Contents of the report are: Overview :
from media markets to policy; by Roumeen Islam. The
media's influence on public policy decisions; by David
Stromberg, and James...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44990Date: June 6, 2008Author:
Islam, Roumeen; Andrau, Pierre-Yves;
DellaVigna, Stefano; Gentzkow, Matthew; George, Lisa M.;
Harymurti, Bambang; Kaplan, Ethan; Levy, Jonathan D.; Majed, Ziad; ;
Ojo, Edeaten; Petrova, Maria; Puglisi,
Riccardo; Shapiro, Jesse M.; Snyder, Jr., James M.;
Stiglitz, Joseph; Stromberg, David; Waldfogel, Joel;
The main purpose of this study is to
assess the changing landscape of agricultural protection and
taxation patterns in the region. The study is based on the
EU-10 sample,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44641Date: June 5, 2008Author:
Anderson, Kym ;
Swinnen, Johan
This study analyzes the extent of
knowledge and technology absorption for firms in Europe and
Central Asia (ECA), as well as the factors that influence
absorption, using...
Realizing the potential of Latin America
and the Caribbean's (LAC) youth is essential not only
to their well-being, but also to the long-term welfare of
the whole region....
Type: PublicationReport#: 44823Date: May 30, 2008Author:
Cunningham, Wendy; McGinnis, Linda; Verdu,
Rodrigo García; Tesliuc, Cornelia; and Verner, Dorte;
Madagascar is making significant
progress in achieving its Education for All Initiative (EFA)
goals of providing universal primary education. It has
recently decided...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43974Date: May 23, 2008Author:
Ramanantoanina, Patrick Philippe
This series "New Frontiers of
Social Policy" aims to promote social development
through systematic attention to the underlying social
context and the social outcomes...
Somalia is considered the most fragile
of the fragile states: more than fifteen years of war and
cyclical natural catastrophes have placed an immense burden
on millions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43975Date: May 13, 2008Author:
Capobianco, Emanuele ;
Naidu, Veni
The analysis presented in this report
assembles, for the first time, evidence from a variety of
sources in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45624Date: May 8, 2008Author:
Alam, Asad ;
Anos Casero, Paloma ;
Khan, Faruk ;
Udomsaph, Charles
The analysis presented in this report
assembles, for the first time, evidence from a variety of
sources in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45624Date: May 8, 2008Author:
Alam, Asad ;
Anos Casero, Paloma ;
Khan, Faruk ;
Udomsaph, Charles
Contents of this report are: Strategic
Environmental Assessment (SEA) and policy formulation by
Kulsum Ahmed, and Ernesto Sanchez-Triana. Policy-level
strategic environmental...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44639Date: April 30, 2008Author:
Ahmed, Kulsum; Sanchez-Triana, Ernesto;
Ortolano, Leonard; Feldman, Martha S.; Khademian, Anne M.;
Morgenstern, Richard D.; Kende-Robb, Caroline; ;
Van Wicklin III, Warren A.; Blair, Harry;
Ebrahim, Alnoor;
Contents of the report are as follows:
East Asia education study tour: an overview of key insights
by Birger Fredriksen, and Tan Jee Peng. Education in Africa:
knowledge...
This series New Frontiers of Social
Policy aims to promote social development through systematic
attention to the underlying social context and the social
outcomes of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43963Date: April 29, 2008Author:
Dani, Anis A. ;
Haan, Arjan de
This introductory chapter summarizes the
insights from the visit and relates them to the education
challenges faced by countries in Sub-Saharan Africa today.
Chapter...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54304Date: April 29, 2008Author:
Fredriksen, birger ;
Jee Peng, Tan
The Forests Sourcebook is divided into
two parts. The first contains an introduction to the book
plus seven chapters covering topics associated with
enhancing the contribution...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44640Date: April 25, 2008Author:
Shah, Anwar
The Enron crisis offered a dramatic
reminder to regulators around the world that reliable
accounting standards are essential for markets to work
efficiently and fairly....
Type: PublicationReport#: 43972Date: April 25, 2008Author:
Pardina, Martin Rodriguez; Schlirf Rapti,
Richard; Groom, Eric;
Achieving universal primary education
and "Education for All" (EFA) is one of the
development priorities within the context of the millennium
development goals. In many...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43970Date: April 25, 2008Author:
Mulkeen, Aidan; Chen, Dandan;
The Singapore economy has undergone
significant stages of development since the 1960s. It has
grown from its traditional role as a regional port and
distribution center...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43968Date: April 18, 2008Author:
Fredriksen,Birger J. ;
Goh, Chor Boon, ;
Lee, Sing-Kong ;
Tan,Jee-Peng
The global monitoring report 2008 comes
at an important time. This year marks the halfway point in
the effort to achieve the millennium development goals
(MDGs) by 2015....
Type: PublicationReport#: 45403Date: April 14, 2008
The global monitoring report 2008 comes
at an important time. This year marks the halfway point in
the effort to achieve the millennium development goals
(MDGs) by 2015....
Type: PublicationReport#: 45403Date: April 14, 2008
This study is a follow-up to the Higher
Education for Francophone Africa's Development
Conference, held from June 13 to 15, 2006 in Ouagadougou at
the initiative of...
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.