Income risk, coping strategies, and safety nets; by Stefan Dercon. The gender implications of public sector downsizing: the reform program of Vietnam; by Martin Rama. Trade, foreign direct investment...
Many transition and developing economies have reduced direct public involvement in the production and trade of seed and other agricultural inputs. This trend creates opportunities for farmers to realize...
International knowledge flows and economic performance - a review of the evidence; by Giorgio Barba Navaretti and David G. Tarr. Do trade patterns and technology flows affect productivity growth? By Wolfgang...
Developing countries should create a registration process that will make it easier to introduce new zero- and low-risk pest management inputs, thus giving farmers alternatives to more dangerous broad spectrum...
This volume presents recommendations and papers presented in an international workshop on seed policies organized in 1995 by the World Bank. Papers and discussions at the workshop identified reforms to...
This transition newsletter includes some of the following headings: why is Ukraine's economy, and Russia's not growing?; The Bank should prioritize recovery; retraining economics lecturers in Russia; North...
Некоторые из заголовков этого номера экономического бюллетеня "Трансформация": Почему экономика Украины – и России тоже – не развивается?; Приоритетом Банка должен быть экономический подъем; Переподготовка...
The purpose of this paper is to suggest ways in which pesticide regulations in developing countries can be redesigned to promote low-risk pest management systems. The term 'low-risk pest management' encompasses...
Market liberalization in Ukraine - to regain a lost pillar of economic reform. How to encourage government decentralization - interesting ideas for redirecting lending. How to rejuvenate a graying pension...
This paper describes tariff, and non-tariff import barriers on seeds, and fertilizers in World Bank client countries, showing that such barriers block private introduction of new agricultural technology...