This study reviews the findings of a
number of background papers on social security in Latin
America, sector work, and a series of three meetings of
experts that explored...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP110Date: November 30, 1990Author:
McGreevey, William
This volume is the first of several
emerging from the comparative study, "The Political
Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth", sponsored by
the World Bank. Malawi...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9197Date: November 30, 1990Author:
Pryor, Frederic L.
The decline in Africa's wildlife
heritage and the persistent poverty of its rural people are
linked by a common denominator: rapid human population
growth and the resulting...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP130Date: November 30, 1990Author:
Kiss, Agnes [editor]
This study traces public social sector
expenditures for nine Latin American countries in the 1980s
in order to determine how social services and social
well-being have...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP106Date: November 30, 1990Author:
Grosh, Margaret E.
The relationship between women's
health and their productivity is characterized by
'flows' in both directions and a host of
intervening factors. Two statements summarize...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP109Date: November 30, 1990Author:
Chatterjee,Meera
Debt management is a relatively new
(five to ten years old in its present shape) function of
government. Building a successful debt management office can
take as long...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP108Date: November 30, 1990
This paper reviews irrigation management
on the Indo-Gangetic plain. It focuses on water distribution
in individual schemes rather than basin-wide, though
questions...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP129Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Berkoff, D.J.W.
This paper reviews attempts of a group
of socialist countries to reform their state-owned
enterprise (SOE) sectors. It looks briefly at the past
performance of SOEs...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP104Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Lee, Barbara ;
Nellis, John
This volume contains population
projections for the world and its subdivisions - countries,
regions, and income groups. The projection results, which
are presented in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9109Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Bulatao, Rodolfo A. ;
Bos, Eduard ;
Stephens, Patien
This report summarizes the discussions
and conclusions of an Economic Development Institute (EDI)
seminar on "Project Sustainability". The purpose
of the seminar was...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9288Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Bamberger, Michael ;
Cheema, Shabbir
Networking became a popular way of
promoting research in the 1970s and 1980s. Networks are
particularly common in the agricultural sciences, an
indication of the interdisciplinary...
Type: PublicationReport#: CGR26Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Plucknett, Donald L. ;
Smith, Nigel J. H. ;
Ozgediz, Selcuk
This report has drawn on a wide range of
World Bank reports and on numerous outside sources to
capture the essentials of the complex field of finance.
World Bank sources...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9277Date: October 31, 1990
This paper examines the role of modern
African entrepreneurs and addresses some key issues of
strategy and policy as seen through the eyes of the
entrepreneurs rather...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD9Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Marsden, Keith
The principal objective of this review
is to assess the broad development policy implications of
international migration in sub - Saharan Africa. This first
volume provides...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP101Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Russell, Sharon Stanton ;
Jacobsen, Karen ;
Stanley, William Deane ;
AFT
Women are responsible for at least 70
percent of food staple production in Africa. They are also
important in other agricultural activities, including food
processing...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP103Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Saito, Katrine A. ;
Weidemann, C. Jean
Poverty is the grim reality for some 400
million people - mostly small farmers and agricultural
laborers - in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To remedy the
problem,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9025Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Singh, Inderjit
This report presents brief analytic
descriptions of recent economic performance and trends in
individual developing countries for the majority of World
Bank borrowing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9216Date: October 31, 1990
Population migration is a perennial
phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa. However, its causes and
impacts are highly varied across the region, and its scale
fluctuates significantly...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP102Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Russell, Sharon Stanton ;
Jacobsen, Karen ;
Stanley, William Deane
Since the 1970s, the Bank has promoted a
system of extension management which emphasizes the
importance of training staff and visiting farmers according
to predetermined...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9218Date: October 31, 1990
Poverty in the developing world is a
major challenge. Investments in human resources are
considered critical elements of efforts to alleviate
poverty. Conversely, inadequacies...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM74Date: October 31, 1990Author:
Behrman, Jere R.
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