Rural credit has become a prime
component of Bank lending operations since its inception.
Providing affordable credit to the rural sector was
considered warranted on...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP150Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Yaron,Jacob
This report reviews the status of
agricultural extension in the AF2 countries (Ethiopia,
Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Mauritius and Uganda). The key
problems are discussed...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP164Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Schwartz, Lisa A. ;
Kampen, Jacob
Inflation and the transition to a market
economy: an overview. Lesson from experiences with high
inflation. Price-wage dynamics and inflation in socialist
economies:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17600Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Commander, Simon ;
Dornbusch, Rudiger ;
Coricelli, Fabrizio ;
Calvo, Guillermo A. ;
Diwan, Ishac ;
Kletzer, Kenneth ;
Ravallion, Martin ;
Lavy, Victor ;
Alessie, Rob ;
Baker, Paul ;
Blundell, Richard ;
Heady, Christopher ;
Meghir, Costas ;
Cox, Donald ;
Jimenez, Emmanuel ;
Gertler, Paul ;
Glewwe, Paul
This paper reviews the experience of
price reform in China, as well as selected East European
countries. Price reform is an essential element of any
program that seeks...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP144Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Rajaram, Anand
African governments and donor agencies
have realized in recent years that development programs can
only succeed if built upon sound policy and institutional
foundations....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP132Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Fuller, Bruce ;
Habte, Aklilu [editors]
This volume is, in the best sense of the
term, a collective effort. It was decided to make available
to a wider public the fruits of the World Bank's
sectoral explorations...
On "hunger and public action":
a review article on the book by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen.
Who wins and who loses from voluntary export restraints? -
the case of footwear....
Type: PublicationReport#: 17519Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Hamilton, Carl B. ;
Kiguel,Miguel Alberto ;
Lindauer,David L. ;
Liviatan,Nissan ;
Myers, Robert J. ;
Ravallion,Martin ;
Serven,Luis ;
Solimano,Andres R. ;
Velenchik,Ann D. ;
Winters,L. Alan ;
De Melo,Jaime A. P.
National parks, wildlife reserves, and
other types of protected areas are at the forefront of
efforts to conserve biological diversity. But many protected
areas are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10363Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Wells, Michael ;
Brandon, Katrina ;
Hannah, Lee
The authors concluded that during the
past two decades, the number of domestic consulting firms in
developing countries has increased phenomenally. However,
the quality...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP149Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Kirmani, Syed S. ;
Baum, Warren C.
This report consists of two volumes. The
first volume contains four studies of the major contemporary
sources of legal principles governing foreign investment.
Together,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11415Date: January 1, 1992
Infrastructure has a central role to
play in accelerating growth in developing countries. The
Infrastructure and Urban Development Department's (INU)
work program for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11478Date: January 1, 1992Author:
EXT
This publication focuses on sustainable
development, in support of the upcoming 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). This
publication...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75574Date: January 1, 1992Author:
Hammond, Allen L.; Paden, Mary E.;
Livernash, Ro
This twenty-fifth World Bank atlas
presents key social and economic information organized under
three headings, people, economy, and environment, to
emphasize the importance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11538Date: January 1, 1992
This is the first of three volumes of a
manual showing how Russian cities can privatize small,
city-owned enterprises. This is based on the approach taken
in privatizing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 19564Date: January 1, 1992Author:
Doran, Anthony ;
Gale, Roger ;
Jordan, Xavier ;
Sulliv
This report consists of two volumes. The
first volume contains four studies of the major contemporary
sources of legal principles governing foreign investment.
Together,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11415Date: January 1, 1992
The purpose of this manual is to
introduce people trained in health professions, but not in
economics, to the basic economic principles that will best
help them decide...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10306Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Over,A. Mead
Tax reform is an important element of
growth-oriented adjustment programs. Many developing
countries have increasingly begun to restructure their tax
systems to raise...
The papers in this volume are divided
into eight broad and interrelated topics that concern
African economic reform : exchange rate policy, parallel
markets, fiscal...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10434Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Chhibber, Ajay ;
Fischer, Stanley [editors]
Primary education is a building block
not only for further education but for the future. Economic
and social progress depend on a thinking population and a
literate,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11594Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Lockheed, Marlaine E. ;
Verspoor, Adriaan M.
There are four principal reasons for the
higher than anticipated fall in industrial output in 1990 in
Poland. First, the fact that industry had been oversupported
during...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP142Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Kharas, Homi J.
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