Changing Patterns of Spatial Clustering of Schistosomiasis in Southwest China between 1999–2001 and 2007–2008:  Assessing Progress toward Eradication after the World Bank Loan Project

In the Republic of Srpska, the construction of an irrigation system in agriculture is ongoing, in order to increase the yield. One of the projects that is being implemented is the construction of a system for irrigation of raspberries in the territory of the municipality of Bratunac. In the area of 20 local communities, 27 irrigation systems are being built. The total area for irrigation is about 490 hectares. Plots are privately owned, with an average area of 0.2 hectares. The systems consist of water intakes (wells along the Drina river or direct catch from smaller streams), pressure pipelines, reservoirs, distribution pipelines, hydrants for taking water for individual land plots. The project is funded by the World Bank loan. It is expected to increase yields from irrigated areas by at least 30%.

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International Bank For Reconstruction And Development

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300002046 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 969-976 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Carrying Capacity ◽

Bank Loan ◽

Private Company ◽

Efficient Operation ◽

Total Cost ◽

Railway Systems ◽

International Bank ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World

The World Bank announced on March 14, 1963, that it had made a loan equivalent to $13,250,000 to help finance a program to rehabilitate and modernize the two principal railway systems in Peru. The railways were an important element in Peru's transportation system, particularly for the movement of minerals, petroleum, and bulk merchandise, and their efficient operation was essential to the country's economic growth. Under the program, diesel locomotives would be put into use, carrying capacity increased, and tracks improved, thereby enabling the railways to reduce transportation costs and to provide more efficient service. The loan was made to the Peruvian Corporation Limited, a private company which owned and operated the railways, and was guaranteed by the Peruvian government. The total cost of the program, which was scheduled for completion in 1965, was estimated at the equivalent of $21.3 million, of which $19.5 million was in foreign exchange and would be covered in part by the Bank loan. The loan was for a term of sixteen years, and amortization was to begin in December 1967.

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Basic charasteristics of information system of health insurance in FB&H

Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences ◽

10.17305/bjbms.2004.3361 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 45-50

Author(s):

Amela Dzubur ◽

Asim Besic ◽

Ajnija Omanic ◽

Alen Dzubur ◽

Dragana Niksic

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Health Insurance ◽

World Bank ◽

Bank Loan ◽

Common Information ◽

The World Bank ◽

Administrative Division ◽

Using Data ◽

Basic Features ◽

World Bank Loan

Due to the territorial and administrative division in the war period, information system of health protection after the war was divided in two systems, what matched organisation of health insurance in that period. Those information systems were incompatible, developed on different, both, hardware and software. Therefore, Ministry of Health, within the project "Basic hospital services", financed through the World Bank loan, applied new, common information system in health insurance. Goal of this paper is to present basic features of information system of healthinsurance in FB&H, as well as the way of its functioning in respect to other institutions included in the system, respective data bases, sites of entering and updating data, while using data available with Federal Bureau of Health Insurance.

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Test cheating and standardised assessment in Croatia: Changing procedures, changing minds?

Policy Futures in Education ◽

10.1177/1478210317751266 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 449-464

Author(s):

Ivana Cosic

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

World Bank ◽

The State ◽

Bank Loan ◽

Eastern European ◽

Exit Examination ◽

The World ◽

Test Cheating ◽

Neoliberal Policies ◽

World Bank Loan

This paper attempts to explain why test cheating in Croatia seemingly prevails despite the introduction of a standardised examination, the state matura. It offers a contrast to sweeping cultural explanations of the stereotypical Eastern-European cheater and attempts to examine the issue more thoroughly. The Croatian state matura is a secondary school exit examination which was adopted as part of the surge of neoliberal policies around the world and was financed through a World Bank loan. The position taken here is that borrowed neoliberal policies, like standardised assessment, lead to unpredictable and unexpected responses in post-socialist settings (Silova, 2010 ; Steiner-Khamsi and Stolpe, 2006 ), offering new perspectives and explanations on educational practices more generally. The concepts of comparative and transcendental justice (Sen, 1999 , 2009 ) are used to illustrate how cheating practices in Croatian educational settings seemingly prevailed, despite the introduction of the state matura. The paper maps the trend of Croatian teachers’ handling of cheating and suggests that standardised assessment cultivates a vision of educational fairness that is both enabled and constrained by a belief in a perfectly just procedure.

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