This Country Social Analysis examines
Haiti's conflict-poverty trap from the perspective of
the triangle of factors that have been identified as its
main components:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40927Date: January 1, 2007
This study provides strategic
orientations and recommendations for Bank client countries
and suggests approaches for the Bank's role in a
rapidly changing industry with...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41694Date: January 1, 2007
This book holds that the crucial failure
of corporate governance is the expropriation of outside
investors, be they shareholders or creditors, by those who
are in control...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40517Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Chong, Alberto (editor) ;
Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio (editor)
The main objectives of this study,
Health care spending in the new EU member states:
controlling costs and improving quality, are to take stock
of recent trends in health...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40540Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Chawla,Mukesh
What works in fighting diarrheal
diseases in developing countries? A critical review; by Alix
Peterson Zwane, and Michael Kremer. Addressing gender-based
violence: a...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45345Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Carlos Gozzi, Juan; L. Schmukler, Sergio; Zafar, ;
Peterson Zwane, Alix; Kremer, Michael; Morrison,
The objective of the South Africa
Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the
investment climate in South Africa in all its operational
dimensions and to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39990Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Clarke, George R.G. ;
Habyarimana, James ;
Ingram, Michael ;
Kaplan, David ;
Ramachandran, Vijaya
This book provides an overview of the
principles underlying participatory budgeting. It analyzes
the merits and demerits of participatory budgeting practices
around...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39498Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Shah, Anwar (editor)
This Sourcebook deals with social
analysis in policy reform, encompassing the transition from
gaining a better understanding of the distributional impacts
of proposed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39022Date: January 1, 2007Author:
World Bank
This Sourcebook deals with social
analysis in policy reform, encompassing the transition from
gaining a better understanding of the distributional impacts
of proposed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39022Date: January 1, 2007Author:
World Bank
This Sourcebook deals with social
analysis in policy reform, encompassing the transition from
gaining a better understanding of the distributional impacts
of proposed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39022Date: January 1, 2007Author:
World Bank
This paper, on the Polish fixed-income
securities market, reviews the recent evolution of the
Polish fixed-income market and examines selected policy
challenges ahead,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 38062Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Akamatsu,Noritaka ;
Brzeski,W. Jan ;
Noel,Michel Desire R ;
Noel, Michel; Akamatsu, Noritaka; Brzeski,
Jan W ;
Segni,Carlo
The first World Congress on
Communication for Development (WCCD) took place in Rome,
Italy, on October 25-27, 2006. The main goal of the WCCD was
to position and promote...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40901Date: January 1, 2007
As China transitions to a market
economy, municipal utilities are evolving into commercially
viable companies under government oversight. Great
challenges confront...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40964Date: January 1, 2007
This publication discusses development
challenges and successes pertaining to the young generation,
while considering how economic policies can help young
people during...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41445Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Kochendorfer-Lucius, Gudrun (editor) ;
Pleskovic, Boris (editor)
This report examines how minimum wages
affect the income poverty of workers, their households, and
the state. It does not question whether or not the minimum
wage is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40526Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Cunningham, Wendy
This edited volume brings together the
papers presented at the conference, "Rethinking the
Role of Jobs for Shared Growth," held in Washington,
DC, in June 2006. The...
This paper provides an assessment of the
funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory
framework for both accumulation and payout phase. It
suggests that the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 40536Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Cheikrouhou, Hela ;
Rocha, Roberto ;
Rudolph,Heinz P. ;
Thorburn,Craig W.
Development is a multidimensional
process characterized by economic growth, investment and
technological progress, transformation of natural resources,
demographic change,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63413Date: January 1, 2007
This report emphasizes that cross-border
tertiary education refers to the movement of people,
programs, providers, curricula, projects, research and
services in tertiary...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41332Date: January 1, 2007
This Sourcebook deals with social
analysis in policy reform, encompassing the transition from
gaining a better understanding of the distributional impacts
of proposed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39022Date: January 1, 2007Author:
World Bank
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