This is just one in a series of essays
published in conjunction with the Fiftieth Anniversary of
the World Bank. This series of essays is devoted to
improving the understanding...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13523Date: January 1, 1994Author:
Lay, Kenneth G.
This is just one in a series of essays
published in conjunction with the Fiftieth Anniversary of
the World Bank. This series is devoted to improving
understanding of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13536Date: January 1, 1994Author:
Lele, Uma ;
Bumb, Balu
Infrastructure has a central role to
play in accelerating growth in developing countries. The new
development paradigm of the 1990s contains two central
components:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13305Date: January 1, 1994
The world has changed dramatically over
the last five decades and so has the World Bank. The
Fiftieth Anniversary of the World Bank has provided us with
an opportunity...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13519Date: January 1, 1994Author:
Dervis, Kemal ;
Selowsky, Marcelo ;
Wallich, Christine
Most economies with a legacy of central
planning are changing in fundamental ways. With the rapid
economic, social, and political changes in these economies
an update...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12599Date: December 31, 1993
An imbalance among natural resources,
population, and basic human needs exists in many regions,
but is particularly acute in the developing countries of the
warm seasonally...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP221Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Srivastava, Jitendra P. ;
Tamboli, Prabhakar Mahedeo ;
English, John C. ;
Lal, Rattan ;
Stewart, Bobby Alton
The International Economics Department
of the World Bank organized a conference on portfolio
investment in developing countries on September 9-10, 1993
to examine alternative...
This book provides detailed information
about financial instruments for managing external commodity
price risks, creating awareness of the institutional
constraints...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12828Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Claessens, Stijn ;
Duncan, Ronald C.
This book reviews the macroeconomic
experiences of eighteen developing countries and looks at
the interplay between politics and economics and motivations
for economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12717Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Little, I.M.D. ;
Cooper, Richard N. ;
Corden, W. Max ;
Rajapatirana, Sarath
This environmental issues paper is aimed
at assisting the Government of Jamaica and other interested
parties in analyzing the crucial economic and institutional
issues...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12716Date: December 31, 1993
This is International Finance
Corporation (IFC’s) seventh factbook on the stock
markets of developing countries. The series is the first to
pull together in one...
Type: PublicationReport#: 188344Date: December 31, 1993Author:
World Bank
The incidence of poverty has fallen in
most regions of the world since 1945. Yet despite
decolonization and an expanding world economy, huge numbers
of people remain...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12684Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Lipton, Michael ;
van der Gaag, Jacques [editors]
This discussion paper presents the
results of a study on pastoral institution building and
resource management in the West Africa Sahel. The study was
part of a program...
This booklet summarizes the main points
of the full length publication of the same name. It provides
the salient points discussed concerning health sector
resources...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12395Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Feachem, Richard G.A. ;
Kjellstrom, Tord ;
Murray, Christopher ;
Over, Mead ;
Phillips, Margaret A.
This paper proposes a framework for
accomplishing improved environmental management. The first
of its five components is the need to set priorities - an
obvious but...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP224Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Brandon, Carter ;
Ramankutty, Ramesh
An export-oriented development strategy
has long formed a main thrust of the World Bank's
advice to developing countries. This paper sets out to
examine whether one...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP225Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Baneth,Jean
This paper attempts to identify the
overall reform issues affecting the private sector in
Mongolia. The paper, first, provides a detailed description
of the stucture...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP223Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Hahm,Hongjoo J.
This report discusses ways of improving
basic social services, an important dimension of poverty
alleviation in Uganda. In order to give some sense of need,
the report...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12756Date: December 31, 1993
This report discusses the reforms needed
to enable the banking sector in Russia to become more
efficient in performing its roles in a market economy:
specifically, in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12763Date: December 31, 1993
This paper assesses the potential for
cooperatives to contribute to the restructuring of large
farm agriculture by comparing costs and benefits of
cooperative forms...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP218Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Deininger, Klaus W. ;
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