Improving the investment climate and investing in the rural economy are critical to having an impact on poverty in Cambodia, said two senior World Bank officials who visited the country recently. Managing...
Among the many questions that WTO ministers will take up in their September meeting in Cancun, Mexico, is the issue of an international investment agreement. This is one of the four issues under discussion...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26920Date: May 29, 2003Author:
Newfarmer,Richard S.
Although the principle of more favorable treatment for developing countries has a long history and is firmly embedded in the WTO,1 the existing system of differential treatment has left both developed...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26921Date: May 29, 2003Author:
Hoekman,Bernard M.
Ascertaining the country of origin of imported products is necessary to be able to apply basic trade policy measures such as tariffs, quantitative restrictions, anti-dumping and countervailing duties and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26922Date: May 29, 2003Author:
Brenton,Paul
Recent negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on patents and public health have sought to im-plement the work program agreed in Doha in 2001 on improving access to generic drugs for poor countries....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26923Date: May 29, 2003Author:
Fink,Carsten
Over the last year, the World Bank has significantly stepped up support for trade activities to help its client countries integrate better into the world trading system. It has augmented resources devoted...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26919Date: May 29, 2003Author:
Tang,Helena
This newsletter provides information on PPI-related news in the Maghreb and Mashrek regions on telecommunications, energy, water and sanitation, transport. It includes the article: Public-private partnerships...
Water demand is increasing three times faster than the world's population growth rate. By 2025, 30 percent of the world's population-a record 2.3 billion people in 50 countries-will be threatened by water...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 25898Date: April 30, 2003
This newsletter provides information on PPI-related news in the Maghreb and Mashrek regions on telecommunications, energy, water and sanitation, transport. It includes the article: The SMExchange program:...
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: introduction; funding source; activity size; geographical focus; sectoral...
This is quarterly economic monitoring report on Yemen. The report consists of five sections. The first section highlights key political, and major economic and policy developments. The second section provides...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33562Date: April 1, 2003Author:
Mohammed,Nadir ;
Al-Sabbry,Mohammed Mohammed ;
Handal, Maria
Southeast Europe enterprise development (SEED) highlights of Q4 FY03: Serbia's new leasing law to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Balkan herb growers targeted in joint SEED-IFC initiative....
This Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region poverty team newsletter includes some of the following headlines: programmatic poverty assessments, a new approach; poverty, security, and empowerment; conflict...
This Note is prepared by the World Bank Colombo Office to review the trends of some of the key indicators which have an impact on the financial sector performance. The main indicators identified in the...
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: Making micro-finance work better in the Middle East and North Africa. Recent economic developments. Vulnerable...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 27004Date: April 1, 2003Author:
Brandsma, Judith et al [editors]
Yesterday out of school; tomorrow a teacher. Bangalore, May 21-22 : first ABCDE in a developing country. Family Welfare Urban slums Project : a very healthy partnership. Help the poor by cutting red...
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: introduction; funding source; activity size; geographical focus; sectoral...
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