This book is a collection of essays that
seeks to answer three interrelated sets of questions about
Africa's recent growth recovery. The first set of
essays addresses...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43976Date: April 14, 2008Author:
Go, Delfin S. ;
Page, John ;
Arbache, Jorge ;
Korman, Vijdan ;
Ye, Xiao ;
Chuhan-Pole, Punam ;
Fitzpatrick, Brendan ;
Devarajan, Shantayanan ;
Robinson, Sherman ;
Thierfelder, Karen ;
Lofgren, Hans ;
Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina ;
Ratha, Dilip ;
Mohapatra, Sanket ;
Plaza, Sonia ;
Raddatz, Claudio ;
Devlin, Julia ;
Lewin, Michael ;
Ranaweera, Thilakaratna ;
Budina, Nina ;
van Wijnbergen, Sweder ;
Andriamihaja, Noro ;
Vecchi, Giovanni ;
Essama-Nssah, B. ;
Kearney, Marna
The case studies focus on specific
attempts made by a number of small states to overcome the
handicaps of their size and isolation and take advantage of
growing opportunities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43961Date: April 9, 2008Author:
Favaro,Edgardo M.
The policy reforms called for in the
transition from a socialist command economy to a developing
market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a
country's citizens....
Type: PublicationReport#: 43966Date: April 7, 2008Author:
Ravallion,Martin ;
Van De Walle,Dominique
Since the mid-1990s, the International
Finance Corporation (IFC) has designed a number of
strategies for supporting micro, small, and medium-size
enterprises (MSMEs)....
Type: PublicationReport#: 44816Date: April 3, 2008
Youth and Africa have received increased
attention in recent policy discussions and World Bank work,
as articulated in the Africa action plan and the World
Development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45488Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Garcia, Marito ;
Fares, Jean
The cases from the forum presented here
capture the lessons from the science, technology, and
innovation (STI) capacity building experiences of both
developing and industrial...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43952Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Watkins,Alfred Jay ;
Ehst,Michael
Risk-based supervision of pension funds
grew out of a project that was jointly conducted by the
World Bank and the International Organization of Pension
Supervisors...
This publication reviews the experiences
of the World Bank and its clients in employing public
communication programs during the processes of privatization
and private...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45405Date: March 31, 2008Author:
Calabrese,Daniele
Inequalities and development:
dysfunctions, traps, and transitions by Anthony J.
Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan de Haan, and Michael Walton.
Asset inequality and agricultural...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43964Date: March 24, 2008Author:
Bebbington, Anthony J.; Dani, , Anis A.;
Haan, A ;
Ross, Michael L.; Boix, Carles;
To achieve the goals of sustainable
growth and poverty reduction, developing countries need
strong national institutions. To this end, the World Bank
has devoted significant...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40162Date: March 20, 2008Author:
Belman Inbal, Aliza ;
Chin, Helen
This paper tells a story about
conditions in Tanzania's hidden economy, the parts of
the natural resource sector often ignored in conventional
economic analyses and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42914Date: March 17, 2008
This report comprises the first phase of
analytical activities and focuses on the relevance of the
education and training systems in the Organization of
Eastern Caribbean...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42909Date: March 13, 2008Author:
Blom, Andreas ;
Hobbs, Cynthia
Can clusters be made to order? By Shahid
Yusuf. Lessons from the development of silicon valley and
its entrepreneurial support network for Japan by Martin
Kenney. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43971Date: March 12, 2008Author:
Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Yamashita,
Shoichi; Kenney, Martin; Che, Tain-Jy n; Wong, Poh-Kam;
Basant, Rakesh; Park, Sam Ock; Feldman, Maryann P.;
This book is about how Mexico can
transform itself into a knowledge based economy by tapping
into a number of existing socioeconomic advantages:
macroeconomic stability,...
The World Bank is committed to support
Sub-Saharan Africa in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
This Agenda for Action (AFA) is a road map for the next five
years...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43960Date: March 7, 2008Author:
Page,John ;
Byam,Gerard A. ;
Ansu,Yaw ;
Zewdie,Debrework
It has long been claimed that rural
electrification greatly improves the quality of life.
Lighting alone brings benefits such as increased study time
and improved study...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45400Date: March 6, 2008
The higher education and research sector
in the French-speaking countries of Africa has, for more
than a decade, been in a state of severe crisis, stemming
from an increasing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42911Date: February 27, 2008Author:
Gioan,Pierre Antoine
This thematic study discusses strategies
for sustainable financing of secondary education in
Sub-Saharan Africa. The report provides insight into options
for financing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42912Date: February 27, 2008Author:
Lewin,Keith M.
This report aims to fill in the
knowledge gap in this field by analyzing cross-country data
on basic indicators, and by carrying out more detailed
empirical analysis...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42851Date: February 27, 2008Author:
Mete, Cem
This factbook for 2008 attempts to
present numbers and facts behind the stories of
international migration and remittances, drawing on
authoritative, publicly available...
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