This report presents the results of the
consultation process carried out by the World Bank with
representatives of the Indigenous people of Guatemala at the
First Technical...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 16997Date: June 30, 1997Author:
Martinez, Juan ;
Bannon, Ian
Profound political and economic reforms
in Brazil were necessitated by debt crisis of the 1980s.
Many of these reforms have already been undertaken, and have
helped...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17410Date: June 30, 1997Author:
Ruster, Jeff
The Southern Common Market (Mercado
Commun del Sur, MERCOSUR) is one of the most important
examples of renewed world-wide interest in regional trade
agreements. It may...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17389Date: June 30, 1997Author:
Laird,Samuel
This paper attempts to answer the
following questions: What is the composition of employment
in Brazilian public sector? How difficult would it be for a
worker displaced...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17069Date: June 17, 1997Author:
Paes de Barros, Ricardo ;
Gill, Indermit S. ;
Foguel, Miguel ;
Mendonca, Rosane
The government of Brazil is concerned
about personnel expenditures, which has been long identified
as an important source of over-spending. But the 1988
Constitution...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17068Date: June 7, 1997Author:
Carneiro, Francisco G. ;
Gill, Indermit S.
Human-induced environmental degradation
now threatens the ecosystems and the natural resource base
in many of the world's dryland areas and more than 900
million people...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18262Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Hassan, Hassan ;
Dregne, H. E.
The purpose of this paper is to review
the involvement of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in
Bank-financed social funds (SFs), to outline lessons learned
and to...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18170Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Malena,Carmen
This note presents, in summary form, the
main points of an international seminar on social security
held in Brasilia in April 1997. Following an introduction
(Section...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17120Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Gill,Indermit S.
Metropolitan Environmental Improvement
Program (MEIP) is exploring with Australian cities how their
experience in environmental management can benefit Asian
cities that...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17948Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Searle, Richard ;
Buxton, Michael ;
Wettenhall, Gib
An active decentralization policy was
initiated by the Chamorro Government in 1990.
Institution-building initiatives have involved the creation
of the Instituto Nicaraguense...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17891Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Petersen, Karen Heleg
This report is the background notes to
the El Salvador Secondary Education Project. The papers
covered include: 1) estimating new school infrastructure
needs to 2007;...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18952Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Edwards, John H.Y. ;
Parandekar, Suhas D. ;
Guerrero
Participation in forestry and
conservation management refers to the active involvement of
various stakeholdersin defining forest sector and
conservation objectives,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18172Date: April 30, 1997Author:
Banarjee, Ajit ;
Campbell, Gabriel ;
Cruz, Maria Concepcion J. ;
Davis, Shelton H. ;
Molnar, Augusta
This is a report on the findings of a
participatory rural appraisal (PRA) carried out in several
communities of Nigeria's Plateau State. The PRA
findings provide valuable...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18171Date: April 30, 1997Author:
Massiah,Ernest E.
The lessons from the country members of
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) summarized in this report should help developing and
transitional...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18306Date: March 31, 1997Author:
Lovei, Magda ;
Weiss Jr., Charles
This document discusses a new analytical
tool, called "global overlays," to integrate
greenhouse gas (GHG) externalities into the World
Bank's economic and sector work....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18263Date: February 28, 1997
In 1992, the World Bank's Board of
Directors approved a set of good practice principles for the
power sector. In the light of the 1992 Board decision and
given the continuing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17616Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Bates, Robin W. ;
London Economics (Consultants)
In Africa as well as worldwide,
population settlement and resettlement processes are linked
to the core of today's development agenda. This paper
discusses several common...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18174Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Cernea, Michael M.
During the 1990s private sector
development in Paraguay has been hindered by legacies of the
Stroessner regime. In order to identify the primary
obstacles to its growth...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17117Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Janson, Nils ;
Sapelli, Claudio
This paper covers changes in social
structure, changes pertaining to diversity of developing
societies, political changes, and changes related to the
integration or...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18173Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Smelser, Neil J.
This report analyzes the use of the
social assessment (SA) in three areas of the world and
looked at key social and participation issues which are
relevant across regions....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 18176Date: February 28, 1997Author:
Cruz, Maria Concepcion J. ;
Davis, Shelton H.
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