Tertiary education, and in particular
technical and engineering education, is critical to
India's aspirations of strengthening its reputation as
a major competitive...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54443Date: April 14, 2010Author:
Blom, Andreas ;
Cheong, Jannette
Indonesia has made improving the access
to health workers, especially in rural areas, and improving
the quality of health provider's key priority areas of
its next five-year...
Type: PublicationReport#: 73069Date: April 14, 2010Author:
Giles,John T. ;
Harimurti,Pandu ;
Yasmin Chrysanti,Puti ;
Rokx,Claudia ;
Satriawan,Elan ;
Yavuz,Elif
The little data book on Africa 2010 is a
pocket edition of Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2010.
It contains some 115 key indicators on economics, human
development,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55201Date: April 13, 2010Author:
Coquereaumont, Meta de ;
Trott, Christopher ;
Wilson, Elaine
The British finally granted independence
to India in 1947 but the British India was divided into two
independent states, India and Pakistan, in the acrimonious
process...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65380Date: April 12, 2010Author:
Mudahar,Mohinder S. ;
Ahmed,Raisuddin
This report reviews performance of
Uganda's health sector and assesses options for
increasing total health spending and improving efficiency of
health spending to improve...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53647Date: April 5, 2010Author:
Okwero, Peter; Tandon, Ajay; Sparkes, Susan;
McLaughlin, Julie; Hoogeveen, Johannes G.;
The commission on growth and development
was established in April 2006 as a response to two
observations. While the author felt that the benefits of
growth were not...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54253Date: April 2, 2010Author:
Leipziger,Danny M. ;
Spence,Andrew Michael
Before the current economic crisis hit
the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in 2008, energy
security was a major source of concern in Central and
Eastern Europe...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53882Date: March 29, 2010Author:
Besant-Jones, John ;
Busz, Henk ;
Gerner, Franz ;
Hogan, Thomas ;
Lamech, Ranjit ;
Nuorkivi, Arto ;
Petersen, Christian E. ;
Strongman, John ;
Stuggins, Gary ;
Vasquez, Claudia ;
Zanon, Andrea
Bangladesh is one of the world's
poorest countries. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's
140 million people reside in rural areas; of these, 20
percent live in extreme...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53877Date: March 29, 2010Author:
Asaduzzaman, Mohammad ;
Barnes, Douglas F. ;
Khandker, Shahidur R.
Drawing on the findings from responses
to a survey conducted in 2008-09 from 114 central banks
worldwide (of which 33 are in Africa), this paper aims to
better understand...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53884Date: March 26, 2010Author:
Irving,Jacqueline Theresa ;
Mohapatra,Sanket ;
Ratha,Dilip K.
Drug use and abuse is one of the most
difficult challenges facing the contemporary world. If it is
true that there has always been consumption of different
types of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53641Date: March 24, 2010Author:
Keefer, Philip ;
Loayza, Norman
The subject of migration, and how best
to manage it, has been moving up the policy agenda of the
European Union for some time now. Faced with an aging
population, possible...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53642Date: March 23, 2010Author:
Sabadie, Jesus Alquezar ;
Avato, Johanna ;
Bardak, Ummuhan ;
Panzica, Francesco ;
Popova, Natalia
This report is the second in a series of
studies on transport and aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan
Africa. It follows a study on transport costs and prices
along the...
For decades, the earnings from farming
in many developing countries have been depressed because of
a pro-urban, anti-agricultural bias in own-country policies
and because...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53879Date: March 17, 2010Author:
Anderson, Kym ;
Cockburn, John ;
Martin, Will
Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa see
information and communication technology (ICT) as a
necessary foundation for long-term economic development.
While the region...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63571Date: March 16, 2010Author:
Williams,Mark D. J.
Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa see
information and communication technology (ICT) as a
necessary foundation for long-term economic development.
While the region...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53643Date: March 16, 2010Author:
Williams, Mark D. J.
This report on the U.S.- Honduras
remittance corridor describes the remittance regulatory and
market environment, financial inclusion strategies by
financial institutions,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52103Date: March 12, 2010Author:
Endo, Isaku ;
Hirsch, Sarah ;
Rogge, Jan ;
Borowik, Kamil
Recent evidence suggests that increasing
overall service coverage and promoting access to
telecommunications services have a high economic benefit.
Overall, it is estimated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 51839Date: March 12, 2010Author:
Muente-Kunigami, Arturo ;
Navas-Sabater, Juan
Harnessing knowledge for development is
not a new concept. Knowledge has always been central to
development and can mean the difference between poverty and
wealth. The...
This document provides an overview the
status of agricultural insurance markets in 62 developed and
developing countries. Agriculture remains a source of
livelihood...
Type: PublicationReport#: 62496Date: March 8, 2010Author:
Mahul, Olivier ;
Stutley, Charles J.
Governments in developing countries have
been increasingly involved in the support of commercial
agricultural (crop and livestock) insurance programs in
recent years....
Type: PublicationReport#: 53881Date: March 8, 2010Author:
Mahul,Olivier ;
Stutley, Charles J.
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