This book reviews Vietnam's
successes and the challenges it faces, and goes on to
suggest some options for further reforming the
country's health system. Options for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47388Date: January 23, 2009Author:
Lieberman, Samuel S. ;
Wagstaff, Adam
Over the past few years, three nagging
problems have bedeviled Zambia's health sector: the
country is falling off-track from reaching the Millennium
Development Goals...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47110Date: January 22, 2009Author:
Picazo, Oscar F. ;
Zhao, Feng
The overwhelming evidence of
inequalities in health outcomes and in the use of health
services calculated and disseminated by the World Bank and
other development agencies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47109Date: January 8, 2009Author:
Yazbeck, Abdo S.
In this introduction, the authors do
three things. They first introduce the puzzle and relate it
to existing interpretations from market reformists and their
critics,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47605Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Levy, Santiago; Walton, Michael;
Based on analysis of recent data on the
evolution of global temperatures, snow and ice covers, and
sea level rise, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47604Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Torre, Augusto de la; Fajnzylber, Pablo;
Nash, John;
The world is facing the most severe
global economic crisis since the great depression of the
1930s. For the first time since Second World War, world
gross domestic product...
Type: PublicationReport#: 56064Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Evenett, Simon J. ;
Hoekman, Bernard M. ;
Cattaneo, Olivier
This country assistance evaluation
reviews World Bank support to the Arab Republic of Egypt
from fiscal 1999 through 2007. Egypt's economic
performance over the period...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48688Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Arslan, Ismail
The country studies in this volume
analyze the link between globalization and working
conditions in Cambodia, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia,
and Madagascar. These...
Type: PublicationReport#: 49916Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla; Pierre,
Gaelle; Sanchez-Puerta, María Laura
This book provides an overview of the
evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused
by price, trade, and exchange rate policies in a large
sample of countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 51279Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Anderson, Kym
This publication reflects the tremendous
progress that Sao Paulo has made in becoming a city that
serves all its citizens. Assisted by outstanding
coordination from...
This issue includes the following:
dollar a day revisited, by Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen,
and Prem Sangraula; evidence on changes in aid allocation
criteria, by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 62985Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Cassimon,Danny Pierre ;
Chen,Shaohua ;
Claessens, Stijn ;
Clemens, John ;
Fafchamps,Marcel ;
Javorcik,Beata ;
Jeuland,Marc ;
Kandilov,Ivan ;
Lucas, Marcelino ;
De Melo,Jaime A. P. ;
Owens,Trudy ;
Ravallion,Martin ;
Sangraula,Prem ;
Spatareanu,Mariana ;
Van Campenhout,Bjorn Fh ;
Whittington,Dale ;
De Walque,Damien B. C. M.
The rationale for systematic assessment
of priorities for agricultural research for development is
explained and introduced in this chapter. A brief overview
is provided...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63355Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Raitzer, David A. ;
Norton, George W.
An efficient and affordable access to
jobs, education and services is considered a fundamental
element for development. However, the mobility conditions in
the citi...
Type: PublicationReport#: 50462Date: January 1, 2009
This report examines whether
International Finance Corporation (IFC), over the period
from July 1998 to December 2007: (i) defined a relevant and
appropriate strategy...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53846Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Rebolledo Dellepiane,Miguel Angel
The global economic crisis has reversed
some of the gains in living standards that the developing
world has made over the last decade. Concerns are mounting
about lasting...
Type: PublicationReport#: 51172Date: January 1, 2009
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: January 1, 2009Author:
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
With the growing emphasis on the
assessment of aid effectiveness and the need to measure the
results of development interventions, it is no longer
acceptable for governments,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52232Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Bamberger, Michael
Since independence Ukraine has been in
the midst of an unprecedented demographic decline combined
with a health crisis. Imbalanced economic growth, political
turbulence,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 51829Date: January 1, 2009
The release of this year's global
economic prospects finds the world economy at a crossroads.
Markets all over the world are engulfed in a global economic
crisis, with...
Type: PublicationReport#: 46820Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Baffes,John ;
Mitchell, Donald ;
Riordan, Elliot (Mick) ;
Shaw,William ;
Streifel,Shane S. ;
Timmer,Hans
This report is on the findings of a
major international research project examining the links
between trade, gender, and poverty. Trade liberalization can
create economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48455Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Bussolo, Mauricio ; De Hoyos, Rafael E.
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