This update of the projections in the
World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report (GEP) of
December 2008, reflects the rapid deterioration in financial
and economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48796Date: March 30, 2009
The handbook on poverty and inequality
provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and
analyze poverty. It provides background materials for
designing poverty...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48338Date: March 27, 2009Author:
Haughton,Jonathan ;
Khandker,Shahidur R.
A longstanding debate on health systems
organization relates to benefits of integrating health
programs that emphasize specific interventions into
mainstream health...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47980Date: March 26, 2009Author:
Atun, Rifat; de Jongh, Thyra; Secci,
Federica V.; Ohiri, Kelechi; Adeyi, Olusoji;
The book examines five ways through
which public-private contracts can help countries meet
education goals. First, public-private partnerships can
increase access to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47949Date: March 23, 2009Author:
Patrinos,Harry Anthony ;
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe
This publication aims to complement
existing methodologies by establishing a comprehensive
framework for the assessment of banks, not only by using
financial data, but...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48238Date: March 21, 2009Author:
Van Greuning, Hennie;Brajovic-Bratanovic, Sonja;
All of the former transition economies
in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe (CESE) inherited
from the era of central planning traditional defined-benefit
pension...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47812Date: March 17, 2009Author:
Guven,Melis U. ;
Holzmann,Robert
One of every two people in Sub-Saharan
Africa survives on less than $1.25 a day. That proportion
has changed little over the past three decades, unlike in
Asia and elsewhere,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47769Date: March 13, 2009Author:
Anderson, Kym; Masters, William A.;
This book takes a fresh look at export
diversification. It concludes that much of the recent
literature, though novel, has focused excessively on simply
adding new products...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48103Date: March 12, 2009Author:
Shaw, William [editor] ;
Walkenhorst, Peter [editor] ;
Newfarmer, Richard [editor]
Cotton is a major source of foreign
exchange earnings in more than 15 countries across all
regions of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) and a crucial source of
cash income for...
Ever since the early thought leaders
began to speak and write about doing business with the poor,
they have looked to India as a source of innovation and
experimentation...
Population aging is a worldwide
phenomenon, but it is particularly advanced in highly
developed northern countries. The retirement of the
baby-boom generation in these...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47687Date: March 4, 2009Author:
Holzmann, Robert;
Nigeria's vision of 2020 is a bold
desire to be among the top twenty economies by the year
2020. The economy has posted impressive growth figures since
2003 driven by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47607Date: February 24, 2009Author:
Iarossi, Giuseppe ;
Mousley, Peter ;
Radwan, Ismail
This book offers an original perspective
on HIV and AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a
region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national
HIV prevalence...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47608Date: February 19, 2009Author:
Haacker, Markus; Claeson, Mariam;
This primer is a tool for city
governments in the East Asia Region to better understand how
to plan for climate change impacts and impending natural
disasters through...
The main objective of the Life in
Transition Survey (LiTS) was to assess the impact of
transition on people, and so the survey questionnaire
covered four main themes....
Type: PublicationReport#: 47612Date: February 19, 2009Author:
Zaidi, Salman; Alam, Asad; Mitra, Pradeep; Sunda
Namibia is a large country in Southern
Africa that borders the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola
to the north and South Africa to the south. With a surface
area of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48596Date: February 13, 2009
There are many important questions to
ask about the widespread push toward world-class status for
universities around the world. Why is
'world-class' the standard to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47610Date: February 10, 2009Author:
Salmi,Jamil
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are
programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households,
on the condition that those households make pre specified
investments...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47603Date: February 9, 2009Author:
Fiszbein, Ariel; Schady, Norbert; Ferreira, Fran
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are
programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households,
on the condition that those households make pre specified
investments...
Type: PublicationReport#: 61390Date: February 9, 2009Author:
Ferreira,Francisco H. G. ;
Fiszbein,Ariel ;
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Keleher,Niall ;
Olinto,Pedro ;
Schady,Norbert Rudiger ;
Skoufias,Emmanuel
Sub-Saharan African countries are
increasingly recognizing the contribution of post basic
education to economic growth and social development.
However, policy makers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47289Date: February 4, 2009Author:
Bashir, Sajitha
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