Gains in total factor productivity (TFP) reflecting more efficient use of inputs, have long been recognized as an important source of improvements in income and welfare. Cross-country differences in i...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21598Data: 30 de setembro de 2000Autor:
Ghosh, Swati R. ;
Kraay, Aart
This document is the address to the Board of Governors presented by Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank Group, in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 26, 2000. The speech points ...
Tipo: President's SpeechRelatorio#: 21321Data: 26 de setembro de 2000Autor:
Wolfensohn,James D.
Besides the often asked questions on smokers' health related risks, and cost-bearing of their consumption choices, the report examines basically, the economic questions that policymakers should addres...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 19638Data: 1 de agosto de 2000
Since the early 1980s fiscal and political decentralization have spread around the world. But decentralization can encourage dangerous opportunistic behavior by state and local officials. Left unrestr...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21597Data: 31 de julho de 2000Autor:
Rodden,Jonathan
The study is based on research, began in mid-1996, under the Bank-Civil society consultation meetings held in Brazil, concluded in 1999, following participation in several annual meetings of leading c...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 21645Data: 30 de junho de 2000Autor:
Garrison,John W.
Providing information to the public is an essential but insufficient step in making local government more transparent. A participatory process is also needed, both to ensure accountability and to rein...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21588Data: 1 de maio de 2000Autor:
Gonzalez De Asis,Maria
The note reviews England's experience on the potential of small claims procedures in expanding access to justice, which allow legal redress in situations where formal litigation would be too costly. B...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21591Data: 1 de maio de 2000Autor:
Baldwin, John
Prospects for developing countries have improved considerably in the past six months finds the World Bank's just-released "Global Development Finance 2000." Industrial country output and world trade g...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21587Data: 1 de abril de 2000Autor:
Lynn, Robert ;
De Klein, Annette ;
Farah, Caroline ;
K
World Bank-supported efforts to reform public institutions--including tax and customs administration--increasingly rely on institutional analysis. But there are no formal, generally accepted guideline...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21586Data: 1 de abril de 2000Autor:
Dewulf,Luc Henri Francoise Corneel
Inter-household transfers are an important resource for low-income households, yet have been almost ignored by donors. Though they are no substitute for public programs, these private transfers merit ...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 26737Data: 30 de março de 2000Autor:
Bamberger,J. Michael ;
Kaufmann,Daniel ;
Velez, Eduardo
The report contributes to the debate surrounding land use in the Brazilian Amazon. It sets the context by reviewing the evidence concerning the deleterious effect of increasing levels of rainfall on a...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 31196Data: 1 de janeiro de 2000Autor:
Arima,Eugenio ;
Barreto,Paulo Goncalves ;
Schneider,Robert R. ;
Souza Junior, Carlos ;
Verissimo,Adalberto
An exciting new project is waiting in the wings to support sustainable development by providing production technology skills, business "know-how" and assistance with marketing, and financial support t...
Tipo: NewsletterRelatorio#: 21899Data: 1 de janeiro de 2000Autor:
Lisansky,Judith M. ;
Sprissler,Loretta
Donors have typically linked quick-disbursing assistance programs to conditions related to policy reforms. But there is growing frustration with how conditionality has worked in practice. Research has...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21585Data: 1 de janeiro de 2000Autor:
Emblad, Stefan ;
Hervio, Gilles ;
Humphreys, Chuck
For almost 50 years judges, lawyers, and policymakers in the United States have experimented with ways to speed up the processing of civil and criminal cases. Several lessons have emerged from this ef...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21584Data: 1 de dezembro de 1999Autor:
Messick, Richard ;
Shuker, Nan ;
Pace, Nicholas ;
Ostr
This study discusses the different challenges confronting the Brazilian state of Ceara as it trains its teachers in order to sustain qualitative improvements in the educational system. Among the progr...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 33544Data: 1 de novembro de 1999Autor:
De Farias, Isabel Sabino ;
Ibanez, Nohemy Rezende ;
Millan, Patricio [editor] ;
Vieira,Sofia Lerche
A gnawing critique of civil service reform efforts persists, intimating that these civil service reform operations of the World Bank have boosted neither efficiency nor effectiveness. The outlines of ...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21577Data: 31 de outubro de 1999Autor:
Nunberg,Barbara
The World Bank defines corruption as the abuse of public office for private gain. Corrupt actions include the unilateral theft of public property by its steward and multi-party transactions in which b...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 21578Data: 31 de outubro de 1999Autor:
Das-Gupta, Arindam ;
Engelschalk, Michael ;
Mayville
Monitoring and evaluation systems are often the least addressed component of project design, and implementation. Yet, such systems have considerable potential for enhancing the impact of projects, and...
Tipo: BriefRelatorio#: 26732Data: 30 de outubro de 1999Autor:
Garcia,Marito Hernandez ;
Alderman,Harold H. ;
Rudqvist,Anders
This document constitutes the World Bank's Standard Request for Proposals (SRFP). As outlined in the World Bank's Guidelines -- Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, January...
Tipo: PublicationRelatorio#: 18039Data: 1 de outubro de 1999
This working paper on the Evaluation Report of Consultants is broken down into 5 sections in addition to a section of Annexes. Section one is the technical evaluation report which spells out the backg...
Tipo: Working PaperRelatorio#: 83119Data: 1 de outubro de 1999
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