Documents & Reports
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Empowering Farmers to Adopt Agricultural Recommendations (English)
A quick glance at agricultural input use data from developing countries reveals a large dispersion in take up of improved inputs and practices across farms. One explanation is that this is a problem resulting...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 152979 Document Date: September 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Private activity in infrastructure in East Asia and Pacific declined for third consecutive year in 2010 (English)
In 2010, 36 infrastructure projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closing in seven low and middle-income countries, involving investment commitments of US$10.9 billion. Infrastructure...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 66327 Document Date: August 31, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Parulekar,Koustubh
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Missing food : the case of postharvest grain losses in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)
Rising and increasingly volatile food prices spiking for the second time in three years combined with heightened uncertainty about future prospects for food availabilities, are raising alarm about food...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 64930 Document Date: May 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morgan,Nancy Ruth,Larson,Gunnar
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AML/CFT : strengthening financial inclusion and integrity : Normes LAB/CFT : ameliorer l'inclusion et l'integrite financieres (French)
This Focus Note presents key findings of a 2008 report on implementing Financial Action task Force (FATF) standards in developing countries The Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening(FIRST) Initiative...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56622 Document Date: August 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Isern,Jennifer,De Koker,Louis
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AML/CFT : strengthening financial inclusion and integrity (English)
This Focus Note presents key findings of a 2008 report on implementing Financial Action task Force (FATF) standards in developing countries The Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening(FIRST) Initiative...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56622 Document Date: August 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Isern,Jennifer,De Koker,Louis
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Ghana - Kanye Ndu Bowei: an indigenous philosophical context for conflict management (English)
This article intends to summarize findings from a study carried out by the author between the winter of 1995 and spring of 1996 among the Buems on the Ghana side of the Ghana-Togo border. The objective...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31255 Document Date: May 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Ghana - Kanye Ndu Bowei: an indigenous philosophical context for conflict management : Ghana - Kanye Ndu Bowi: Un cadre philosophique autochtone pour la gestion des conflits (French)
This article intends to summarize findings from a study carried out by the author between the winter of 1995 and spring of 1996 among the Buems on the Ghana side of the Ghana-Togo border. The objective...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31255 Document Date: May 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Hurricane Mitch - the gender effects of coping and crises (English)
Decentralization holds a lot of promise, but whether it improves public service delivery depends on the institutional arrangements governing its implementation. Several conditions must be met before the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24840 Document Date: September 30, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Correia,Maria C.
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Why have trade promotion organizations failed, and how can they be revitalized? (English)
The proclaimed priority of exports contained in many development plans, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, and similar documents will remain hollow if it is not supported by forceful reforms that counter...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24843 Document Date: September 30, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dewulf,Luc Henri Francoise Corneel
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Hurricane Mitch - the gender effects of coping and crises (Chinese)
Decentralization holds a lot of promise, but whether it improves public service delivery depends on the institutional arrangements governing its implementation. Several conditions must be met before the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24840 Document Date: September 30, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Correia,Maria C.
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Why have trade promotion organizations failed, and how can they be revitalized? (Chinese)
The proclaimed priority of exports contained in many development plans, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, and similar documents will remain hollow if it is not supported by forceful reforms that counter...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24843 Document Date: September 30, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dewulf,Luc Henri Francoise Corneel
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Hurricane Mitch - the gender effects of coping and crises : El huracan Mitch: los efectos de la respuesta y de la crisis segun el genero (Spanish)
Decentralization holds a lot of promise, but whether it improves public service delivery depends on the institutional arrangements governing its implementation. Several conditions must be met before the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24840 Document Date: September 1, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Correia,Maria C.
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Learning from the past : India Uttar Pradesh Sodic Lands Reclamation Project (English)
India's Uttar Pradesh Sodic Lands Reclamation Project has two objectives. First, it seeks to reverse the decline of productivity through sustainable reclamation of sodic lands. Second, it is intended to...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 27406 Document Date: March 1, 2001 Author: Kuehnast,Kathleen Rae
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Private power financing : from project finance to corporate finance (English)
Project financing of independent power producers (IPPs) may seem the only solution to the intractable problem of getting private credit to the power sector. In the developing world, however, the public-private...
Document Type: Viewpoint Report No.: 16916 Document Date: October 31, 1995 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jechoutek,Karl Georg,Lamech,Ranjit J.