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Inter-generational Access to Resources: Developing Criteria and Indicators [forest management in Indonesia]
Center for International Forestry Research, 1997Paper makes use of data from a methodological pre-test conducted in and around Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Its purpose was to contribute to the development of principles, criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management (SFM).DocumentCriteria and Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability of Forest Management : Conservation of Biodiversity
Center for International Forestry Research, 1996Paper is merely a first step in creating a suitable framework for applying a proposed a set of forest biodiversity indicators and verifiers. The framework and the indicators and verifiers require field testing, and we fully expect there to be changes resulting from the field trials, which will be reflected in major improvements in their effectiveness.DocumentRational exploitations: Economic Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests
Center for International Forestry Research, 1998Paper aims to develop economic criteria and indicators that relate to the sustainable management of tropical forests. Covers the economic dimensions and issues associated with C&I design.Paper aims to synthesize some of this‘non-C&I’ literature, with a view to distilling some key lessons that are of relevance to C&I design within the forestry sector.DocumentCriteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, CIFOR
Center for International Forestry Research, 1998Project of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to identify key elements in forest management, i.e. biophysical, biodiversity, socio-economic or policy indicators, to provide clear information on the sustainability of the benefits and services from forests.WWW site includes full text of reports from the project, newsletterDocumentChild mortality and public spending on health : how much does money matter?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997Roughly 95 percent of cross-national variation in child or infant mortality can be explained by a country's per capita income, the distribution of income, the extent of women's education, the level of ethnic fragmentation, and the predominant religion. Public spending on health has relatively little impact.DocumentStabilization, adjustment and growth prospects in transition economies
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997DocumentSpatial poverty traps?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997Can location make the difference between growth and contraction in living standards for otherwise identical households? Apparently so. Evidence of spatial poverty traps strengthens the case for investing in the geographic capital of poor people. Can place of residence make the difference between growth and contraction in living standards for otherwise identical households?DocumentEconomic reform and progress in Latin America and the Caribbean
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997The paper examines the experience in structural reform in five areas—governance, international trade, financial markets, labor markets, and the generation and use of public resources—in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It develops quantitative indicators for the policy reforms and for their outcomes.DocumentThe determinants of agricultural production : a cross-country analysis
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997Capital is important to agricultural production, so policies that improve access to agricultural capital will facilitate growth, if the capital is used efficiently. In this analysis of capital's role in agricultural production, a new construction of data on capital allowed Mundlak, Larson, and Butzer to advance the cross-country study of production functions.