A short definition of on-line governance
has been provided by the global survey on on-line governance
undertaken by UNESCO and the COMNET-IT Foundation. The
survey defined...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28641Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Kingham, Tess
This paper is an examination of the
effect of globalization on infrastructure with examples of
local projects, among them the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum and
Pipeline Development...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28616Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Frannie Leautier; Andrew C. Lemer
This publication contains conclusions
reached by the Study Group on Parliament and the Media and a
report of its discussions and the input of resource persons
with parliamentary,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33039Date: January 1, 2003Author:
Bouchet, Nicolas ;
Kariithi, Nixon K.
This paper shows that Japan was able to
maintain relatively low levels of unemployment, even during
periods of economic recession, due mainly to a combination
of factors,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33048Date: January 1, 2002Author:
CHUMA, HIROYUKI
This paper investigates the role of
knowledge management and information sharing in facilitating
integrated development planning in the coastal areas of the
Northern...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33047Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Mabudafhasi, Rejoice [editor]
Japan has achieved rapid improvement in
social welfare during its high economic growth era, while
the expansion of social expenditure as a percentage of GDP
remained...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33059Date: January 1, 2002Author:
TAJIKA, EIJI ;
Yuri, Yuji
In recent decades the World Bank has
significantly broadened its dialogue and lines of
collaboration with civil society organizations and advocated
the concept of participation...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33046Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Siri,Gabriel E.
By tracing Japan's history, the
paper argues that families and communities have played
important roles in the country's successful
socioeconomic performance. The argument...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33058Date: January 1, 2002Author:
YAMASHIGE, SHINJI
The problem of illegal logging and
forest crimes is global and serious. Reliable statistics are
scarce, but as much as 15 percent of global timber trade is
estimated...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28617Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Contreras-Hermosilla,Arnoldo
The paper focuses on the public pension
system in Japan and traces its development against the
overall background of the socioeconomic developments since
1950s. The...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33057Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Tajika, Eiji
This case study shows that patient,
steadfast investigative journalism can have an immense
impact-even in a country rife with weak law enforcement,
corruption and close-knit...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28374Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Jackson, Jack ;
Moller,Lars Christian
The purpose of this teaching case is to
help seminar participants and students understand one of the
few success stories of sustained economic growth in Africa
and to...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28619Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Philip English
The purpose of this teaching case is to
help seminar participants and students understand one of the
few success stories of sustained economic growth in Africa
and to...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28619Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Philip English
Most health services in Japan are
provided through the public health insurance system, which
covers the entire population. Although the private sector
has established...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33056Date: January 1, 2002Author:
FUKAWA, TETSUO
With regard to traditional social policy
or the "welfare state in a narrow sense," Japan is
not as different from Western models as is usually assumed.
With Long-Term-Care...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33055Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Campbell, John Creighton
Japan was slow in institutionalizing the
system of social expenditures (in a broad sense of the
term), except in education. This paper briefly describes the
historical...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33053Date: January 1, 2002Author:
ODAKA, KONOSUKE
Many societies have limited corruption
through the broad-based mobilization of a diverse range of
interests willing and able to defend themselves by making
meaningful...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28639Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Johnston, Michael; Kpundeh, Sahr J.
In July 1996, Mr. Wolfensohn announced a
Strategic Compact to reorganize and refocus the Bank's
operations to improve its accountability, efficiency and
effectiveness....
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28622Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Carayannis, Elias G.; Laporte, Bruno
In Japan today, means-tested public
assistance remains a modest component of the welfare
system-in marked contrast to the expanding universal
programs of national pensions,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 33054Date: January 1, 2002Author:
GARON, SHELDON
In many regions of the world, the
phenomenon of street children is unabated, while it is
emerging in others where it was unknown so far. Behind child
disconnection lie...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 26388Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Elena Volpl
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