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JULY - AUGUST 1998

NOTEBOOK

Democracy's limits

VIEWPOINT

Why "free water" can be so expensive

SPECIAL REPORT:
COMMUNITY CONSERVATION


Nature in peril

Man and nature in a flooded forest
People to poachers: Keep out!
Back from the brink

People in the Petén

Pyramids and tourist dollars

FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING

Today's babies, tomorrow's jobs

NEWSBEAT

The unemployment puzzle

A future in two languages

New direction for a fragile frontier

The right stuff at 8,848 meters



THINK TANK
The vanishing vacation crisis
The case for subsidies

PROJECT NEWS
Project updates:
Sewage treatment in Fortaleza, Brazil

New Projects: Peace process in Guatemala
Modernizing city government in Buenos Aires
Latest approvals: A training program to improve the paper industry in Colombia
Financing a new gas processing plant in Piura, Perú

GAZETTE
Trade negotiators hone their skills
IDB Bookshelf
EXPRESSIONS

Suriname reconstructed


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