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  • Rural finance : issues, designs, and best practices (Arabic)

    This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17094 Document Date: January 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Benjamin, McDonald P., Jr.,Piprek,Gerda Lize,Yaron,Jacob


  • Rural development - from vision to action (Chinese)

    This rural sector strategy outlines the steps the Bank and its partners must take to spur rural development. Key elements of the strategy include (a) taking a broad rural focus, as opposed to a narrow...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17388 Document Date: April 1, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ayres,Wendy Schreiber,Mccalla,Alexander F.

  • Voices of the poor : poverty and social capital in Tanzania (English)

    This study reveals the power and utility of participatory methods for policy research. It demonstrates practices and processes that can tap the knowledge the poor have about their own reality. By comparing...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17387 Document Date: October 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Narayan,Deepa

  • Bioengineering of crops : report of the World Bank Panel on Transgenic Crops (English)

    This is a report of the panel commissioned by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to assess the potential of crop bioengineering as well as the inherent risks. The report...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17067 Document Date: October 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Kendall, Henry W.,Beachy, Roger,Eisner, Thomas,Gould, Fred,Herdt,Robert William,Raven, Peter H.,Schell, Jozef S.,Swaminathan, M. S.

  • Rural development - from vision to action (English)

    This rural sector strategy outlines the steps the Bank and its partners must take to spur rural development. Key elements of the strategy include (a) taking a broad rural focus, as opposed to a narrow...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17388 Document Date: October 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ayres,Wendy Schreiber,Mccalla,Alexander F.

  • Rural finance : issues, designs, and best practices (English)

    This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17094 Document Date: September 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Benjamin, McDonald P., Jr.,Piprek,Gerda Lize,Yaron,Jacob


  • Five years after Rio : innovations in environmental policy (English)

    If development is to become sustainable, human behavior must change. Corporations, consumers, and public agencies all need to switch away from activities that degrade the environment and invest instead...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 16703 Document Date: June 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:


  • Advancing sustainable development : the World Bank and Agenda 21 (English)

    It has now been 5 years since most of the countries of the world committed to the policies and programs for environmentally sustainable development laid out at the Rio Earth Summit in Agenda 21. Along...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 16702 Document Date: June 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author:

  • Five years after Rio : innovations in environmental policy (Chinese)

    If development is to become sustainable, human behavior must change. Corporations, consumers, and public agencies all need to switch away from activities that degrade the environment and invest instead...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 16703 Document Date: June 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Integrated pest management ; strategies and policies for effective implementation (Russian)

    Efforts to implement environmentally sound pest management strategies have often been impeded by government policies and regulations that inadvertently promote the use of pest control over more sustainable...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 16681 Document Date: May 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Joffe,Steen Robert,Umali-Deininger, Dina L.,Cooke,Sanjiva,Schillhorn-Van Veen,Tjaart W.,Forno,Douglas A.

  • Integrated pest management ; strategies and policies for effective implementation (English)

    Efforts to implement environmentally sound pest management strategies have often been impeded by government policies and regulations that inadvertently promote the use of pest control over more sustainable...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 16681 Document Date: May 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Schillhorn-Van Veen,Tjaart W.,Forno,Douglas A.,Joffe,Steen Robert,Umali-Deininger, Dina L.,Cooke,Sanjiva


  • Guidelines for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (English)

    In both developed and developing countries the coastal zone is likely to undergo the most profound change in the near future. Already more than 60 percent of the world's population lives within 60 kilometers...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 15957 Document Date: August 31, 1996 Disclosure Status: Author: Post, Jan C.,Lundin, Carl G. [editors]

  • Enabling the safe use of biotechnology : principles and practice (English)

    This publication describes the enabling environment required in developing countries to acquire powerful new tools in biotechnology and to assess their potential usefulness. It is designed to provide a...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 15902 Document Date: July 31, 1996 Disclosure Status: Author: Doyle, John J.,Persley, Gabrielle J. [editors]