The objective of this volume is to
document the patterns of business regulation across the
world and review their impact on aggregate economic
performance. The volume...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52859Date: January 11, 2010Author:
Loayza, Norman V. ;
Serven, Luis
Promoting women's economic
empowerment is increasingly seen as an important driving
force behind economic growth and the fight against poverty.
Women's economic participation...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52861Date: January 6, 2010Author:
Blackden,C. Mark ;
Manuel,Clare ;
Simavi,Sevi
The purpose of this book is to provide a
coherent overview of the insolvency systems found around the
world. Its intended audience includes academics, judges,
lawyers,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68423Date: January 5, 2010Author:
Booth,Charles D. ;
Paulus, Christoph G. ;
Rajak,Harry H. ;
Westbrook, Jay Lawrence
In May 2008, the Commission released the
growth report: strategies for sustained growth and inclusive
development. At that time, the financial systems of the
United...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52462Date: January 5, 2010
In May 2008, the commission on growth
and development (the growth commission) issued its report
entitled 'the growth report'. In it the commission
attempted to distill...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52708Date: January 4, 2010Author:
Brady, David ;
Spence, Michael
In today's increasingly integrated
global economy, trade liberalization plays a key role in
extending the dynamics of international markets to
developing countries....
Type: PublicationReport#: 77771Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Cook, Jonathan A. ;
Cylke, Owen ;
Larson,Donald F. ;
Nash,John D. ;
Stedman-Edwards, Pamela
Cost-benefit analysis used to be one of
the World Bank's signature issues. It helped establish
the World Bank's reputation as a knowledge bank and
served to demonstrate...
Type: PublicationReport#: 62468Date: January 1, 2010
This publication, 'mother tongue as
bridge language of instruction: policies and experiences in
Southeast Asia,' presents a compendium of language
policies, case studies,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 56329Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Kosonen, Kimmo ;
Young, Catherine
The World Bank has been administering on
behalf of the government of Indonesia, an Asian Financial
Crisis Response Trust Fund (ASEM) grant which aims to
develop a methodology...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53692Date: January 1, 2010
The world economy is emerging from the
throes of a historically deep and synchronized recession
provoked by the bursting of a global financial bubble. The
consequences...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53098Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Burns, Andrew ;
Shaw, William ;
Janse Van Rensburg, Theo
This study was undertaken by the World
Bank in its initiative to support Brazil's integrated
effort towards reducing national and global emissions of
greenhouse gases...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63029Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Gouvello, Christophe de
Economic development theorists and
practitioners have long focused attention on the question of
the impact of food prices on poverty in developing
countries. The interest...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66677Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Aksoy,M. Ataman ;
Hoekman,Bernard M.
This guide is about understanding the
livelihood impacts of first-generation Reducing emissions
from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing
forest carbon...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63757Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Jagger, Pamela ;
Sills, Erin O. ;
Lawlor, Kathleen ;
Sunderlin, William D.
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region
has been hit by a crisis on multiple fronts. Countries in
ECA are facing major, interrelated, external macro-financial
shocks....
Type: PublicationReport#: 52277Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Gueorguieva,Anna ;
Levin,Victoria ;
Subbarao,Kalanidhi ;
Sugawara,Naotaka ;
Sulla,Victor ;
Taylor,Ashley D. ;
Tiongson,Erwin H. R.
Integration into the global economy
offers an enormous opportunity for reducing poverty, hunger,
and economic injustice. Increasing competition on the
domestic market,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63275Date: January 1, 2010
Lifting people out of poverty is one of
the great challenges facing the international community
today. It has become still more daunting in the context of
the global...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
provide a multidimensional framework for attacking poverty
in a world of multi-polar growth. By focusing on measurable
results,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 56800Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Go, Delfin ;
Swanson, Eric
This book aims to inform and update
public and private decision makers involved in promoting
agricultural insurance about recent developments in
agriculture insurance....
Type: PublicationReport#: 62495Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Mahul, Olivier ;
Stutley, Charles J.
Chile is Latin America's most
successful economy and enjoys great natural wealth. Over
recent years the country has made progress not only in
economic development, but...
Type: PublicationReport#: 62727Date: January 1, 2010
The World Bank Group's (WBG)
safeguards and sustainability policies were put in place to
prevent or mitigate adverse impacts of its projects on
people and the environment....
Type: PublicationReport#: 63896Date: January 1, 2010
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