This paper surveys health reform in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, in the aftermath of their independence and transition from the Soviet command economy. Socio-economic, epidemiological and...
Ce document préparé dans le cadre du Projet de Transport en Milieu Rural (PTMR), une composante du Programme de politiques de transport en Afrique subsaharienne (SSATP), est axé sur le transport local...
This paper, prepared under the Rural Travel and Transport Project (RTTP) of the sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) focuses on local level transport in rural Africa. Households surveys...
This paper analyzes the structural relationship between policies that distort resource allocation and long-term growth. It briefly reviews the Solow model in which steady-state growth depends only on exogenous...
This paper reports the results of an evaluation of the effects on employment of a new type of secondary schools (INEM) in Colombia, which offer prevocational subjects alongside the traditional academic...
Technology is a vital part of the development process, a necessary input into all activity. Because of the historical domination of research and development by developed countries, a very large part of...
The following press communique was issued in the afternoon of December 13 at the World Bank's European Office in Paris: the Consultative Group on development assistance to Korea met in Paris on December...
Mr. George D. Woods, President of the World Bank, today announced the appointment of Mr. David L. Gordon, former Deputy Director of the Development Services Department, as Chief of a permanent mission...
The Second Irrigation Rehabilitation Project for Mexico will assist in financing the completion and rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage works and the provision of services to promote better irrigation...