Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model
of a country with successful social policies, yet for
decades it has faced major challenges in providing
employment and satisfying...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54434Date: May 11, 2010Author:
Gunatilaka,Ramani Sonali ;
Mayer, Markus ;
Vodopivec,Milan
This book provides an overview of the
World Bank's Eco2 Cities Initiative. The objective of
the program is to help cities in developing countries
achieve a greater degree...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54432Date: May 7, 2010Author:
Suzuki,Hiroaki ;
Dastur,Arish Adi ;
Moffatt, Sebasti
This evaluation, which covers the period
fiscal 2002-08, finds that the Bank made progress in gender
integration, compared with an earlier evaluation by the
Independent...
The current global financial and
economic crises are likely to put enormous pressure on
governments to respond with immediate measures and to
undertake far-reaching...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55567Date: May 5, 2010Author:
Carvalho,Soniya
This book suggests how that exploration
should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a
solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and
reasonable...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54431Date: May 4, 2010Author:
Lora, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew; Praag,
Bernard M.
What is the human cost of the global
economic crisis? How many people will the crisis prevent
from escaping poverty, and how many will remain hungry? How
many more infants...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54438Date: May 4, 2010Author:
Go, Delfin Sia.
East Asia and the Pacific is a region of
dynamic growth. Women have contributed significantly to this
growth and have benefited from it through active
participation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54437Date: May 3, 2010Author:
Ellis, Amanda ;
Kirkwood, Daniel ;
Malhotra, Dhruv
The purpose of these guidelines is to
define the Bank’s policies and procedures for selecting,
contracting, and monitoring consultants required for
projects that are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 95663Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Milyutin,Andrey
The report highlights the close linkages
between child labor and broader development objectives, and
the consequent need to address child labor as an important
component...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64515Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Rosati, Furio C.
The report presents evidence of
country-specific child labor situations and trends, of
reasons why child labor matters from a child rights and
national development perspective,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64513Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Rosati, Furio C.
With cities accounting for half the
world's population today, and two-thirds of global
energy demand, urbanization is exacting a serious toll on
the environment. As...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54433Date: April 29, 2010Author:
Bose, Ranjan K.
East Asia has recovered from the
economic and financial crisis. Largely thanks to China, the
region's output, exports and employment have mostly
returned to the levels...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54436Date: April 28, 2010Author:
Izvorski, Ivailo;
This study aims mainly at understanding
the performance of primary health care (PHC) providers in
four Nigerian states and the variables driving this
performance. The...
The corruption that often captures
newspaper headlines and provokes worldwide public
disapproval is dominated by loud 'big-time
corruption,' notably administrative and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53880Date: April 27, 2010Author:
Arbache, Jorge Saba ;
Habyarimana, James ;
Molini, Vasco
This book aims to help policy makers
take advantage of the opportunities presented by increased
cross-border trade in information technology (IT) services
and IT-enabled...
This report demonstrated that the key
for success in a globalized world lies increasingly in how
effectively a country can assimilate the available knowledge
and build...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54441Date: April 21, 2010Author:
Experton,William ;
Fevre,Chloe
This report brings together the results
of an eight-part series of presentations by leading experts
in issues directly related to microfinance institutional
sustainability....
Type: PublicationReport#: 54252Date: April 21, 2010Author:
Goldberg,Michael J. ;
Palladini,Eric
This report summarizes the past 10 years
(1998-2008) of World Bank engagement at the state level in
four selected large federal countries: Brazil, India,
Nigeria, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54435Date: April 21, 2010Author:
Atanesyan, Konstantin ;
Kavalsky, Basil ;
]ahan, Sarwat ;
Kanbur, Ravi ;
Webb, Steven ;
O'Brien, Thomas ;
Vaan, Tim De ;
Tan, Cecilia ;
de Asis, Corky ;
Hurlbut, William ;
McEuen, Caroline
The paper is focused on the banking
sector, not on other financial and nonfinancial sectors
vulnerable to the laundering of corrupt funds. These other
sectors may find...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54250Date: April 19, 2010Author:
Greenberg, Theodore S. ;
Gray, Larissa ;
Schantz, Delphine ;
Gardner, Carolin ;
Latham, Michael
The Government of Rwanda has identified
human resources for health as one of its Policy priorities.
This study aims to contribute to building a better
understanding...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54442Date: April 14, 2010Author:
Lievens, Tomas ;
Serneels, Pieter ;
Butera, J. Damascene ;
Soucat, Agnes
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