The theme of the Ashgabat seminar and this publication is implementing health sector reform in Central Asia. The seminar focused on topics central to restructuring health sector financing and health care...
This publication is an outcome of the International Workshop on Social Funds, held in May 27-30, 1997, in Washington D. C. The workshop's objectives are: 1) to assess a decade's implementation experience...
The papers for this publication were prepared for a training seminar jointly sponsored by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank and the Foundation for Advanced Studies in International...
The papers for this publication were prepared for a training seminar jointly sponsored by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank and the Foundation for Advanced Studies in International...
This book has a twofold objective. First, it adjusts traditional financial management tools to the needs of ex-socialist enterprises undergoing restructuring. Second, it presents a management approach...
This publication contains papers presented at a senior policy seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 1996, and summarizes the proceedings. The purpose of the seminar was to examine two facets...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the production and trade contracts now being tried at the grass-roots level in support of rural based industrialization. The points of reference in this investigation...
The cumulative experience of impact evaluations carried out by the Economic Development Institute (EDI), its partner institutions, and practitioners around the world demonstrates that involving decisionmakers...
The papers presented in this book were originally written as background papers to the World Bank's World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development. The book consists of two parts. The chapters...
This book examines the role of public expenditures in contributing to economic growth in Africa. It presents five country case studies -using Kenya, Zambia, Botswana, Ghana, and Guinea- that examine how...
Economists and health planners from the World Bank and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) designed and presented a series of seminars between 1987 and 1991 on health economics and financing in...
El objetivo de este documento es contribuir al conocimiento de la experiencia chilena en los mercados de capital. ¿Cómo puede Chile, después de haber sido líder del continente en el área de la represión...
This book is concerned with educational assessments that are systematic, usually sample based, collections of data that include a measurement of student achievement to guide policy. The book is organized...
The chapters in this volume were originally papers for an Economic Development Institute (EDI) Economic Analysis of Projects curriculum development workshop. The workshops' objectives were to reexamine...
This document presents the findings and conclusions of a seminar held in Kampala, Uganda in May 1992 to review the experience of Anglophone Africa in designing and managing poverty reduction programs and...
This report is a result of the colloquium, "The Civil Service and Economic Development: The Japanese Experience." The colloquium's objectives were to learn more about the Japanese civil service system...
As part of the World Bank's efforts to enhance women's participation in economic development, the Economic Development Institute (EDI) is working to demonstrate to policymakers the advantages of educating...
This book reflects a new dimension in the Bank's efforts to create effective strategies for girls' education. It recognizes the need to reach deeper into the community and to draw upon local participation...
Current development strategies stress the importance of beneficiary participation in the development process. The Economic Development Institute's (EDI's) Environment and Natural Resources Division addresses...