Despite an uncertain start to the 1990s,
developing countries face brighter prospects for growth than
in the preceding decade. The improved prospects can be
attributed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11824Date: April 30, 1993
The paper provides a vision for African
governments, donor agencies and others working on African
agriculture. After twenty-five years of agricultural growth
slower...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP203Date: April 30, 1993Author:
Cleaver,Kevin M.
This volume reports on a concerted
effort to analyze and reflect on the possible role of
groundwater development in helping to address the persistent
rural poverty problem...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29817Date: April 1, 1993
The relationship between economic
development and the environment is complex, and reliable
information and data are often scarce. But it is
increasingly clear that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29094Date: April 1, 1993Author:
Sheram,Katherine
This paper outlines the Bank's
approach to telecommunications policy and operations. It
brings together the main features of this rapidly changing
and growing sector,...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP192Date: March 31, 1993Author:
Wellenius,Bjorn
Lithuania has embarked on a
comprehensive and far-reaching economic reform program aimed
at reorienting its economy from a centrally planned to a
market system. Substantial...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11754Date: March 31, 1993
Important choices about the organization
of health care systems and the role of government in the
provision of health care depend crucially upon citizen
demand for health...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM94Date: March 31, 1993Author:
Lavy, Victor ;
Quigley, John M.
Informatics is a technology set for
information processing, storage, retrieval and transmission.
Over the past 25 years, sustained technological change in
the informatics...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11839Date: March 31, 1993
This report examines the reasons for the
demise of Africa's mining performance, and proposes a
strategy for accelerating mining sector growth so that the
sector can...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP181Date: March 31, 1993
This study is one of the most
comprehensive studies attempted in fisheries research. It
is also an excellent example of how effective interagency
cooperation can be...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11725Date: March 31, 1993
Public Financial Management (PFM) is one
of the governments' most important responsibilities. In
developing countries, in particular, fiscal constraints
induced by macroeconomic...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP193Date: March 31, 1993Author:
Davies, Hywel M. ;
Hashim, Ali ;
Talero, Eduardo
The aims of this discussion paper are to
improve understanding of the issue of sustainable
development in the context of the urban environment in Rio,
to disseminate...
This report's overall objective is
to identify the critical areas on which the government must
focus in order to continue and extend the nascent economic
recovery now...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11726Date: March 31, 1993
This booklet introduces a group of tiny
aquatic plants commonly known as "duckweeds" as a
promising new commercial aquaculture crop. Duckweed species
are ubiquitous,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11733Date: March 31, 1993Author:
Skillicorn, Paul ;
Spira, William ;
Journey, William
This volume discusses the major options
decision makers face when dealing with teacher career and
remuneration policies. Most of the papers were prepared for
a seminar...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11805Date: March 31, 1993Author:
Farrell, Joseph P. ;
Oliveira, Joao B. [editors]
Latvia's annexation by the Soviet
Union after World War II led to a radical transformation of
its economy. Its comparatively well-developed infrastructure
and skilled...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11780Date: March 31, 1993
China has been reforming its price
system in small incremental steps since 1979. By the early
1990s, this process had reached a fairly advanced stage.
Nearly 70 percent...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11772Date: March 31, 1993
The future of sub - Saharan Africa will
depend to a large extent on the abilities of the sub -
Saharan societies to introduce technological change as a
permanent ongoing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP197Date: March 31, 1993Author:
Zymelman, Manuel [editor]
The report examines the main
macroeconomic issues faced by Estonian policy makers at the
present stage of the reforms. The next section below
examines trade and balance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11716Date: March 31, 1993
The papers collected in this volume were
presented at the World Bank's Annual Conference on
Development Economics in Washington, D.C., April 30 and May
1, 1992. Now...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12047Date: March 31, 1993Author:
Summers, Lawrence H. ;
Shah, Shekhar [editors]
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