The Global Environmental Facility (GEF)
began its three-year pilot phase in 1991, nearly 20 years
after the international community's first efforts to
address concerns...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13122Date: June 30, 1994Author:
UNDP ;
UNEP ;
World Bank
Literacy acquired in childhood
positively influences quality of life, but the effects of
literacy acquired in adulthood are not well known.
Experience shows that literacy...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP245Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Abadzi,Helen
To reverse the economic decline that
began in the 1970s, many sub-Saharan African countries have
undertaken structural adjustment programs. These programs
are designed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12877Date: June 30, 1994
A comparative analysis of nutritional
levels in Zimbabwe, prior to independence in 1980 and
present, shows a considerable improvement in the overall
reduction of malnutrition,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13403Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Tagwireyi, Julia ;
Greiner, Ted
This publication is the first
comprehensive empirical study of divestiture to measure its
effects on sellers, buyers, consumers, workers, and
competitors. The study...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13435Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Galal, Ahmed ;
Jones, Leroy ;
Tandon, Pankaj ;
Vogelsang, Ingo
The extended scope of governmental
intervention in developing countries is usually accompanied
by a short supply of governance capacity - understood as the
ability to...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP254Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Frischtak,Leila L.
The study explores an important emerging
opportunity for African exporters in a particular U.S.
market niche - Afrocentric textiles and home products. The
size and specific...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP242Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Biggs, Tyler ;
Moody, Gail R. ;
van Leeuween, Jan-Hendrik ;
White, E. Diane
Experience in both industrial and
developing countries demonstrates that an effective approach
for confronting urban environmental issues is to formulate a
city-specific...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13339Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Bartone, Carl ;
Bernstein, Janis ;
Leitmann, Josef ;
Eigen, Jochen
This paper focuses on the implementation
of a long-term capacity building approach to civil service
reform. It starts with a review of past World Bank support
to civil...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP225Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Dia, Mamadou
This report attempts to synthesize the
promising elements in rural finance operations reviewed in
countries within and outside sub-Saharan Africa, with the
focus on...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP219Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Thillairajah,Sabapathy
This document is designed primarily for
government officials, responsible for managing the external
debt of their countries, but it should also be helpful to
those with...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP245Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Klein,Thomas M.
This study investigates the apparent
contradiction between the high propensity of small- and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to identify finance as their
primary constraint...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP251Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Aryeetey, Ernest ;
Baah-Nuakoh, Amoah ;
Duggleby, Ta
Wise use of forest resources in
sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to sustainable development
and benefit many people, especially the poor, who depend on
these resources...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP251Date: June 30, 1994Author:
HEIMO, CLAUDE R. ;
Patel,Jyoti ;
Rietbergen,Simon A. P. ;
Sharma,Narendra P.
It is now widely recognized that
ensuring the supply of water at an affordable cost and of
acceptable quality for domestic consumption, food
production, and other uses...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP239Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Kirmani, Syed ;
Rangeley, Robert
The widespread movement toward political
liberalization and democratization is one of the most
dramatic historical changes of the past two decades. But can
a developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13349Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Haggard, Stephan ;
Webb, Steven B. [editors]
Improving and widening access to
education has been a major goal in most developing countries
in the past three decades. Impressive progress has been
achieved at all...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP244Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Subbarao, K. ;
Raney, Laura ;
Dundar, Halil ;
Haworth,
Demographic trends have taken many
surprising forms over the last 30 years, but none have
aroused such surprise, even incredulity, as recent events in
Bangladesh. Although...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13232Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Cleland, John ;
Phillips, James F. ;
Amin, Sajeda ;
Ka
The Factbook is designed to serve as a
reference for institutional investors, investment bankers,
academics, economists, and journalists. Many of the tables
and charts...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13311Date: June 30, 1994
This study examines the World
Bank's role in promoting human resource development in
the countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It was motivated
by concerns that progress...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13449Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Ridker,Ronald G.
This book attempts to explain why
Indonesia's economic performance during the period far
surpassed that of countries endowed with similar assets and
subject to the same...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13308Date: June 30, 1994Author:
Wing Thye Woo ;
Glassburner, Bruce ;
Nasution, Anwar
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