Finance & Development articles from June 1992

Finance & Development archives from June 1992

Responding to the development challenge. (World Bank Pres Lewis T. Preston talks about the Bank's efforts to serve its members) (Interview) (Interview)
June 1, 1992... World Bank President, Lewis T. Preston, speaks with Finance & Development about how the Bank is trying to meet the needs of its members, both oM and new CHANGES AT THE BANK In making the transition from being the head of a big money...

Economic challenges facing South Africa.
June 1, 1992... Following the remarkable changes in South Africa's political climate since the February 1990 release from prison of Nelson Mandela, there has been a growing public debate over the future political and economic structure of the country. The...

Transforming Poland's economy.
June 1, 1992... In January 1990, Poland embarked on a bold program of economic reform designed to stabilize an economy whose situation was rapidly deteriorating and to move toward a market economy. The stabilization objectives of the program were highly...

Economic policymaking in a federation.
June 1, 1992... The traditional structure of unitary states and centralized federations is being challenged in many parts of the world today. Federations such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have disintegrated, regions in various other countries are...

The environment for development. (environmentally responsible economic development) (The Global Environment)
June 1, 1992... In the past, development policies tended to be viewed as those that promoted growth in human activity, while environmental policies were seen as those that tried to restrict it. But in recent years, the idea of "environment as constraint" has...

Environmental problems and developing countries. (The Global Environment)
June 1, 1992... Forests. Over the past decade, developing countries have been converting or degrading their forests, coastal and inland wetlands, and other ecosystems at historically high rates. Tropical moist forests, for example, are being burned and cut at...

Protecting the ozone layer. (The Global Environment)
June 1, 1992... Over the past year, scientific evidence has continued to mount showing that stratospheric ozone layer depletion is even more serious than thought only a few years hack. This poses a major problem, because the ozone layer shields life from a...

Trade policies and the environment. (The Global Environment)
June 1, 1992... The relationship between trade and environmental policies has recently emerged as a major topic of debate. In some circles, international trading rules are seen as a limit on the ability of countries to protect national and global environmental...

Reflections on debt and the environment. (The Global Environment)
June 1, 1992... As the 1990s open, the debt crisis seems to be waning as an international development crisis while the threat of environmental degradation attracts more and more attention, and rightly so. Although standards of living fell sharply in severely...

Managing the world's forests. (includes related article) (The Global Environment)
June 1, 1992... Among the scenes which are deep& impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests.... No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved...." These words from Charles Darwin take on new meaning in today's environmentally...

Population, agriculture, and the environment in Africa. (The Global Environment)
June 1, 1992... Over the past 30 years, most of SubSaharan Africa has seen very rapid population growth, poor agricultural performance, and increasing environmental degradation. Why do these problems seem so intractable? Are they connected? Do they reinforce...

Revitalizing UNCTAD. (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
June 1, 1992... UNCTAD VIII took place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, during February 1992 against a background of dramatic and rapid changes in the global political and economic environment. The session was virtually free of the polemics and tensions...

Bangladesh: tackling the problem of poverty.
June 1, 1992... With a per capita income of about $200 in 1991, Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world. More than half the population-50 million people--live in poverty. The most vulnerable groups include small farmers, landless rural...

Colombia: economic adjustment and the poor.
June 1, 1992... In the mid-1980s, faced with a rapidly deteriorating economic and financial picture, Colombia undertook a strong adjustment program, monitored by the IMF. By putting the economy on a sounder footing, the Government felt that the population in...

The economic woman in Africa. (participation of African women in economic development)
June 1, 1992... In many traditional African cultures there is a belief that God made woman the custodian of fire, water, and earth. God Himself took charge of the fourth element of the universe-the omnipresent air. Custody of fire entailed responsibility...

Remote sensing in economic development. (satellite remonte sensing used to gain new insights into the dynamics of the natural environment)
June 1, 1992... Like a physician using his stethoscope, resource analysts can now routinely monitor the earth's vital signs from space. Silently circling thousands of miles above the earth's surface, numerous satellites, using a wide variety of instruments,...