India faces a turbulent water future and
the current water development and management system is not
sustainable.Unless dramatic changes are made and made soon
in the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44376Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Briscoe, John
The purpose of this report is to advise
the Thai government and Thai society at large about the full
range of benefits, costs, and consequences that are likely
to result...
Type: PublicationReport#: 37449Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Revenga, Ana ;
Over, Mead ;
Masaki, Emiko ;
Peerapatanapokin, Wiwat ;
Gold, Julian ;
Tangcharoensathien, Viroj ;
Thanprasertsuk, Sombat
Biotechnology is probably as old as
civilization itself. Special methods of food preparation,
such as developing drinks from fermenting wheat or fruit, or
making cheese,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 36406Date: January 1, 2006
Doing Business 2007, the fourth report
in the series, found that reforms were making it easier to
do business worldwide, including in Africa, a region where
the private...
Type: PublicationReport#: 41444Date: January 1, 2006
The primacy of institutions
reconsidered: direct income effects of malaria prevalence by
Kai Carstensen, and Erich Gundlacb; when is external debt
sustainable? By Aart...
Type: PublicationReport#: 43617Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Alderman,Harold H. ;
Benbin, James ;
Carstensen, Kai ;
Deressa,Temesgen Tadasse ;
Dinar,Ariel ;
Diop, Mbaye ;
El-Marsafawy, Samia ;
Fajnzylber,Pablo ;
Fosu, K. Yerfi ;
Gbetibouo,Glwadys Aymone ;
Gundlacb, Erich ;
Hassan, Rashid ;
Jain, Suman ;
Kabubo-Mariara,Jane Wanjiku ;
Kraay,Aart C. ;
Kurukulasuriya,Pradeep H. ;
Larson,Donald F. ;
Ocadiz Leon,Mauricio ;
Mabamadou, Ali ;
Maddison,David James ;
Maloney,William F. ;
Mano, Rennetb ;
Mendelsohn,Robert ;
Molua,Ernest Lytia ;
Nehru,Vikram ;
Ouda,Samiha Abo Elfetouh ;
Ouedraogo, Matbieu ;
Montes Rojas,Gabriel Victorio ;
Seo,Sungno Niggol ;
Sine, Isidor ;
Stifel,David C. ;
amed Eid, Helmy
Access to basic services plays an
important role in both individual well-being and a
country's economic development. For this reason,
general availability of these services...
This companion guide to Disease Control
Priorities in Developing Countries, second edition, speeds
the diffusion of life-saving knowledge by distilling the
contents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 36460Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Alleyne, George [editor] ;
Breman, Joel G. [editor] ;
Claeson, Mariam [editor] ;
Evans, David B. [editor] ;
Jamison, Dean T. [editor] ;
Jha, Prabhat [editor] ;
Measham, Anthony R. [editor] ;
Mills, Anne [editor] ;
Musgrove, Philip [editor]
Efforts to launder money and finance
terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in
response to heightened counter measures. The international
community has...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35052Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Schott, Paul Alllan
This book identifies the achievements
and challenges of social policy in Peru. Its objective is to
provide the new presidential administration of Peru with a
diagnostic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35037Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Cotlear, Daniel [editor]
In regard to migration and remittances
for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, the overview
chapter summarizes the main findings that are developed in
much greater...
Type: PublicationReport#: 38426Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Mansoor,Ali M. ;
Quillin,Bryce Ramsey
The purpose of this study is to update
the Review of World Bank Experience in Irrigation (IEG 1994)
and to broaden the scope of evaluation to include all water
lending...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39170Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Basani,Marcello ;
Nelson,Ridley ;
Pitman, George T. Keith ;
Yang,Anita
The objective of this report is twofold:
to provide a comprehensive assessment of the state of
regulatory governance in infrastructure industries in Brazil
and to suggest...
Type: PublicationReport#: 36306Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Correa,Paulo Guilherme ;
Barreto Campelo De Melo,Marcus Andre ;
Machado Mueller,Bernardo ;
Pereira,Juan Carlos
The analysis of the distributional
impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of
different stakeholder groups, particularly on the poor and
vulnerable, has...
This book is an attempt to bring the
gender and development debate full circle-from a much-needed
focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender
framework...
Type: PublicationReport#: 36500Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Bannon, Ian [editor] ;
Correia, Maria C. [editor]
Today, one of the central tenets of
development is the necessity for learning about and building
upon stakeholders' and beneficiaries' insights,
needs, culture, social...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35122Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Kane, Eileen ;
Salmen,Lawrence F.
Pensions panorama provides a compendium
of facts and analysis that should inform policy making and
public debate about retirement-income systems around the
world. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: 37961Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Whitehouse,Edward R.
Over the years of Bank support for
Education for All (EFA) and its world conferences in 1990
and 2000, the Bank's policy objectives for increased
support to primary...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42874Date: January 1, 2006
This book traces the development of
world trade from the era when the global trading system had
been stacked against growth in developing countries to the
present time...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39650Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Newfarmer, Richard (editor)
This comprehensive annual report records
the achievements of the World Bank Group during the last
year of the tenure of the ninth President, James D.
Wolfenson (FY06)....
Type: PublicationReport#: 35046Date: December 31, 2005
The book presents estimates of total
wealth for nearly 120 countries, using economic theory to
decompose the wealth of a nation into its component pieces:
produced capital,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34855Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Bolt, Katharine ;
Hamilton,Kirk E. ;
Lange,Glenn-Marie ;
Markandya,Anil ;
Ordoubadi, M. Saeed ;
Pedroso-Galinato, Suzette ;
Ruta,Giovanni ;
Silva,Patricia ;
Tajibaeva,Liaila
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