Expanding housing finance to the
underserved in South Asia, a first regional effort on the
topic, examines housing needs and shortages in South Asia,
and outlines shortcomings...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55543Date: June 22, 2010Author:
Nenova, Tatiana;
Slow progress in improving the coverage
of Latin America and the Caribbean's (LAC's)
traditional social protection (SP) programs, combined with
the deepening of democracy,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55547Date: June 22, 2010Author:
Ribe, Helena; Robalino, David A.; Walker, Ian;
The recent global financial meltdown was
a revelation in one sense. Before the crisis there had been
a belief that banks could never fail, a belief that
encouraged overleveraging...
Much of the work on reform and
development has focused on the identification and diagnosis
of problems and on the formulation of technically sound
measures to address...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55836Date: June 21, 2010Author:
Andrews, Matt ;
McConnell, Jesse ;
Wescott, Alison
The Annual Bank Conference on
Development Economics (ABCDE) brings fresh, innovative
perspectives to key problems of development. By providing a
forum in which policy...
This book discusses the wide range of
challenges faced by policy makers in the pharmaceutical
sector, presents the current know-how in terms of policy
measures, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55203Date: June 17, 2010Author:
Seiter, Andreas;
The goal of this book is to shed light
on the extent to which Nigeria's much improved economic
performance has impacted the labor market, and to develop a
growth strategy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55023Date: June 17, 2010Author:
Treichel, Volker
Life chances explore the state of
equality of opportunities in Turkey. It builds on the
concepts and ideas presented in the World Development Report
2006: equity and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 56797Date: June 16, 2010Author:
Hentschel, Jesko ;
Aran, Meltem ;
Can, Raif ;
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. ;
Gignoux, Jeremie ;
Uraz, Arzu
Since the early 1980s, the structure of
arrangements to provide retirement income has gradually
moved from defined benefit (DB) systems to various types of
arrangements...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52709Date: June 14, 2010Author:
Hinz, Richard ;
Rudolph, Heinz P. ;
Antolin, Pablo ;
Yermo, Juan
Kenya private sector is one of the most
developed and dynamic in Sub Saharan Africa. In this
context, USAID/Kenya requested that the Private Sector
Partnerships-One...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55202Date: June 7, 2010Author:
Barnes, Jeff ;
O'Hanlon, Barbara ;
Feeley, Frank ;
McKeon, Kimberly ;
Gitonga, Nelson ;
Decker, Caytie
There are more poor people and poverty
reaches further into middle-income countries around the
world than ever before. Adequate governmental capacity
development is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55538Date: June 6, 2010Author:
Blindenbacher,Raoul Joseph
The recent financial crisis is
challenging the reform approach to mandated pension a scheme
that has emerged over recent decades across the world. This
reform approach...
Despite a fair amount of progress on
understanding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
epidemiology globally, the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA) region is the only...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54889Date: June 4, 2010Author:
Abu-Raddad, Laith J. ;
Akala,Francisca Ayodeji ;
Riedner, Gabriele ;
Semini,Iris ;
Tawil, Ousama ;
Wilson, David
The conference brought together 44
African ministers of finance and of education from 28
African countries for a structured dialogue on sustaining
Africa's economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54444Date: June 1, 2010Author:
Fredriksen, Birger ;
Righetti, Petra
This issue includes the following:
Corporate governance at the World Bank and the dilemma of
global governance, by Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker.
Measuring household usage...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73275Date: June 1, 2010Author:
Braun, Matias ;
Cuaresma,Jesus Crespo ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
Hertel,Thomas W. ;
Jesse,Cornelia ;
Kaja, Ashwin ;
Lassibille,Gerard ;
Leister, Amanda M. ;
Martin, Will ;
Nguyen,Trang Van ;
Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique ;
Scott,Katherine M. ;
Tan,Jee-Peng ;
Werker,Eric
The commission on growth and development
was established in April 2006. It felt that the benefits of
growth were not fully appreciated, but also recognized that
the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48739Date: May 29, 2010Author:
Spence Michael ; Lewis Maureen
The presentation of innovation policy in
this volume offers a detailed conceptual framework for
understanding and learning about technology innovation
policies and programs...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54893Date: May 25, 2010Author:
Aubert, Jean-Eric ;
Chen, Derek ;
Kim, Ronald ;
Kuznetzov, Yevgeny ;
Larsen, Kurt ;
Theus, Florian ;
Utz, Anuja ;
White, Justine ;
Dahlman, Carl ;
Dubarle, Patrick ;
Gaudin, Thierry ;
Leray, Thais ;
Welsum, Desiree Van
The goal of Poverty Reduction Support
Credits (PRSCs), introduced in early 2001 under World Bank
Interim guidelines, was to help countries implement
comprehensive, country-owned...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55026Date: May 21, 2010Author:
Gray,Cheryl W. ;
Sundberg,Mark ;
Thomas,Vinod
A number of development partners,
including the World Bank, have been actively supporting the
health sector in Afghanistan since 2003-04 (1382 AC).
Collectively, they...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54895Date: May 19, 2010Author:
Belay, Tekabe A.
The commission on growth and development
was established in April 2006 in response to two insights:
people do not talk about growth enough, and when they do,
they speak...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54891Date: May 18, 2010Author:
Kanbur,Ravi ;
Spence,Andrew Michael
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