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Economic aspects of privatization programs / VERNON, Raymond
World Bank; 1987 - 14p.
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Technological Development : the historical experience / Vernon, Raymond
During the past few decades a considerable number of developing countries have managed to chalk up impressive records of social and economic growth. In some cases rich endowments of raw materials have helped in the process. For the most part, however, success has depended on the capacity of the people in the developing country to absorb and apply t [...]
World Bank; 1989 - 37p.
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Key factors in the application of industrial technology in developing countries / VERNON, Raymond
WORLD BANK/EDI; 1988 - 15p.
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Privatizing Africa's Infrastructure : Promise and challenge / Kerf, Michel
This paper examines the promise and challenge of infrastructure privatization in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on power, telecommunications, water, rail, ports and airports. The paper places primary emphasis on mobilizing private investment in infrastructure. To realize the potential of infrastructure privatization in sub-Saharan Afr [...]
World Bank; - 99p., Bibliogr.
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Higher Education Quality Assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: status, challenges, opportunities, and promising practices / Materu, Peter
This report maps and assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance (QA) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It centers on quality assurance in degree-granting tertiary institutions, but also incorporates, where available, information on other types of tertiary education. A main finding is that structured national-level quality assurance [...]
The World Bank; 2007 - 80p. ; Ref.
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A technical approach to privatization issues: coupling projects analysis with rules of thumb / VERNON, Raymond
World Bank; EDI; 1988 - 14p.
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Twilight of the state-owned enterprise / VERNON, Raymond
World Bank; EDI; 1988 - 17p.
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Another American century? The United States and the world after 2000 / GUYATTE, Nicholas
Zed Books; 2001 - 258p.
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Job Training for Women : the promise and limits of Public policies / Harlan, Sharon L.(Ed)
A comprehensive review of the public system of occupational education and job training for women in the United States. Placing the treatment of women in an historical and political context, this book focuses on education and training for occupations that require less than a four-year college degree..
Temple University Press; 1989 - 558p., Index
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Agricultural development: an international perspective / MAYAMI, Yujiro/RUTTAN, Vernon W.
Johns Hopkins Press; 1971 - 367p., Index
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Moving Out of Poverty. Volume 3: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India / Narayan, Deepa
This study focuses on people who moved out of poverty during the decade from 1995 to 2005 in rural areas of four Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. It also considers people who have fallen into poverty, those who have remained poor, and some who have never been poor but who live alongside poor people in the same c [...]
World Bank; 2009 - 471p, Ref
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Social Problems in American Society: Third Edition / HENSLIN, James M.
Allyn and Bacon, INC; 1973 - 349p.
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Designing rules for demand - driver rural investment funds: the Latin American experience / Wiens, Thomas
The demand-driven rural investment fund (DRIFs) is a new mechanism for decentralizing decision-making authority and financial resources to local governments and communities to use for investments of their choice. They offer great promise for improving the design, implementation, and sustainability of rural development programs. However, to countera [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 69p.
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Economics of regulation and antitrust; Third / VISCUSI, W. Kip/VERNON, John M.
The MIT Press; 2000 - 864p
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Is Cost Recovery a Feasible Objective for Water and Electricity? The Latin American Experience / Foster, Vivien
Given the relatively small segment of the population that faces genuine affordability problems in Latin America, there appears to be a promising case for using targeted subsidies to reconcile the cost recovery objective with social protection concerns. Social tariff schemes of various kinds are already widespread in Latin America, but they suffer f [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 41p; Bib.
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American Political Economy Using Economics with Politics / MARKOVICH, Denise E./PYNN, Ronald E.
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company; 1988 - 239p
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Latin American Universities and the third Mission: Trends, Challenges and Policy options / Thorn, Kristian
Universities in Latin America are increasingly considered instruments of social and economic development and face rising expectations in regard to supplying relevant skills, undertaking applied research, and engaging in commercial activity. The paper discusses trends and challenges within Latin American universities, as well as policy options avail [...]
The World Bank; 2006 - 23p; Ref.
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Geography and development / Henderson, J. Vernon
The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, including the coexistence of economic development and underdevelopment. High-income regions are almost entirely concentrated in a few temperate zones, half of the world's GDP is produced by 15 percent of the world's population, [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 35p., Ref.
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Making Finance Work for Africa / Honohan, Patrick
Making Finance Work for Africa presents a coherent policy approach that addresses African priorities and can work in African conditions. It challenges the applicability of some conventional views on a range of issues from securities markets and banking regulation to the organization of microfinance institutions. The authors identify promising trend [...]
The World Bank; 2007 - 240p; Ref
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