Many developing countries enforce seed regulations and other policies that obstruct private companies from operating and delivering new technology. This volume presents recommendations and selected papers from an international workshop organized by the World Bank in 1995 to review seed policies...

This paper presents a framework for evaluating the level and composition of public expenditures, illustrated by sectoral and country examples.

This report seeks to provide a brief overview of agricultural economies in the region. It identifies where the agrarian economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia stand today, the direction in which they are heading, the rate at which production can be expected to recover, and how this...

Decentralization and democratization in the Latin America and the Caribbean region have produced a wave of innovations on the local government level upgrading professional staffs, raising taxes and user fees, delivering better services, and mobilizing participation in public choice-making. This...

In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. Using conventional indicators as a guide what are Bangladesh's prospects in sharply accelerating growth? What lessons can be derived from the experience of East Asian countries especially with repect to nonfarm development? Can these lessons be...