This issue includes the following: The
Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food
Security, by Derek D. Headey. How is the Liberalization of
Food Markets...
Type: PublicationReport#: 94091Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Alby,Philippe ;
Avsar, Veysel ;
Bas,Maria ;
Bombarda, Pamela ;
Coady, David ;
Dethier,Jean-Jacques ;
Headey, Derek D. ;
Imbert,Clement Yves Pierre Francois ;
Martinelli, Cesar ;
Parker,Susan Wendy ;
Straub,Stephane ;
Zant, Wouter
The new microfinance handbook provides a
primer on financial services for the poor. It is written for
a wide audience, including practitioners, facilitators,
policy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75183Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Arevalo Sanchez,Ines ;
Churchill, Craig ;
Collins,Daryl ;
Earne,Julie Fawn ;
El-Zoghbi,Mayada ;
Ferrand,David ;
Scola Gahwiler,Barbara Bernadette Maria ;
Gibson, Alan ;
Johnson,Susan O. ;
Lauer, Kate ;
Ledgerwood, Joanna [editor] ;
Lehman,Joyce Bontrager ;
Mas Ribo,Ignacio ;
Mcconaghy,Peter ;
Miller,Calvin Jay ;
Nelson, Candace ;
O'Keeffe, Geraldine ;
Rutherford,Stuart Edward ;
Sherk, Lisa ;
Staschen,Stefan ;
Vincze,Joakim Bjorn
The lives of girls and women in
developing countries have improved dramaticallyover the past
quarter of a century. Female life expectancy at birth has
increaseddramatically...
Type: PublicationReport#: 113046Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Jimenez,Emmanuel (editors) ;
Revenga,Ana L. (editors)
This volume includes papers that were
first presented and discussed at a workshop on 'The
Fragmentation of Global Production and Trade in Value-
Added: Developing New...
This book has two main aims: to
demonstrate to international development agencies,
governments, policy makers, project managers, practitioners,
and community residents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74917Date: January 22, 2013Author:
Anderson, Malcolm ;
Holcombe,Elizabeth Ann
This report provides Mayors and other
policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to
anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their
cities from...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74920Date: January 21, 2013Author:
Lall,Somik V.
The state of national labor markets has
always been a concern for governments and development
agencies such as the World Bank. Key labor market
indicators, such as the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74918Date: January 17, 2013Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Estache,Antonio ;
Ianchovichina,Elena ;
Salamon,Ilhem
This study is designed to analyze the
energy efficiency policies in seven countries that were
successful in achieving low energy intensities or in
reducing their energy...
This study explores the complex process
of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing
cities in developing countries. It first identifies barriers
to and opportunities...
China is at a critical juncture in its
economic transition. A comprehensive reform of its pension
and social security systems is an essential element of a
strategy aimed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75730Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Dorfman,Mark Charles ;
Hinz,Richard Paul ;
Holzmann,Robert ;
O'Keefe,Philip B. ;
Sin,Yvonne Yee Mun ;
Wang,Dewen
The Government of Pakistan's
(GoP's) 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to
place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7
percent per year through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79263Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Afzal,Javaid ;
Biller,S. A. Dan ;
Sanchez-Triana,Ernesto ;
Malik,Sohail J.
This book is based on a seminar
sponsored by the economic development institute of the World
Bank which met in Washington, D.C., April 9-25, 1986. The
immediate objective...
Type: PublicationReport#: 76134Date: January 1, 2013
International Debt Statistics (IDS)
presents data and analysis information on the external debt
of developing countries for 2011, based on actual flows and
debt related...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74468Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Levent,Ibrahim
Since the late 1990s access to
information and communication technologies (ICTs) has seen
tremendous growth driven primarily by the wireless
technologies and liberalization...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79258Date: January 1, 2013
Europe's growth will have to be
golden in yet another sense. Economic prosperity has brought
to Europeans the gift of longer lives, and the
continent's population has...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68168Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Raiser,Martin
The International Comparison Program
(ICP) has become not only the largest international
statistical program in the world, but also the most complex.
In the years leading...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79451Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Blades,Derek ;
Chen,Shaohua ;
Coonan, James ;
Deaton,Angus S.
This study, Indus basin of Pakistan: the
impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture was
undertaken at a pivotal time in the region. The weak summer
monsoon in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 77022Date: January 1, 2013Author:
, Savitsky, Andre ;
Alford,Donald L. ;
Brown,Casey ;
Debowicz,Dario Julian ;
Robinson,Sherman ;
Wescoat,James L. ;
Yang,Yi-Chen Ethan ;
Yu,Winston
Throughout the world, communities have
mobilized to use their knowledge, skills, and resources to
reverse the devastating impact of killer diseases such as
AIDS, TB,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79336Date: January 1, 2013
This report presents the findings of a
study of functions carried out by Central Finance Agencies
(CFAs) that was financed jointly by the Bank Netherlands
Partnership...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79261Date: January 1, 2013
Islamic finance has been practiced in
some form since the inception of Islam, its practice in
modern financial markets became recognized only in the
1980s, and began...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79891Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Ahmed,Habib ;
Askari,Hossein Gholam ;
Bacha,Obiyathulla Bin O A Ismath ;
Bao, Wang Yong ;
Cizakca, Murat ;
Erbas, S. Nuri ;
Iqbal,Zamir ;
Mohammad Ali Beik Mirakhor,Abbas ;
Othman, Azura ;
Rehman, Scheherazade ;
Sharif, Kamaruddin ;
Sheng, Andrew ;
Singh,Ajit
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