Scarred by the violent responses to
earlier cuts in its extensive food subsidy program, the
Tunisian Government developed self-targeting subsidies, both
politically...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP351Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Tuck, Laura ;
Lindert, Kathy
Forty-five studies were commissioned to
investigate participation-related issues and draw lessons
from participatory projects financed by the World Bank.
Questions posed...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP333Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Rietbergen-McCracken, Jennifer [editor]
The change from a construction to a
management approach to solving a country's water
problems alters the basic nature of assistance required by
the water manager. This...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP349Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Cummings, Ronald ;
Dinar, Ariel ;
Olson, Douglas
This book examines the role of public
expenditures in contributing to economic growth in Africa.
It presents five country case studies -using Kenya, Zambia,
Botswana,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16270Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Bruton, Henry J. ;
Hill, Catharine B. [editors]
Malawi's education system is
hampered by problems of poor access, high repetition and
dropout rates, poor infrastructure and inequality. To
address this situation the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP350Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Castro-Leal, Florencia
This Country Economic Memorandum
analyzes the past five years of economic stabilization and
reform in India, and outlines the challenges that lie ahead.
It focuses first...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16214Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Allaoua, Zoubida
This statistical handbook, the fifth in
the series, represents a major compilation of data on the
economics of the 15 independent states of the former Soviet
Union -Armenia,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16157Date: December 31, 1996
Economists and health planners from the
World Bank and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)
designed and presented a series of seminars between 1987 and
1991...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16264Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Overholt, Catherine A. ;
Saunders, Margaret K. [ed
This paper is one of several papers
produced as a research output under the research project,
"Credit Programs for the Poor: Household and
Intrahousehold Impacts and...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP336Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Khandker, Shahidur R. ;
Chowdhury, Osman H.
The question of whether decentralization
fosters rural development and whether it does so in ways
that are environmentally and socially sustainable, was the
topic of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16215Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Lutz, Ernst ;
Caldecott, Julian [editors]
This book presents the results of a
project designed to link changes in trade policy with
patterns of producer entry, exit, and adjustment
characterizing developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16196Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Roberts, Mark J. [editor] ;
Tybout, James R. [editor]
Persistent unemployment has emerged as
one of the most critical outcomes of transition from
socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. High unemployment
rates, including...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP352Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Allison, Christine ;
Ringold, Dena
This report assesses the current state
of the mining industry in Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC), identifies and analyzes constraints to its growth,
proposes approaches...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP345Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Lundberg,Bo ;
Remy,Felix ;
Van der Veen, Peter ;
Remy, Felix ;
Williams, John P ;
Van Der Veen,Peter A. ;
Walser,Gotthard ;
Williams,John P.
The authors look at the rationale for
financing infrastructure with private capital and the
challenges faced. They argue that the private sector is
better able to satisfy...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP343Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Ferreira, David ;
Khatami, Kamran
This paper is the Statistical Annex to
the report, "Trends in Health Status, Services and
Finance: The Transition in Central and Eastern Europe,"
part of a cross-national...
OECD barriers did not play a significant
role in sub-Saharan Africa's declining position in
world trade over the last three decades. The detrimental
effects of the African...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP348Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Amjadi, Azita ;
Reincke, Ulrich ;
Yeats, Alexander J.
The papers in this volume examine in an
integrated way the ecological and social impacts of
structural adjustment programs and other macroeconomic
policies, and attempt...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16414Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan [editor]
This paper surveys health reform in the
former Soviet republics of Central Asia, in the aftermath of
their independence and transition from the Soviet command
economy....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP344Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Klugman,Jeni G. ;
Schieber,George ;
Heleniak,Timothy E. ;
Hon,Vivian Y. N.
This short paper, in its eighth edition,
provides private and public investment data through 1995.
Although the growing empirical literature on privatization
has almost...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD31Date: December 31, 1996Author:
Bouton, Lawrence ;
Sumlinski, Mariusz A.
Special feature : A global food shortage
? Several computer simulation studies say no. Managing
commodity price risk : the rise and fall of cooperative strategies.
Type: PublicationReport#: 26354Date: November 30, 1996
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