Most discussions of security markets and
asset pricing take trading system design as exogenous and as
playing a relatively minor role in the overall pricing
process....
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD24Date: November 30, 1994Author:
Glen, Jack
Commodity prices continued to rise
sharply during the third quarter. The World Bank's
index of 33 non-fuel primary commodity prices rose 17
percent between June and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75389Date: November 1, 1994
The central objective of the research
summarized in this report was to document the
characteristics and problems of newly privatized firms in
Russia roughly one year...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP241Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Webster, Leila M. ;
Franz, Juergen ;
Artimiev, Igor
In 1993 the World Bank created an
inspection panel to investigate complaints about its own
operations. This initiative - the first of its kind for an
international organization...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13719Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Shihata, Ibrahim F. I.
Although education plays an important
role in economic development, many low income countries are
failing to develop their education systems fast enough to
reap the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP264Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Khandker, Shahidur R. ;
Lavy, Victor ;
Filmer, Deon
This publication consists of the papers
prepared for a senior policy seminar held in February 1993
at Bali, Indonesia. This was the second seminar in a two
part mini-series...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13657Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Faruqui, Shakil [editor]
The industrial sector program of the
Economic Development Institute's (EDI's) Finance
Private Sector Development Division focuses on the process
of industrial change...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13658Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Meyanathan, Saha Dhevan [editor]
Negotiations to restructure the Global
Environment Facility (GEF) concluded at a GEF participants
meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 1994, with the
acceptance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13695Date: October 31, 1994
This document is a companion piece to
"Reversing the spiral: the population, agriculture, and
environment nexus in sub-Saharan Africa". The
supplement details the statistical...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13654Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Cleaver, Kevin M. ;
Schreiber, Gotz A.
The papers collected in this volume were
presented at the World Bank Conference on Civil Service
Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), held on May
20-21,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP259Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad ;
Reid, Gary James ;
Malik, W
This volume extends the literature on
civil service pay and employment by building on first
generation studies that identified problems and by
introducing a second generation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13711Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Lindauer, David L. ;
Nunberg, Barbara [editors]
On October 26, 1994 Jordan and Israel
signed a Treaty of Peace, ending nearly fifty years of
hostilities. Jordan, Israel's near neighbor with ties
to the new Palestinian...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13671Date: October 31, 1994
The papers in this volume cover the
policy and methodological issues discussed at the EDI
seminar on multipurpose river basin development in China.
The seminar had three...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13653Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Sun, Peter [editor]
The paper describes and assesses
intergovernmental fiscal relations in Indonesia and outlines
options for reform. The discussion encompasses issues in all
major aspects...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP239Date: October 31, 1994Author:
Shah, Anwar ;
Qureshi, Zia ;
Bagchi, Amaresh ;
Binder, Brian ;
Heng-fu Zou
This speech by Lewis T. Preston,
President of the World Bank, was given in Madrid, Spain. to
the Board of Governors during the 1994 Annual Meetings.
Preston discusses...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13856Date: October 4, 1994Author:
Preston,Lewis T.
The purpose of the present study is to
provide a brief historical background of Kenya, Malawi,
Tanzania, and Zambia, focusing on those aspects of their
political and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29815Date: October 1, 1994Author:
Ansong, Granville ;
Gerrard,Christopher D. ;
Posehn, Greg D.
Italian public policy, especially since
the end of World War II, has emphasized the socioeconomic
and political value of the family farm. Along with, and
subsequent...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP262Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Shearer, Eric B. ;
Barbero, Giuseppe
The past few years have seen an
important shift in the design of development policies and
investment, as the links between natural environment and
economic development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13549Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Mason, Jocelyn ;
Dixon, Johnson ;
Redwood, John III
Systems providing financial security for
the old are under increasing strain throughout the world.
Rapid demographic transitions caused by rising life
expectancy and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13585Date: September 30, 1994
Capital mobility in developing
countries: some measurement issues and empirical estimates.
The political economy of growth: a critical survey of the
recent literature....
Type: PublicationReport#: 17650Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Montiel, Peter J. ;
Alesina, Alberto ;
Perotti, Roberto ;
Eskeland, Gunnar S. ;
Fields, Gary S. ;
Tarr, David G.
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