This policy note is designed to support
the development of the health financing strategy in
Tanzania. It is directed at decision makers in the areas of
health and social...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66724Date: February 13, 2012Author:
Haazen, Dominic
This third volume of the National
Assessment of Educational Achievement series focuses on
state-of-the-art procedures that need to be followed in
order to ensure that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66609Date: February 10, 2012Author:
Greaney, Vincent [editor] ;
Kellaghan, Thomas [editor]
This issue includes the following:
mashup indices of development; impact analysis of rural
electrification projects in Sub-Saharan Africa; what can we
learn about the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 80524Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Jimenez, Emmanuel ;
Serven, Luis ;
Alderman, Harold ;
Eichengreen, Barry ;
Fay, Marianne ;
Hammer, Jeffrey S. ;
Kanbur, Ravi ;
Revenga, Ana L. ;
Harrison, Ann E.
This issue includes the following:
empirical evidence on satisfaction with privatization in
Latin America; skills, exports, and the wages of seven
million Latin American...
Type: PublicationReport#: 80519Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Janvry, Alain de ;
Sadoulet, Elisabeth
This workbook is intended to help policy
makers in developing countries plan for a safer future in
urban areas in the face of natural disasters and the
consequences...
Many countries that subscribe to the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to
ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens.
Health insurance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66234Date: January 18, 2012Author:
Wang, Hong ;
Switlick, Kimberly ;
Ortiz, Christine ;
Zurita, Beatriz ;
Connor, Catherine
Economists have long sought to predict
how macroeconomic shocks will affect individual welfare.
Macroeconomic data and forecasts are easily available when
crises strike....
This study provides a conceptual
framework for the analysis of the questions of out-of-court
debt restructuring from a policy-oriented perspective. The
starting point...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66232Date: January 12, 2012Author:
Garrido, Jose M.
Health indicators in Ethiopia,
particularly on child health and malaria, have improved
significantly in recent years, with the next challenge now
focused on improving...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66218Date: January 12, 2012Author:
Feysia, Berhanu ;
Herbst,Christopher H. ;
Lemma,Wuleta F. ;
Soucat,Agnes L. B.
In chapter one, this report maps the
patterns and characteristics of migration flows from India;
in chapter two, it provides a detailed discussion of
remittance flows...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66235Date: January 9, 2012Author:
Afram, Gabi G.
This volume combines the analyses of
leading experts on the various elements affecting economic
growth and the policies required to spur that growth. Ascent
after Decline:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66450Date: January 9, 2012Author:
Canuto, Otaviano ;
Leipziger, Danny M
This book will benefit people and teams
involved in planning and decision making. On the basis of
their pragmatic value in guiding decisions, needs
assessments are used...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66392Date: January 6, 2012Author:
Watkins, Ryan ;
Meiers, Maurya West ;
Visser, Yusra Laila
The new structural economics argues that
the best way to upgrade a country's endowment structure
is to develop its industries at any specific time according
to the comparative...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66393Date: January 6, 2012Author:
Lin, Justin Yifu
The publication was prepared as part of
the Russian component of the Regional Program titled
Improving Forest Law Enforcement and Governance in the
European Neighborhood...
Type: PublicationReport#: 71853Date: January 1, 2012
The purpose of this study is to provide
in one place a set of papers that were written at various
points in time over the last four years on poverty and the
response...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68965Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Wodon, Quentin
One of the key constraints to improving
health outcomes in the developing world relates to equitable
and efficient health financing. In most developing
countries, a...
The objective of the Nepal Investment
Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the investment
climate in Nepal in all its dimensions and promote policies
to strengthen...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67525Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Afram, Gabi G. ;
Pero, Angelica Salvi Del
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#: 70600Date: January 1, 2012
The results of the review do not
disappoint. The authors identified more than 120 cash
transfer programs that were implemented between 2000 and
mid-2009 in Sub-Saharan...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67208Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Garcia, Marito ;
Moore, Charity M. T.
Over the past two decades, HIV/ Acquired
Immune-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have emerged as one of the
worst infectious diseases in modern history. The epidemic
spread...
Type: PublicationReport#: 69092Date: January 1, 2012
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