Over the last two decades banking systems in Latin America have been subject to considerable banking distress and numerous crises. This conference looked at proposals for preventing such episodes. The discussions covered the genesis and implications of deposit insurance cum fractional reserve...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, real revenues at the local level in Ukraine have more than halved. This report examines how fiscal resources are distributed and how managers attempt to preserve basic services in the face of such severe fiscal conatrints. We find that -- despite the...

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.