Rural development strategy Eastern Europe and Central Asia

World Bank Technical Paper

Volumn , Issue 484, 2000, Pages 1-47

  Csaki, Csaba ^a   Tuck, Laura ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL PLANNING; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WORLD BANK;

ASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0033779638     PISSN: 02537494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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10. The description of the status of reforms for each country matrix was compiled by the World Bank staff most familiar with that country's agricultural policies. Numerical ratings were then assigned to each of the five reform categories in accordance with the criteria listed in Table 1 of the Annex. These ratings were then revised in several review sessions to improve consistency of rankings. An earlier version of this analysis was presented in Csaki and Lerman, 1997.
11. Source: Joe Swinnen
12. The judgment here was that it makes more sense to help people get out of places where they cannot survive without heavy energy subsidies than to rehabilitate and modernize the power plants to minimize energy costs, which even after the investment would continue to require subsidization into the indefinite future. This is an analog to the situation with the irrigation programs in Central Asia.