The definition of health care quality
and the impact of improved quality on the demand for health
care have not been the subject of rigorous econometric
studies. This...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM105Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Lavy, Victor ;
Germain, Jean-Marc
Water has always been of central concern
to life in the Middle East and North Arica (MENA). Early
civilizations emerged along the Tigris-Euphrates and Nile,
and the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13469Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Berkoff,Jeremy
From poverty reduction to
intergenerational benefits and economic efficiency, the
arguments for investing in women's health and nutrition
are compelling. Many health...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP256Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Tinker, Anne ;
Daly, Patricia ;
Green, Cynthia ;
Saxen
This report contains a series of edited
versions of lectures presented on July 11, 1992, at the
conference entitled "Managing the Transition While
Coping with Inflation,"...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12767Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Mozes, Dan [editor] ;
Crum, Roy L. ;
Goldberg, Itzha
Targeting benefits to the poor by
geographic location is very popular due to its simplicity.
Regions can be assigned priority on the basis of existing
aggregate data....
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM99Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Baker, Judy L. ;
Grosh, Margaret E.
The Development Committee held its 48th
meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 26, 1994. There were
three main items on the agenda: "Population and
Migration"; "Trade...
Type: PublicationReport#: DEV33Date: July 31, 1994
Governments often lack a clear strategy
for extension. It is now recognized that in most cases, a
single extension system may not be the only option. Rather,
there is...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP247Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Ameur,Charles
Information is crucial in agricultural
production, in addition to land, labor and capital. However,
investment in Information Technology (IT) has been mainly in
urban...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP247Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Zijp,Willem
This document examines the design and
adminstration of intergovernmental transfers in recent
decentralized governments. Even in decentralized systems,
central government...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP235Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Winkler,Donald R.
Since 1991 the World Bank has been
publishing "The World and Regional Supply and Demand
Balancs for Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash" on an
annual basis in the form of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP252Date: July 31, 1994
More than 150 million women become
pregnant in developing countries each year and an estimated
500,000 of them die from pregnancy-related causes. At least
7 million...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP202Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Koblinsky,Marjorie A. ;
Tinker,Anne G.
Effective management of development
requires reliable feedback about the impact of ongoing and
completed operations. This is the major goal of evaluation.
Learning from...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13151Date: July 31, 1994
Enhancing women's participation in
development is essential not only for achieving social
justice but also for reducing poverty. Worldwide experience
shows clearly that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13415Date: July 31, 1994
The Bank has markedly strengthened its
capacities and approaches over the past four years to deal
more effectively with Asia Region environmental issues in
all sectors....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP220Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Kingsley, G. Thomas ;
Ferguson, Bruce W. ;
Bower, Bl
The industrial sector program of the
Economic Development Institute's (EDI) Finance and
Private Sector Development Division focuses on the process
of industrial change...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13556Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Meyanathan,Saha Dhevan
Long stifled by government controls,
emerging market (EM) corporate finance is changing
dramatically as recent liberalization is revitalizing
stagnant domestic capital...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD22Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Glen, Jack ;
Pinto, Brian
This paper proposes a framework for
developing a national strategy for information technology
development and diffusion in support of economy-wide
competitiveness. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP246Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Hanna, Nagy
This report is a compilation of studies
that review the market prospects for energy and for metals
and minerals commodities. The forecasts are mainly used in
projecting...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13436Date: July 31, 1994
In exploring the short-term
macroeconomic effects of energy-supply shocks in Ukraine,
this paper relies on the simplifying assumption that
enterprises face economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13422Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Grais, Wafik ;
H. Quan Chu
Casual observations suggest that
extremely poor child health is detrimental to educational
achievement. However, in fact the evidence is quite limited
about the impact...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM104Date: July 31, 1994Author:
Behrman, Jere R. ;
Lavy, Victor
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