Africa's outcome shall be
determined by its most precious resource: the African
people. However, economic growth alone, will not reduce the
continent's poverty. Thus...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 26372Date: February 1, 2003Author:
Madavo, Callisto
This study describes the emerging
consensus about training finance largely on the basis of
experiences in Latin America and Asia. The paper tests this
consensus against...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 26523Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Ziderman,Adrian
With only 10 percent of the world's
forests in protected areas, the World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF) promotes high standards of production forestry as a
key strand of...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 26329Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Dennis P. Dykstra, George Kuru, Rodney
Taylor, Ruth Nussbaum, William B. Magrath, Jane Story
The twentieth century witnessed greater
gains in health, nutrition and population outcomes than at
any other time in history. These gains are partly the result
of improvements...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 26522Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Claeson,Mariam ;
Elmendorf,A. Edward ;
Miller,Daniel Charles ;
Musgrove,Philip A. ;
Preker, Alexander S. [editor]
This report presents findings from a
baseline survey of 155 primary health care facilities
(dispensaries, with and without maternity units) that was
carried out in Uganda...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 27212Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Magnus Lindelow, Ritva Reinikka, and Jakob Svensson
The strategy presented in the report
recognizes that in much of rural Africa, improved
performance of agriculture will lead to poverty reduction,
while at the same time,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24529Date: July 31, 2002
While Latin America and the Caribbean is
the wealthiest of the developing regions, though the least
dependent on agriculture, despite vast natural resources,
and abundant...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24530Date: July 31, 2002
The report examines the state of rural
development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Region, through selected socioeconomic, and rural
development indicators,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24531Date: July 31, 2002
This review systematically assesses the
focus of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on
environment-related issues. A total of 40 Interim and full
PRSPs from countries...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24757Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Bojo, Jan ;
Reddy, Rama Chandra
According to internal and external
reviews of the public consultation process, public
consultations have increasingly become a standard part of
the environmental assessment...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24758Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Rukuba-Ngaiza, Nightingale ;
Lubis, Rusdian ;
Cullen
The report is the result of a recent
mapping of the Indonesian forest cover, conducted at
reconnaissance level from satellite imagery, revealing the
rate of deforestation...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24462Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Holmes, Derek A.
This brief document is one chapter from
the more comprehensive report, "No-Till Farming for
Sustainable Rural Development (report no. 24536)"
published simultaneously...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24537Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Pieri, Christian ;
Evers, Guy ;
Landers, John ;
O'Conn
This document serves two purposes, as a
practical training manual for Bank staff, Education
planners, and stakeholders, in the use of the Education-AIDS
model in a particular...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24493Date: June 30, 2002
The key role of textbooks, and other
written training materials play in enhancing the quality of
education is universally recognized. This role is especially
important...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24564Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Diop,Sakhevar ;
Montagnes,Ian
The no-till (NT) farming approach
developed in Brazil and nearby countries is providing a
foundation for application in Sub-Saharan Africa and other
semi-tropical environments,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24536Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Pieri, Christian ;
Evers, Guy ;
Landers, John ;
O'Conn
Secondary education holds a privileged
position in all education systems. placed between. In most
African countries, however, secondary education is facing
three common...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 25246Date: May 31, 2002Author:
Bregman,Jacob H. ;
Kim,Gwang-Jo ;
Rameckers,Frans J.M.A. ;
Stallmeister,Stefanie
The objective of this report is to help
put gender on the map of policymaking in the region formed
by the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia by
raising...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24617Date: May 21, 2002Author:
Paci,Pierella
Malawi's public spending on health,
has historically been high relative to other Sub-Saharan
countries, and developing nations with similar GNP per
capita, but the country's...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24132Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Picazo, Oscar F.
Too often, policy for vocational
education in developing countries has only concerned itself
with a literate minority within the labor force. This study
helps to widen...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 23957Date: March 31, 2002Author:
Oxenham, John ; Diallo, Abdoul Hamid ;
Katahoire, Anne Ruhweza ; Petkova-Mwangi, Anna ; Sall, Oumar
Africa must replace a reliance on
natural resources, with a flexible educated, and healthy
workforce; but in making this transition, its greatest
challenges will be...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 24051Date: March 31, 2002Author:
Anzalone, Steve ;
Bosch,Andrea ;
Moulton,Jeanne ;
Murphy, Paud
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