A fundamental question facing East Asia,
especially its low- and middle income economies, is how to
sustain or even accelerate the growth of recent decades.
From 1950...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64952Date: November 3, 2011Author:
Di Gropello,Emanuela
This report, the puppet masters, deals
with the corporate and financial structures that form the
building blocks of hidden money trails. In particular, it
focuses on...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65125Date: November 3, 2011Author:
Van Der Does De Willebois,Emile Johannes Marie ;
Halter,Emily Marie ;
Harrison,Robert Anthony ;
Park,Ji Won ;
Sharman,Jason Campbell
Education is improving in Brazil. The
average years of education has almost doubled over the last
20 years, as has the proportion of adults who have completed
secondary...
Growth in developing East Asia in the
first half of 2011 remained strong, but continued to
moderate, mainly due to weakening external demand. Global
growth was also...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65796Date: November 1, 2011
There are two common problems in flood
hydrology: 1) estimate the return period for a given flood;
and 2) estimate the flood for a given return period. A
commonly used...
Type: PublicationReport#: 78255Date: November 1, 2011Author:
Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio ;
Valdes,Juan B.
This book examines the state and the
fate of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). The volume has
three key objectives: to provide qualitative and
quantitative information...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65456Date: November 1, 2011Author:
Anderson,Kym ;
Blandford,David ;
Borchert,Ingo ;
Bouët, Antoine ;
Brown, Chad P. ;
Gootiiz,Batshur ;
Grant,Jason Hugh ;
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Josling,Timothy E. ;
Debucquet,David Laborde ;
Martin, Will ;
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
Meilke,Karl ;
Nelgen,Signe ;
Prusa,Thomas J. ;
Subramanian,Arvind ;
Taylor,Benjamin J. ;
Wilson,John S. ;
Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth ;
Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique
There are two common problems in flood
hydrology: 1) estimate the return period for a given flood;
and 2) estimate the flood for a given return period. A
commonly used...
Type: PublicationReport#: 78255Date: November 1, 2011Author:
Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio ;
Valdes,Juan B.
Throughout the developed and developing
world there is growing demand for policies that would
facilitate access to jobs by the most vulnerable, improve
their earnings,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65547Date: October 31, 2011Author:
Holzmann, Robert ;
Vodopivec, Milan
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#: 73167Date: October 20, 2011
The specific structure of the book is as
follows: chapter one reviews the current situation of Latin
America, which historically has been a laggard in economic
performance....
Type: PublicationReport#: 65655Date: October 11, 2011Author:
Devlin, Robert ;
Moguillansky, Graciela
Over the last 20 years, the
international community has significantly stepped up its
efforts to prevent, detect, and deter money flows related to
criminal activities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65176Date: October 11, 2011Author:
Yikona, Stuart ;
Slot, Brigie ;
Geller, Michael ;
Hansen, Bjarne ;
Kadiri, Fatima el
The countries of Europe and Central Asia
(ECA) are currently emerging from the deepest recession
suffered by any developing region. Post-crisis conditions
are very different...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65205Date: October 11, 2011Author:
Abu-Ghaida,Dina N. ;
Bodewig,Christian ;
Murthi,Mamta ;
Rutkowski,Jan J. ;
Sondergaard,Lars M.
The size, resources, and location of the
Democratic Republic of Congo have an impact on all of
Central Africa. The country has unexplored mining resources,
massive agricultural...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64821Date: October 6, 2011Author:
Herderschee, Johannes ;
Kaiser, Kai-Alexander ;
Mukoko Samba, Daniel
This year's Africa development
indicators, which covers some 1,700 macroeconomic, sectoral,
and human development indicators dating to the 1960s, comes
at a critical...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64936Date: October 4, 2011
This is the third edition of The World
Bank Legal Review. The rule of law is not just a set of
rules and their judicial application. As the third volume of
the World...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65371Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Bradlow, Daniel D. [editor] ;
Cisse, Hassane [editor] ;
Kingsbury, Benedict [editor]
This paper is organized in following
headings: what constrains Africa's exports?; does the
internet reduce corruption? evidence from United States and
across countries;...
Type: PublicationReport#: 80518Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck ;
Bardasi,Elena ;
Beegle,Kathleen G. ;
Bentzen, Jeanet ;
Chavis, Larry W. ;
Dalgaard,Carl Johan ;
Dillon,Andrew S. ;
Freund,Caroline ;
Gine,Xavier ;
Klapper, Leora F. ;
Lederman,Daniel ;
Love,Inessa ;
Mansuri,Ghazala ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Picon,Mario G. ;
Rocha Gaffurri,Nadia Patrizia ;
Rodriguez-Clare,Andres ;
Selaya,Pablo ;
Serneels,Pieter Maria ;
Woodruff,Christopher Marshall ;
Xu,Yi Daniel ;
De Mel,Suresh
This report synthesizes knowledge about
the effects of natural hazards on human welfare,
particularly in its economic aspects. It is a remarkable
combination of case...
Type: PublicationReport#: 57860Date: September 22, 2011Author:
Ramachandran, S. ;
de la Fuente, Alejandro ;
Tonizzo, Martina ;
Sahin, Sebnem ;
Adam, Bianca ;
Sanghi, Apurva
This book builds on the lessons from
public institutions and programs to support innovation, both
successful and failed, from Europe and Central Asia (ECA) as
well as...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64700Date: September 22, 2011Author:
Goldberg, Itzhak ;
Goddard, John Gabriel ;
Kuriakose, Smita ;
Racine, Jean-Louis
For middle-income and developing
countries as well as some industrial nations a major
challenge for building and sustaining successful research
universities is determining...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64668Date: September 21, 2011Author:
Altbach, Philip G. [editor] ;
Salmi, Jamil [editor]
This report contributes to the effort to
improve Middle East and North Africa's (MENA's)
growth and employment performance by providing a diagnostic
of MENA's financial...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64937Date: September 21, 2011Author:
Rocha, Roberto R. ;
Arvai, Zsofia ;
Farazi, Subika
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