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Showing items 1612 through 1620 of 73379.The Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP)
was created in 1974 with two primary objectives. The first
is the elimination of onchocerciasis as a public health
problem and as an obstacle to socioeconomic development
In Uganda, efforts to decentralize the
management of the extension service and to launch the
village participation in land development exercise have led
to a number of issues, outcomes and expectations. This
The largest hydrographic basin in the
world, the Amazon is the source of 20 percent of all the
fresh water on the planet. The Basin covers some 600 million
hectares in nine countries, over half of which are located
The Northeast region of Brazil has long
been the single largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin
America. With a combined area of 1.6 million square
kilometers-16 percent of Brazil's total-the Northeast
This report makes several policy
conclusions related to urban poverty and development in
Uruguay and potentially the rest of Latin America. First,
policies which prioritize improvements in access to quality
Irrigation is crucial to China's
agricultural productivity. This report reviews the history
of water irrigation in China. It examines the first Bank
supported water project to propose both physical
The Argentine government is using
output-based contracts with the private sector for
rehabilitation and maintenance of its nonconcessioned road
network. The multiyear lump sum contracts, funded by the
Only a handful of developing countries
have fully reformed their energy sector - oil, gas, and
power. A World Bank Survey of 115 developing countries shows
that on average, in mid-1998 just 39 percent of key reform
This publication provides guidance to
water-sector decision makers and planners on how to deal
with the quality dimension of groundwater resources
management in the World Bank's client countries. There
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