The First Annual Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) was held at the World Bank on September 30 and October 1, 1993. This annual conference series was inaugurated a year after the...
Financial conglomerates are groups of financial institutions related by ownership or control. Specific regulatory and supervisory issues arise when financial services -- such as commercial and retail banking...
This report provides an assessment of structural adjustment policies undertaken by seven African countries in the mid-1980s. This report is distinct from other studies on this subject. First, it emphasizes...
Seeds are crop-based agriculture's most important input, yet few developing countries have succeeded in establishing efficient seed production and supply systems. In many developing countries the large-scale...
This paper assesses the potential for cooperatives to contribute to the restructuring of large farm agriculture by comparing costs and benefits of cooperative forms of organization from a theoretical and...
The Argentine government which took office in 1989 enacted a series of structural reforms that recast the foundations of public finance. This study discusses the changes and the progress made in improving...
Borrower ownership of adjustment programs is often cited as vital for credibility to policies, safeguarding against policy reversals, and ensuring sustainability of benefits. Nevertheless, the notion of...
The World Bank has long supported developing countries in reforming their inward-oriented trade and regulatory policies to an outward-oriented direction and in improving the international competitiveness...
Infrastructure has a central role to play in accelerating growth in developing countries. The Infrastructure and Urban Development Department's (INU) work program for 1992-95 has three main objectives:...
This is the first study ever attempted of the large-scale movement of population in this region. It describes the demographic aspects of the flow of millions of people both across and within national boundaries...
This is the fourteenth annual review of project performance results. The main purpose of this review is to report on the performance of World Bank supported projects evaluated in 1987 and to draw lessons...
This is the fourteenth annual review of project performance results. The main purpose of this review is to report on the performance of World Bank supported projects evaluated in 1987 and to draw lessons...
Environmental degradation threatens the productivity of agricultural and forest resources on which developing countries depend for their economic growth. The problem is most pervasive in the poorest countries...
Efforts to improve the water supplies used by people in rural areas of developing countries have run into serious obstacles: not only are public funds not available to build facilities for all, but many...
This book is the first authoritative history of a unique and remarkably successful venture in international cooperation, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). An outgrowth...
This volume, the fourth in the series, "The Planning of Investment Programs", adapts the methodology of industrial investment analysis developed in the earlier volumes and applies it to the fertilizer...
Korea's remarkable export growth is the envy of much of the developing world. The purpose of this book is to broaden the discussion of Korea's competitive edge by developing the two foregoing themes: the...
This two volume report discusses the background, findings, design and policy of child and maternal health services in rural India. The first volume specifically discusses integrated nutrition and health...
This two volume report discusses the background, findings, design and policy of child and maternal health services in rural India. The first volume specifically discusses integrated nutrition and health...
In the most general sense, the topic of this book is the economic structure of Mexican agriculture and how that structure responds to different kinds of policy initiatives. The book presents both methodological...