The role of the media is critical in
promoting good governance and controlling corruption. It not
only raises public awareness about corruption, its causes,
consequences,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21024Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Stapenhurst, Rick
The purpose of this paper is to explore
the extent to which the development of science education
should be linked to labor markets in developing countries.
There are...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21800Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Lewin,Keith M.
The paper examines the factors that
shape science policy in developing countries, initially
discussing two different approaches to the formation of
science education...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20972Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Lewin, Keith M.
Programs designed to improve health,
nutritional, or cognitive status of preschool children
promise to take young children at risk and potentially
change their lives....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22927Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Grigorenko, Elena L. ;
Sternberg, Robert J.
The countries in the Middle East and the
North Africa (MENA) have seen an enormous expansion in the
educational status of their labor force in the last thirty
years....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20961Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Pritchett,Lant Hayward
This paper reviews beneficiary
assessments (BAs) (defined as an approach to information
gathering, which assesses the value of an activity, as
perceived by its principal...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22305Date: November 18, 1999Author:
Salmen,Lawrence F.
This paper examines the vulnerability of
World Bank projects to climate change, and the impact of
Bank activities on national vulnerability in client
countries. The...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20270Date: October 31, 1999Author:
Burton, Ian ;
van Aalst, Maarten
In recent years, developing countries
have devoted much attention to developing and strengthening
environmental institutions and regulatory frameworks,
largely by establishing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20020Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Keene, Michelle L.
Currently, there is an increasing
understanding that teaching and learning good school science
may produce extensive contributions to economic development.
The importance...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19659Date: August 31, 1999Author:
Ware, Sylvia [editor]
This nutrition review of the Middle East
and North Africa (MENA)region is intended to develop a base
of knowledge and a sector strategy, and to help fulfill the
World...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20960Date: August 31, 1999
This paper is based on a qualitative
survey of three expert respondents in every
"kecamatan" (sub-district) in Indonesia, designed
to obtain quick information on the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 21249Date: July 31, 1999Author:
Sumarto, Sudarno ;
Wetterberg, Anna ;
Pritchett, Lant
A decade of research, and experience in
addressing maternal health, has made it clear that safe
motherhood initiatives are a sound investment, promising
high social,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22641Date: June 30, 1999
The present volume of the "Thailand
Economic Monitor", assesses the economy in the
following terms: While the economic prospects have improved,
recovery is underway,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19767Date: June 30, 1999
The purpose of this study is to help
improve the design, and effectiveness of Bank financial
environmental institutional development projects, since weak
institutional...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20022Date: May 31, 1999Author:
Margulis, Sergio ;
Vetleseter, Tonje
This volume of the Thailand Economic
Monitor presents the following assessments: The recovery
process has begun, one engine of growth being the auto
sector, where recent...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19718Date: May 31, 1999
This paper examines the new public
sector management strategy (NPSM) adopted in the health
sector which injects business-like practices into public
agencies with the...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19661Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Shaw, R. Paul
This volume of the Thailand Economic
Monitor has the following assessments of the economy. The
manufacturing sector, especially the vehicles sector is
expanding slowly...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19309Date: April 30, 1999
In this report, the authors set out to
investigate whether the existing macroeconomic imbalances in
Lebanon should be considered as a serious threat to the
reconstruction...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20959Date: April 30, 1999Author:
Gressani, Daniela ;
Page, John
The present volume assesses the Thai
economy as follows: The manufacturing sector is improving,
but the economy is still tied down by massive over-capacity,
leaving...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19721Date: March 31, 1999
Competitive grant programs (CGPs) are
increasingly used today to finance and manage agricultural
research and extension. Research providers are selected on a
competitive...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20880Date: March 1, 1999
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