The Annual Bank Conference on
Development Economics (ABCDE) is one of the best-known
conferences for the presentation and discussion of new
knowledge on development....
Effective legislatures are fundamental
to promoting good governance and are a critical component in
a country's overall governance framework. Although
differences exist...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45627Date: September 12, 2008Author:
Stapenhurst, Rick; Pelizzo, Riccardo; Olson,
David M.; von Trapp, Lisa;
Doing Business 2009, the sixth report in
the series, found that regulatory reforms are gaining
momentum worldwide, reaching record numbers between June
2007 and June...
Type: PublicationReport#: 50317Date: September 10, 2008
The purpose of this evaluation is
threefold. First, it seeks to assess how, and how well, the
World Bank Group has supported its public and private sector
clients in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44949Date: August 29, 2008
This report, getting finance in South
Asia 2009, published annually by the unit, reaffirms the
World Bank's commitment to working with developing
member countries to...
All countries fund safety net programs
for the protection of their people. Though an increasing
number of safety net programs are extremely well thought
out, adroitly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45496Date: August 25, 2008Author:
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Ouerghi,Azedine ;
Tesliuc,Emil Daniel ;
Del Ninno,Carlo
Data against natural disasters makes a
valuable contribution to our understanding of the conditions
and actions necessary for establishing effective disaster
management...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44983Date: August 12, 2008Author:
Amin, Samia; Goldstein, Markus;
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)
assessed the effectiveness of Bank support for
decentralization between fiscal 1990 and 2007 in 20
countries, seeking to inform...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45408Date: August 7, 2008
Symposium on foreign direct investment
(FDI); collecting the pieces of the FDI knowledge spillovers
puzzle; by Roger Smeets; can survey evidence shed light on
spillovers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54866Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Jimenez, Emmanuel ;
Feder, Gershon ;
Collins, Susan ;
Deaton, Angus ;
Eichengreen, Barry ;
Ndulu, Benno ;
Pack, Howard ;
Serven, Luis ;
Shetty, Sudhir ;
Walton, Michael
Haiti made good progress over the past
three years but major challenges remain to accelerating
growth and reducing poverty. After the lost decade
1994-2004, marked by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44651Date: July 25, 2008Author:
Pinto Moreira,Emmanuel
As numerous countries in Latin America
and the Caribbean and elsewhere are moving toward a second
phase of private participation in infrastructure programs
mostly through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45625Date: July 25, 2008Author:
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Guasch, J. Luis ;
Haven,Thomas Edward
The report has four main parts. In the
first, the commission reviews the 13 economies that have
sustained, high growth in the postwar period. Their growth
models had...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44986Date: July 23, 2008
The corridor between Malaysia and
Indonesia is the second largest remittance outflow for
Malaysia and the largest remittance inflow for Indonesia. In
the East Asia and...
This thematic study is about gender
equity in junior and senior secondary education in
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It consists of case studies of
Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44809Date: July 3, 2008Author:
Sutherland-Addy, Esi
This paper reviews the status of weather
and climate services in Europe and Central Asia
(ECA).Worldwide, the accuracy and value of weather and
climate services are...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the
transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union have witnessed dramatic changes in outputs, the nature
of jobs,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44648Date: June 27, 2008Author:
Mitra,Pradeep K.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the
transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union have witnessed dramatic changes in outputs, the nature
of jobs,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44648Date: June 27, 2008Author:
Mitra,Pradeep K.
Irrigation has made a major contribution
to poverty reduction in the past decades, enabling higher
yields and better nutrition. Despite these achievements,
large-scale...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45406Date: June 24, 2008
The workshop brings diverse perspectives
from outside the World Bank, providing a forum in which to
exchange ideas and debate in the course of developing the
World Development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45398Date: June 24, 2008Author:
Kochendorfer-Lucius,Gudrun ;
Pleskovic,Boris
This volume focuses on nine countries
that have completed, or are well along in the process of
carrying out, major health financing reforms. These
countries have significantly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44644Date: June 20, 2008Author:
Gottret, Pablo ;
Schieber, George J ;
Waters, Hugh R
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