Emissions from fossil fuel combustion, especially coal combustion, are major contributors to air pollution. Concentrations of suspended particles and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the air of many cities in developing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26348Date: August 1, 1998Author:
Takahashi, Masaki
The shadow economy (Dana Wickware). Microentrepreneurs: the unacknowledged borrowers (Lucy Conger). A conversation with Elaben Bhatt (Margaret Bergen and Paralekha Chatterjee). Waste not, want not (Michael...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18316Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Auclair, Christine ;
Bergen, Margaret ;
Biles, Annabel ;
Chatterjee, Patralekha ;
Conger, Lucy ;
French, Patrick ;
Hanson, Frank ;
Peirce, Neal ;
Saint, Andrew ;
Sanio, Michael ;
Taillant, Jorge Daniel ;
Wickware, Dana
Including project-related training (PRT) components in development projects is a sensible strategy. By ensuring that knowledge and skill levels are adequate to support the achievement of project objectives,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21130Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Maguire, Charles John
The Business Partnership Center forges ahead. Italy: a dynamic business partnership. MIGA creates specialized Investment Guarantee Trust Funds. Jean-Francois Rischard appointed the Bank's first Vice-President...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: new aid to lift Asia's crisis hit economies, by Kevin Rafferty; Asia, Africa boost FY98 lending, by Anna Shen; Wolfensohn praises 11-17...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56996Date: July 16, 1998Author:
Drattell, Alan M. ;
George, Morallina Fanwar ;
Oyewole, Olufunke Olabisi ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen, Anna ;
Sopher, Jamil
Deteriorating urban air quality causes significant economic losses in many developing countries. In some of the more industrialized developing countries, whose cities are now cloaked in smog, the cost...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26347Date: July 1, 1998Author:
Masami Kojima, and Eleodoro Mayorga-Alba
The results of technical tests on a range of lamps provide a guide to an optimal choice of lamps for improved lighting, mainly in rural areas in distributed applications i.e. in standalone (DC - Direct...
The note describes the objectives of the Inspection Panel (IP), i.e., to provide an independent forum to private citizens, who may believe their interests have been, or could be directly harmed by a project...
Vietnam's development over the past decade represents one of the more dramatic turnarounds in economic history. In the mid-80s the country was in dire straits. Ten years later - after a radical set or...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18330Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Hall, Gillette H.
82 percent of projects found satisfactory in quality at entry assessment. Staff honored for excellence in project quality at entry. Rapid quality at entry assessment - a primer. Lending for biodiversity...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18155Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Garg, Prem Prakash
"Economic Neoliberalism became almost irrelevant..." : Poland's Grzegorz W. Kolodko on new trends in development strategies (Grzegorz W. Kolodko and Richard Hirschler). Beyond the Washington Consensus...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18309Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Aslund, Anders ;
Davies, Peter ;
Dollar, David R. ;
Ferge, Zsuzsa ;
Gao, Shangquan ;
Hirschler, Richard ;
KOLODKO, GRZEGORZ W. ;
Litvack, Jennie I. ;
Scott, Evan ;
Stiglitz, Joseph Eugene
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: Ruiz aims for the top of the world, by Juan Pablo Ruiz; income debate begins, by Kevin Rafferty; volunteers seek to create greener...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56995Date: June 25, 1998Author:
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Ruiz, Juan Pablo ;
Shen, Anna ;
Tuller, Alexandra
1998 CGIAR Mid-Term Meeting : mobilizing science for global food security. New appointment for CGIAR Chairman. The CGIAR in the twenty-first century; by Mahendra Shah. A new vision for ICRISAT; by Shawki...
A new economic reality on Asian city streets (Patralekha Chatterjee). City war zones (Sultan Barakat). Beirut: the lights are back on (May Farah). Preparing African cities for the bond market (Akin L....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18337Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Auclair, Christine ;
Barakat, Sultan ;
Bergen, Margaret ;
Chatterjee, Patralekha ;
Farah, May ;
Mabogunje, Akin L.
Private companies must be involved in finding and carrying out solutions to global environmental problems. Otherwise, the technologies and approaches piloted by GEF (Global Environment Facility) projects...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18249Date: May 31, 1998Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
In this example, the social assessment (SA) alerted the World Bank and the Government of Argentina to social differences among beneficiary groups and to problems and priorities that needed attention during...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: Naqvi in search of identity; emergency airlift; spouses' soapbox; airmiles save lives; TV for people; AIDS rider; hijack at G8; staff...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56994Date: May 28, 1998Author:
Radhika, Yeddanapudi ;
Rafferty, Kavin ;
Shen, Anna ;
Sopher, Jamil
"The management of the Fund favors greater transparency" - Stanley Fischer responds to IMF critics. Conditionality : this time, attached to the IMF : the US Congress's waiting game. Will wage arrears continue...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18332Date: April 30, 1998Author:
Eberstadt, Nicholas ;
Fischer, Stanley ;
Gray, George Michael ;
Kim, Junki ;
Mertzanis, Harilaos ;
Mustafa, Muhamet ;
Oks, Danil ;
Orszag-Land, Thomas ;
Petrakos, George ;
Pfeffermann, Guy Pierre
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