savings and investment, and depth of
international economic integration, East Asia enjoys
advantages that are lacking...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17035Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Claessens, Stijn ;
Glaessner, Thomas
This study looks at the system of
education and training in Vietnam (E&T) and poses the
question: What changes in educational policies will ensure
that students who...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17066Date: September 30, 1997
This review covers the World Bank's
experience in Environmental Assessment (EA) from July 1992
to the present. The objectives of this review are: 1) to
provide an overview...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP363Date: September 30, 1997
This 1997 report projects an increase in
the growth rate of global input. The improvement is likely
to be especially notable for Sub-Saharan Africa, which grew
at around...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17072Date: September 30, 1997
This report analyzes the linkages
between energy efficiency investments in multifamily
buildings in FSU (former Soviet Union) countries and the
institutional, policy,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17143Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Martinot,Eric
Sector Investment Programs (SIP)
represent an important initiative to address several
weaknesses of development aid practice. They are one means
of implementing an approach...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP374Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Jones, Stephen P.
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