Integration of knowledge with lending is an enduring theme in World Bank strategies at the corporate and country levels. It rests on the widely shared proposition that Bank lending instruments could be...
The report is part of a series of learning products with limited objectives geared towards synthesizing existing knowledge as well as learning and gaining new insights into the factors that influence design...
This book, written on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, addresses three questions that relate to recession, recovery, and reform, respectively, in Europe and Central...
Global Program Funds (GPFs), programs that channel funding to a specific development objectives across countries, have grown rapidly since 2000. Although in aggregate they are still small relative to global...
EU accession should be a partnership, not a dictate. Picking up the enlargement tab: European Union plans budget for 2000-2006. Romania's new government means business - the first seven months. New phase...
EU accession should be a partnership, not a dictate. Picking up the enlargement tab: European Union plans budget for 2000-2006. Romania's new government means business - the first seven months. New phase...
Reform boosts growth and foreign investment. Nations in transit - 1997 Freedom House rankings. Good policies are needed to make aid effective. The EBRD increases activity : interview with EBRD's Chief...
The world has changed dramatically over the last five decades and so has the World Bank. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the World Bank has provided us with an opportunity to reflect on and learn from the...
This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following headings: grass without roots? By Leitmenn, Josef; a change in Bank culture by Alisbah, Bilsel; IBM facility center marks its first decade by...
As a region, Latin America today has a lower per capita income than in 1980. During the last two years it has declined even further. But this aggregate picture masks important differences across countries...
When a country experiences a long-term adverse external shock, resulting in a balance of payments deficit unsustainable in the medium term, how quickly should it adjust? Because time is required for movement...
Primary commodity prices, manufactured goods prices, and the terms of trade of developing countries: what the long run shows. Price and income elasticities of demand for modern health care: the case of...
Easing the debt problem requires high-debt countries to generate significant trade and savings surpluses. If this has to be achieved quickly these surpluses can only be built up through contractive measures...
This paper addresses income distribution issues and explores various policy options to eliminate extreme poverty in a particular typology of middle income developing countries. The countries included in...
This paper discusses optimal short-term borrowing in response to an increase in the price of imported inputs. The rationale for borrowing lies in the increase in substitution possibilities in production...
This paper addresses income distribution issues and policy options to eliminate extreme poverty in a particular typology of middle-income semi-industrialized developing countries of Latin America. These...
This paper calls attention to a particular type of misallocation of resources having important efficiency and distributional losses within the educational sector of developing countries. It proposes that...
This paper addresses income distribution issues and explores various policy options to eliminate extreme poverty in a particular typology of middle income developing countries. The countries included in...
Governments can improve the distribution of income an also can eradicate extreme poverty by changing the composition and direction of their public expenditure. But more important than the capacity of the...
The global dimensions of malnutrition are described, and the economic impact of intervention by governments is evaluated. Based on average calorie consumption data from the mid-1960s, it is estimated that...