During the past few years, the Latin
American countries have gone through major economic reforms
that have greatly changed the region's economic
landscape. What started...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14993Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Edwards,Sebastian
Some of the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe have made remarkable progress in privatizing
their enterprises by transfering ownership from the state to
private...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP295Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Anderson,Robert E. ;
Jedrzejczak,Gregory T. ;
Pohl,Gerhard
The Bank has played an important role,
through its project lending, in enhancing borrowers'
technological capabilities. It has helped borrowers to
select appropriate...
For several years, there has been
growing dissatisfaction with the results of investment
lending to Africa. This report begins from the analysis of
the source of those...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP302Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Peter Harrold and Associates
The 14th World Bank Agricultural
Symposium held January 5-6, 1994, pursues further the
on-going debate of the appropriate role of the state in
promoting agricultural...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14946Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Umali-Deininger, Dina ;
Maguire, Charles [editors]
The industrial countries are in the
midst of a long-term employment crisis typified by
persistent unemployment in Europe and risingg wage
inequality in Australia, Canada,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14577Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Revenga,Ana L.
Over the past decade, most countries in
the Latin America and Caribbean Region have stabilized their
economies and lowered barriers to international trade. Many
of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14922Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Cox Edwards,Alejandra C.
Moving toward gender equality means
moving from argument to action. The World Bank's
analytical study, "Toward Gender Equality: the Role of
Public Policy", presents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14930Date: August 31, 1995
The loss of large areas of tropical
forests has become a major concern of the world community.
Although there are many causes of tropical deforestation and
forest degradation,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14980Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Kramer, Randall A. ;
Sharma, Narendra ;
Munasinghe,
Commodity prices declined moderately
during the second quarter. The World Bank index of non-fuel
primary commodity prices averaged 1.7 percent lower than in
the first...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89560Date: August 1, 1995
The seventh edition of Trends in
Developing Economies (TIDE) provides brief reports on 119
World Bank, borrowing member countries as of May 1995. This
compendium of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14928Date: July 31, 1995
This publication consists of regional
extracts from "Trends in developing economies"
(TIDE). The first volume presents brief analytical
descriptions and data on recent...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14956Date: July 31, 1995
This document follows a review written
by the Operations Evaluation Department staff and
consultants. It examines more than four decades of World
Bank irrigation experience,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14908Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Jones,William Craig
Gender equality is not only a matter of
social justice but also good eocnomics. It is of foremost
importance to women's well-being and development.
Discrimination means...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14909Date: July 31, 1995
This paper examines the anatomy of the
Korean financial reform policy since 1974 in order to place
its financial reform plan of 1993 in the right perspective.
It starts...
From the investor's point of view,
returns on their investment are split into two parts:
capital gains and dividends. In part, corporate management
determines the nature...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD26Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Glen, Jack D. ;
Karmokolias, Yannis ;
Miller, Robert
This paper critically reviews the three
main approaches to land degradation and conservation - the
classic, populist and neo-liberal. The implications of these
paradigm...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP289Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Biot, Yvan ;
Blaikie, Piers M. ;
Jackson, Cecile ;
Pal
Market economies rely on the payment
system to facilitate trade and exchange among enterprises
and between enterprises and consumers in product markets. At
the same...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP291Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Setsuya Sato ;
Humphrey, David Burras
This study examines the options which
are available to countries already committed to economy-wide
reforms, regarding post-reform institutional set-up for
agricultural...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP283Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Jacobsen, Veronica ;
Scobie, Grant M. ;
Duncan, Alex
This study addresses three separate
aspects of population issues, with countries as the units of
observation: (a) the demography of Asian populations and the
power of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14874Date: July 31, 1995Author:
Sanderson, Warren C. ;
Jee-Peng Tan
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