Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
countries face a critical choice as they strive to generate
greater private sector growth and more jobs: promote
competition, provide...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92767Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias ;
Sy,Abdoulaye ;
Hussain,Sahar Sajjad ;
Sahnoun,Hania ;
Keefer,Philip E.
The emergence of low-cost carriers
(LCCs) has been a key catalyst for the development of the
aviation industry in the last decade. Indeed, extensive
research has been...
Type: PublicationReport#: 90586Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Schlumberger,Charles E. ;
Weisskopf,Nora
International migration in East Asia and
the Pacific (EAP) has historically been extra regional.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, numerous Japanese
and Chinese...
The extent of inequality, and what to do
about it, are among the most hotly debated issues in
economics. Every faith and ideology has normative views on
how much inequality...
Type: PublicationReport#: 91638Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Rama,Martin G. ;
Beteille,Tara ;
Li,Yue ;
Mitra, Pr
Since the 1990s, financial systems
around the world, and especially those in developing
countries, have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity,
prompted in part by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83498Date: December 17, 2013Author:
Anginer,Deniz ;
Auqui, Martin ;
Calderon,Cesar ;
Ceballos,Francisco ;
Cortes,Mariano ;
D'Hulster,Katia ;
De La Torre,Augusto ;
Didier Brandao,Tatiana ;
Dijkman,Miquel ;
Feyen,Erik H.B. ;
Gutierrez,Eva M. ;
Heysen Zegarra,Maria Del Socorro ;
Ize,Alain ;
Levy-Yeyati,Eduardo ;
Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad ;
Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique ;
Schmukler,Sergio L. ;
Seelig,Steven ;
Serven,Luis ;
Williams,Thomas A.
Within the context of millennium
development goals (MDGs), donors and governments in
developing countries have made improvements in human
development a key priority....
Type: PublicationReport#: 83499Date: December 17, 2013Author:
Wodon,Quentin T.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is
becoming an increasingly significant catalyst for output and
trade in developing countries, in part due to a major
expansion in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83501Date: December 17, 2013Author:
Farole,Thomas ;
Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
Why does development progress in some
places but not others? Very often, the distinguishing factor
is not a lack of financial resources or of knowledge about
the right...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83502Date: December 17, 2013Author:
Fritz,Verena Maria ;
Levy,Brian David ;
Ort,Rachel Lemay
For the past decade and a half, the
International Development Organizations (IDOs) have been
making continual efforts to finance multi-country projects
with regional...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83500Date: December 12, 2013Author:
Uprety,Kishor
This report contributes to the design
and implementation of policies that promote healthy living
in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), thus effectively
preventing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83277Date: December 5, 2013Author:
Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia [editor]
The Results-Based Initiatives (RBI),
launched in 2007, were a pioneering attempt to provide
comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous evidence on effective
interventions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83276Date: December 5, 2013Author:
Paci,Pierella ;
Posadas,Josefina ;
Johansson De Silva,Sara
The evolving nature of education system
and the increasing complex challenges facing individual
teachers and the teaching profession as a whole are of
immense importance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83152Date: November 25, 2013Author:
Al-Samarrai,Samer ;
Chang,Mae Chu ;
Ragatz,Andrew B. ;
Shaeffer,Sheldon ;
Stevenson,Ritchie ;
De Ree,Joppe Jaitze
Entrepreneurship is a critical process
in a dynamic capitalist economy. It generates new productive
capacities, processes, and goods; promotes innovation; and
fosters...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83153Date: November 25, 2013Author:
Anchorena, Jose ;
Arteaga, Elizabeth ;
Castellani,Francesca ;
Federico, Juan S. ;
Kantis,Hugo Daniel ;
Lora, Eduardo ;
Ordenana, Xavier ;
Ronconi,Lucas ;
Solimano,Andres R. ;
Trajtenberg, Luis A. ;
Velez-Grajales, Roberto ;
Velez-Grajales,Viviana
Vietnam has achieved sustained economic
growth, primarily driven by a rapidly expanding labor force
and a shift in economic activity away from low-productivity
subsistence...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83031Date: November 25, 2013Author:
Blancas Mendivil,Luis C. ;
Isbell, John ;
Isbell,
In Vietnam, sustained high rates of
growth in gross domestic product (GDP) averaging 7.2 percent
per year over the past 20 years have resulted in higher
demand for freight...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83030Date: November 21, 2013Author:
Blancas Mendivil,Luis C. ;
El-Hifnawi, M. Baher
Inequity in learning achievements is the
central challenge facing national development and the
development of basic education in Ghana. Within basic
education, existing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 82726Date: November 19, 2013Author:
Balwanz,David A. ;
Darvas,Peter
A growing share of the burden of disease
across the world is associated with risky behaviors by
individuals. Drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating
causing obesity,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 82470Date: November 18, 2013Author:
de Walque, Damien [editor]
This document seeks to examine how the
Great Recession affected labor markets in developing
countries and how governments responded. The recession that
began with the...
It is a conservative estimate that every
year, through corruption, between 20 billion dollars and 40
billion dollars are diverted from developing countries and
find...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83154Date: November 15, 2013Author:
Fernando,Francisca Maryanne U. ;
Flah,Agustin ;
Gottwald,Dorothee Anna ;
Hauch, Jeanne M. ;
Mathias,Marianne ;
Oduor,Jacinta Anyango ;
Park,Ji Won ;
Stolpe,Oliver
This volume is devoted to an assessment
of the performance and selected aspects of the management
and pedagogical practices of Fe y Alegria, a federation of
Jesuit schools...
Type: PublicationReport#: 83275Date: November 12, 2013Author:
Parra Osorio,Juan Carlos ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
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