This is a three volume book that reports
on a series of six subregional policy seminars organized by
the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
under...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10003Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Carapetis, Steve ;
Levy, Hernan ;
Wolden, Terje
This report contains the findings of two
missions. One visited Uruguay and Argentina, and the other
covered Chile, Ecuador and Peru. The report on Uruguay and
Argentina...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP148Date: September 30, 1991Author:
UNDP ;
Commission of the European Communities ;
FAO
What institutional arrangements,
policies, and external assistance can be expected to yield
good results in the area of support services for exports?
The three papers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9928Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Hogan, Paul ;
Keesing, Donald B. ;
Singer, Andrew
This paper reviews the growth of the
direct foreign investment (DFI) in China and identifies
various constraints which need to be removed to further
improve China's...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP130Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Khan, Zafar Shah
This paper analyzes the benefits from
female education (who gains and in what ways) and the
constraints (direct and opportunity costs, reflecting
economics and tradition)....
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP133Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Herz, Barbara ;
Subbarao, K. ;
Habib, Masooma ;
Raney,
Tax reform has emerged as an important
component of fiscal adjustment and now plays a major role in
the World Bank's dialogue with member countries. This
paper provides...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10031Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Shalizi, Z.
In the past decade, there has been a
profound increase in the world's understanding of and
concern about the forest sector of the developing world. A
wide range of analyses...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9965Date: September 30, 1991
This paper identifies the essential
features of the forestry economics literature emphasizing
what is different about forestry and what are
forestry's important features...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP134Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Hyde, William F. ;
Newman, David H. ;
Sedjo, Roger A
This paper assesses the efforts of the
World Bank to improve management in the public sectors of
its borrower countries. It identifies the problems that
created the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9930Date: September 30, 1991
The paper's objective is to
demonstrate how Bank assistance strategies can be designed
to contribute more effectively to the reduction of poverty.
Two observations underlie...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9953Date: September 30, 1991
This report contains the results of two
missions. One mission deals with the state of fisheries and
aquaculture research as well as research needs in four
countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP149Date: September 30, 1991
This Working Group Report examines the
critical problems affecting small-scale fisheries research.
It first deals with an outline and diagnosis of the
different small-scale...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP152Date: September 30, 1991Author:
UNDP ;
Commission of the European Communities ;
FAO
It was recognized by many developing
countries in the 1980s that integration with the global
economy is necessary for economic development and
technological progress....
Type: PublicationReport#: 10030Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Thomas, Vinod ;
Edwards, Sebastian ;
Hutcheson, Thomas ;
Keesing, Donald ;
Matin, Kazi ;
Pursell, Garry ;
Yeats, Alexander ;
Nash, John
This report is a summary of the major
findings produced by the World Bank research project
"Rent control in Developing Countries" (RPO
674-01). The study was intended...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP129Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Malpezzi, Stephen ;
Ball, Gwendolyn
This work on economic development
strategies and policy options for the Pacific Island
economies is a regional overview that examines the growth
performance of World...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10058Date: September 30, 1991
The four lectures presented in this
volume summarize the author's theory of economic
growth. The first lecture presents a critique of
conventional growth theory and...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP131Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Scott, Maurice FG
This is a three volume book that reports
on a series of six subregional policy seminars organized by
the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
under...
Type: PublicationReport#: 10003Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Carapetis, Steve ;
Levy, Hernan ;
Wolden, Terje
For many years industrial countries have
encouraged domestic firms to make direct investments in
developing countries. These direct promotion programs, some
of which...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP155Date: September 30, 1991Author:
Belot, Therese J. ;
Weigel, Dale R.
This edition of World Tables 1991 fall
update contains topical tables. A sample country table and
technical notes. The data cover the period 1970 to 1990. Not
included...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63948Date: September 12, 1991Author:
World Bank
This edition owes its publication to the
success of the first edition in 1985. The contributors have
attempted to weigh their earlier conclusions against
development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9831Date: August 31, 1991Author:
Cernea, Michael M. [editor]
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