VOL 3 / NO 1 July 2004 www.worldbank.org.in News & Views Quarterly the World Bank in India 33474 President sees hope for villages in India Development Marketplace T he President of India, Dr A P J Abdul Noting that the World Bank had "become a Kalam presided over the India Development creator of and guardian of knowledge capital", Marketplace, the World Bank's nationwide the President said that "this concept of banking hunt to throw up innovative poverty-fighting in knowledge is the most ideal path for the world ideas. Dr Kalam, the first Indian head of state that is entering the knowledge era". Dr Kalam's to visit the Bank's New Delhi office, spent time speech at the IDM is prominently featured on his walking around the exhibits put up by the 50 website www.presidentofindia.nic.in. finalists at a day-long event on June 21. The Development Marketplace is a World Bank He praised the concept of the IDM, saying, "The global initiative that promotes innovative experiences of such small but important projects development ideas by providing seed funding. can be integrated and scaled up, so that it will It tries to link social entrepreneurs with poverty- give inputs to the overall mission... to bring fighting ideas to partners with resources who can prosperity to rural India." help implement their vision. CONTENTS 1 India Development Marketplace 3 Sarva Siksha Abhiyan 5 Battling TB 6 Fostering Dialogue on Development 7 Events 8 Recent Project Signings 9 New Additions to the Public Information Center 20 Contact Information 2 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly Being held for the first time in India, the these and many other excellent ideas have in Development Marketplace had as its theme common is that they aim to make services work `Improve Rural Services ­ Access and Quality in for poor people." Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, Health, Education, Roads, Finance and Electricity.' It The Bank's Country Director for India, Mr Michael received approximately 1,500 proposals from Carter, said, "The India Marketplace, just as the across the country. The 20 winners selected after global event, underscores the World Bank's belief a rigorous selection process will each receive US$ that solutions to development challenges can 20,000. (The list of winners is posted on have small beginnings and are often found by http:www.worldbank.org.in) those living closest to the problem." Added Prashant K Das of Lokshakti, one of the winners: "The IDM offers a great opportunity to meet creative people and innovators from all over the country, and try to replicate the new concepts in a wider cross-regional sphere." Another winner, Mr Terry Thomas from Planet Kerala, called it "an excellent learning platform where similar development mindsets can synergize their rural thinking!" Commented Suresh Keswani, former MP and one of the jurors: "This is a great initiative where the World Bank has extended itself to the lowest A finalist explains his project concept to the President, common denominator in the rural areas. This will who is accompanied by the Bank's Vice President for set in motion the centrifugal forces of South Asia, Praful Patel and Country Director for India, development at the bottom layer which often Michael Carter gets neglected." The Bank has provided US$ 200,000 to the awards pool and the rest has come from various The India Development Marketplace was IDM partners. The Bank also decided to provide a organized by the World Bank in partnership with special knowledge-sharing grant to the remaining International Finance Corporation (IFC), UK 30 finalists Department for International Development (DFID), World Health Organization (WHO), Microsoft, A festive atmosphere prevailed at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Marketplace with folk dancers and music adding Industry (FICCI), Times Foundation, Infrastructure to the rural theme. Some 350 visitors attended Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS), the event, which included presentations from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Ford 50 finalists to a 16-member jury comprising Foundation, Usha Martin, Ballarpur Industries representatives of national and international Limited (BILT), Apollo Tyres Limited and with organizations, as well as government and non- support from Associated Chambers of Commerce government agencies. and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). Announcing the winners, the Bank's Vice These partners contributed not only financially, President for South Asia, Mr Praful Patel, said: but in other ways as well. For instance, some "There are proposals to empower young girls as contributed assessors, FICCI hosted a Knowledge champions of hygiene, health, and nutrition. Forum and the Times Foundation assisted with Ideas to harness fish for malaria control, mobile publicity. toilets to improve rural sanitation. Someone has Members of the IDM jury at one of the stalls thought of using plants in the management of wastewater, someone else of harvesting dew along the coast of Kutch, another still of using the sun's power for water distillation. And there are proposals to deliver better education in rural areas using participatory theatre, information networks, and community partnerships. What 3 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly Sarva Siksha is the first SWAp for India T he World Bank, along with other international donors, is supporting the Government of India's (GOI) program for universal elementary education, Sarva Shikhsha Abhiyan (SSA). An agreement for an IDA credit of US$ 500 million was signed in New Delhi on June 3. SSA aims to reduce the number of out-of- school children by 9 million by 2007, to narrow gender and social gaps, and to improve the quality of education. With this, the Bank and GOI are trying out a new pattern of development partnership known as the SWAp or Sector Wide Approach. A SWAp seeks to focus support from various international agencies behind a cohesive country-led sector program. Girls attending school under the Bank-aided District Primary Education program, a precursor to the Sarva Coordinated donor support is thus a key feature Siksha Abhiyan of the SSA program. Of its total cost of US$ 3.5 billion over 2003-07, the Government of India will contribute 45 percent, external development proven institutional capacity to tackle the issues in partners -- the Bank, the European Community a particular sector, as Government of India has in and the UK's Department for International this case," says Venita Kaul, the Bank's task Development -- will bring in 30 percent, and leader for the program. state governments the remaining 25 percent. "The idea behind a SWAp is to have the client in India has made remarkable progress in education, the driving seat, especially when the client has with the number of out-of-school children in the World Bank draft Country Assistance Strategy for India on public view T he World Bank Group is developing its next Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for India. This strategy will be finalized over the next few weeks and then discussed by the Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors. Once finalized, the CAS will be used to guide Bank Group programs in India for the next four years (2005-08). Given its importance for Bank Group programs in India, the draft CAS has been placed on the Bank's India website for review by interested stakeholders in India. Comments and feedback are welcomed. Please visit the What's New section on the Bank's India site at: http://www.worldbank.org.in Hindi, Telugu and Kannada versions will be posted shortly on the Bank's websites in these languages. The respective addresses are: http://www.vishwabank.org/ http://www.prapanchabank.org/ http://www.vishwabanku.org/ The draft will be available on the website through 14 July, 2004. 4 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly What is a SWAp? Among the highpoints It is characterized by: (i) country-owned sector policies and of SSA are: strategies; (ii) a sustained, country-led partnership among development partners and key · Teacher-student ratio of 40:1 stakeholders; · School/alternate schooling facility within (iii) a common program and an expenditure one km of every habitation framework (usually a medium-term · One upper primary/elementary school for framework and an annual budget) every two primary schools based on agreed priorities and · A classroom for every teacher strategies; · Free textbooks to every girl child as well as (iv) a financing plan that aligns children from SC/ST families government's and external resources · 20-day training for every teacher, every year under the common program; and (v) significant movement toward common approaches in planning, 6-14 age group declining from 39 million in implementation, monitoring and 1999 to 25 million in 2003. Despite this, India evaluation with increasing reliance on still accounts for one-quarter of the world's 104 country's systems and procedures. million out-of-school children. Reforms and development of country's capacity and institutions are often SSA was launched in 2001, building on the prominent features of a SWAp. success of another Bank-supported program, the District Primary Education Program (DPEP), which In a typical SWAp, donor cooperation spans covered half of India's 600 districts and 18 of its the spectrum from resources to technical 28 states. DPEP had brought in a fresh approach assistance, with joint appraisals and review to the Indian education system -- new curricula missions and a common monitoring and and text books were written, modern teaching evaluation framework. However, all methods and innovative practices introduced, processes and procedures to be followed in and educational planning was taken to the the program -- from procurement district level. guidelines to financial management methods -- are the country's own. SSA stretched the goals further by aiming for nationwide coverage and going beyond the UN- SWAps are being increasingly deployed mandated Millennium Development Goal (MDG) worldwide by the development community for education: it covers eight years of education and the Bank and GOI are also considering instead of five or six, and the target year for working out a similar SWAp for the achieving the goals is 2010 instead of 2015. The Reproductive and Child Health program Constitution was amended in 2002 to make in India. elementary education a fundamental right. It is ambitious on yet another plane, prompting community participation at the lowest level. "SSA education system has to be made locally relevant, takes the DPEP initiative forward by so that children and parents find the schooling decentralizing education to the sub-district useful, absorbing, and most of all, non-alienating level," says Kaul. "So planning begins at the from their natural and social environment. The habitation level with household data surveys that program will thus focus on involving Panchayati ensure that no child is left out of the net." Raj institutions, school management committees, village education committees, parent-teachers' The other thrusts of SSA include closing gender associations, mother-teacher associations, and and social gaps and ensuring that all children stay tribal autonomous councils in the management of on in school. For this, planners believed the elementary schools. 5 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly Battling the scourge of TB W hen 28-year-old Kavita, a resident of East Delhi, found she was pregnant, she was afraid her frail body would not be able to bear the burden. Her mother-in- law took her to a local doctor who put her on the government-recommended Directly Observed Treatment - Short Course (DOT-S) for tuberculosis. Under this scheme, TB patients take their drugs under the watchful eye of health workers or volunteers to ensure their successful treatment over a six month period. The DOT-S program has proved vital in India's fight against TB, the leading cause of adult illness and death in India. The World Bank is helping India fight this scourge through the US$142.4 million-TB Control Project. Since 1987, it has supported the government's highly effective Revised National TB Control Program by helping set up the institutional and managerial infrastructure to facilitate the expansion of TB A TB awareness poster control services. A Joint Monitoring Mission conducted by the government and WHO in 2003 found that under The Bank­aided project has helped improve the the TB program, each day in India, more than quality, access and outcomes of TB treatment in 10,000 symptomatic patients are examined, more public sector, NGO and private sector facilities. It than 40,000 sputum slides checked, more than has supported the development of institutional, 2,500 patients placed on treatment, and nearly operational and research capacity through a 500 lives saved. range of outreach activities and intensive community involvement. These figures emerged at the `Stop TB' ­ Partners' Forum held in New Delhi in March. In the last few years, the program has been Speaking at the Forum, then Prime Minister Atal expanded to almost all parts of the country. But Bihari Vajpayee said: "The DOT-S strategy control of this debilitating disease worldwide adopted under this program is one of the notable entails that all players ­ government agencies, successes in public health in India. Its coverage multilateral agencies, donors, private medical has increased from 130 million five years ago to practitioners, drug companies, religious 800 million of our population in the current year." organizations and even popular icons -- band together for a concerted push. Praful Patel, Vice President, South Asia region, · 400,000 Indians die of TB each year who represented the Bank President at this event, · One-fifth of TB-afflicted people live in said: "Experience has taught us that a greater India engagement of communities in the services they · India loses approximately US$ 3 receive can strengthen the effectiveness of those billion per year in output lost due to services. The revised National TB Control Program the deaths and continued disability of here in India is supporting 31,000 community TB patients volunteers in its effort. At the Bank, we are pleased to be supporting such innovation." 6 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly Fostering Dialogue on Development BIMARU + Orissa vital for attaining The opening address of the conference was given MDGs, says Bank report by the Chief Minister of Delhi, Ms Sheila Dixit. The World Bank was represented by the Vice A World Bank report on the challenges for India to President for the South Asia Region, Mr Praful attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Patel, Mr Carter, and Mr Julian Schweitzer, Sector shows that the country cannot hope to achieve Director for Human Development, South Asia. these development milestones without significant progress in its poorest states of Bihar, Orissa, Uttar A surprise visitor to the conference was Professor Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, who is Special Adviser to UN Secretary General on the The report, Attaining the Millennium Millennium Development Taskforce. Sachs Development Goals in India: Role of Public Policy congratulated the Bank on the report which he and Service Delivery was released in New Delhi on said, for the first time in India, quantifies the June 17-18 at a conference organized by the effect of various policy interventions on the MD Bank to provide national and international indicators and highlights the gap that might still perspectives on the challenges facing India's remain. attainment of the MDGs. Details of the case studies in the report can be found under the What's New section of the Bank's India site: http://www.worldbank.org.in For more on the MDGs, visit http://www.developmentgoals.org Taking stock of Health Systems Projects Senior policymakers and program managers from Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dixit, with Praful Patel (centre) and Michael Carter at the MDG conference the Central and state governments, NGOs and academicians participated in discussions on `India The report focuses on five MDG issues ­ child and Health Systems Projects: What we have learnt & infant mortality, child malnutrition, schooling How can we do better?' at a two-day workshop enrolment and completion, gender disparities in in New Delhi over June 15-16. The World Bank schooling, and hunger-poverty ­ and examines, supports State Health Systems Development through simulated scenarios up to 2015, the Projects in nine states ­ Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, likelihood of the poorest regions of India meeting Uttaranchal, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, agreed targets. Karnataka, Orissa, Punjab, Maharashtra ­ covering more than two-thirds of India's poor. Studded with case studies of innovative and effective interventions, the report also suggests The experience of Karnataka, Punjab and West specific policy measures that might help. Among Bengal was shown to be quite positive ­ they the pointers that emerge from the report are: the have made good progress in enhancing the importance of infrastructure (especially roads, quality of secondary hospital services. The sanitation coverage, and electricity) in improving projects have made tangible contributions in health indicators; a strong association between equipment maintenance, bio-medical waste female adult schooling and virtually every MDG management and disease surveillance. considered; and the inextricable link between general economic growth and overall The intensive engagement of Panchayats in West development indicators. But all of this, says the Bengal and the corporatization of secondary report, hinges on a systematic reform of the hospitals in Punjab emerged as significant success manner in which services are delivered in India. stories. 7 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly Events Reforms at home and openness Europe. The report argues that India can take a abroad will take services revolution far more aggressive position in services further, says study negotiations thanks to its significant unilateral liberalization. Securing the gains delivered by India's `services revolution' demands deeper reforms at home, Debating the costs and benefits of combined with a more aggressively outward- decentralizing looking negotiating stance in international trade talks, says a new World Bank study, Sustaining A conceptual cost-benefit analysis of giving India's Services Revolution: Access to Foreign financial autonomy to Panchayati Raj institutions Markets, Domestic Reform and International was the focus of a conference held in New Delhi Negotiations. on June 7 to mark the release of a World Bank "India must address two critical challenges," says report on `Fiscal Decentralization to Rural the study released at a roundtable sponsored by Governments in India'. The report includes some the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce significant case studies from Kerala and Karnataka. and Industry (FICCI) in New Delhi on June 14. "Externally, the problem of actual and potential The debate centered on the progress made in protectionism, and domestically, the persistence endowing local governments with significant of restrictions on trade and investment, and taxing powers and increased expenditure weaknesses in the regulatory framework." autonomy. Participants identified several benefits of decentralization, ranging from better service This report notes that India's exports of services delivery to popular involvement in governance grew annually by 17 percent through the and enhanced revenue mobilization. The meet 1990s. This was almost twice the 9 percent also identified the `costs' of decentralization -- growth rate of the services sector as a whole, reduced Central ability to implement which itself accounted for nearly 60 percent of macroeconomic stabilization programs and India's overall economic growth. While the most efficiency losses due to poor local capacity ­ and visible growth has been in information technology attempted to address these through the learnings and business process outsourcing services, the from the case studies in the report. report notes that other types of services, such as telecommunications, financial and community The conference, organized by the National services, and hotels and restaurants have also Institute of Public Finance and Policy and the grown faster than overall GDP. World Bank, was attended by officials from the Central and state governments and academics. "The report provides evidence that liberalized The Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Mr Mani services such as information technology and Shankar Aiyar also shared his views with the telecommunications have attracted significant participants. investment, have grown faster and created more jobs than the protected services sectors," said State journalists' workshop Michael Carter, the Bank's Country Director for India. Budgetary issues before the northern states were "The current round of WTO negotiations offers discussed at a workshop for financial journalists India a remarkable opportunity to eliminate covering the states of Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and existing barriers to its services exports and Uttar Pradesh, organized by the National Institute prevent the introduction of new ones," say of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) with support Aaditya Mattoo and Deepak Mishra, co-authors from the World Bank. The workshop, held in of the report. This has grown more urgent Chandigarh between June 9-11, was the second recently, as job outsourcing to India has become in a series of regional capacity building workshops a political lightning rod, prompting demands for for journalists focusing on the gamut of issues increased protectionism in North America and affecting state finances, from power reforms and 8 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly value added tax, to medium-term fiscal The group visited three district primary schools in frameworks and the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Uttar Pradesh, home to one-eighth of the world's poor. Their first stop was the primary and Bank staff visit DPEP schools in UP upper primary school at Karhera village in Ghaziabad district, where they met the local About 23 World Bank staff -- office managers, political representative, observed the teaching executive assistants and office administrators process, and interacted with the schoolchildren, from about 15 countries of the East and South teachers and members of the village education Asia Regions ­ visited three district primary committee. schools under the World Bank-supported District Primary Education Project to get a better "When I spoke to Komal, a Class I child, and saw understanding of how the Bank is trying to fulfill her enthusiasm at being in school, I was filled its poverty reduction mission. with pride at being a part of the World Bank group," says Sheni Rana, a program assistant in Narendra Sharma, Regional Learning Adviser for the New Delhi Office. South Asia and East Asia regions, said the visit was "an opportunity for colleagues to get an District officials informed the group that 3.5 insight into some of the challenges faced by million of Ghaziabad's estimated 4.1 million disadvantaged groups as well as to appreciate the schoolchildren have been enrolled as of 30 struggle faced in bringing about change". September, 2003. Pioneering mountaineer Major H P S Ahluwalia carried the Olympic torch for a part of its ceremonial relay journey through New Delhi on June 10. The International Olympic Association had offered this torch-relay slot to the Bank as part of its partnership with the Office of the President of the World Bank. Recent Project Approvals Recent Project Signings A US$ 89 million IDA Credit for the Rajasthan Health Systems Project was signed on June 3, 2004. 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Developed from the findings of an (IBRD), credits or grants from the International independent review of the 1991 strategy and a two-year Development Association (IDA), or grants from the Bank global consultative process, the revised strategy, is built or trust funds administered by the Bank and executed by on three guiding pillars: Harnessing the potential of the beneficiary. forests to reduce poverty; integrating forests into sustainable economic development; and protecting Guidelines Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA global forest values. 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AB903 (Project Information Document) AC714 (Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet) INDIA PROJECT DOCUMENTS Uttaranchal Decentralized Watershed Development Project Policy Research Working Papers, Project Appraisal Date: 2004/04/14 Documents, Project Information Documents and Project ID: P078550 other reports can be downloaded in pdf format Sector: Agriculture, fishing, and forestry from "Documents and Reports" at Sub-Sector: Crops, Animal production, General www.worldbank.org agriculture, fishing and forestry Report No.: 27697 (Project Appraisal Document) Elementary Education Project Date: 2004/03/23 Mumbai Urban Transport Project Project ID: P055459 Date: 2004/04/29 Sector: Education Project ID: P050668 Sub-Sector: Primary education Sector: Transportation; Health and other social services Report No.: 27703 (Project Appraisal Document) Sub-Sector: Other social services; Roads and highways Report No.: 28795 (Inspection Panel Notice Registration) 15 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly Statistical Strengthening Project 3339 Date: 2004/05/07 A Policy Note on Telecommunications Reform in Project ID: P078337 Algeria by Paul Noumba Um Sector: Law and justice and public administration Sub-Sector: Central government administration 3338 Report No.: AC721 (Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet) Finance, Inequality, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Tamil Nadu Health System Project Ross Levine Date: 2004/05/27 Project ID: P075058 3338 Sector: Law and justice and public administration; Health Finance, Inequality, and Poverty: Cross-Country and other social services Evidence by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Sub-Sector: Sub-national government administration; Ross Levine Health and other social services Report No.: AC856 (Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet) 3337 E960 (Environmental Assessment) Do Households Gain from Community-based Natural Resource Management? An Evaluation of Tamil Nadu Economic Recovery Loan Project Community Conservancies in Namibia Date: 2004/05/07 by Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay, Michael N Humavindu, Project ID: P086288 Priya Shyamsundar and Limin Wang Sector: Law, justice and public administration Sub-Sector: Central government administration 3336 Report No.: 29026 (Project Information Document) Dynamics of Income Inequality and Welfare in Latvia in the Late 1990s by Célestin Monga and Hippolyte Fofack WB POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS 3335 3346 Productivity and the Investment Climate: What Achieving Accountability through Decentralization: Matters Most? by Fabiano Bastos and John Nasir Lessons for Integrated River Basin Management by Jyothsna Mody 3334 Compensatory Education for Disadvantaged 3345 Mexican Students: An Impact Evaluation Using The Role of Infrastructure Investment Location in Propensity Score Matching by Joseph Shapiro and China's Western Development Jorge Moreno Trevino by Xubei Luo 3333 3344 Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980 Disclosure of Environmental Violations and the by David Dollar Stock Market in the Republic of Korea by Nlandu Mamingi, Susmita Dasgupta, Jong Ho Hong 3332 and Benoit Laplante Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries: Unilateral and Multilateral Policy Options 3343 by Kamal Saggi, Keith E Maskus and Bernard Hoekman Linking Representative Household Models with Household Surveys for Poverty Analysis: A 3331 Comparison of Alternative Methodologies Fuelwood Consumption and Participation in by Pierre-Richard Agénor, Derek H C Chen and Michael Community Forestry in India by Sushenjit Grimm Bandyopadhyay and Priya Shyamsundar 3342 3330 Financing Small and Medium-Size Enterprises with The Dynamics of School and Work in Rural Factoring: Global Growth and Its Potential in Bangladesh by Jose Canals-Cerda and Eastern Europe by Gregory F Udell, Marie-Renée Bakker Cristobal Ridao-Cano and Leora Klapper 3329 3341 Sometimes More Equal than Others: How Health How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early Inequalities Depend on the Choice of Welfare 1980s? by Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion Indicator by Magnus Lindelöw 3340 3328 If You Build It, Will They Come? School Availability Labor Market Reforms, Growth, and and School Enrollment in 21 Poor Countries Unemployment in Labor-Exporting Countries in the by Deon Filmer Middle East and North Africa by Pierre-Richard 16 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly Agénor, Henning Tarp Jensen, Mustapha K Nabli and 3314 Tarik M Yousef The Case for Tradable Remedies in WTO Dispute Settlement 3327 by Kyle Bagwell, Petros C Mavroidis and Robert W A Duration Analysis of CONALEP (Mexico's National Staiger Technical Professional School) by Gladys Lopez-Acevedo 3313 On the Unequal Inequality of Poor Communities 3326 by Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, Ken Toward an Understanding of Household Simler and Berk Özler Vulnerability in Rural Kenya by Kalanidhi Subbarao and Luc J Christiaensen 3312 Trade Policy Analysis in the Presence of Duty 3325 Drawbacks by Elena Ianchovichina The Quality of Foreign Aid: Country Selectivity or Donors Incentives? 3311 by Waly Wane Property Rights Institutions and Investment by Jahangir Saleh 3324 Health Care Decisions as a Family Matter: 3310 Intrahousehold Education Externalities and the Bundling Services and Household Welfare in Utilization of Health Services by Magnus Lindelöw Developing Countries: The Case of Peru by Alberto Chong, Jesko Hentschel and Jaime Saavedra 3323 Investment Climate and International Integration 3309 by Taye Mengistae, David Dollar and Fiscal Responsibility Laws for Subnational Mary Hallward-Driemeier Discipline: The Latin American Experience by Steven B Webb 3322 Tango with the Gringo: The Hard Peg and Real 3308 Misalignment in Argentina by Luis Servén, Enrique The Regulatory and Supervisory Framework for Alberola and Humberto Lopez Fixed Income Markets in Europe by Hubert Grignon Dumoulin and Mogens Kruse 3321 Education and its Poverty-Reducing Effects: The 3307 Case of Paraíba, Brazil by Dorte Verner Latvia's Macroeconomic Options in the Medium Term: Fiscal and Monetary Challenges of European 3320 Union Membership Country Portfolios by Jaume Ventura, Luis Servén, by Célestin Monga Aart C Kraay and Norman Loayza 3306 3319 Export Commodity Production and Broad-based Financial Development and Growth in the Short Rural Development: Coffee and Cocoa in the and Long Run by Raymond Fisman and Inessa Love Dominican Republic by Paul Siegel and Jeff Alwang 3318 Location and Welfare in Cities: Impacts of Policy 3305 Interventions on the Urban Poor Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase by Mattias K A Lundberg, Mudit Kapoor, Somik V Lall International Technology Transfer? Empirical and Zmarak Shalizi Evidence from U S Firm-Level Panel Data by Raymond Fisman, Lee G Branstetter and C Fritz Foley 3317 Business Environment and the Incorporation 3304 Decision by Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Inessa Love and The RMSM-X+P: A Minimal Poverty Module for the Vojislav Maksimovic RMSM-X by Derek H C Chen, Thilak Ranaweera and Andriy Storozhuk 3316 Homeownership, Community Interactions, and 3303 Segregation by Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen Can the Distributional Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks Be Predicted? A Comparison of the 3315 Performance of Macro-Micro Models with Historical A Review of the Political Economy of Governance: Data for Brazil From Property Rights to Voice by Luiz A Pereira da Silva, Francisco H G Ferreira, by Philip Keefer Phillippe G Leite and Paulo Picchetti 17 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly 3302 3288 Convergence, Dynamics, and Geography of Is There Room for Foreign Exchange Interventions Economic Growth: The Case of Municipalities in Rio under an Inflation Targeting Framework? Evidence Grande do Norte, Brazil by Dorte Verner and from Mexico and Turkey by Ilker Domaç and Edinaldo Tebaldi Alfonso Mendoza 3301 3287 Which Doctor? Combining Vignettes and Item Explaining and Forecasting Inflation in Turkey Response to Measure Doctor Quality by Jishnu Das by Ilker Domaç and Jeffrey S Hammer 3286 3300 New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms The Labor Market Effects of Foreign-owned Firms in Developing Countries: The Telecommunications by Rita Almeida and Electricity Regulation Database by Luke Haggarty, George Clarke, Rosario Kaneshiro, 3299 Roger Noll, Mary M Shirley, Scott Wallsten and Lixin The Increasing Selectivity of Foreign Aid, 1984­2002 Colin Xu by David Dollar and Victoria Levin 3285 3298 Gender Equality and Economic Development: The Insurance Regulation in Jordan: New Rules-Old Role for Information and Communication System by Dimitri Vittas Technologies by Derek H C Chen 3297 3284 Unemployment-Poverty Trade-offs Bargaining for a New Fiscal Pact in Mexico by Pierre-Richard Agénor by Christian Y Gonzalez and Steven B Webb 3296 3283 Youth at Risk, Social Exclusion, and Regulation of Fixed Income Securities Markets in Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics: A New Survey the United States Instrument with Application to Brazil by Felice B Friedman by Dorte Verner and Erik Alda 3282 3295 Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition The Home as Factory Floor: Employment and Economies: Progress, Problems and the Promise Remuneration of Home-based Workers by Anwar Shah by Wendy V Cunningham and Carlos Ramos Gomez 3281 3294 Child Mortality in Rural India by Limin Wang and Imputed Welfare Estimates in Regression Analysis Bas van der Klaauw by Chris Elbers, Jean O Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw 3280 3293 Conditional Cash Transfers and the Equity-Efficiency On the Conservation of Distance in International Debate By Jishnu Das, Quy-Toan Do and Berk Özler Trade by Matias Berthelon and Caroline Freund 3279 3292 Raising Revenue with Transaction Taxes in Latin Regulatory Instruments and their Effects on America: Or is it Better to Tax with the Devil You Investment Behavior by Phil Burns and Know? By Rodrigo Suescun Christoph Riechmann 3278 3291 Rapid Onset Natural Disasters: The Role of Institutional Trap by Quy-Toan Do Financing in Effective Risk Management by Rodney Lester and Eugene Gurenko 3290 Analyzing Building Height Restrictions: Predicted 3277 Impacts, Welfare Costs and a Case Study of Does Greater Accountability Improve the Quality of Bangalore, India by Alain Bertaud, and Delivery of Public Services? Evidence from Uganda Jan K Brueckner by Klaus Deininger and Paul Mpuga 3289 3276 How Does the Impact of an HIV/AIDS Information Economic and Welfare Effects of the Abolition of Campaign Vary with Educational Attainment? Health User Fees: Evidence from Uganda Evidence from Rural Uganda by Damien de Walque by Klaus Deininger and Paul Mpuga 18 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly 3275 3263 Do Foreign Investors Care about Labor Market The Impact of Chilean Fruit Sector Development on Regulations? By Beata Smarzynska and Female Employment and Household Income Mariana Spatareanu by Lovell Jarvis and Esperanza Vera-Toscano 3274 3262 Avoiding Customer and Taxpayer Bailouts in Private The Initial and Potential Impact of Preferential Infrastructure Projects: Policy toward Leverage, Risk Access to the U S Market under the African Growth Allocation, and Bankruptcy By David Ehrhardt and and Opportunity Act by Paul Brenton and Timothy Irwin Takako Ikezuki 3273 3261 Boosting Productivity via Innovation and Adoption Detecting Illegal Trade Practices by Analyzing of New Technologies: Any Role for Labor Market Discrepancies in Forest Products Trade Statistics: An Institutions? By Thierry Tressel and Stefano Scarpetta Application to Europe, with a Focus on Romania by Jeffrey R Vincent 3272 Trade, Capital Accumulation, and Structural 3260 Unemployment: An Empirical Study of the Child Health and the 1988-92 Economic Crisis in Singapore Economy by Hian Teck Hoon and Peru by Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady Hiau Looi Kee 3259 3271 The Dynamics of Poverty and its Determinants: The The Environment as a Factor of Production Case of the Northeast of Brazil and its States by Timothy J Considine and Donald F Larson by Dorte Verner and Norbert M Fiess 3270 3258 The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Comparing Land Reform and Land Markets in Stylized Facts by Eugenia Baroncelli, Carsten Fink and Colombia: Impacts on Equity and Efficiency Beata Smarzynska by Raffaella Castagnini, Klaus Deininger and Maria A Gonzalez 3269 How Has Environment Mattered? An Analysis of 3257 World Bank Resource Allocation by Kirk Hamilton, Toward a Microeconomics of Growth Anjali Acharya, Piet Buys, Susmita Dasgupta, Ede Jorge by Robin Burgess and Anthony J Venables Ijjasz-Vasquez, Craig Meisner, Kiran Pandey and David Wheeler 3256 Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap 3268 by Remco Oostendorp Location, Concentration, and Performance of Economic Activity in Brazil by Richard Funderburg, 3255 Somik V Lall and Tito Yepes Trade, Regulations, and Growth by Bineswaree Bolaky and Caroline Freund 3267 The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment 3254 Programs: An Application for Lao People's Decentralization or Fiscal Autonomy? What Does Democratic Republic by Kenneth Chomitz, Piet Buys, Really Matter? Effects on Growth and Public Sector Susmita Dasgupta, Uwe Deichmann, Bjorn Larsen, Craig Size in European Transition Countries Meisner, Jostein Nygard, Kiran Pandey, Nat Pinnoi and by Serdar Yilmaz, Jean-Philippe Meloche and Francois David Wheeler Vaillancourt 3266 3253 Efficiency and Equity of a Marginal Tax Reform: Firms, Jobs, and Employment in Moldova Income, Quality, and Price Elasticities for Mexico by Jan Rutkowski by Alessandro Nicita 3252 3265 Explaining U S Immigration, 1971-98 by Ximena Who Benefited from Trade Liberalization in Clark, Timothy J Hatton and Jeffrey G Williamson Mexico? Measuring the Effects on Household Welfare by Alessandro Nicita 3251 Aid, Policies, and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence 3264 by Craig Burnside and David Dollar Does Cross-Listing Lead to Functional Convergence? Empirical Evidence by Meghana Ayyagari 19 theWorld Bank in India News & Views Quarterly 3250 What Does Political Economy Tell Us about Latest on the Web Economic Development -- and Vice Versa? by Philip Keefer 3249 Bank connects with youth Equity in Educational Expenditures: Can Government Subsidies Help? by Jishnu Das Youthink!, the Bank's new website about development issues that matter to young 3248 people, hit the cyber newsstand mid-April. Incidence and Impact of Land Conflict in Uganda by Raffaella Castagnini and Klaus Deininger Young people, who represent the web's savviest users, have been the Bank's largest but 3247 most underserved Internet audience. Some The Political Economy of Deposit Insurance 300,000 students visit the Bank's website each by Luc Laeven month, according to the latest statistics on web usage and traffic. 3246 The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, Youthink! is a livelier, more interactive and and Firm Size by Luc Laeven and Christopher Woodruff dynamic website that provides relevant content to young people, and is written in a more age- 3245 appropriate language. It aims at drawing young Educational Expansion: Evidence and Interpretation people in to explore the research, knowledge by Mark Gradstein and Denis Nikitin and experience gathered by Bank experts on issues like poverty, development, and conflict. 3244 Youthink! also invites young people to share Price Effects of Preferential Market Access: The with the Bank what they see around them Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Apparel Sector through personal stories, photos, etc. by Caglar Ozden and Gunjan Sharma "As a global development institution, the Bank 3243 is in a good position to engage young people Competing Concepts of Inequality in the about pressing development issues. Using the Globalization Debate by Martin Ravallion web to reach them is a natural step in the Bank's communications and advocacy efforts," 3242 says Viviana Mangiterra, World Bank Children Pro-Poor Growth: A Primer by Martin Ravallion & Youth advisor. 3241 Youthink! has separate areas for younger kids Environmental Determinants of Child Mortality in and teachers, a forum where young people Rural China: A Competing Risks Approach can share their ideas and concerns on by Limin Wang and Hanan Jacoby development, suggestions on how young people can get involved in development work, 3240 and a multimedia section with games, quizzes Inefficient Lobbying, Populism, and Oligarchy and videos. by Filipe R Campante and Francisco H G Ferreira The site will host regular live web chats with 3239 and for young people through the Speak Out The Power of Information: Evidence from a section. For a first-hand experience of the site, Newspaper Campaign to Reduce Capture go to: http://youthink.worldbank.org/ by Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson 3238 Moving People to Deliver Services: How Can the Microsoft Bhasha recognized WTO Help? By Sumanta Chaudhuri, Aaditya Mattoo World Bank's Telugu site by and Richard Self selecting it as its site of the week 3237 for the week beginning March 15, Pre-Empting Protectionism in Services: The WTO 2004. 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