How resources are being used to fund the
community response to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and
acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is of
considerable interest...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74627Date: July 28, 2012Author:
Bonnel, René ;
Rodriguez-García, Rosalía ;
Olivier, Jill ;
Wodon, Quentin ;
McPherson, Sam ;
Orr, Kevin ;
Ross, Julia
This report evaluates the outcomes of
World Bank Group support to Liberia from its post-war
reengagement in 2003 through 2011. The country has moved
from total disarray...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74631Date: July 28, 2012Author:
Leechor,Chad
Uganda is one of the few African
countries with a functional national assessment system.
Established in 2003, the National Assessment of Progress in
Education (NAPE)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 74628Date: July 27, 2012Author:
Bunjo, Charles Lwanga ;
Kyaddondo,David ;
Misinde,Cyprian ;
Najjumba Mulindwa,Innocent Kibira
Water scarcity will increasingly be a
challenge in the Arab countries. The Arab region has the
lowest freshwater resource endowment in the world. All but
six Arab countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73483Date: July 23, 2012Author:
Verner,Dorte
The continued decline in global poverty
over the past 100 years particularly in the past three
decades is a remarkable achievement. In 1981, 52 percent of
the world...
Type: PublicationReport#: 71451Date: July 20, 2012Author:
Skoufias, Emmanuel
Eurasian cities, unique in the global
spatial landscape, were part of the world's largest
experiment in urban development. The challenges they now
face because of their...
Type: PublicationReport#: 72804Date: July 9, 2012Author:
Coulibaly, Souleymane ;
Deichmann, Uwe ;
Dillinger, William R. ;
Heroiu, Marcel Ionescu ;
Kessides, Ioannis N. ;
Kunaka, Charles ;
Saslavsky, Daniel
In the past 30 years, China has reached
the target of lifting 500 million people out of poverty. The
rate of increase in human development indicators has become
the...
This report provides tentative leads
toward such policy prescriptions, based on an overview of
the empirical evidence. Chapter one sets the stage by
putting Africa's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70910Date: July 2, 2012Author:
Brenton,Paul ;
Cadot,Olivier ;
Pierola Castro,Martha D.
This report summarizes the results of a
recent review of the emerging experience with the design and
implementation of policy instruments to promote the
development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70909Date: June 28, 2012Author:
Azuela, Gabriela Elizondo ;
Barroso, Luiz Augusto
Concentrating Solar Thermal power (CST)
has a tremendous potential for scaling up renewable energy
at the utility level, diversifying the generation portfolio
mix, powering...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70912Date: June 28, 2012Author:
Kulichenko, Natalia ;
Wirth,Jens
This study of education in sub-Saharan
Africa draws on the collective knowledge of country-specific
education studies prepared over the past decade to focus on
fundamental...
This study reviews the experience of
cooperation in selected international river basins and
during selected time periods in those basins. The review is
from a country...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70607Date: June 25, 2012Author:
Brown,Bridget ;
Subramanian,Ashok K. ;
Wolf,Aaron T.
This report assesses some of the most
important barriers facing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
deployment within the context of developing and transition
economies....
The rapid and oft en unplanned expansion
of cities is exposing more people and economic assets to the
risk of disasters and the effects of climate change. For
city governments,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70982Date: June 22, 2012Author:
Dickson, Eric ;
Baker, Judy L. ;
Hoornweg, Daniel ;
Tiwari, Asmita
As countries develop, the demand for
water increases while water supply becomes less certain and
is often not enough to meet demand. In general, pressures
from both...
Pensions and social insurance programs
are an integral part of any social protection system. Their
dual objectives are to prevent a sharp decline in income and
protect...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70594Date: June 21, 2012Author:
Holzmann,Robert ;
Palmer, Edward ;
Robalino,David A.
This book is about Magda and Jacek and
millions of others like them, who earn a living working
full- or part-time in Europe's untaxed markets for
goods, services, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70602Date: June 20, 2012Author:
Koettl-Brodmann,Johannes ;
Montenegro,Claudio E. ;
Packard,Truman G.
Motivated by the need to understand how
crises affect human development in diverse segments of the
population, this book explores how individuals and
households cope...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70260Date: June 18, 2012Author:
Lundberg, Mattias ;
Wuermli, Alice
Seasonal hunger induced by agricultural
seasonality is often a characteristic feature of rural
poverty. The evidence of seasonal distress in many agrarian
societies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70268Date: June 16, 2012Author:
Khandker,Shahidur R. ;
Mahmud,Wahiduddin
Half of humanity about 3 billion people
are still relying on solid fuels for cooking and heating. Of
that, about 2.5 billion people depend on traditional biomass
fuels...
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