There is now cooperation between Amazon forest communities and major Brazilian cosmetics companies to launch new product lines based on sustainable, harvested vegetable oils and other raw materials from...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 31222Date: August 1, 2002
In this issue: Building alliances for the future: IPGRI hosts CDC. Crawford memorial lecture. Manila calling: hosts AGM02. Seeds of hope for Afghanistan. Sanchez wins world food prize. Thailand expands...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33139Date: August 1, 2002
During a time of low funding and poor working conditions, the science and technology subprogram targeted improvement of science in the Amazon region by focusing research funding and building up scientific...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 31224Date: August 1, 2002
Sound principles for sanitation policies and programs have been discussed and documented for years, but there are very few countries that have actually put them into practice at a national scale. Lesotho...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26623Date: August 1, 2002
In this issue: Interview with Christian Grossman. Program update. Legislation update focus on SMEs. Impact on the ground: Belarus. Space technologies for Russian farms.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39525Date: August 1, 2002
The note reviews the innovation of fostering participation in the conservation and sustainable development of Brazilian rain forests, including the creation and consolidation of civil society organization...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 31223Date: August 1, 2002
This article sums up the report reviewing the Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects, combining approaches to remove supply-side and demand-side barriers to markets for energy-efficient products. Supply-side...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24985Date: July 31, 2002Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
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...
Combining new and improved methods with effective indigenous participation and partnerships, the most successful indigenous land regularization program in the world, has made a major contribution to securing...
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: Delegation contacts:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 36313Date: July 1, 2002Author:
Gence-Creux,Christophe
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 Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: introduction; funding source; activity size; geographical focus; sectoral...
The World Bank in Beirut. Bank Group operations. Recent economic developments. Questions and the Bank's response to development in the Mashreq. World Bank Publications. The World Bank Lebanon team.
With the current crisis in the coffee market, the potential to make coffee production, processing, and marketing more sustainable has attracted the attention of coffee market experts, national governments,...
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: WB launches new country assistance strategy for RP. Get to know the Bank's new staff. GEF Council OKs US$11.95M grants...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24673Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Gonzales,Leonora Aquino
It is not difficult to understand why the 67 villages covered by the Rural Health and Education Program (RHEP) in Orissa have become favored destinations for prospective brides. The introduction of water...
This Dissemination Note applies organizational dynamics to the study of rebel groups, distinguishing between groups held together by material incentives and groups based on shared identities. The nature...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 25564Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Weinstein,Jeremy
Transition with Chinese characteristics - Progress in ownership changes and hidden risks in China's transition; by Fan Gang. China's experience with Transition: what is behind its stunning economic success?;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24606Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Hirschler, Richard [editor] ;
Fan Gang ;
Dawson, Tho
Learning lessons from ICT stories. Carlos Braga on the Development Gateway Foundation. Why software should be free: an interview with Richard Stallman. Surfing the web faster.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24740Date: June 30, 2002Author:
Scaramuzzi,Elena
This is the ninth issue of a bimonthly economic monitoring report on Yemen. The report consists of five sections. The first section highlights key political, and major economic and policy developments....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33559Date: June 1, 2002Author:
Al-Sabbry,Mohammed Mohammed ;
Handal,Maria A. ;
Mohammed,Nadir
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