Includes index. The World Bank legal review: law and justice for development. (2003). Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank.

Articles -- Legal and regulatory aspects of e-commerce and the internet -- Intellectual property rights and the protection of public health in developing countries -- Assessing a bill in terms of the public interest: the legislator's role in the law-making process -- Property rights issues in common property regimes for forestry -- The quality of judges -- Recent legal developments -- the federal republic of Yugoslavia and the world bank -- Islamic law on interest: the 1999 Pakistan supreme court decision on Riba -- The instrument establishing the world bank prototype carbon fund (PCF) and the first PCF emission reductions purchase agreement -- Ethical norms for the judicial branch of the republic of Guatemala -- The right to housing: government of the republic of South Africa and others v. grootboom and others -- Agreement establishing the African trade insurance agency -- Recent reports -- China and the knowledge economy: seizing the 21st century -- Principles and guidelines for effective insolvency and creditor rights systems