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, 2012Author:
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Raiser,Martin
Immigrants tend to be more negatively
affected by economic crisis than natives, particularly when
governments apply strict immigration controls. With the
onset of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 69313Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Cohen, Jeffrey H. ;
Ratha, Dilip ;
Sirkeci, Ibrahim
For decades, corruption in Ethiopia has
been discussed only at the margins. Perhaps because many
have not experienced corruption as a significant constraint
to their...
Type: PublicationReport#: 69943Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Plummer, Janelle
African countries confront vast
economic, social, and environmental challenges. Although
urban issues bear upon many of these challenges, they have
remained a secondary...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70984Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Paulais,Thierry Tristan
A decade ago in Mozambique, a
stakeholder workshop where the need to improve access to
industrial and commercial land as a means to encourage
investment was a topic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 69073Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Shen,Xiaofang ;
Sun,Xiaolun
Local populations' economic
opportunities can be enhanced through special arrangements
governing movement of people and goods in neighboring areas.
For instance, in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 69311Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Kaminski, Bartlomiej ;
Mitra,Saumya
The Government of Liberia is in the
process of developing a new Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS)
that is intended to determine its path toward middle-income
status....
Type: PublicationReport#: 66816Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Kaplan,Zachary A. ;
Kyle,Peter R. ;
Moody,Alan Andrew ;
Shugart,Christopher
This education status report (ESR),
prepared at the request of the Government of South Sudan
(GoSS), provides a comprehensive snapshot of an education
sector that is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70595Date: January 1, 2012
Doing Business 2012 is the ninth in a
series of annual reports published by IFC and the World
Bank. The report assesses regulations affecting domestic
firms in 183 economies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73226Date: January 1, 2012
Health care expenditures can be financed
through a mix of public resources and private spending.
Private spending is a much larger share of total health
spending in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68964Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Brunner,Gregory Gordon ;
Gottret,Pablo ;
Hansl,Birgit ;
Kalavakonda,Vijayasekar ;
Nagpal,Somil ;
Tapay,Nicolette H.
This second report of a two-phase
evaluation of the World Bank Group's unprecedented
response to the 2008-09 global economic crisis addresses
questions raised by the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67283Date: January 1, 2012
The global textile and apparel sector is
critically important as an early phase in industrialization
for many developing countries and as a provider of
employment opportunities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67524Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C. ;
Robertson,Raymond
This study is timely because several
investments are planned for container terminals in
Sub-Saharan Africa. From a public policy perspective,
disentangling the reasons...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68014Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Beuran,Monica ;
Isik,Gozde ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Refas,Salim
Fiscal policy is an important instrument
for maintaining and improving living standards. Such living
standards can be viewed as an outcome of the interaction
between...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73515Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Moreno-Dodson, Blanca [editor]
The guide serves as a primer for
decision and policy makers, technical specialists, central,
regional and local government officials, and concerned
stakeholders in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66799Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Bloch, Robin ;
Jha,Abhas Kumar ;
Lamond, Jessica
Based on new evidence from in-depth
field surveys, this book addresses the unique situation of
countries that remain deeply engaged in agriculture, and
proposes a set...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70985Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Freguin-Gresh, Sandrine ;
Losch,Bruno ;
White, Eric Thomas
This sourcebook draws on the emerging
principles of Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) analysis
and action to help to identify, design, and implement the
investments,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 67207Date: January 1, 2012
In recent decades, women across the
globe have made positive strides toward gender equality.
Literacy rates for young women and girls are higher than
ever before, while...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73438Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Badiani-Magnusson,Reena C ;
Del Carpio,Ximena Vanessa ;
Mason,Andrew D. ;
Nguyen,Trang Van ;
Patrick,Katherine Sarah
It is difficult to know if programs have
succeeded or failed if the expected results are not clearly
articulated. An explicit definition of results, precisely
what is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 139580Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Roberts,Dawn ;
Khattri,Nidhi
This book is an outcome of a series of
study visits to Singapore for African policy makers
initiated by Jee-Peng Tan in 2005 with support from Tommy
Koh in Singapore...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66814Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Nabeshima,Kaoru ;
Yusuf,Shahid
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