This glossary of terms on investment
decision-making has been developed for use in Economic
Development Institute's training activities. The
glossary contains 195 items...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18867Date: January 1, 1996Author:
Adhar, Anuja
This book discusses the guarantee
instruments the World Bank provides private lenders. By
covering risk the market is unable to bear or adequately
evaluate, the Bank's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 16275Date: January 1, 1996Author:
Project Finance and Guarantees Group
Alternative institutions, notably
cooperative societies, were developed in many countries in
order to deliver credit when it was found that financial
institutions had...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP316Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Khandker, Shahidur R. ;
Khan, Zahed ;
Khalily, Baqui
This paper is intended to reinforce the
World Bank's overall effort to improve the management
of natural resources and to highlight the importance of
water resources...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP315Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Hearne, Robert R. ;
Easter, K. William
This volume, "Global climate
change: economic and policy issues," contains three
papers dealing with key issues and options relating to the
economic and policy aspects...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15317Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Munasinghe, Mohan [editor]
The economic performance of East Asia
has been a remarkable story spanning several decades. The
region has enjoyed macroeconomic stability, consistent
growth, low inflation,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15293Date: December 31, 1995
In response to a request by the Deputies
of the International Development Association, this report
assesses the progress of private sector development in
low-income...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15180Date: December 31, 1995
Since 1991 the World Bank has been
publishing "The World and Regional Supply and Demand
Balances for Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash" on an
annual basis in the form...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP309Date: December 31, 1995
This monograph summarizes the results of
a World Bank research project that rigorously compares
private and public secondary school cost and achievement in
five developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP309Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Jimenez, Emmanuel ;
Lockheed, Marlaine E. ;
Cox, Donald ;
Luna, Eduardo ;
Paqueo, Vicente ;
de Vera, M. L. ;
Wattanawaha, Nongnuch
Maintenance of the productive potential
of land resources, and checking of land degradation, is a
fundamental element of sustainable land use. For this to be
achieved,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP315Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Pieri, Christian ;
Dumanski, Julian ;
Hamblin, Ann ;
Y
This report is based on studies
conducted in Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mali, Mexico,
Pakistan, Tanzania and Uzbekistan. The studies
systematically addressed the global...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP287Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Gillham, Fred E. M. ;
Bell, Thomas M. ;
Arin, Tijen
Developing countries are facing major
challenges to their rural land use, including deforestation,
increasing scarcity of tree products, and environmental
degradation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15334Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Current, Dean ;
Lutz,Ernst ;
Scherr,Sara ;
UNDP
This technical paper is the result of
seven years of research and development in the use of
vetiver grass as a promising - and proven - agricultural
technology to prevent...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP273Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Grimshaw, Richard G. ;
Helfer, Larisa [editors]
Investment promotion is an important
objective of tax policy in developing and industrial
countries alike. Governments are active in using tax policy
instruments to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15309Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Shah, Anwar [editor]
This publication consists of a set of
papers prepared for a Senior Policy Seminar on
"Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in China",
held in Dalian China in September...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15305Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Roy, Jayanta [editor]
This is the seventh annual edition of
"Trends in Private Investment in Developing
Countries", a unique data source. In addition to
presenting the latest statistics the...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD28Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Jaspersen, Frederick Z. ;
Aylward, Anthony H. ;
Suml
Drawing on extensive interviews with
airport authorities in both developed and developing
countries, this report analyzes the current ownership and
management structure...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP313Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Kapur,Anil
This study is one of the first
systematic attempts to assess technological capabilities of
African manufacturing firms, to estimate their technical
efficiency levels...
This statistical handbook, the fourth in
the series, represents a major compilation of data on the
economies of the fifteen independent states of the former
Soviet Union....
Type: PublicationReport#: 15255Date: December 31, 1995
This book reflects a new dimension in
the Bank's efforts to create effective strategies for
girls' education. It recognizes the need to reach
deeper into the community...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15273Date: December 31, 1995Author:
Kane, Eileen
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