Of the three East African British
colonies (Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania), Tanzania was the
least well off at the time of independence in 1961. At that
time, only 16,691...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP86Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Galabawa, C. J.
This paper reviews the evolution of the
Kenyan education system since independence from Britain in
1963. At the time of independence, very few resources were
devoted...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP85Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Eshiwani, G.S. ;
AFT
This paper describes in detail the
historical roots of the modern Ethiopian educational system.
Ethiopia began a program of modernization and development
upon liberation...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP84Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Kiros, Fassil R.
When Lesotho became independent (1966),
education was inadequate in scope, quantity and quality.
After independence, the role of education was seen to be the
production...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP87Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Thelejani, T. Sohl
With the limited set of policy
instruments typically available in the rural sectors of
developing countries, imperfect coverage of the poor and
leakage to the non-poor...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP94Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Ravallion,Martin
The economics of the government budget
constraint. Reforming property rights in land and tenancy.
Inflation and the costs of stabilization: historical and
recent experiences...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17504Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Fischer, Stanley ;
Easterly, William ;
Bell, Clive ;
Solimano, Andres ;
Huppi, Monika ;
Feder, Gershon ;
Cox, Donald ;
Jimenez, Emmanuel
This paper reviews a number of
educational policy statements in east African countries on
issues ranging from combining education with production at
the primary level...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP82Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Psacharopoulos, George ;
AFT
Zimbabwe has been independent only since
1980. It has, however, attempted to change significantly the
inherited educational policies, which it considers to be
inappropriate...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP91Date: July 31, 1990Author:
Maravanyika, O.E.
This report is the most comprehensive
review to date of available literature on water harvesting
for plant production. It covers a broad range of topics,
including terminology...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP91Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Reij, Chris ;
Mulder, Paul ;
Begemann, Louis
This report is a selective account of
the major substantive issues discussed at the seminar. The
aim is to highlight the key issues facing middle-income,
highly indebted...
Type: PublicationReport#: EDI22Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Eguren, Alberto
Perhaps the single dominant theme in
this third volume of background papers to the "Long
term perspectives study on sub - Saharan Africa" is the
importance of respecting...
Economic development of Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) depends to a large extent on the ability of
subsaharan societies to introduce technical change, which in
turn is the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP124Date: June 30, 1990
Throughout the developing world,
opportunities are growing for nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs) to work together with governments and
intergovernmental institutions...
This volume of the "Long Term
Perspective Study Background Papers Series" contains
the proceedings of the Workshop on Regional Integration and
Cooperation in sub - Saharan...
Fertility in Africa remains the highest
in the world, the average total fertility rate for the
continent is about 6.3 children per woman. So far little
evidence is found...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP125Date: June 30, 1990Author:
van de Walle, Etienne ;
Foster, Andrew D.
How or why are certain agricultural
policies implemented in developing countries? Why do
programs in the field differ from their program designs? Why
has the past decade...
Type: PublicationReport#: EDI24Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Curran, Teresa
To predict the effect of economic
policies on household welfare, one should first understand
which characteristics of households and of the localities in
which they...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM71Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Glewwe, Paul
In the past quarter century,
environmental management has increasingly become a concern
of governments. More recently, the traditional split between
developers and conservationists...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP80Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Colby, Michael E.
This paper examines the problem of how
to transfer money or other forms of assistance to poor
households when one observes some characteristics of
households, but not...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM70Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Glewwe, Paul
Reform of Ghana's macropolicies has
helped to create a more favorable business environment and a
"level playing field" for the private sector. At
this point, instead...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP93Date: June 30, 1990Author:
Paul, Samuel
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