For too long the agricultural and
environmental communities have been at odds with each other
over biodiversity when in act they share many concerns.
Agriculture is...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP321Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Forno,Douglas A. ;
Smith, Nigel J. H. ;
Srivastava,Jitendra P.
This report is one of a series of
handbooks which have arisen from a Surveillance project to
evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight
Latin American...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP314Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Valdes, Alberto ;
Schaeffer, Barry ;
Ramos, Hugo
East Asian developing countries have
been the beneficiaries of substantial foreign capital
inflows so far in this decade. They now receive more than
half of both total...
Special Feature: A future for commodity
futures exchanges in developing economies? Managing
commodity price risk : risk management tools can facilitate
trade finance.
This manual explains the planning
process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living
Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys,
including what these...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM126Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Munoz,Juan Eduardo
This Operations Evaluation Study reviews
the experience of Bank involvement in industrial
restructuring in 46 countries since 1980. It indicates that
industrial restructuring...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15707Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Mathieu, Nicolas
This publication elaborates on how the
specific characteristics of the different transport
subsectors affect the potential for expanding the role of
competitive markets....
The book analyzes the decline of Cote
d'Ivoire's celebrated development miracle of the
1960s and 1970s into a major macroeconomic crisis at the
beginning of the 1980s...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15651Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Berthelemy, J. C. ;
Bourguignon, F.
Reducing poverty in developing countries
is one of the most persistent challenges facing the world
today. The governments and civil societies of developing
countries...
This paper presents a framework for
evaluating the level and composition of public expenditures,
illustrated by sectoral and country examples. It emphasizes
six elements...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP323Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Pradhan, Sanjay
The Annual World Bank Conference on
Development Economics provides a forum for debate and the
exchange of ideas and information between World Bank staff
and development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15784Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Bruno, Michael ;
Pleskovic, Boris [editors]
Tropical forests contain an incredible
diversity of fruit, nuts, oil seeds, latexes, resins, gums,
spices, and medicinal plants of great potential economic
value. This...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP322Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Peters,Charles M.
Group-based lending programs for the
poor have become a focus of attention in the development
community over the last several years. This paper treats the
choice of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP320Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Pitt, Mark M. ;
Khandker, Shahidur R.
As part of the World Bank's efforts
to enhance women's participation in economic
development, the Economic Development Institute (EDI) is
working to demonstrate to policymakers...
This booklet outlines the ways in which
the World Bank and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can
work together in a partnership. It is meant to be a resource
guide...
This report is the result of a
collaborative effort between the government of Colombia and
the World Bank. Its purpose is to make recommendations to
the new administration...
Stock markets, corporate finance, and
economic growth: an overview. Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross
Levine Equity markets, transactions costs, and capital
accumulation:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15974Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ;
Levine, Ross ;
Bencivenga, Valerie R. ;
Smith, Bruce D. ;
Starr, Ross M. ;
Korajczyk, Robert A. ;
Zervos, Sara ;
Maksimovic, Vojislav ;
Boyd, John
Much work has been devoted to deriving
and extending decomposable inequality and poverty measures.
For example, the use of decomposition techniques to
partition inequality...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM125Date: May 31, 1996Author:
Leibbrandt, Murray V. ;
Woolard, Christopher D. ;
Wo
This study investigates why Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) continues to pose a special challenge to the
World Bank in its lending for power sector development.
Based on analysis...
The need to address issues of coastal
destruction and resource overuse, better methods for
environmental, and natural resources management, generally
referred to as...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27579Date: May 10, 1996Author:
C.G. Lundin [editor] ;
Alves Da Fonseca,Rui Jorge ;
Gove, Domingos Z. ;
Gove, Domingos Z.; Magane, Samiro; Voabil, Custo ;
Hassan ;
Hatton,Robert John ;
Magane, Samiro ;
Manjate,Valter Arlindo ;
Massinga, Alfredo ;
Massinga, Alfredo; Gove, Domingos Z.;
Magane, Sa ;
O. Linden [editor] ;
Voabil, Custodio
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