Toward Environmentally Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A World Bank AgendaWorld Bank, 1996 - 140 pagini Relates how Thailand successfully adjusted its macroeconomic policies during the 1970s and early 1980s so that it was less adversely affected by the prevailing economic turbulence than virtually any other oil-importing developing country. An intensive World Bank study of recent macroeconomic policy reviewed the experience of 18 countries that were attempting to maintain economic stability in the face of international price, interest rate, and demand shocks, or domestic crises in the form of investment booms and related budgetary problems. The project focused on the 1974-79 period, covering two oil price shocks, the 1980-82 period of worldwide recession and external debt problems, and the 1983-90 period of adjustment to economic difficulties and renewed growth. This report, a product of that study, relates how Thailand successfully adjusted its macroeconomic policies during the 1970s and early 1980s so that it was less adversely affected by the prevailing economic turbulence than virtually any other oil-importing developing country. The results show the importance of cautious macroeconomic policies and reliance on market mechanisms as the principal means of resource allocation. The policies which produced this outcome in Thailand can be emulated by other developing countries. Distributed exclusively in Asia and nonexclusively in the rest of the world by Oxford University Press, Malaysia. The overall findings of the project are presented in a synthesis volume, Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment: The Macroeconomic Experience of Developing Countries. Stock No. 60891 / $60.00 / Price code S60 |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Box | 5 |
SUBREGIONAL SPECIFICITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL HOT SPOTS | 11 |
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Africa Region Africa Technical Department African countries agencies agenda approach areas Bank's biodiversity Burkina Faso CESPs Climate Change coastal zone management communication Côte d'Ivoire Desertification donors drought economic ecosystems energy enhanced Environment Department Environmental Action Plans environmental assessment environmental concerns environmental degradation environmental economics environmental information environmental issues environmental problems Environmental Strategy environmentally sustainable development ESPs example financing focus focusing framework Global Environment Facility hot spots implementation improve increased infrastructure institutional instruments integrated coastal zone investment land degradation Madagascar million monitoring National Environmental Action natural capital natural resource management NEAPS networks NGOs Niger Delta Nigeria operations paper participation participatory particularly partnerships percent pollution population growth poverty prepared priority private sector production programs promoting risk rural social soil fertility Source South Africa southern Africa Sub-Saharan Africa subregion Sudano-Sahelian technologies transboundary urban agriculture Washington World Bank World Bank Group Zimbabwe