Documents & Reports
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Better health in Africa : experience and lessons learned (English)
This book sets forth a vision of health improvement that challenges African countries and their external partners to rethink current health strategies. The report stresses positive experiences in sub-Saharan...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13488 Document Date: September 30, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Better health in Africa : experience and lessons learned (Vol. 2) : Ameliorer la sante en Afrique - resume analytique (French)
This book sets forth a vision of health improvement that challenges African countries and their external partners to rethink current health strategies. The report stresses positive experiences in sub-Saharan...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13488 Document Date: August 1, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Emergency assistance program for the Occupied Territories (English)
This report outlines an Emergency Assistance Program (EAP) of priority investments and technical assistance to the Occupied Territories (OT) over the three years 1994-1996. The program is intended to provide...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13019 Document Date: April 30, 1994
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Better health in Africa : experience and lessons learned : Para um saude melhor em Africa : as licoes da experiencia (Portuguese)
This book sets forth a vision of health improvement that challenges African countries and their external partners to rethink current health strategies. The report stresses positive experiences in sub-Saharan...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13488 Document Date: January 1, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Better health in Africa : experience and lessons learned : Pour une meilleure sante en Afrique : les lecons de l'experience (French)
This book sets forth a vision of health improvement that challenges African countries and their external partners to rethink current health strategies. The report stresses positive experiences in sub-Saharan...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13488 Document Date: January 1, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Trends in developing economies 1990 (English)
This report presents brief analytic descriptions of recent economic performance and trends in individual developing countries for the majority of World Bank borrowing countries and economic and social...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 9216 Document Date: October 31, 1990 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Environmental management and economic development (English)
Environmental degradation threatens the productivity of agricultural and forest resources on which developing countries depend for their economic growth. The problem is most pervasive in the poorest countries...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13354 Document Date: July 31, 1989 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schramm, Gunter,Warford, Jeremy J. [editors],EXT
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Agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa (English)
The slow pace of agricultural mechanization in Africa has long been a puzzle. This book begins to solve the puzzle by looking at the conditions in sub-Saharan Africa that have led to only sporadic use...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 10219 Document Date: January 31, 1988 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bigot, Yves,Binswanger,Hans P.,Pingali,Prabhu
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Agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa : La mecanisation agricole et l'evolution des systemes agraires en Afrique subsaharienne (French)
The slow pace of agricultural mechanization in Africa has long been a puzzle. This book begins to solve the puzzle by looking at the conditions in sub-Saharan Africa that have led to only sporadic use...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 10219 Document Date: January 1, 1988 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bigot, Yves,Binswanger,Hans P.,Pingali,Prabhu
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Financing education in developing countries : an exploration of policy options : Le financement de l'education dans les pays en developpement : les options (French)
With the current constrained financial conditions in many developing countries, it is essential to develop and utilize new methods of financing education to ensure efficiency and greater social equity...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 8226 Document Date: April 1, 1987 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tan,Jee-Peng,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Psacharopoulos,George
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Financing education in developing countries : an exploration of policy options : El financiamiento de la educacion en los paises en desarrollo : opciones de politica (Spanish)
With the current constrained financial conditions in many developing countries, it is essential to develop and utilize new methods of financing education to ensure efficiency and greater social equity...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 8226 Document Date: April 1, 1987 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tan,Jee-Peng,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Psacharopoulos,George
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Livestock development in Latin America (English)
In Latin America - a region of abundant grasslands, skewed landholding patterns, and relatively low population densities - livestock products have been unusually important, both as exports and as consumer...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13359 Document Date: December 31, 1986 Author: Jarvis,Lovell S.
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Financing education in developing countries : an exploration of policy options (English)
With the current constrained financial conditions in many developing countries, it is essential to develop and utilize new methods of financing education to ensure efficiency and greater social equity...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 8226 Document Date: July 31, 1986 Author: Tan,Jee-Peng,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Psacharopoulos,George
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Diversified secondary education and development : evidence from Colombia and Tanzania : Una evaluacion de la educacion media diversificada en Colombia (Spanish)
Secondary schools that offer prevocational courses in conjunction with traditional ones have flourished over the past decade in many developing countries. In fact, interest in these "diversified" schools...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 11183 Document Date: April 1, 1986 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Psacharopoulos,George,Loxley, William
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Linking macroeconomic and agricultural policies for adjustment with growth : the Colombian experience (English)
In the early 1980s, Colombia's economic performance slowed. During 1983-84, when this study was completed, Colombia's external accounts were facing significant difficulties. Faced with growing balance...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13372 Document Date: January 1, 1986 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Thomas,Vinod
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Linking macroeconomic and agricultural policies for adjustment with growth : the Colombian experience : Macroeconomia y la politica agropecuaria para ajustar el crecimiento - la experiencia Colmbiana (Spanish)
In the early 1980s, Colombia's economic performance slowed. During 1983-84, when this study was completed, Colombia's external accounts were facing significant difficulties. Faced with growing balance...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13372 Document Date: January 1, 1986 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Thomas,Vinod
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Diversified secondary education and development : evidence from Colombia and Tanzania (English)
Secondary schools that offer prevocational courses in conjunction with traditional ones have flourished over the past decade in many developing countries. In fact, interest in these "diversified" schools...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 11183 Document Date: December 31, 1985 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Psacharopoulos,George,Loxley, William
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Dollar GNPs of the USSR and Eastern Europe (English)
Centrally planned economies (CPEs) account for about a third of the world's population and about a fourth of its output. In view of their importance in the world economy, they need to be included in international...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 11182 Document Date: December 31, 1985 Author: Marer, Paul
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Estimating crop production in development projects : methods and their limitations (English)
This booklet examines the relative merits and limitations of various methods for measuring crop production on smallholder farms in agriculture and rural development projects. It focuses in particular on...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 13389 Document Date: June 30, 1985 Author: Poate, C. D.,Casley,Dennis J.
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The economics of tin mining in Bolivia (English)
This study brings together reliable and consistent data on the mining sector. It analyzes tin mining activities over the past eighty years, and includes production and price data. It provides details about...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 8963 Document Date: May 31, 1985 Author: Ayub, Mahmood Ali,Hashimoto,Hideo