This report examines the relative roles
of the private and public sectors in implementing a
two-track strategy to reduce poverty. This strategy aims for
sustaining broad-based...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP346Date: March 31, 1997Author:
Psacharopoulos, George ;
Nguyen Xuan Nguyen
The main objectives of this book are to
review the conceptual issues that arise when choosing among
safety-net programs; analyze how country- and
region-specific constraints...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16560Date: March 31, 1997Author:
Subbarao, K. ;
Bonnerjee, Aniruddha ;
Braithwaite, Jeanine ;
Carvalho, Soniya ;
Ezemenari, Kene ;
Graham, Carol ;
Thompson, Alan
This report examines the general course
taken by agricultural reforms in East Germany, which
provides the only example in the region in which
agricultural output did...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP355Date: March 31, 1997Author:
Koester, Ulrich E. ;
Brooks, Karen M.
This paper discusses issues and explores
options related to the reform of the power sector regulatory
system in China. It stresses that for the power sector
reforms...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP361Date: March 31, 1997Author:
Shao Shiwei ;
Lu Zhengyong ;
Berrah, Noureddine ;
Tenenbaum, Bernard ;
Zhao Jianping [editors]
This report examines India's goal
of good quality universal primary education. Three major
challenges to this exist: expanding access, raising learning
achievement,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16412Date: March 31, 1997
This case study presents the main
findings from the community of Chawama, in Lusaka, Zambia,
part of a four city comparative project in countries
experiencing economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16434Date: March 31, 1997Author:
Moser, Caroline ;
Holland, Jeremy
This paper is a comparative study of the
legal framework for water users' associations (WUAs) in
six countries -Colombia, India, Mexico, Nepal, the
Philippines, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP360Date: March 1, 1997Author:
Salman, Salman M.A.
The International Development
Association (IDA), the World Bank Group's concessional
lending window, provides long-term loans at zero interest to
the poorest of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16273Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Jonas, Olga
This report focuses on the critical
choices for those nations undergoing decentralization in
Latin America and the Caribbean. During the last ten years,
the region has...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17962Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Peterson, George E.
This paper looks at some of the factors
influencing the perception that the African continent is a
relatively unattractive investment location as well as some
of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16362Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Donaldson, David J. ;
Sader, Frank ;
Wagle, Dileep M.
Through five case studies, this paper
reports findings, based on the International Finance
Corporation's (IFC) initiatives to determine its
development contributions,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23470Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Fitchett, D. ;
Jaspersen, F. ;
Pfeffermann, G. ;
Karmo
This book includes an inventory of
projects in the World Bank lending pipeline which offer
strong prospects for cofinancing. Its principal objective
is to help potential...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16438Date: February 28, 1997
This report, based primarily on a 1995
University of the West Indies participatory study, focuses
on the complex relationship between violence and urban
poverty in Jamaica....
Type: PublicationReport#: 16309Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Moser, Caroline ;
Holland, Jeremy
The study's main purpose is to
consider how the World Bank's global strategy for the
telecommunication sector can be applied in Sub-Saharan
African (SSA) countries....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP353Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Mustafa, Mohammad A. ;
Laidlaw, Bruce ;
Brand, Mark
Producer turnover and productivity
growth in developing countries. Mark J. Roberts and James R.
Tybout Housing and income distribution in Russia:
Zhivago's legacy. Robert...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16355Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Buckley,Robert M. ;
Carnoy,Martin ;
Gurenko,Eugene N. ;
Hammer,Jeffrey S. ;
Harberger, Arnold C. ;
Roberts,Mark John ;
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Squire,Lyn ;
Suthiwart-Narueput,Sethaput ;
Tybout,James R. ;
West, Edwin G.
This study looks at the role of
agriculture in the decline of biodiversity. It first looks
at the conflicts and complementaries between agriculture and
biodiversity,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16332Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Pagiola, Stefano ;
Kellenberg, John ;
Vidaeus, Lars ;
Srivastava, Jitendra
This paper examines the growth in oil
product demand over the 1971-1993 period for 37 developing
countries (outside the former Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe). These...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP359Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Gately, Dermot ;
Streifel, Shane S.
The proceedings of the China Urban
Transport Symposium brought together senior policymakers
from the Central government and a number of major cities,
prominent international...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP352Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Stares,Stephen ;
Zhi,Liu
This report sheds new light on what
makes exports grow. The effects of macroeconomic conditions
and policy variables on manufacturing exports have been
notoriously unpredictable...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16314Date: January 31, 1997Author:
Roberts, Mark J. ;
Tybout, James R.
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