This book focuses on the institutional
innovations needed to lead the diffusion of the new
information and communication technology (ICT) that can help
transform developing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42531Date: January 3, 2008Author:
Hanna,Nagy K.
This issue includes the following: trade
liberalization and growth: new evidence, by Romain Wacziarg
and Karen Horn Welch; comprehensive wealth and future
consumption:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53728Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Barham,Bradford L. ;
Bhargava,Alok ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
De Melo,Jaime A. P. ;
Docquier, Frédéric ;
Dreher,Axel ;
Effron,Laurie ;
Ferreira,Susana ;
Girma, Sourafel ;
Gitter,Seth Richard ;
Gong, Yundan ;
Görg, Holger ;
Hamilton,Kirk E. ;
Nunnenkamp, Peter ;
O'Ryan, Raúl ;
Sánchez, José Miguel ;
Thiele, Rainer ;
Vincent,Jeffrey R. ;
Wacziarg,Romain ;
Welch, Karen Horn
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: January 1, 2008Author:
Lewin,Keith M.
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: January 1, 2008Author:
Lewin,Keith M.
Dams have brought considerable benefits
to many countries and regions. They have enabled improvement
and expansion of hydropower generation; irrigated
agriculture; water...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45524Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Bhatia, Ramesh ;
Cestti,Rita E. ;
Malik,Ravinder Paul Singh ;
Scatasta,Monica
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: January 1, 2008Author:
Lewin,Keith M.
This paper updates the 1997 World Bank
Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) strategy to enhance
Bank capacity so that it continues to contribute to this
virtuous...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40928Date: January 1, 2008
Doing Business 2008, the fifth report in
the series, found that large emerging markets, such as
China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Vietnam, were
reforming fast....
Type: PublicationReport#: 41938Date: January 1, 2008
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: January 1, 2008Author:
Lewin,Keith M.
Russian economy has been growing at an
average nominal rate of 6 percent annually for the past
decade. Among the most important factors contributing to its
expansion...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79450Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Desai,Raj M. ;
Goldberg,Itzhak
The role of parliament in
conflict-affected countries becomes even more evident when
the correlation between poverty and conflict is considered.
This book is pioneering...
Russia has joined the club of rapidly
growing economies, driven by rising prices for oil and gas.
Russian authorities are concerned about sustaining this
economic performance,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 111709Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Desai,Raj M. ;
Goldberg,Itzhak
This issue includes the following: post
conflict transition: an overview, by Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi.
Short-and long-term effects of United Nations peace
operations,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 51345Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Davies, Victor A.B.; Kaltani, Linda; Schmidt-Heb ;
Elbadawi, Ibrahim Ahmed; Sambanis, Nicholas; Kee
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: January 1, 2008Author:
Lewin,Keith M.
The Africa Development Indicators 2007
essay explores the patterns of growth in Sub- Saharan Africa
over the past three decades. It finds that the volatility of
growth-an...
Type: PublicationReport#: 57488Date: January 1, 2008
The Little Data Book on Africa 2007 is a
pocket edition of Africa Development Indicators 2007. It
contains some 100 key indicators on economics, human
development, governance,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75576Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Arbache, Jorge ;
Mungai, Rose
This assessment, reflecting
poverty's many dimensions in Mozambique, combines
multiple disciplines and diagnostic tools to explore
poverty. It draws on a combination...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45087Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Fox, Louise; Manuel Benfica, Rui;
Ehrenpreis, Ma
This issue includes the following:
access to finance: an unfinished agenda; by Thorsten Beck,
and Asli Demirguc-Kunt. Banking Services for Everyone?
Barriers to Bank...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54865Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Peria, Mari ;
Woodruff, Christopher; Ayyagari, Meghana; Maksim
The broadcast media, radio and
television, have a unique and particular role to play both
in enhancing governance and accountability and in giving
voice to poor and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 78749Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Buckley, Steve ;
Duer,Kreszentia M. ;
Mendel,Toby Daniel ;
O Siochru,Sean Padraig
World Resources 2008 argues that
properly designed enterprises can create economic, social,
and environmental resilience that cushion the impacts of
climate change,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 48290Date: January 1, 2008Author:
WRI; UNEP; UNDP; World Bank
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