This revised edition: (a) reviews the
available evidence on the role of telecommunications in
economic development; (b) outlines the principles and
techniques of economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13231Date: April 30, 1994Author:
Saunders, Robert J. ;
Warford, Jeremy J. ;
Wellenius, Bjorn
Last years Global Economic Prospects and
the Developing Countries focused on international finance,
and the 1992 report highlighted international trade in
manufactures....
Type: PublicationReport#: 12979Date: April 30, 1994
This study was initiated to examine the
appropriate roles of the public and private sectors in the
delivery of agricultural support services. It is one of a
series of...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP236Date: April 30, 1994Author:
Umali, Dina L. ;
Schwartz, Lisa
This report outlines an Emergency
Assistance Program (EAP) of priority investments and
technical assistance to the Occupied Territories (OT) over
the three years 1994-1996....
Type: PublicationReport#: 13019Date: April 30, 1994
This report is a summary report of the
informal workshop on poverty reduction in South Asia, held
under the joint sponsorship of the South Asian Association
for Regional...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13057Date: April 30, 1994
On April 2 and 3, 1992, a major
international conference was held at the World Bank in
Washington, D.C. The Topic was "Culture and Development
in sub-Saharan Africa."...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12948Date: April 30, 1994Author:
Serageldin, Ismail ;
Taboroff, June [editors]
This volume provides an overview of the
external debt of 116 developing countries, including the
former Soviet Union. Compiled from the World Bank's
exclusive Debtor...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12949Date: April 30, 1994
This report provides an assessment of
structural adjustment policies undertaken by seven African
countries in the mid-1980s. This report is distinct from
other studies...
Project-related involuntary resettlement
is but one part of the broader issues of environment and
settlement that will determine Africa's development
prospects in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP227Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Cook, Cynthia [editor]
The extent to which Asian cities meet
the challenges of urbanization and contribute to
macroeconomic performance will, to a large extent, depend on
how efficiently they...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP224Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Midgley, Peter
In the next century, strategies to
encourage energy efficiency could moderate environmental
problems while saving energy, in spite of the enormous
potential for growth...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14344Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Schipper, Lee
What has happened to the socialist city
where all investment decisions have been made without land
markets? What are the consequences for the national economy?
This...
Like other Central European countries,
Poland faces the twin challenges of improving environmental
quality while also promoting economic development. This
study examines...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13036Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Bates, Robin ;
Cofala, Janusz ;
Toman, Michael
Appropriate regulation means maximizing
the benefits from removing market failures in relation to
the costs of government intervention. Monopoly markets fail
because...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14339Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Jones,Leroy P.
This paper relies on empirical material
drawn from anthropology, demography, economics, and the
environmental sciences for identifying possible links
between rural poverty,...
This paper examines the growth rates in
116 economies from 1965 to 1985. It finds that the lowest
quintile had an average growth rate of real gross domestic
product...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14341Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Barro, Robert J. ;
Jong-Wha Lee
Many recent scenarios of future world
energy demand and supply assume a lower growth of energy
demand in the developing world than has been the case in
recent decades....
Type: PublicationReport#: 14345Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Churchill,Anthony
The work presented in this report was
motivated by an interest in understanding the extent of soil
degradation in Central America and the Caribbean, in knowing
how farmers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13010Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Lutz, Ernst ;
Pagiola, Stefano ;
Reiche, Carlos [editors]
Within any system of utility regulation,
there is a tension between the ability to commit to a stable
set of rules and the ability to respond flexibly to changing
circumstances....
Type: PublicationReport#: 14340Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Levy, Brian ;
Spiller, Pablo T.
The motives behind government programs
to provide directed credit to agriculture and industry can
be traced to problems of asymmetric information in capital
markets...
Type: PublicationReport#: 14336Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Calomiris, Charles W. ;
Himmelberg, Charles P.
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