Like any business, Amanco seeks to
increase profits. However, the company is constrained by the
fact that pipes are a commoditized product, with
traditionally low margins....
Type: PublicationReport#: 193068Date: December 31, 2007Author:
Hindle, Timothy
Jubilant reckoned that it was going to
be hard to succeed in this new, competitive global market.
So, it decided to shift into higher value goods and, over
the next...
Type: PublicationReport#: 193071Date: December 31, 2007Author:
Hindle, Timothy
Deqingyuan’s profitability
depends on the company’s ability to charge a
price premium to cover the higher costs of producing
high-quality eggs. This is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 193069Date: December 31, 2007Author:
Hindle, Timothy
Since it was founded in 1987, MAS has
worked hard to deliver against these rising expectations,
including staying cost-competitive while also applying
exemplary employment...
Type: PublicationReport#: 193073Date: December 31, 2007Author:
Hindle, Timothy
This volume provides an overview of a
range of tools for measuring service delivery and offers
valuable lessons on the opportunities and constraints
practitioners face...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42482Date: December 28, 2007Author:
Amin, Samia ;
Das, Jishnu ;
Goldstein, Markus
This book seeks to contribute to the
sharing of knowledge between Brazil, India, and South
Africa, three of the largest emerging economies today. By
assessing and comparing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42533Date: December 7, 2007Author:
Beath,Andrew ;
Fan,Qimiao ;
Frauscher,Kathrin ;
Jarvis,Michael ;
Reis,Jose Guilherme ;
Reis, José Guilherme
This publication provides a
comprehensive overview of topics related to the assessment,
analysis, and management of various types of risks in the
field of Islamic banking....
Type: PublicationReport#: 42481Date: November 30, 2007Author:
Van Greuning, Hennie ;
Iqbal, Zamir
Human activities create waste, and the
ways that waste is handled, stored, collected, and disposed
of can pose risks to the environment and to public health.
Solid waste...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42566Date: November 30, 2007Author:
Zhu , Da ;
Asnani , P. U. ;
Zurbrugg , Chris ;
Anapolsky , Sebastian ;
Mani , Shyamala
This first volume of the National
Assessment of Educational Achievement series describes the
main features of national and international assessments,
both of which became...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41789Date: November 27, 2007Author:
Greaney, Vincent [editor] ;
Kellaghan, Thomas [editor]
This report seeks to present micro
evidence on how environmental changes affect poor
households. It focuses primarily on environmental resources
that are outside the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42487Date: November 15, 2007
Women now account for nearly half of all
international migration. Theoretical and empirical models
that omit gendered determinants and impacts of migration are
missing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41788Date: November 12, 2007Author:
Morrison, Andrew R. (editor) ;
Schiff, Maurice (editor) ;
Sjoblom, Mirja (editor)
This book, finance for all, presents
first efforts at developing indicators illustrating that
financial access is quite limited around the world and
identifies barriers...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41792Date: November 9, 2007Author:
Beck,Thorsten ;
Demirguc-Kunt,Asli ;
Honohan,Patrick Thomas
The book, public finance for poverty
reduction, includes a series of papers that were prepared in
the context of a World Bank Institute (WBI) public finance
The book,...
This book shows how to implement a
variety of analytic tools that allow health equity - along
different dimensions and in different spheres - to be
quantified. Questions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42480Date: November 2, 2007Author:
O'Donnell, Owen ;
van Doorslaer, Eddy ;
Wagstaff, Adam ;
Lindelow, Magnus
This Global Economic Prospects (GEP) is
being released during a period of increased uncertainty
following four years of record growth in developing
countries, and a...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41467Date: November 1, 2007
The main subjects discussed in this
publication, International Political Risk Management: Needs
of the Present, Challenges of the Future, -providing
coverage based on...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41449Date: October 17, 2007Author:
Moran, Theodore H. (editor) ;
West, Gerald T. (editor) ;
Martin, Keith (editor)
'Shared goals, from market-building
to environmental protection and social inclusion, have
enabled us to build unprecedented partnerships among
business, Governments,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 62407Date: October 10, 2007Author:
Torres-Rahman, Zahid ;
Le Roux, Hester ;
Turrall, Susanne ;
Guthrie, Anna
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#: 45706Date: September 26, 2007
Development is often defined in terms of
its economic aspects, as increased material well-being
through ensured employment and income for all who want it.
But as knows...
Type: PublicationReport#: 46932Date: September 1, 2007
This workshop notes are divided into
five sections and follows: part one focuses on the World
Bank as a corporate and global entity, its mission, and its
priorities;...
Type: PublicationReport#: 79796Date: September 1, 2007
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