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  • Beyond the city : the rural contribution to development (English)

    Beyond the City evaluates the contribution of rural development and policies to growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental degradation in the rest of the economy, as well as in the rural space. This...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 32333 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Foster,William,Lederman,Daniel,Perry, Guillermo E.,Valdes, Alberto,De Ferranti,David

  • Development outreach 6 (3) : scaling up poverty reduction - report on the Shanghai Conference (English)

    The three Central American countries examined in this study suffered violent internal conflicts during the 1980s but faced the 1990s largely at peace and with a renewed sense of hope. As in most post-conflict...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 26390 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wolfensohn,James D.,Humplick Ep Leautier,Ann Frances,Malhotra,Mohini,De Nevers,Michele E.,Zagha,N. Roberto,Liu Jian,Malloch Brown,Mark,Mkapa,Benjamin William,De Ferranti,David,Piazza,Alan L.,Turnava, Natia,El-Gammal,Yasser Aabdel-Aleem Awny,Fraeters,Han,Jarvis,Michael

  • Inequality in Latin America : breaking with history? (English)

    With the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality. This report explores why the region suffers from such persistent...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 28989 Document Date: April 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Walton,Michael

  • Trade for development in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)

    Beginning in the 1980s, but especially during the 1990s, Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries launched trade policy reforms that remain controversial partly due to the mixed overall economic performance...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 32095 Document Date: September 10, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Perry,Guillermo,Suescun,Rodrigo De Jesus,De Ferranti,David,Lederman,Daniel

  • From natural resources to the knowledge economy : trade and job quality (English)

    The study questions whether, after a decade of remarkable progress in trade reform, Latin America and the Caribbean really integrates into the global market, offering a promising rapid growth, and good...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 23440 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Lederman,Daniel,Maloney, William E.

  • La ventana newsletter (1) (English)

    The challenge of inclusion in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region--by David de Ferranti. Participation in development planning: strengthening Afro-Latin and indigenous organizations--Jeanette Sutherland...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 24671 Document Date: August 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Shelton H.,De Ferranti,David,Larreamendy Ricardo,Silvia Del Pilar,Sutherland,Jeanette M.,Uquillas Rodas,Jorge E.

  • Securing our future in a global economy (English)

    In the 1990s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) began to resurface from the lost decade of the 1980s after a sustained reform effort by the countries to enhance the role of market forces and increase...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20655 Document Date: June 30, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Gill,Indermit S.,Serven,Luis,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Ilahi,Nadeem,Maloney,William F.,Rama,Martin G.

  • Securing our future in a global economy : Asegurando el futuro en una economia globalizada (Spanish)

    In the 1990s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) began to resurface from the lost decade of the 1980s after a sustained reform effort by the countries to enhance the role of market forces and increase...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20655 Document Date: January 1, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Gill,Indermit S.,Serven,Luis,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Ilahi,Nadeem,Maloney,William F.,Rama,Martin G.

  • Paying for health services in developing countries : an overview (English)

    This paper presents an overview of the principal issues, problems, and policy options in financing health services in developing countries. The shortcomings of existing policies, which finance health care...

    Document Type: Staff Working Paper Report No.: SWP721 Document Date: February 28, 1985 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David

  • Paying for health services in developing countries : an overview (English)

    This paper presents an overview of the principal issues, problems, and policy options in financing health services in developing countries. The shortcomings of existing policies, which finance health care...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: GEN27 Document Date: September 30, 1984 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David

  • Strategies for paying for health services in developing countries (English)

    What should developing country governments do to cope with the present "crisis" in financing health services? This paper reviews the principal policy options available to them and examines a few selected...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: GEN25 Document Date: July 31, 1984 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David

  • Some current methodological issues in health sector and project analysis (English)

    This paper discusses the principal issues that arise when efforts are made to apply cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis in the health sector. It also reviews possible approaches to enhancing practical...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: GEN24 Document Date: December 31, 1983 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David