This study was initiated in response to
a growing concern in the Bank about the environmental impact
of agricultural projects and the need to promote
agricultural development...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP215Date: August 31, 1993Author:
Umali, Dina L.
This study discusses the political and
macroeconomic conditions under which economic reform in
Kazakhstan has begun. It then considers the adjustment path
and external...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12303Date: August 31, 1993
The Argentine government which took
office in 1989 enacted a series of structural reforms that
recast the foundations of public finance. This study
discusses the changes...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12300Date: August 31, 1993Author:
EXT
This study is a collection of papers
which discuss the social effects of policy reform. Each
author covers a specific structural area of adjustment, and
provides a model...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12288Date: August 31, 1993Author:
Demery, Lionel ;
Ferroni, Marco ;
Grootaert, Christi
This report is the result of a seminar
held to solicit comments on important issues raised in a
number of papers presented. The purpose was to obtain
information on...
Approximately 420 million people in Asia
live in absolute poverty, suffer from nutritional
deficiencies, and do not earn enough income to obtain even
the basic necessities,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12333Date: August 31, 1993Author:
Bamberger, Michael ;
Aziz, Abdul [editors]
This report lays out a strategy for
Ukraine to make the transition to a market economy in the
social sectors, taking into account the widespread system of
benefits and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12487Date: August 31, 1993
China's economy began a very strong
expansion at the start of 1992, based on a revitalization of
reform and a renewed emphasis on development. In the last
eighteen months,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP215Date: August 31, 1993Author:
Harrold, Peter ;
Lall, Rajiv
Many developing countries have
discovered since the 1980s that public sector reform is the
connection between macroeconomic correction and sustainable
growth. This study...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP214Date: August 31, 1993Author:
Wiesner Duran, Eduardo
This report is an account of the results
of a joint World Bank and Zimbabwe Forestry Commission
study, in which the status, use, and future of
Zimbabwe's forest, woodland...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP210Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Bradley, P. N. ;
McNamara, K. [editors]
This study emphasizes the increasing
importance of improved seeds in agricultural development and
advocates a re-direction in the strategies of governments
and donor...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP213Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Srivastava, Jitendra P. ;
Jaffee, Steven
This report summarizes the papers and
associated discussion presented at the Senior Policy Seminar
held in Santiago, Chile between 25th and 28th of May, 1992.
The seminar...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12224Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Faruqi, Shakil [editor]
Environment and development are no
longer considered mutually exclusive by governments and
developmental agencies. It is now recognized that a healthy
environment is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12371Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
This report has three objectives: (1) to
identify strengths and weaknesses of Madagascar's
financial systems; (2) to formulate policy options which
could enable the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12242Date: July 31, 1993
The legal framework in a market economy
has at a minimum four basic economic functions: to define
the universe of property rights in the system; to set a
framework for...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP209Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Gray, Cheryl W.
The World Bank is taking measures to
improve the management of the development projects and
programs it finances. The measures are designed to make the
Bank more effective...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12205Date: July 31, 1993
This paper sheds light on the basic
facts of poverty in the East Asian developing countries
including past progress in abating poverty, and how many
poor remain in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP203Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Johansen,Frida Felicia
Since the breakup of the USSR, trade has
contracted sharply for the fifteen new independent states,
both with each other and with the rest of the world. This
paper analyzes...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12174Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Michalopoulos, Constantine
Previously, two papers of a similar kind
were published in 1991 and 1992 under World Bank Asia
Technical Series. This publication provides statistical data
in tabular...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP206Date: July 31, 1993Author:
FAO ;
UNIDO
Emerging water shortages are of great
concern in many countries of the region. As the agricultural
sector is generally by far the most important water consumer
and higher...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP201Date: July 31, 1993Author:
Van Tuijl, Willem
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