The Korean government has played a
pervasive role in promoting industrialization and economic
development. Directed credit was a basic instrument of
economic policy....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP286Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Yoon Je Cho ;
Joon-Kyung Kim
While substantial progress has been made
over the past generation, the statistics on poverty continue
to shock. Three out of five people in the world -- some 3
billion...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11969Date: April 30, 1995
This 1995 edition continues to address
the most pressing issue now facing the bank and its member
countries: how to reduce poverty. Priority Poverty
Indicators (PPIs),...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14381Date: April 30, 1995
This report examines the evolution of
Bank strategy to integrate gender issues in Bank lending
across sectors since 1967, and the outcomes achieved so far.
Throughout...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14462Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Murphy, Josette L.
This paper is intended to document the
move to low-polluting practices by enterprises in response
to the global problem of stratospheric ozone depletion. The
Montreal...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP271Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Ahmed,Kulsum
Water problems are emerging as the most
compelling set of issues facing agricultural production in
the 1990s. Local and national governments as well as
supranational...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP269Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Scheierling,Susanne M.
This study is a sequel to the 1992
monograph on corporate financing patterns and structures in
nine industrializing economies. That was the first large
scale research...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14328Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Singh,Ajit
Privatization is a inherently political
process. Because privatization typically involves a
fundamental shift of economic power (always from the state
to the private...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP285Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Bell,Stuart W.
This study estimates the incidence,
characteristics, and patterns of change over time of
illiteracy in Morocco. The study compares the results from
direct literacy assessment...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM115Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Lavy, Victor ;
Spratt, Jennifer ;
Leboucher, Nathali
Plagues of the desert locust are
occurring, on average, one year in every six. Highly mobile
swarms may then threaten a vast territory streching from
Mauritania to India,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP284Date: April 30, 1995Author:
Joffe,Steen Robert
This research explores the relationship
in Cote d'Ivoire between fertility and the investments
made by parents in the schooling of their children. One
expects that families...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM112Date: April 1, 1995Author:
Montgomery, Mark Kouame, Aka Oliver, Raylynn
Public examinations in developing
countries play a critical role in the selection of students
for participation in the educational system. The
examinations tend to be...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP272Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Greaney, Vincent ;
Kellaghan, Thomas
This volume of Proceedings of the World
Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics 1994
contains two comments on Stark's "Frontier Issues
in International Migration,"...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14437Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Greenwood, Michael J. ;
Rosenzweig, Mark R.
Constitutions matter for economic
performance to the extent that they promote stability,
accountability, and credibility. This article considers the
nature of political...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14428Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Elster, Jon
This volume contains two comments on
Williamson's "The Institutions and Governance of
Economic Development and Reform," followed by a floor
discussion summary of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14427Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Putnam, Robert D. ;
Murrell, Peter
Over the last three years,
notwithstanding a sharp increase of the fiscal deficit in
1993-94, the government has made considerable progress in
stabilizing the economy....
Type: PublicationReport#: 14047Date: March 31, 1995
Countries in transition to market
economies have had to implement macroeconoimic stabilization
programs at the same time that they were engaged in massive
changes of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14418Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Balcerowicz, Leszek ;
Gelb, Alan
The purpose of this study is to
document, in detail, the levels and trends in health
spending in the Latin American countries. As such, it
represents an extension of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP274Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Govindaraj, Ramesh ;
Murray, Christopher J. L. ;
Che
The degraded forests discussed in this
paper are those that have been so badly damaged they have
completely lost their protective or productive functions -
but still...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP270Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Banerjee,Ajit Kumar
The papers collected in this volume were
presented at the sixth World Bank annual conference on
development economics, held April 28-29, 1994, in
Washington, D.C. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14415Date: March 31, 1995Author:
Bruno, Michael ;
Pleskovic, Boris
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