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World Development Indicators 2009: Single User מאת World Bank Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? "World Development Indicators" is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 900 indicators for some 150 economies and 14 country groups in mor...

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Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education (Directions in Development (Washington, D.C.).) מאת Richard Hopper Higher education, or tertiary education, is critical for human development worldwide. In today's lifelong learning framework, tertiary education provides the high-level skills needed for the labour market and offers the essential training for teachers, civil servants, doctors, scientists and social ...

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Miniatlas of Human Security (Mini Atlas Series) מאת World Bank This at-a-glance guide to political violence and global security provides a wealth of information on armed conflicts since 1946: death tolls, assaults on human rights, including political repression and child soldiers, and the causes of war and peace. Extraordinary changes are taking place in glo...

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Budget Support as More Effective Aid?: Recent Experiences and Emerging Lessons מאת et al Stefan Koeberle Budget support has become an increasingly important instrument in the context of a partnership-based approach to development assistance. Compared to traditional modes of aid delivery, it promises greater country ownership, reduced transaction costs, better donor coordination, scaling up of poverty r...

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World Development Indicators 2009 מאת World Bank Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? World Development Indicators is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 900 indicators for some 150 economies and 14 country groups in more ...

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For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets מאת Margaret Grosh Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately reducing poverty and inequality; they enable households to invest in the human capital of their children and in the l...

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Africa's Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation (Africa Development Forum) מאת World Bank Group Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa's prosperity. And now is the time to begin the transformation. This volume is the culmination of an unprecedented effort to document, analyze, and interpret the full extent of the challenge in developing Sub-Saharan Africa's infrastructure s...

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Legislative Oversight and Budgeting: A World Perspective (WBI Development Studies) מאת Rick Stapenhurst In most countries, parliament has the constitutional mandate to both oversee and hold government to account. In light of the increased focus on good governance, academics and legislative strengthening practitioners are re-examining parliament's oversight function with a view to increasing public fin...

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The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor מאת Marguerite Robinson Around the world, a revolution is occurring in finance for low-income people. The microfinance revolution is delivering financial services to the economically active poor on a large scale through competing, financially self-sufficient institutions. In a few countries this has already happened; i...

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Courage and Hope: Stories from Teachers Living With HIV in Sub-saharan Africa מאת Donald Bundy Courage and Hope gives voice to the real life experiences of 12 HIV-positive teachers, five of whom are women, from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania (both Mainland and Zanzibar) and Zambia. The teachers recount their experiences of discovering their HIV-pos...

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Increasing Formality and Productivity of Bolivian Firms (World Bank Country Study) מאת Yaye Sakho Bolivia s informal sector is the largest in Latin America, by many definitions and measures. Bolivia s high informality rate has been blamed on many factors including the burden of regulation, the weakness of public institutions, and the lack of perceived benefits to being formal. The high level of ...

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Reforming China's Rural Health System (Directions in Development) מאת Adam Wagstaff Reforming China s Rural Health System examines the performance and workings of China s rural health system leading up to the reforms of the 2000s, outlines the reforms, and presents some early evidence on their impacts. The authors outline ideas for building on these reforms to further strengthen Ch...

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Changing the Face of the Waters: The Promise and Challenge of Sustainable Aquaculture (Agriculture and Rural Development Series) מאת World Bank Aquaculture - the farming of fish and aquatic plants - has become the world's fastest-growing food production sector, even as the amount of wild fish caught in our seas and freshwaters declines. From fish foods and pharmaceuticals to management of entire aquatic ecosystems, acquaculture is truly cha...

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The Changing Face of Rural Space: Agriculture and Rural Development in the Western Balkans (Directions in Development) מאת Julian Lampietti Although at different stages of development, the countries of the Western Balkans Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia face similar challenges in transforming and modernizing their agri-food sectors. Their rural sectors have lagged behind...

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Challenges of African Growth: Opportunities, Constraints, and Strategic Directions מאת Benno J. Ndulu; Lopamudra Chakraborti; Lebohang Lijane; Vijaya Ramachandran; Jerome Wolgin Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of the world's population but a staggering 30 percent of the world's poor, the challenges it faces are enormous but NOT insurmountable. The message of this book is clear - poverty-eradicating development in A...

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Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A Handbook for Development Practitioners מאת Jody Zall Kusek An effective state is essential to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development. With the advent of globalization, there are growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to the demands of internal and external stakeholders for good governance, acc...

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Gender in Bolivian Production: Reducing Differences in Formality and Productivity of Firms (World Bank Country Study) מאת World Bank Bolivia s informal economic sector is the largest in Latin America, and women-owned businesses tend to be overrepresented in the informal sector and to be less profitable than firms in the formal sector. This study seeks to better understand gender-based differences in firms tendencies toward formal...

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Competitiveness and Growth in Brazilian Cities: Local Policies and Actions for Innovation (Directions in Development) מאת Ming Zhang The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs? The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminar...

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Building Equality and Opportunity Through Social Guarantees: New Approaches to Public Policy and the Realization of Rights (New Frontiers of Social Policy) מאת Estanislao Gacitua-Mario This book examines the validity of a social guarantees approach as a framework for evaluating, monitoring, and improving the design of social policy. Social guarantees are defined as sets of policy mechanisms that determine citizens' entitlements related to basic services and ensure their fulfillmen...

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Building Commitment to Reform through Strategic Communication: The Five Key Decisions מאת Cecilia Cabanero Verzosa Strategic communication is a powerful tool for creating broad-based support for reform and change initiatives. Much has been written about why communication matters in reform efforts, but there is scant material available to help those who manage reforms apply communication concepts and approaches t...

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Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at Thirty Years of the World Development Report מאת Shahid Yusuf Since 1978, the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) has provided in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of international development from agriculture, the role of the state, economic growth, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment,...

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The Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Equity and Vulnerability in a Warming World (New Frontiers of Social Policy) מאת Robin Mearns Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the M...

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The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2009 (World Development Indicators) מאת World Bank The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2009 is one of a series of pocket-sized books intended to provide a quick reference to development data on different topics. The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2009 provides data for more than 20 key indicators on business environmen...

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Assessing Financial Access In Brazil (World Bank Working Papers) מאת Thorsten Beck Access to financial services in Brazil has been relatively stable over the past ten years, despite the banking sector contraction of the late 1990s. Wide geographic variations in the supply of banking services by region and municipality are partly explained by differentials in income and population ...

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Low-carbon Development: Latin American Responses to Climate Change (Latin America and Caribbean Studies) מאת Augusto De LA Torre Governments and civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean should be well informed about the potential costs and benefits of combating climate change, their policy options over the next decades, and the global context for these policy decisions. At the same time, the global community needs to ...

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Atlas of Global Development, Second Edition: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges מאת World Bank The key development issues facing our world today are vividly illustrated in "The Atlas of Global Development". Based upon authoritative data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, this handsome volume provides a wealth of information on crucial global topics such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, ...

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Rural Informatization in China (World Bank Working Papers) מאת Nagy K. Hanna China s recent economic growth has expanded industrialization and urbanization, upgraded consumption, increased social mobility, and initiated a shift from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry and services. However, more than half of China s people still live in rural areas where...

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Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times מאת World Bank Doing Business 2010 is the seventh in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 eco...

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Agribusiness and Innovation Systems in Africa (Agriculture and Rural Development Series) מאת Kurt Larsen This book examines how agricultural innovation arises in four African countries Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda through the lens of agribusiness, public policies, and specific value chains for food staples, high value products, and livestock. Determinants of innovation are not viewed individually...

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Multigrade Teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Uganda, Senegal, and The Gambia (World Bank Working Papers) מאת World Bank Group In Africa, with the expansion of coverage of primary education in recent decades, many of the remaining out-of-school children are in hard to reach areas, with low population density and poor transport. Providing access to education is challenging in such contexts, as the population in any village i...

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Doing Business 2009 (Doing Business) מאת World Bank Doing Business 2009 is the sixth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 181 countries, measuring regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business: starting a business dealing with licenses employing workers registering property getting credit protect...

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Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance: Strength in Numbers מאת Alexander S. Preker Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastr...

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The Rainforests of Cameroon: Experience and Evidence from a Decade of Reform (Directions in Development) מאת Giuseppe Topa Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and integrate wider economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the value of forests. Based on historical data and extensi...

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Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities: A Review of Experiences in Developing Countries (Trends and Policy Options) מאת Philippe Marin 'Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities: A Review of Experiences in Developing Countries' analyzes the market growth of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the developing world since 1990, and the performance of more than 65 large water PPP projects representing more than 100 millio...

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Bringing Finance to Pakistan's Poor: Access to Finance for Small Enterprises and the Underserved מאת Tatiana Nenova This book reflects the first comprehensive survey and dataset of access to financial products by the Pakistani population. In Pakistan, access to financing is at low levels, though expanding quickly. Half of Pakistani adults, mostly women, do not engage in the financial system at all. The formal mic...

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Promoting Enterprise-led Innovation in China (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development, Countries and Regions) מאת Chunlin Zhang This book explores policy options for China to implement its strategy of enterprise-led innovation. It identifies two sets of challenges facing China and recommends actions along four dimensions: pursuing a balanced strategy, creating the right incentives, building capacity of the private sector, an...

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Agricultural Land Redistribution: Toward Greater Consensus (Agriculture and Rural Development Series) מאת Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize Despite 250 years of land reform all over the world, important land inequalities remain, especially in Latin America and southern Africa. While in these regions, there is near consensus on the need for redistribution, much controversy persists around how to redistribute land peacefully and legally, ...

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Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty (Policy Research Reports) (World Bank Policy Research Report) מאת Ariel Fiszbein Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are one of the most popular interventions in the social sectors in developing countries. While the details of program design vary, all of these programs transfer resources to poor households conditional on them taking active measures to build up the human cap...

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International Financial Reporting Standards: A Practical Guide מאת Hennie Van Greuning International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in a business situation can have a significant effect on the financial results and position of a division or an entire business enterprise. "International Financial Reporting Standards: A Practical Guide" gives private or public sector executives, m...

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Participatory Communication: A Practical Guide (World Bank Working Papers) מאת Thomas Tufte What do we mean when we say participatory communication? What are the practical implications of working with participatory communication strategies in development and social change processes? What experiences exists in practice that documents that participatory communication adds value to a developm...

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The Changing HIV/ AIDS Landscape: Selected Papers for the World Bank's Agenda for Action in Africa, 2007-2011 מאת Elizabeth L. Lule HIV/AIDS reverses life expectancy gains, erodes productivity, consumes savings and dilutes growth efforts, threatening the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa.The report is the result of an extensive analytical and consultative process begun in 2006, that engaged more th...

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Accountability in Public Expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean: Revitalizing Reforms in Financial Management and Procurement (Directions in Development) מאת Omowunmi Ladipo Fiscal discipline and public sector efficiency became prominent issues in Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1980 s following external debt crises that troubled many countries in the region. Resolution of the debt crises necessitated a first wave of reforms that largely focused on upgrading...

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Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism: A Comprehensive Training Guide מאת World Bank Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism: A Comprehensive Training Guide has been developed by the Financial Market Integrity Unit of the World Bank to support the World Bank s Capacity Enhancement Program on AML/CFT. The modules are comprised of the following eight Modules: Modu...

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Argentina: Income Support Policies Toward the Bicentennial (World Bank Country Study) מאת World Bank Following the serious economic crisis in 2001 02, Argentina mobilized an unprecedented effort to provide income support to the segment of the population most in need. Now, as growth has returned and social indicators recovered to precrisis levels, there is an opening to move from emergency support p...

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Health Financing in Indonesia: A Roadmap for Reform (Directions in Development) מאת Claudia Rokx In 2004 the Indonesian government made a commitment to provide its entire population with health insurance coverage through a mandatory public health insurance scheme. It has moved boldly already provides coverage to an estimated 76.4 million poor and near poor, funded through the public budget. Nev...

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Global Development Finance 2009 (Volume I: Review, Analysis, and Outlook): Charting a Global Recovery (Global Development Finance (Vol. 1: Analysis & Outlook)) מאת World Bank Over the past two years, the world has seen turmoil in a relatively small segment of the U.S. credit markets morph into a severe global economic and financial crisis. Although aggressive monetary policy, fiscal stimulus, and guarantee programs to shore up the banking industry have begun to stabilize...

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Health and Growth מאת World Bank Does investing in health raise economic growth? Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without investing in health? What are the options and benefits of different analytic approaches to measuring the causal link between health and growth? Have medical advances influenced life exp...

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Building Bridges: China's Growing Role As Infrastructure Financier for Africa (Trends and Policy Options) מאת Vivien Foster In recent years, a number of emerging economies have begun to play a growing role in the finance of infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their combined resource flows are now comparable in scale to traditional Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Dev...

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From Schooling Access to Learning Outcomes: An Unfinished Agenda: An Evaluation of World Bank Support to Primary Education מאת World Bank Independent Evaluation Group

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The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years מאת Michele Alacevich This book is a fascinating study of economic history and history of economic thought. It narrates the history of the World Bank and the establishment of its role as leading development institution. The end of WWII was a crucial time: the reconstruction of Europe and the birth of the 'third world' fo...

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Tiger Economies Under Threat: A Comparative Analysis of Malaysia's Industrial Prospects and Policy Options מאת Shahid Yusuf Southeast Asian tiger economies feel threatened by competition from other countries and worry that their growth momentum might be flagging. Even though their growth rates are above the average for the world and for developing countries, they fall short of yesterday s economic performance. The underl...

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The Little Data Book on Gender 2009 (World Development Indicators) מאת World Bank This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics. It presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 countries in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development ...

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Low Carbon, High Growth Latin American Responses To Climate Change מאת Pablo Fajnzylber There is an increasing consensus in the scientific community that climate change is a real and present threat. Despite the large uncertainty on the timing, magnitude and even the direction of some of the physical and economic effects of this phenomenon, it is widely accepted that they will be region...

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Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean: Policy Options for Sustained Growth, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction (World Bank Country Study) מאת World Bank The main objective of this report is to help policymakers in the Caribbean design an agenda of policy actions to accelerate trade integration and growth, and to reduce poverty. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and provides an in-depth analysis of the issues raised, laying the founda...

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Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant: Prospects for Commercial Agriculture in the Guinea Savannah Zone and Beyond (Directions in Development) מאת Michael Morris Stronger agricultural growth is needed to reduce poverty in Africa, yet the region continues to fall behind. During the past three decades, many traditional African export crops have lost their competitive advantage in international markets, and many food crops consumed in Africa have faced increase...

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Tanzania Country Brief (World Bank Country Brief) מאת World Bank The World Bank is in the initial stages of developing a new annual series of World Bank Country Briefs. Tanzania- the second report in the series - will be published in the winter of 2009. These short, country-specific reports examine the economic, social, environmental, and business landscape of de...

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Housing Finance Policy in Emerging Markets מאת Loic Chiquier Housing finance markets have been changing dramatically in both emerging and developed economies. On the one hand, housing finance markets are expanding and represent a powerful engine for economic growth in many emerging economies. However, the unfolding sub-prime mortgage crisis highlights the ris...

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Accounting for Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Improving Corporate Financial reporting to Support Regional Economic Development (Directions in Development) מאת Henri Fortin The importance of moving toward high-quality, global standards of accounting and auditing has never been clearer. In the midst of the global financial and economic crisis, the leaders of the Group of 20 met and issued their Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System, placing significant empha...

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Using the Results of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement (National Assessments of Educational Achievement) מאת Thomas Kellaghan This book describes effective approaches to reporting and using data from national educational assessment exercises in order to improve the quality of students learning. Chapter 1 outlines some of the main factors affecting the utilization and non-utilization of national assessment findings. Chapter...

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The Little Data Book 2009 מאת World Bank Now in its eigth edition, this pocket-sized reference on key development data for over 200 countries provides profiles of each country with 54 development indicators about people, environment, economy, technology and infrastructure, trade, and finance....

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Handbook on Poverty and Inequality מאת Jonathan Haughton For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, "The Handbook on Poverty and Inequality" is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis, the Handbook consists of explanatory text with numero...

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Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and the Policy Challenges (Latin American Development Forum) מאת Carmen Pages More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participa...

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The Role and Impact of Public-private Partnerships in Education מאת Felipe Barrera The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education builds on the international literature and the results of impact evaluations to present a conceptualization of the issues related to public-private partnership (PPP), an overview of international examples, a detailed review of studies w...

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Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices מאת Shahidur R. Khandker The 'Handbook on Impact Evaluation' provides a practical and comprehensive overview of the latest impact evaluation methods for public programs, targeted towards researchers as well as policy makers. This book bridges the latest econometric research on impact evaluation with the field experience of ...

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Africa Development Indicators 2008/2009: Youth and Employment in Africa: The Potential, the Problem, the Promise (African Development Indicators) מאת World Bank Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It contains more than 450 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering 53 African countries. Additional data may be found on the companion CD-ROM, covering about 1,400 i...

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Gender Aspects of the Trade and Poverty Nexus: A Macro-micro Approach (Equity and Development Series) מאת Maurizio Bussolo This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by the robust finding that ...