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  Environmental Consideration in Tax Policy Design

  IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997

  This paper discusses how environmental considerations will affect tax policy in the decades ahead.
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  Structural and Sectoral Adjustment World Bank Experience, 1980-92

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  Adjustment lending has been the subject of considerable scrutiny and debate. Six years ago, the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) published its first review of experience with this form of lending.
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  Social Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995

  The principal message of this study is that good macroeconomic policies and measures—combined with relevant sectoral policies and appropriate public expenditure allocation—provide a favorable environment for accelerating savings and investment, both necessary for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction (Figure 1).
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  Bibliography on structural adjustment

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative, World Bank, 1998
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  CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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  FINCA: Insights from a unique approach to village banking [in Costa Rica]

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  FINCA Costa Rica has been both a leader and a non-conformist in village banking. As one of the first village banking examples in Latin America, the program offers valuable lessons to other village banking institutions. While still retaining the FINCA name, FINCA Costa Rica has split from FINCA International, the US-based NGO that is credited with developing the village banking methodology.
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  Ghana: Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility Economic and Financial Policy Framework Paper, 1998–2000

  International Monetary Fund, 1998

  This document, prepared by the Government of Ghana in collaboration with the staffs of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is the policy framework paper (PFP) for the period 1998-2000.
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  The Effects of Hyper-Inflation on Accounting Ratios Financing Corporate Growth in Industrial Economies

  International Finance Corporation, 1997

  Hyper-inflation can have a severe distortionary effect on the pattern of corporate finance which is apparent from company accounts. A simple algorithm, based upon the method of inflation accounting applied in Brazil, is developed and applied to the accounts of listed companies in Turkey for the period 1982-90.
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  Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

  International Finance Corporation, 1999

  Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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  How Businesses See Government: Responses from Private Sector Surveys in 69 Countries

  International Finance Corporation, 1997

  Report on world-wide private sector survey which included a part on government-related obstacles to doing business. Entrepreneurs were asked to rate a list of 15 obstacles for their seriousness. This paper presents the results of almost 4000 entrepreneurs’ responses in 69 countries using a detailed regional breakup into 22 regions.

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