The purpose of the current flagship
report is to address energy access and related developmental
issues in East Asia Pacific (EAP) that so far have received
less attention...
Financing Africa: through the crisis and
beyond is a call to arms for a new approach to Africa's
financial sector development. First, policy makers should
focus on increasing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64664Date: September 7, 2011Author:
Beck, Thorsten ;
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele ;
Faye, Issa ;
Triki, Thouraya
This edtion of the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) economic developments and prospects reports
focuses foresees an improvement compared to its last
forecast in May...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75725Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Ianchovichina, Elena; Freund, Caroline
The Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC) region has the highest urbanization rate in the
developing world, with 80 percent of the population living
in cities. It is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70283Date: September 1, 2011
This book is a call to rethink migration
regimes in Southern Africa in ways that are more explicitly
developmental and focused on poverty. Current policy debates
are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64411Date: August 23, 2011Author:
Landau,Loren B. ;
Segatti, Aurelia
Technological innovation drives economic
progress. Information and communication technologies (ICT)
can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this
potential depends...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65375Date: August 11, 2011Author:
Flanagan,Ann Elizabeth ;
Ruiz,L. Keta ;
Wegner,Stephan R.
Technological innovation drives economic
progress. Information and communication technologies (ICT)
can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this
potential depends...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65375Date: August 11, 2011Author:
Flanagan,Ann Elizabeth ;
Ruiz,L. Keta ;
Wegner,Stephan R.
Technological innovation drives economic
progress. Information and communication technologies (ICT)
can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this
potential depends...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65375Date: August 11, 2011Author:
Flanagan,Ann Elizabeth ;
Ruiz,L. Keta ;
Wegner,Stephan R.
This issue includes the following: the
new structural economics comments on the new structural
economics; gender and firm creation; enterprise performance;
and business...
Type: PublicationReport#: 80523Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Jimenez, Emmanuel ;
Serven, Luis ;
Alderman, Harold ;
Eichengreen, Barry ;
Fay, Marianne ;
Hammer, Jeffrey S. ;
Kanbur, Ravi ;
Pack, Howard ;
Revenga, Ana L. ;
Harrison, Ann E.
What will South Asia look like in 2025?
The optimistic outlook is that India, which accounts for 80
per cent of the regional economic output, is headed towards
double-digit...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65420Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Ghani,Ejaz
A large section of the Nepalese
population is deprived of electricity coverage despite huge
hydropower potential, particularly in rural areas. About 63
percent of Nepalese...
Remittance inflows play a crucial role
in Nepal's economy. Officially recorded remittances
already amounted to almost a quarter of the Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63405Date: July 18, 2011Author:
Afram,Gabi George ;
Endo,Isaku
Approximately two billion dollars a day
of petroleum are traded worldwide, which makes petroleum the
largest single item in the balance of payments and exchanges
between...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63437Date: July 13, 2011Author:
Arfaa,Noora ;
Tordo,Silvana ;
Tracy,Brandon S.
Despite substantial improvements in
access to basic education and steady economic growth, The
Gambia still faces considerable challenges in respect to
reducing poverty....
Type: PublicationReport#: 63845Date: July 8, 2011Author:
Lahire, Nathalie ;
Johanson, Richard ;
Wilcox, Ryoko Tomita
Examining innovative ways to address
Africa's infrastructure deficit is at the heart of this
analysis. Africa's infrastructure stock and quality is
among the least developed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63433Date: July 5, 2011Author:
Shendy, Riham ;
Kaplan, Zachary ;
Mousley, Peter
With an income per capita US$400 in
2008, Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the
world. Poverty is widespread but with significant
urban-rural differences...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63255Date: July 5, 2011Author:
Kruse,Ioana L. ;
Sharp,Maryanne
This paper describes the economic
importance of the service sector in Central European Free
Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries and current barriers to
trade in services...
This book gathers in one volume all the
information related to Automated DEC [Development Economics
- Vice Presidency at the World Bank] Poverty Tables (ADePT)
Edu,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63252Date: June 30, 2011Author:
Arcia,Gustavo J. ;
Lokshin,Michael M. ;
Macdonald,Kevin Alan David ;
Porta Pallais,Emilio Ernesto ;
Radyakin,Sergiy
The World Bank's Communication for
Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) has spent
several years exploring the linkages between the media and
governance reform....
Type: PublicationReport#: 63256Date: June 29, 2011Author:
Kalathil, Shanthi
This book reviews the experience with
one specific though widely introduced approach to funding
general education, namely per capita financing (PCF), in six
countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63434Date: June 29, 2011Author:
Alonso, Juan Diego ;
Sanchez, Alonso
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