PT Jamsostek will be transformed into a
social security administrative body called BPJS
Ketenagakerjaan on January 1, 2014 and will begin its
operations administering...
As International Finance Corporation
(IFC) continues to further scale up its operations, seeking
to deliver more development impact, could it be in danger of
inadvertently...
Type: BriefReport#: 75239Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Zaki Youssef,Fares Tawfik
Public health observatories proactively
investigate health issues to provide robust analytical
evidence to policy makers. This type of organization has
different characteristics...
Type: BriefReport#: 74921Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Cortez,Rafael A. ;
Ferl,Katharina
By financing public goods and services
that enhance productivity and promote private investment,
public spending is widely believed to be critical for
long-run growth....
This country level trade brief
summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database
as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the
food crisis and...
As globalization intensifies, urban
development has come to include an image dimension. The
common rationale is that a well-known place name often
creates opportunities...
Type: BriefReport#: 81059Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Yuen,Kwai Peng Belinda
The fifth annual country portfolio
evaluation report synthesizes the main conclusions and
recommendations emerging from the evaluative evidence in the
country portfolio...
Myriad challenges, but also
opportunities, surround public financial management (PFM)
reforms in postconflict environments. This note provides
recommendations that focus...
Type: BriefReport#: 125045Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Fritz,Verena Maria
Two Indians have invented a
climate-friendly technology that produces bricks without
using any coal whatsoever. The new fly ash brick technology
has the potential to...
Unemployment among young adults is a
problem throughout the world, and it's of particular
concern in the Middle East, where half the population is
under the age of 25...
Type: BriefReport#: 74527Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Groh,Matthew Robert ;
Krishnan,Nandini ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Vishwanath,Tara
The author all want to build something
that matters. From the advisory Services perspective, no
matter the business line, it's about helping meaningful
players accomplish...
Type: BriefReport#: 75241Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Caruana,Isabel ;
Ouedraogo,Alice R. ;
Rodriguez Felipe,Elsa ;
Tischendorf,Susann
An important objective of any Human
Resource Management (HRM) system in Government is to
motivate staff to perform well. This GET note looks at
several HRM levers that...
Type: BriefReport#: 98811Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Manning, Nick ;
Watkins,Joanna Alexandra ;
Degnarain,Nishan
A concept first presented just over a
decade ago, the Double Burden of Malnutrition, or DBM is the
coexistence of under-nutrition and over-nutrition of
macronutrients...
The aim of a pension scheme is to ensure
that recipients have a minimum level of income during their
old age. Contributory pensions generally help to maintain
consumption...
The Government of Colombia (GoC) is
developing an integrated financial strategy against natural
disasters, which includes the fiscal accounting of
contingencies arising...
Empowering poor people to participate in
development is one of the principal pillars underpinning our
efforts to reduce poverty. Nowhere is this more important
than...
Type: BriefReport#: 74298Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Antikainen, Kaisa
This country level trade brief
summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database
as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the
food crisis and...
This note sets out key ideas from recent
discussions inside and outside the Bank on how donors can
support governments more effectively in delivering results
in Public...
Type: BriefReport#: 74190Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Blum, Jurgen ;
Manning, Nick ;
Srivastava, Vivek
Program for Accountability in
Nepal's (PRAN's) purpose is to promote more
accountable, honest, transparent and responsive government
agencies delivering quality public...
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