This volume examines global food supply
prospects over the short and medium term. It examines the
causes of the recent price increases, reviews the research
on the medium-term...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP353Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Ingco, Merlinda D. ;
Mitchell, Donald O. ;
McCalla,
This report is one of the World
Bank's contributions to the Habitat II process. This
publication first tells the story of nearly a quarter
century of the Bank's program...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16059Date: November 30, 1996
From 1989 to 1994 the government of
Mexico carried out a major restructuring of the
telecommunications sector. This paper gives a concise
overview of the context, issues,...
This handbook presents a
state-of-the-art review of vehicle emission standards and
testing procedures and attempts to synthesize worldwide
experience with vehicle emission...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16190Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Faiz, Asif ;
Weaver, Christopher S. ;
Walsh, Michael
This book provides introductory
information to assessing the learning outcomes of education
systems. It considers the role of indicators in this
process, in particular,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16170Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Greaney, Vincent ;
Kellaghan, Thomas
Since approximately 1990, most countries
in Latin America have embarked on a multilateral process of
trade liberalization for agricultural and non-agricultural
products,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP349Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Valdes, Alberto
This study highlights the need for much
more detailed attention to the cost of schooling incurred by
parents and communities. In some societies these costs are
greater...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16155Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Bray,Mark T.
This book focuses on the impact of
community financing in formal primary and secondary
education, although it is concerned with community and
government contributions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16167Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Bray, Mark
Health care demand price elasticities
are often estimated from samples conditioned to include only
sick people. This paper shows that not only may such
estimates be...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM127Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Dow, William H.
This books aims to define the World
Bank's medium and long term agenda for improving its
assistance to sub-Saharan African countries on their road
toward environmentally...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16099Date: November 30, 1996
Health reform is a widely used term
across the world. However, little work has been done to
identify its processes, dynamics and key factors for
success, especially...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP347Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Siegel, Bruce ;
Peters, David ;
Kamara, Sheku
This book is designed to assist
political and educational policy makers and practitioners in
developing countries. Its purpose is to identify the
political dimensions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16237Date: November 30, 1996Author:
Fiske, Edward B.
This statement prepared for the World
Food Summit by the World Bank identifies not only
agricultural productivity, but also poverty reduction and
health and nutrition...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16159Date: November 12, 1996
In this pamphlet, the World Bank issues
a call to action to meet the dual challenge to build the
world's food supply and to advance rural well-being
while reversing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16158Date: November 12, 1996
This book summarizes how better
nutrition and health for school-aged children in the
developing world will enhance school enrollment, attendance,
and performance; ...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16139Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Del Rosso, Joy Miller ;
Marek, Tonia
The report is the outcome of the Second
Policy Conference on Integrated Coastal Zone Management in
Eastern Africa and Island States, and builds on the
perception that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20025Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Linden, Olof ;
Lundin, Carl Gustaf [editors]
This report, a summary of the key
messages of World Development Report 1995: Workers in an
Integrating World, reviews East Asia's development from
the perspective of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16066Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Agrawal, Nisha ;
Lindauer, David ;
Walton, Michael
Ecuador is an extremely poor country.
Thirty-five percent of its population lived in poverty in
1994 and an additional seventeen percent were highly
vulnerable to poverty....
Type: PublicationReport#: 16087Date: October 31, 1996
This report is the first intellectual
product of the Agricultural Research and Extension Group
(ESDAR). The theme of the report is the emergence of a
global agricultural...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16079Date: October 31, 1996Author:
Petit,Michel J.
To increase per capita income at a
faster pace and reduce the incidence of poverty, Bangladesh
must significantly raise the average GDP growth. The
sectoral sources...
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