Environmental degradation is costly, to
individuals, to societies, and to the environment. This
book, edited by Lelia Croitoru and Maria Sarraf, makes these
costs clear...
Type: PublicationReport#: 56295Date: July 16, 2010Author:
Croitoru,Lelia ;
Sarraf,Maria
The past decade has witnessed a major
global shift in thinking about water, including the role
that water infrastructure plays in sustainable development.
This rethinking...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55839Date: July 8, 2010Author:
Haas, Lawrence J. M.; Mazzei, Leonardo; O'Leary,
The supply and geographic distribution
of health workers are major constraints to improving health
in low-income countries. A number of recent studies have
highlighted...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55834Date: July 7, 2010Author:
De Laat, Joose ;
Hanson, Kara ;
Jack,William G. ;
Soucat,Agnes L. B.
In the last two decades new emphasis has
been given to the economic impact of geography, especially
on the cost of being landlocked. From a development
perspective,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55837Date: July 7, 2010Author:
Arvis,Jean Francois ;
Marteau,Jean-Francois ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
Although HIV prevalence in South Asia is
relatively low, the epidemic is growing among marginalized
groups, including sex workers, injection drug users, men who
have...
Overview, by Renate Kloeppinger-Todd and
Manohar Sharma. Financial Literacy, by Monique Cohen.
Community-Based Financial Organizations : Access to Finance
for the Poorest,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 71071Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Campaigne, Jonathan ;
Cohen,Monique ;
Collier, Benjamin ;
Deininger,Klaus W. ;
Mekonnen,Azeb Fissha ;
Gine,Xavier ;
Klein, Brigitte ;
Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate ;
Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate [editor] ;
Liu,Yanyan ;
Lonie, Susie ;
Mahajan, Vjay ;
Nair,Ajai ;
Rausch, Tom ;
Ritchie,Anne ;
Sharma,Manohar ;
Sharma, Manohar [editor] ;
Skees,Jerry R. ;
Vasumathi, K. ;
Wenner,Mark D. ;
Wiedmaier-Pfister, Martina ;
van Empel, Gerard
Global efforts continue to work towards
ensuring a world capable of preventing, detecting, and
responding to animal and public health risks attributable to
zoonoses...
International trade was deeply affected
by the global financial and economic crisis. Mimicking
worldwide trends, imports from and exports to the Middle
East and North...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55199Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Lopez-Calix, Jose R.; Walkenhorst, Peter;
Diop, Ndiame;
The amount of available water has been
constant for millennia, but over time the planet has added 6
billion people. Water is essential to human life and
enterprise,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55835Date: June 30, 2010Author:
Parker, Ronald S.
The World Bank is the world's
largest multilateral development institution, with a mission
to help developing countries reduce poverty and promote
global developmen...
Type: PublicationReport#: 72860Date: June 30, 2010
This evaluation assesses the performance
of International Finance Corporations (IFC's) energy
efficiency finance program in China aimed at stimulating
energy efficiency...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55549Date: June 30, 2010Author:
Hatashima,Hiroyuki
The amount of available water has been
constant for millennia, but over time the planet has added 6
billion people. Water is essential to human life and
enterprise,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55835Date: June 30, 2010Author:
Parker, Ronald S.
The aim of this book is to help policy
makers, especially in the least developed countries, address
the complexities of the organization, formulation, and
implementation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55548Date: June 25, 2010Author:
Saez, Sebastian;
Indigenous peoples across Latin America
and the Caribbean (LAC) already perceive and experience
negative effects of climate change and variability. Although
the overall...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55540Date: June 25, 2010Author:
Kronik, Jakob ;
Verner, Dorte
Trade facilitation and logistics have
become an important policy area in development. Supply chain
constraints are now recognized as a major impediment to
export led...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55838Date: June 24, 2010
This report focuses on East Asia's
sustainable energy development in its middle-income
countries: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Thailand, and Vietnam....
International trade in services also
provides an assessment of how policy makers can further
bolster their service industries by leveraging the changes
prompted by technological...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55544Date: June 24, 2010Author:
Cattaneo, Olivier; Engman, Michael, Saez,
Sebastian; Stern, Robert M.
The Ethiopian health sector faces a
number of challenges related to human resources, including
geographical imbalances in the distribution of health
workers, problems...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55545Date: June 24, 2010Author:
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Lindelow,
Magnus; Montalvo, Jose G.;
Throughout, the history of the Latin
America and Caribbean (LAC) region, natural resource wealth
has been critical for its economies. Production of precious
metals,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55550Date: June 24, 2010Author:
Sinnott, Emily; Nash, John; Torre, Augusto
de la;
This is a challenging time for Africa.
The combined effects of the global economic crisis, the need
for equitable allocation of natural resource assets, and the
ever-changing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55546Date: June 23, 2010Author:
Mcneil, Mary; Malena, Carmen;
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