/ library resources
Showing items 47719 through 47727 of 73379.In Sri Lanka, ayurveda (a holistic
system of medicine and health care which originated in
India-in Sanskrit, "Ayu" means " life'
and "veda" means " the knowledge of ")
and the traditional system of health care have been
This note puts figures behind the notion
of poverty resulting from war. Using simulation models, the
author estimates the economic and social costs of the El
Salvadorian conflict. The calculations suggest that had
Inter-household transfers are an
important resource for low-income households, yet have been
almost ignored by donors. Though they are no substitute for
public programs, these private transfers merit more
This social assessment (SA) is part of
the Sanliurfa and Harran On-farm Development Project in
Turkey, and aims at identifying an appropriate mix of
project inputs to reduce poverty. The objectives of the SA
This study of the tobacco industry and
taxation policy in Morocco summarizes tobacco expenditure
data from surveys, and looks at trends in these
expenditures. The taxation and price policy implemented by
China has a very high prevalence rate of
cigarette smoking. According to a 1996 Chinese national
survey, 63% of adult males (age 15 and over) and 3.8% of
adult females were current smokers (Chinese Academy of
Turkey has become one of the largest
consumers of cigarettes, while world cigarette consumption
declined by 4 percent between 1990 and 1999. The rapid
increase in tobacco consumption in Turkey will cause a large
As the second book in a three-part
series entitled Voices of the Poor, "Crying out for
Change" accounts for the voices from comparative
fieldwork among twenty three countries. Through
This report serves as a guide to the
utility and relevance of water quality prediction modeling.
It draws upon examples from recent World Bank water
resources and wastewater management projects. The goal of
Нумерация страниц
Land Library Search
Through our robust search engine, you can search for any item of the over 64,800 highly curated resources in the Land Library.
If you would like to find an overview of what is possible, feel free to peruse the Search Guide.