This report is based on papers prepared for, and discussions held at the regional seminar on "Forestry Management for Sustainable Development" which took place in Genting Highlands, Malaysia. The papers...
The seminar on International Finance Strategies for Developing Countries was the first senior policy seminar on the subject of economywide financial resource management strategies for developing countries...
Of the estimated 1 billion people in the developing world who survive in conditions of extreme poverty, 70 percent live in Asia. The majority of these people live in rural areas and agriculture is their...
This report summarizes the discussions that took place at the senior policy seminar September 10-12, 1990, on the subject of Financial Sector Reform in Transitional Socialist Economies. The purpose of...
This report documents discussions on urban poverty issues in the developing countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia related to the urban poor's access to basic infrastructure services. Basic infrastructure...
This report is a selective account of the major substantive issues discussed at the seminar "Adjustment with Growth and Public Finance in Latin America", held in April 1989 in Santiago, Chile. The focal...
The paper deals with many detailed issues relating to the policy framework in which African management development institutions (MDIs) operate. This summary covers the following general, key issues which...
This seminar brought together ministers and other senior officials of five middle-income countries form Eastern and Southern Europe which form a part of the World Bank's Europe, Middle East, and North...
This paper focuses mainly on the problems related to financial stabilization and adjustment. Three general problems of particular topicality in Latin America today, are discussed : 1) management of the...
Four broad themes emerged from the discussions during the seminar on structural adjustment and stabilization in Central America : a) the need for a general equilibrium analysis in economic and sociopolitical...
How or why are certain agricultural policies implemented in developing countries? Why do programs in the field differ from their program designs? Why has the past decade of conditional lending not successfully...
This report is a selective account of the major substantive issues discussed at the seminar. The aim is to highlight the key issues facing middle-income, highly indebted countries, particularly in Latin...
The aim of this paper is to probe the issues surrounding local government in Africa and develop some courses of action. This report presents the proceedings and conclusions of two workshops. The premise...
The need for fundamental reforms to arrest economic and social decline and to provide a sound basis for promoting sustainable economic growth has been recognized. The emphasis on sustainable growth implies...
The aim of this report is to promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among senior African policymakers on the broad theme of institutional reforms for strengthening development management. The discussions...
Land and water, the basic renewable resources upon which so much ultimately depends, are complex resource systems that present many management challenges. Home to a majority of the world's population...
This report describes the outcome of a seminar held in Santiago, Chile from June 20-24, 1988. The purpose of the seminar was to discuss how to reclaim social progress in Latin America. In attendance were...
This paper summarizes a seminar which provides a group of countries with economic adjustment programs, discusses the design of these programs for their own particular circumstances, and compares the perceived...
For a majority of Latin American countries, the 1980s have been fraught with economic crisis and politically difficult adjustments. Korea, on the other hand, successfully adjusted to the 1979 oil shock...
Several factors have contributed to an increasing recognition of the need to address social aspects of development. First is the accumulating evidence about the effects that beneficiary participation in...