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  • At the Front Line : Reflections on the Bank’s Work with China over Forty Years (1980-2020) (Chinese)

    This volume contains written contributions from some of the key actors involved on both the Chinese and the World Bank sides in the past four decades of partnership. It is clear that the World Bank from...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 162034 Document Date: May 20, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Raiser,Martin,Koch-Weser,Caio K.,Lim,Edwin R.,Burki,Shahid Javed,Bottelier,Pieter P.,Hope,Nicholas C.,Huang,Yukon,Dollar,David R.,Rohland,Klaus,Hofman,Bert,Yang,Shaolin,Zhang,Wencai,Chen,Shixin,Yang,Yingming,Yu,Yee Man,Zhongjing, Wang,Chang,Junhong,Kwakwa,Victoria

  • A growth and adjustment strategy for Pakistan (English)

    This paper is divided into four sections. The first provides a quick overview of the current political and economic situation, focusing in particular on the stagnation of growth and deepening macroeconomic...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 86252 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Hasan,Parvez

  • Changing perceptions and altered reality : emerging economies in the 1990s (English)

    This book deals with the perceptions of the author, Shahid Javed Burki, on world economies and the World Bank's work with them. It is complied from various speeches and discourses given by the author during...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20035 Document Date: January 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed

  • Beyond the center - decentralizing the State (English)

    The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19636 Document Date: July 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry,Guillermo,Dillinger,William R.,Griffin,Charles C.,Gutman,Jeffrey S.,Rojas,Fernando,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Winkler,Donald R.

  • Beyond the center - decentralizing the State : Mas alla del centro - la descentralizacion del estado (Spanish)

    The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19636 Document Date: July 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry,Guillermo,Dillinger,William R.,Griffin,Charles C.,Gutman,Jeffrey S.,Rojas,Fernando,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Winkler,Donald R.

  • Beyond the Washington Consensus : institutions matter (English)

    This report examines the precise nature of the required institutional reforms needed to achieve higher sustained rates of growth and to make a dent in poverty reduction and provides a framework for their...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18428 Document Date: September 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry, Guillermo E.

  • Latin America after Mexico : quickening the pace (English)

    This report introduces a new World Bank publication which will review and analyze on a yearly basis the most important developments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) during the preceding 12 months...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 15795 Document Date: June 30, 1996 Disclosure Status: Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Edwards,Sebastian

  • Transition 4 (9) (English)

    Unemployment in Eastern Europe: social disease or economic necessity? A new wave of structural reforms in China - managing unleasing of market forces. Rich menu from China's reform kitchen. Hungary needs...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 16449 Document Date: December 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Commander,Simon John,Burki,Shahid Javed,Soos, Karoly Attila,Eberstadt, Nicholas

  • Transition 4 (4) (English)

    Taming China's wild west - Xinjiang, a region rediscovered Interview with John Flemming of the EBRD - responsibilities when output and hopes fall in eastern Europe. The Baltics: union or free trade agreement?...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 16444 Document Date: May 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Flemming, John,Sorsa,Piritta,Amsden, Alice H.

  • Developing Mongolia (English)

    This paper describes the main characteristics of the Mongolian economy, delineates the reforms that are being introduced for the purposes of adjustment and structural change and finally defines the nature...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP145 Document Date: January 31, 1992 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Yusuf,Shahid,Burki,Shahid Javed

  • The sectoral foundations of China's development (English)

    This volume is, in the best sense of the term, a collective effort. It was decided to make available to a wider public the fruits of the World Bank's sectoral explorations in China. One by one the various...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP148 Document Date: January 31, 1992 Disclosure Status: Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Yusuf, Shahid [editors]

  • Bank's world (English)

    This Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: China is changing by Shahid Javed Burki; are you pestophobic? By Mary Lou Ingram; Eugene Black at 90 by Jill Roessner; redefining privatization...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 58666 Document Date: May 1, 1988 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Drattell,Alan M.,George,Morallina Fanwar,Gillette,Michael James,Hammond,Ann W.,Ingram,Mary Lou,May, Donald,ROESSNER, J. JILL

  • Bank's world (English)

    This Bank's world newsletter includes some of the following issue: beyond the rhetoric, by S.Javed Burki and David Bock; engineering development, by Marjorie Messiter; the bank's business briefing, by...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 58610 Document Date: May 1, 1986 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bock,David R.,Burki,Shahid Javed,Cheetham,Russell J.,Drattell,Alan M.,Karaosmanoglu,Attila,MESSITER, MARJORIE W.,Roberts,Lesley Ann