Documents & Reports
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Guidelines : formulation and implementation of national action plans to combat illegal logging and other forest crime - draft for discussion (English)
Illegal activities in the forest sector, especially illegal logging, have become a major topic on the global forestry agenda. Globally, it is estimated that that illegal logging in public lands alone causes...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 56160 Document Date: June 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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A manager's guide to monitoring and evaluating urban development programs : a handbook for program managers and researchers (Chinese)
This document is a comprehensive but easily understood handbook for urban policy makers, managers, and evaluation practitioners in developing countries. It provides guidance through all stages of the design...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP54 Document Date: September 15, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bamberger,J. Michael,Hewitt, Eleanor
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Kazakhstan : rangelands in transition - the resource, the users, and sustainable use (English)
Despite Kazakhstan being the sixth largest country worldwide in terms of the size of its grasslands, with an estimated 6 million people (40 of the population) dependent directly or indirectly on these...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 31384 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alilmaev, Ilja I.,Schillhorn-Van Veen,Tjaart W.,Utkelov,Bulat
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Kazakhstan : rangelands in transition - the resource, the users, and sustainable use (Russian)
Despite Kazakhstan being the sixth largest country worldwide in terms of the size of its grasslands, with an estimated 6 million people (40 of the population) dependent directly or indirectly on these...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 31384 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alilmaev, Ilja I.,Schillhorn-Van Veen,Tjaart W.,Utkelov,Bulat
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Improving rural mobility : options for developing motorized and nonmotorized transport in rural areas : Mejora de la movilidad rural : opciones para el desarrollo del transporte motorizado y no motorizado en las areas rurales (Spanish)
Many inhabitants of rural areas in developing countries lack adequate and affordable access to transport infrastructure and services. Improving rural people's access to essential services requires better...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP525 Document Date: May 1, 2004 Author: Starkey, Paul,Ellis,Simon David,Hine, John,Ternell,Anna
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Treasury reference model (Chinese)
The Treasury Reference Model (TRM) gives guidelines for the design of automated treasury systems for government aiming at a) authorities within government and their advisors who are engaged in planning...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP505 Document Date: November 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hashim, Ali,Allan, Bill
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Institutional elements of tax design and reform (English)
This is a collection of papers that study the constraints on fiscal systems, imposed by problems of institutions, administration, and incentives in developing, and post-Socialist economies. Chapter two...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP539 Document Date: January 31, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: McLaren, John [editor],Kobb, Dan,Gang, Ira,Das G
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Coping with the cold - heating strategies for Eastern Europe and Central Asia's urban poor (English)
Heating is a critical issue for the livelihoods of Eastern Europe and Central Asia's people. The region's gold climate, the legacy of central planning, and the drop in household incomes over the past 10...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP529 Document Date: January 31, 2003 Author: Lampietti,Julian A.,Meyer,Anke S.
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Expenditure policies toward EU accession (English)
The report discusses the set of public expenditure policies that might be conducive to rapid growth, and convergence among Central and Eastern European countries. It was left to others' complementary contributions...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP533 Document Date: January 31, 2003 Author: Funck,Bernard G.
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Generating public sector resources to finance sustainable development - revenue and incentive effects (English)
The paper discusses how developing countries can generate some of the resources they need for sustainable development. Developing country government already spend significant amounts of resources on a...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP538 Document Date: December 31, 2002 Author: Pagiola,Stefano P.,Martin-Hurtado,Roberto,Shyamsundar,Priya,Mani,Muthukumara S.,Silva,Patricia
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Poverty and ethnicity - a cross-country study of ROMA poverty in Central Europe (English)
ROMA are the main poverty risk groups in many of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. However, information on their living conditions, and the characteristics of their poverty is scarce, fragmented...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP531 Document Date: November 30, 2002 Author: Revenga,Ana L.,Ringold,Dena,Tracy,William Martin
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Transport policies for the Euro-Mediterranean free-trade area : an agenda for multimodal transport reform in the Southern Mediterranean (English)
This study argues that the 15 European Union (EU) countries and their 12 Mediterranean Partners should complement their Euro-Mediterranean free-trade area for industrial goods with a common transport space...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP527 Document Date: August 31, 2002 Author: Muller-Jentsch,Daniel
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Food and agricultural policy in Russia - progress to date and the road forward (Russian)
The overall finding of this report is that much agricultural policy is made at the regional level, and here the explicit price, and trade policy distortions are significantly worse than at the federal...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP523 Document Date: July 31, 2002 Author: Csaki, Csaba,Nash, John,Matusevich, Vera,Kray, H
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Food and agricultural policy in Russia - progress to date and the road forward (English)
The overall finding of this report is that much agricultural policy is made at the regional level, and here the explicit price, and trade policy distortions are significantly worse than at the federal...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP523 Document Date: July 31, 2002 Author: Csaki, Csaba,Nash, John,Matusevich, Vera,Kray, H
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Poverty in Albania : a qualitative assessment (English)
This qualitative assessment of poverty in Albania seeks to deepen the understanding of poverty in the country, first, by involving poor Albanians in a process of exploring the causes, nature, extent of...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP520 Document Date: March 31, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Soto, Hermine,Gordon, Peter,Gedeshi, Ilir,Sin
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Institutional reform for irrigation and drainage - proceedings of a World Bank Workshop (English)
The report consists of an introduction, and three separate, but inter-related parts. The introduction provides an overview of the workshop discussions, arguing that the irrigation sector is blamed for...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP524 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Author: Gonzalez, Fernando J.,Salman, Salman M.A. [edito
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Improving rural mobility : options for developing motorized and nonmotorized transport in rural areas (English)
Many inhabitants of rural areas in developing countries lack adequate and affordable access to transport infrastructure and services. Improving rural people's access to essential services requires better...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP525 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Author: Starkey, Paul,Ellis,Simon David,Hine, John,Ternell,Anna
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Furthering judicial education - proceedings of the Conference of Judicial Schools in Latin America (English)
The conference meeting was organized by the Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala, in partnership with the World Bank, where judicial school directors, judges, practitioners, law students, and officials...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP528 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Author: Malik, Waleed Haider,Larios Ochaita, Carlos Este
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Services trade in the Balkans (English)
This study aims at providing an overview of policies affecting services trade in seven countries of the Balkan region, and stresses the growing importance of services trade. The service sectors, particularly...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP530 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Author: Michalopoulos, Constantine,Panousopoulos, Vasile
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Forest concession policies and revenue systems - country experience and policy changes for sustainable tropical forestry (English)
Forest concessions have been an important element of forestry, and forest management in many countries, including many developing countries. More often than not, the concessions experience of these countries...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WTP522 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gray,John Andrew