Terms of trade shocks may slow growth, worsen the distribution of income, and raise the odds of highly disruptive currency crises. This note raises questions on how can countries cope with terms of tr...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21253Fecha: 1 de febrero de 1999Autor:
Hausmann, Ricardo
The note highlights the importance of sound intergovernmental fiscal relations, and proper regulation for successful sub-national borrowing, and illustrates the potential macroeconomic hazards of dece...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21250Fecha: 1 de enero de 1999Autor:
Ahmad, Junaid Kamal
Commodities are often at the heart of local and sometimes national economies. Commodity prices are notoriously volatile, creating instability and uncertainty for commodity-dependent developing countri...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21236Fecha: 1 de enero de 1999Autor:
Larson, Donald F. ;
Varangis, Panos
This note focuses on export processing zones as potential, useful tools in export promotion, and, outlines the general features, and objectives of these zones, highlighting country experiences, and of...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 21234Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 1998Autor:
Madani, Dorsati H.
The World Bank has helped Albania, Georgia, and Latvia measure corruption and design strategies to combat it and improve governance. This note explains how empirical surveys can inform and transform t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18572Fecha: 1 de octubre de 1998Autor:
Kaufmann, Daniel ;
Pradhan, Sanjay ;
Ryterman, Randi
Bank strategy for smaller enterprises has generally been to ease the scarcity of term finance by providing funds and improving the banking system's ability to lend to them. Thought to be labor-intensi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22967Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Buckley, Robert ;
Rodriguez, Edgard ;
Galenson, Alic
Both the recurrent nature of disaster and the availability of technological, social, and organizational remedies make disaster relief an area where mitigation--policies and actions that are intended t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22968Fecha: 30 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Parker, Ronald S. ;
Kreimer, Alcira I.
Around the world, poor households save in various forms and for various purposes. Although empirical evidence suggests that the poor would deposit if appropriate financial institutions and savings fac...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18655Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Mukherjee, Joyita ;
Wisniwski, Sylvia
Backed by strong support from international institutions and the donor community, including five structural adjustment operations from the World Bank, the Aquino and Ramos administrations have secured...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27744Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Zanini, Gianni
Consultative group to assist the poorest (CGAP) was formally constituted on June 27, 1995, for a three-year period, with the participation of 10 bilateral and multilateral member donors. Its mission i...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18596Fecha: 1 de septiembre de 1998Autor:
Malhotra, Mohini ;
Mukherjee, Joyita
Commercial banks have been so notably absent from micro-finance. In their absence, a large number of non-governmental organizations and other specialized institutions have created financial technologi...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18627Fecha: 1 de agosto de 1998Autor:
Graham, Douglas ;
Valenzuela, Liza ;
Baydas, Mayada
This economic policy note examines the disparity in per capita incomes of both backward and advanced regions in developing countries, and explores a number of possible causes and policy intervention t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 18571Fecha: 1 de julio de 1998Autor:
Fallon, Peter ;
Lampart, Camille
Close collaboration between the government and the international community, and strong government ownership, has given Uganda's recovery the reputation of a "model reconstruction." While the Bank has ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22965Fecha: 30 de junio de 1998Autor:
Kreimer, Alcira I.
The World Bank's response to post-conflict needs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) was early and comprehensive. Its role in reconstruction and economic recovery is widely perceived to have been successf...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22964Fecha: 30 de junio de 1998Autor:
Kreimer, Alcira I.
The World Bank's non-lending services--its analytic and advisory services, and its leadership in donor coordination--have supported the reconstruction and recovery of El Salvador. Several high-quality...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 22966Fecha: 30 de junio de 1998Autor:
Kreimer, Alcira I.
The World Bank has increased the volume of its lending to post-conflict countries by more than 800 percent since 1980, with reconstruction operations touching every region and economic sector. But the...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 28602Fecha: 20 de junio de 1998Autor:
Campbell-Page, Elizabeth
A Gallup survey of Borrowing Countries' Views, and The Effectiveness of the Bank's Appraisal Process : An OED Study, by Alain Barbu, reviewed the Bank's project preparation and appraisal process. Bot...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27782Fecha: 1 de junio de 1998Autor:
Barbu, Alain A.
The results of World Bank operations have been improving steadily since 1994 and may soon reach the highest performance levels of the past 15 years, according to OED's Annual Review of Development Eff...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27786Fecha: 1 de junio de 1998Autor:
Evans, Alison Margaret
An OED study, Financial Sector Reform : A Review of World Bank Assistance, March 1998 by Nicolas Mathieu, endorses an emerging wisdom -sectoral reform is a long, complex process that requires a sustai...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27787Fecha: 1 de junio de 1998Autor:
Mathieu, Nicolas
When the World Bank approved a $70 million loan in 1988 to help Hungary boost agricultural exports, Hungarian economy was expected to gradually become more liberal and open. But just two years after t...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 27798Fecha: 1 de junio de 1998Autor:
Meerman, Jacob P.
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