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.
The author compares the secular Islamic
countries of Egypt and Turkey, both part of the Ottoman
Empire around World War I. At that time both had similar
levels of population,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10368Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Hansen, Bent
This 1991 update contains topical
tables, a country table and technical notes. The data cover
the period 1970 to 1990. Not included this time are the data
on foreign...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10316Date: December 31, 1991Author:
World Bank
This report assesses the performance of
the Colombian industrial sector and examines the
relationship between industrial performance and trade,
regulatory, and financial...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10065Date: December 31, 1991
Current rural travel and transport are
dominated by head loading and walking (largely by women) to
satisfy the daily travel and goods movement needs of rural
populations...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP161Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Riverson, John D.N. ;
Carapetis, Steve
This report concerns labor market
discrimination. The studies apply, in African, Asian and
Latin American settings, econometric tools developed to
measure and analyze...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10365Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Birdsall, Nancy ;
Sabot, Richard [editors]
This is a review of Bank experience in
the forestry sector. The review examines three areas:
development performance of Bank-financed operations,
implementation experience,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10156Date: December 31, 1991
Bulgaria became a member of the World
Bank on September 25, 1990. A World Bank economic mission
visited Bulgaria from June 27 to July 13, 1990. This study
represents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 189678Date: December 1, 1991Author:
Michalopoulos,Constantine ;
Wilton,John
Bulgaria became a member of the World
Bank on September 25, 1990. A World Bank economic mission
visited Bulgaria from June 27 to July 13, 1990. This study
represents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 189678Date: December 1, 1991Author:
Michalopoulos,Constantine ;
Wilton,John
Tropical disease remains a serious
public health problem in developing countries. Despite a
major expansion of primary health care in the 1980s, the
burden of tropical...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP159Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Liese, Bernhard H. ;
Sachdeva, Paramjit S. ;
Cochrane, D. Glynn
This study undertakes a detailed
analysis of secular trends in China's trade and
"revealed" comparative advantage (RCA) for roughly
two decades starting in the mid-1960s....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP141Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Yeats, Alexander J.
Given the growing demand for access to
higher education, and the declining quality and available
resources from governments, many governments, particularly
in developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP137Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Albrecht, Douglas ;
Ziderman, Adrian
This book is a collection of papers on
the role, potential, and limits of Nongovernmental
Organizations (NGOs) in development. It combines a global
review of what NGOs...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10155Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Paul, S. ;
Israel, A. [editors]
This study covers the latter part of the
1960s, the entire 1970s, and the first years of the 1980s.
During this period, agricultural policy has undergone major
changes,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10185Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Brandao, Antonio Salazar P. ;
Carvalho, Jose L.
This discussion paper is part of a
larger effort within the Bank to analyze and understand the
problems of governance and accountability in developing
countries as they...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP136Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Paul,Samuel
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