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The benefits of growth for Indonesian workers
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996Does improving the conditions of workers in Indonesia require government interventions?Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 years.DocumentIs Ethiopia's debt sustainable?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995The international development community has begun to recognize that options aimed at providing debt relief to countries where debt is not sustainable need to be seriously explored. When is debt not sustainable?DocumentAdjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico.DocumentNontariff barriers Africa faces : what did the Uruguay Round accomplish, and what remains to be done?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995African countries should generally benefit from the Uruguay Round liberalization of non tariff barriers, although some countries may suffer losses. The main danger could be failure to undertake the domestic reforms needed to take advantage of the more competitive trade environment.Perhaps the major accomplishment of the Uruguay Round is agreements reached on non tariff barriers (NTBs).DocumentDecentralising Aid and its Management in Uganda: Lessons for Capacity-building at the Local Level
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999DocumentStructural Adjustment and the Health Care Sector in India: some policy issues in financing
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997The paper examines different strategies for the financing of health care in India, where the effect of structural adjustment has been to undermine the traditional resource base. The relative merits of user fees, insurance schemes, administrative decentralisation and partial privatisation are discussed.DocumentGIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report
Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1996The GIS technology transfer approach described here addresses the issue of sustainable technology transfer in a development setting. It was prompted by a growing discontent within the development community, and the Bureau for Africa, USAID in particular, with the high cost and inconsistent results of GIS technology transfer projects in the area of environmental management.DocumentTargeting assistance to the poor and food insecure: a literature review
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1995This report is a comprehensive review of the literature and summary of “targeting” programs that deliver food assistance to the poor and food insecure. It provides definitions, ra-tionales for targeting, analysis of benefits and costs (political and administrative) of various targeting mechanisms, and descriptions of targeting methods.DocumentUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994.Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and EnglishPages