The study explores the distribution of
all public education resources across socioeconomic, and
demographic groups in South Africa. The Benefit Incidence
Analysis was...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19330Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Castro-Leal,Florencia T.
This paper examines the complex
interrelationship between the violence-poverty-apartheid
nexus. Using secondary data, it provides a brief historical
analysis of how...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19891Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Moser,Caroline O.
The report examines gender differences
in the formal labor market participation in South Africa,
based on the 1994 October Household Survey, and determines
the factors...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19752Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Winter, Carolyn
This paper review the country's
four main safety nets: old age pensions, maintenance grants
for children, food-based transfer programs, and tax
exemptions on commodities...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19335Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Alderman, Harold
Value added taxes potentially distort
consumer behaviors less than many forms of indirect taxes
and may therefore be comparatively efficient in generating
government...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19336Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Alderman, Harold ;
del Ninno, Carlo
This paper analyzes: a) recent trends in
public expenditure components to understand their
contribution to South Africa's level of development; b)
the functional, sectoral,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19334Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Swamy, Gurushri ;
Ketley, Richard
This volume of the Thailand Economic
Monitor, highlights the following assessments: Overall
production is still declining, but pockets of the
manufacturing sector are...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19720Date: February 28, 1999
This study reviews the impact of public
health spending on poverty, and, inequality, in South
Africa, and examines how sector expenditures are distributed
across socioeconomic...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19333Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Castro-Leal, Florencia
Early childhood services (ECS) have been
provided by community groups and commercial organizations
for over 120 years. The government has been paying subsidies
to selected...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22925Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Meade, Anne
This volume assesses the Thai economy as
follows: It is still too early to claim that the worst of
the economic crisis is over. Exports, production, domestic
investment...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18939Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Koeberle,Stefan G. ;
Sondergaard,Lars M.
The paper compiles preliminary
information about programs providing day-care for infants,
and toddlers in resource-poor settings in developing
countries, namely through...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22924Date: January 31, 1999Author:
O'Gara, Chloe ;
Lusk, Diane ;
Canahuati, Judy ;
Yablick, Gary ;
Hyffman, Sandra L.
In the past two decades, China has
instituted economic and social reforms that have resulted in
impressive strides in virtually every area of human
endeavor. Yet despite...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 22926Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Qing Xie ;
Young, Mary Eming
The basic building blocks for effective
state capacity are the same for many low-income developing
countries as they were historically for developed and more
recently...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19689Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Campos, J. Edgardo ;
Pradhan, Sanjay
This paper provides a brief introduction
to environmental education for schools, environmental
awareness for civil society, and functional literacy for
targeted groups-a...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19686Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Ariasingam, David Lakshmanan
This volume has the following assessment
about the Thai economy: The economy is still in the midst of
a recession, with net exports as the only positive
expenditure...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18938Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Koeberle,Stefan G. ;
Sondergaard,Lars M.
This volume of the "Thailand
Economic Monitor" highlights the following assessments:
a) A cautious optimism has returned to Thailand. Hopes are
fueled by the recovery...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18937Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Koeberle,Stefan G. ;
Sondergaard,Lars M.
The Bank is working with developing
countries to improve the ability of their national
agricultural research organizations (NAROs) to generate
technology that increases...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 20879Date: November 7, 1998
This country summary presents a review
of the vocational education, and training (VET) system in
Australia, exploring the significant expansion of VET since
1974, with...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19785Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Dar, Amit ;
Gill, Indermit ;
Abrahart, Alan ;
Tzannatos, Zafiris
This paper synthesizes the findings of a
multi-country study on vocational education, and training
(VET), which specify that, while governments generally
perceive, an...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19790Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Gill, Indermit [Editor] ;
Fluitman, Fred [Editor] ;
Dar, Amit
The rapid pace of privatization in
Russia, provided the background for some changes in
technological restructuring, along with some form of capital
innovation, and/or...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 19772Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Dar, Amit ;
Gill, Indermit ;
Johanson, Richard
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