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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book MIGA, the First Five Years and Future Challenges written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Huizinga
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Are There Synergies Between World Bank Partial Credit Guarantees and Private Lending? written by Harry Huizinga and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1997 One test of the efficacy of World Bank partial credit guarantees is whether they lower the interest rate and lengthen the effective maturity of the part of the credit not covered by the guarantee. Do they? Since 1994, the World Bank has provided partial credit guarantees to private financiers of several large infrastructure projects in developing countries. A major objective of the partial guarantee program is to leverage Bank resources so as to provide developing countries with better private credit terms. A real test of the efficacy of World Bank partial credit guarantees is whether they also lower the interest rate and lengthen the effective maturity of the part of the credit not covered by the World Bank guarantee. On the basis of deals closed so far, Huizinga finds no evidence that guarantees have affected nonguaranteed interest rates favorably, while the duration of the nonguaranteed credits remains relatively short. This paper-a product of the Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to evaluate the impact of World Bank guarantees.
Author : Allan Gerson
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004480749
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Privatizing Peace: From Conflict to Security written by Allan Gerson and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privatizing Peace: From Conflict to Security pinpoints the weaknesses in the numerous peacekeeping missions of recent decades, as well as the blind spots in the thinking that guided them. Even more significantly, they clearly demonstrate the ways in which well-meaning stabilization and reconstruction programs fail to accommodate the economic and social imperatives of war-torn societies. But this visionary work is not merely an indictment of First World myopia in the face of Third World devastation. The authors offer cogent, well-thought-out recommendations, firmly grounded in current reality, with a powerful determination to avoid the repetition of past mistakes. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Author : Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovi?
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821338865
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (388 download)
Download or read book The Future of African Cities written by Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovi? and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of Africa's cities has outstripped local capacities of management, absorption, and financing. Yet cities do not have to be a drain on the national economy ; on the contrary, they can add new dynamism to the process of economic growth. This book addresses two basic questions : What have we learned ? Where are we going? It takes stock of two decades of experience in urban development, proposes a common-sense priority agenda for the urban sector in the region, and suggests some operational tools to carry it out. (Adapté du résumé de l'auteur).
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821330289
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Meeting the Infrastructure Challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) stand at a point of transition. During the 1980s in the face of the unavoidable need to correct macroeconomic imbalances, economic growth largely came to a halt, some of the poor became poorer, and not only new investment but even routine maintenance of economic infrastructure was often neglected or deferred. This report suggests a number of ideas to help countries address their infrastructure challenges, including a variety of models for structuring the participation of domestic and international private capital. The report also states the World Bank's commitment to serve as a proactive catalyst for mobilizing private capital for improved infrastructure service provision in LAC. The World Bank will intensify efforts toward policy and regulatory reform and contribute financial resouces or provide guarantees to help strenghten infrastructurae in LAC.
Author : Stijn Claessens
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821340066
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Are Financial Sector Weaknesses Undermining the East Asian Miracle? written by Stijn Claessens and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IFC Technical Paper No. 3. Inflation plagues many of the developing countries in which the International Finance Corporation (IFC) operates. To date, however, little is known about the impact of inflation on the financial statements of firms in developing countries. The authors of this study have developed a simple algorithm, based on the method of inflation accounting used in Brazil, and have applied it to the accounts of listed companies in Turkey for the period 1982-90. The paper documents an inflation-induced bias in financial statements and introduces a methodology for adjusting corporate financial statements for inflation effects.
Author : Kevin M. Cleaver
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821339770
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Rural Development Strategies for Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Kevin M. Cleaver and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content Description #Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
Author : Vincent Greaney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821337349
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Monitoring the Learning Outcomes of Education Systems written by Vincent Greaney and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, education systems in more than 50 countries have shown an interest in obtaining information on what their students have learned as a result of their educational experiences. It seems likely that the number of countries interested in this sort of information will increase in the future. This book is intended to provide an introduction to individuals with an interest in assessing the learning outcomes of educational systems. In Chapter 1, "Nature and Uses of Educational Indicators," it considers the role of indicators in this process. A number of approaches to assessing learning outcomes in developed and developing countries are described, and systems of comparative international assessment are reviewed in chapter 2, "National and International Assessments." The question of whether existing information from public examination results can be used to provide information on learning outcomes for an education system is answered in the negative in chapter 3, "National Assessment and Public Examinations." chapter 4, "Components of a National Assessment," reviews the stages of a national assessment, and chapter 5, "Pitfalls of National Assessment: A Case Study," presents a case study of examples of poor practice in the conduct of national assessments. An appendix presents a national assessment checklist. (Contains 4 boxes, 6 tables, and 139 references.) (SLD)
Author : Michael Bruno
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821336977
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Deep Crises and Reform written by Michael Bruno and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper was first presented as my address, as president, to the 1995 Congress of the International Economic Association in Tunis.
Author : Sarah Tenney
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878658
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the World Bank written by Sarah Tenney and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the World Bank shows the substantial progress the Bank has made, this mainly through the dictionary section with concise entries on its component institutions, related organizations, its achievements in various fields, some of the major projects and member countries, and its various presidents. The introduction explains how the Bank works while the chronology traces the major events over nearly 70 years. Meanwhile, the list of acronyms reminds us just who the main players are. And the bibliography directs readers to useful internal documentation and outside studies.
Author : Yushu Feng
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book China and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency written by Yushu Feng and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony R. Measham
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821334485
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (344 download)
Download or read book India's Family Welfare Program written by Anthony R. Measham and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1995 conference continued the tradition of holding a roundtable discussion related to the subject of the forthcoming annual World Development Report (*), in this case, economies in transition. The conference addressed four themes: redistribution with growth; demographic change and development; aid and development; and fiscal decentralization. Among the articles included in the 1995 proceedings are: - Argentina's Miracle? From Hyperinflation to Sustained Growth. Domingo F. Cavallo and Guillermo Mondino - Inequality, Poverty, and Growth: Where Do We Stand? Albert Fishlow - Government Provision and Regulation of Economic Support in Old Age. Peter Diamond - Is Growth in Developing Countries Beneficial to Industrial Countries? Richard N. Cooper - Fiscal Federalism and Decentralization: A Review of Some Efficiency and Macroeconomic Aspects. Vito Tanzi.
Author : Ketleen Florestal
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821339336
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Decentralization of Education written by Ketleen Florestal and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In practice, most education systems have both centralized and decentralized elements. Planners involved in a decentralizing reform must identify which components of the system are more appropriately managed at the central level and which at the local level. This book is intended to inform education policymakers, planners, and practitioners about international experience in the legal aspects of decentralizing basic education. It also provides a basic understanding of how laws and regulations can be used for education reform. For purposes of the discussion, decentralization is used to describe efforts to transfer decision making power in basic education from the administrative center of a country to authorities closer to users. The term is also used in a more technical sense to describe one of the many forms this type of reform can take, and in this sense it is contrasted with deconcentration and devolution as educational reforms. The first section examines the general legal aspects of decentralization, and the second looks more closely at decentralization laws and regulations. The third section is, in effect, a checklist of items that should be included in decentralization laws, and the fourth section provides a road map to help the planner prepare and implement the laws required for reform. Although an effort has been made to keep the discussion general enough for use in many countries, the analysis is based on the legal systems of the Western world or those that they inspired. (Contains 35 references.) (SLD)
Author : Robert J. Downing
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821339190
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Rains-Asia written by Robert J. Downing and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia's rapid economic growth has fueled a growing appetite for commercial energy, which is satisfied by fossil fuels that emit pollutants. These pollutants are oxidized and transported into the atmosphere, creating acidic depositions known as acid rain that can damage foliage, soils, and surface waters. At current energy consumption growth rates, by the year 2000 sulfur dioxide emissions from Asia will surpass the emissions of North America and Europe combined. RAINS-ASIA is an assessment tool developed by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and donors to study the implications of alternative energy development strategies for air pollution and acid rain and to help identify cost-effective abatement methods. This report provides an overview of the model and some results of analyses that have been conducted as part of the RAINS-ASIA program.
Author : Harry Anthony Patrinos
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821339305
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Decentralization of Education written by Harry Anthony Patrinos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central governments' supply-side expansions of schooling have not equally benefited all members of society, especially girls, indigenous peoples, tribal groups, disadvantaged minorities, and the poor. Public spending on education is often inefficient, higher education is subsidized at primary education's expense, and costs are becoming insupportable. To tackle such issues, some governments are exploring demand-side financing, whereby public funds are given directly to individuals or institutions on the basis of expressed demand. Use of decentralized, demand-side financing mechanisms (like vouchers and stipends) is common in member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. After defining several mechanisms, this booklet provides some country examples aiming to increase school enrollment: stipends in Bangladesh, community financing in Chad, targeted bursaries in China and Mexico, voucher schemes in Colombia, assistance to private schools serving poor children in the Dominican Republic and Pakistan, student loans in Jamaica, and community grants in Pakistan. Program success depends on beneficiaries' involvement and support, parents' active participation, private-sector schools' involvement, partnerships with commercial enterprises, flexibility, capacity building, cultural relevance, equity principles, and transparent fund transfer formulas. Contains 47 references. (MLH)
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821376810
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The World Bank Group Guarantee Instruments 1990-2007 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign direct investment and private capital flows are highly concentrated geographically, with almost half of them reaching the top five destinations. These flows tend to evade many high-risk countries, with the exception of those directed to extractive industries. Regulatory and contractual risks, particularly in infrastructure, have inhibited investments in many parts of the developing world. A core objective of the World Bank Group (WBG) has been to support the flow of private investment for development; guarantees and insurance have been among the instruments that the Group has used to p.
Author : Athena Efraim
Publisher : Springer
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Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sovereign (in)equality in International Organizations written by Athena Efraim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A) Voting by majority
