Development Co-operation Report 2009

Development Co-operation Report 2009
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-02-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9264055053

This edition of OECD's annual Development Co-operation Report provides key statistics and analysis on the latest trends in international aid.

Accessions List, Eastern Africa

Accessions List, Eastern Africa
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya
Publisher:
Total Pages: 926
Release: 1990
Genre: Africa, Eastern
ISBN:

Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year.

World Development Report 1994

World Development Report 1994
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780195209921

World Development Report 1994 examines the link between infrastructure and development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure services. In recent decades, developing countries have made substantial investments in infrastructure, achieving dramatic gains for households and producers by expanding their access to services such as safe water, sanitation, electric power, telecommunications, and transport. Even more infrastructure investment and expansion are needed in order to extend the reach of services - especially to people living in rural areas and to the poor. But as this report shows, the quantity of investment cannot be the exclusive focus of policy. Improving the quality of infrastructure service also is vital. Both quantity and quality improvements are essential to modernize and diversify production, help countries compete internationally, and accommodate rapid urbanization. The report identifies the basic cause of poor past performance as inadequate institutional incentives for improving the provision of infrastructure. To promote more efficient and responsive service delivery, incentives need to be changed through commercial management, competition, and user involvement. Several trends are helping to improve the performance of infrastructure. First, innovation in technology and in the regulatory management of markets makes more diversity possible in the supply of services. Second, an evaluation of the role of government is leading to a shift from direct government provision of services to increasing private sector provision and recent experience in many countries with public-private partnerships is highlighting new ways to increase efficiency and expand services. Third, increased concern about social and environmental sustainability has heightened public interest in infrastructure design and performance.

Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions 1987

Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions 1987
Author: International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 571
Release: 1987-08-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0939934973

This report discusses developments in the international exchange rate and restrictive systems. The period covered by this report is 1986 and, for major developments, the first quarter of 1987. The report highlights that in 1986, protectionist pressures for trade restrictions in the industrial countries continued to be fueled by large and widening bilateral trade imbalances, persistently high levels of unemployment, and a widespread slowing of economic growth. In spite of continued resistance by some governments, quantitative restrictions were tightened in many industrial countries. There were nevertheless several positive developments in the trade and exchange system.

Exploited Earth

Exploited Earth
Author: Teresa Hayter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134070659

How do ''types'' of aid differ? Why are there different kinds? When is one more appropriate than another? How can you tell ''good'' aid from ''bad''? Friends of the Earth commissioned Teresa Hayter, author of Aid as Imperialism and Aid: Rhetoric and Reality, to examine Britain's aid policy and practice, paying particular attention to its effects on the worlds forests. In this book she describes the history of the different forms of aid and their effects. On behalf of one of the West's most effective environmental lobbies, Exploited Earth show how and why British aid needs to change. Originally published in 1989

Transforming Water Management in South Africa

Transforming Water Management in South Africa
Author: Barbara Schreiner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2011-12-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9048193672

One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, the introduction of the protection of environmental flows, and major shifts in charging for water use and in the provision of free basic water. Over ten years of implementation of these policy and legislative changes mean that valu­able lessons have already been learned and useful experiences gained in the challenge of effective water resources management and water services provision in a middle income country.