Documents et rapports
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Public and private sector approaches to improving pharmaceutical quality in Bangladesh (anglais)
Low-cost high-quality drugs benefit society and improve pharmaceutical company's competitive edge. This study presents the issues that must be considered to achieve these common objectives in Bangladesh...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 68357 Date du document: 1 août 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bumpas,Janet,Kostermans,Cornelis P.,Nair,Dinesh M.
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The Indian pharmaceutical sector : issues and options for health sector reform (anglais)
This report assesses the pharmaceutical sector in India, particularly focusing on four key issues related to the production, procurement, and distribution of drugs in India: a) availability, b) affordability;...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP437 Date du document: 30 septembre 2002 Auteur: Govindaraj, Ramesh,Chellaraj, Gnanaraj
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Gender dimensions of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean : Dimensiones de genero del consumo de alcohol y problemas afines en America Latina y el Caribe (espagnol)
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP433 Date du document: 1 mai 2002 Auteur: Hnin Hnin Pyne,Claeson, Mariam,Correia, Maria
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Gender dimensions of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean : Dimensiones de genero del consumo de alcohol y problemas afines en America Latina y el Caribe (espagnol)
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP435 Date du document: 1 mai 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Claeson,Mariam,Correia,Maria C.,Pyne,Hnin Hnin
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The environmental implications of privatization : lessons for developing countries (anglais)
Governments worldwide have increasingly recognized the economic potential and fiscal advantages of privatization. What is less well recognized is that, under the right conditions, privatization can also...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP426 Date du document: 30 avril 2002 Auteur: Lovei, Magda,Gentry, Bradford S.
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Telecommunications and information services for the poor - toward a strategy for universal access (anglais)
Access to information, and communications technologies has become crucial to a sustainable agenda of economic development, and poverty reduction, and yet access remains concentrated in a few regions and...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP432 Date du document: 30 avril 2002 Auteur: Navas-Sabater, Juan,Dymond, Andrew,Juntunen, Nii
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Electronic finance - a new approach to financial sector development ? (anglais)
In recent years, electronic finance, especially online banking, and brokerage services, has reshaped the financial landscape. This paper reviews these developments, and analyzes their implications for...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP431 Date du document: 31 mars 2002 Auteur: Claessens, Stijn,Glaessner,Thomas C.,Klingebiel,Daniela M. H.
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Gender dimensions of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP435 Date du document: 1 mars 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Claeson,Mariam,Correia,Maria C.,Pyne,Hnin Hnin
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Closing the gap in access to rural communications - Chile 1995 - 2002 (anglais)
The study documents, and reviews the Chilean experience in rural telecommunications, by focusing on the principles, practical organization, basic design, and outstanding issues for extension of a more...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP430 Date du document: 28 février 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wellenius,Bjorn
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Managing the real and fiscal effects of banking crises (anglais)
The study provides two recent analyses, spurred by the recent East Asian crisis, of government responses to financial distress, and, also presents a comprehensive database on systemic, and borderline banking...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP428 Date du document: 31 janvier 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Klingbiel, Daniela,Laeven, Luc [editors],Claesen
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Structural adjustment in the transition - case studies from Albania, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova (anglais)
The study reviews the performance of four transition countries - Albania, Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova - in the areas of private, and financial sector development, identifying both their...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP429 Date du document: 31 janvier 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Siegelbaum, Paul J.,Sherif, Khaled,Borish, Micha
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Unleashing Russia's business potential - lessons from the regions for building market institutions (russe)
This analyzes, based on more than seventy company case studies across 13 Russian regions during the spring, summer, and fall of 2000, and the summer of 2001, examines four key issues that Russian firms...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP434 Date du document: 1 janvier 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Broadman, Harry G. [editor],Dutz, Mark,Vagliasin
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Unleashing Russia's business potential - lessons from the regions for building market institutions (anglais)
This analyzes, based on more than seventy company case studies across 13 Russian regions during the spring, summer, and fall of 2000, and the summer of 2001, examines four key issues that Russian firms...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP434 Date du document: 1 janvier 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Broadman, Harry G. [editor],Dutz, Mark,Vagliasin
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Trade and transport facilitation : a toolkit for audit, analysis, and remedial action (anglais)
This document is an expanded version of the paper published in 2000 under the title "Trade and Transport Facilitation: An Audit Methodology." It seeks to improve the effectiveness of diagnosis and corrective...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP427 Date du document: 31 décembre 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Raven,John A.
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Facets of globalization : international and local dimensions of development (anglais)
The chapters in this volume underscore the transformative role of globalization and urbanization, and show the interplay between these forces. Trade reform and liberalized foreign investment regimess have...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP415 Date du document: 31 octobre 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yusuf, Shahid,Evenett, Simon,Weiping Wu [editors
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Agricultural trade liberalization in a new trade round - perspectives of developing countries and transition economies (anglais)
This discussion paper contains seven studies, designed to a) review, and assess the impact of the implementation of the Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on Agriculture, and, b) to analyze the key issues, interests...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP418 Date du document: 30 septembre 2001 Auteur: Ingco,Merlinda Dador,Winters, L. Alan [editors],Oyejide,Titiloye Ademola,Athukorala, Prema-chandra,Bale,Malcolm D.,Paz Cafferata,Julio C.,Valdes,Alberto,Kazlauskiene, Natalija,Meyers,William H.,Tangermann,Stefan,Roberts, Ivan,Podbury, Troy,Andrews, Neil,Fischer,Brian
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Participation in project preparation - lessons from World Bank-assisted projects in India (anglais)
The study assesses the extent to which the India program, is meeting the Bank's objective of mainstreaming participatory approaches, in project preparation, and design. From a variety of social, and natural...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP423 Date du document: 31 mai 2001 Auteur: Vedeld,Trond
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Farm debt in the CIS - a multi-country study of the major causes and proposed solutions (anglais)
The objective of this study is to support the farm privatization and restructuring process in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by presenting a wide range of strategic and tactical options that...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP424 Date du document: 31 mai 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Csaki, Csaba,Lerman, Zvi,Sotnikov, Sergey
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Environmental health : bridging the gaps (anglais)
This discussion paper: a) proposes a new approach of targeted collaboration among different sectors; b) devises new tools or enhances existing ones to facilitate the contributions of different sectors...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP422 Date du document: 31 mai 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Listorti, James A.,Doumani, Fadi M.
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Fostering competition in China's power markets (anglais)
This report proposes a strategy for developing competitive pool markets in China's power sector and for increasing energy trade between competitive pool markets areas. A three-stage approach is offered...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WDP416 Date du document: 31 mars 2001 Auteur: Berrah,Noureddine,Lamech,Ranjit J.,Zhao,Jianping