How can international trade agreements
promote development and how can rules be designed to benefit
poor countries? Can multilateral trade cooperation in the
World Trade...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34769Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Bagwell, Kyle ;
BARTON, JOHN H. ;
Evenett, Simon J. [editor] ;
Mboua Yogo,Daniel Francois Joseph ;
Gawande,Kishore ;
Hoekman, Bernard M. [editor] ;
Ismail, Faizel ;
Keck, Alexander ;
Levy,Philip I. ;
Low,Patrick ;
Lucenti,Krista ;
Manole,Vlad ;
Martin, Will ;
Maskus,Keith E. ;
Mavroidis, Petros C. ;
Messerlin,Patrick A. ;
Ozden,Caglar ;
Prowse, Susan ;
Reinhardt, Eric ;
Saggi,Kamal ;
Shingal,Anirudh ;
Staiger,Robert W. ;
Subrahmanyam, BVR
The report provides an overview on the
issues regarding "Doing Business in 2006 - Creating
Jobs", the third in a series of annual reports
investigating business activity,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34551Date: December 1, 2005
This publication is organized as
follows: Chapter 1, discuses China's industrial system:
where it is now, where it should be headed, and why. Chapter
2, contains reform...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34517Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Nabeshima,Kaoru ;
Perkins, Dwight H. ;
Yusuf,Shahid
Persistent malnutrition is contributing
not only to widespread failure to meet the first Millennium
Development Goals-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet
other goals...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34775Date: November 16, 2005
Persistent malnutrition is contributing
not only to widespread failure to meet the first Millennium
Development Goals-to halve poverty and hunger-but to meet
other goals...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34775Date: November 16, 2005
Health ministries around the world face
a new challenge: to assess the risks and respond to the
opportunities of the increasing openness in health services
under the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34770Date: November 15, 2005Author:
Adlung, Rudolf ;
Aginam, Obijiofor ;
Blouin, Chantal [editor] ;
Carzaniga, Antonia ;
Chanda,Rupa ;
Correa, Carlos ;
Drager, Nick [editor] ;
Fidler,David Paul ;
Gobrecht, Jens ;
Julsaint, Martine ;
Lethbridge, Jane ;
Mashayekhi, Mina ;
Nielson,Julia ;
Singh, Didar ;
Smith, Richard [editor] ;
Tuerk, Elisabeth ;
Warner, David
The 1 World Manga series offers a
premise where the hero must grapple with social problems of
a global magnitude that are set in the real world. This
joint World Bank/VIZ...
Type: PublicationReport#: 64563Date: November 1, 2005Author:
Nanta, Hyoe ;
Roman,Annette
Land reform can broadly be divided into
land tenure reform-the establishment of secure and
formalized property rights in land-and land
redistribution-the transfer of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34515Date: November 1, 2005Author:
Binswanger,Hans P. ;
Bruce,John W. ;
Byamugisha,Frank Fulgence K. ;
Crasta,Glen Thomas ;
Van Den Brink,Rogier J. E.
Uganda is a leader in Sub-Saharan
Africa, in recognizing linkages between economic growth and
gender issues. These linkages are critical for achieving the
Millennium...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34516Date: November 1, 2005Author:
Blackden,C. Mark ;
Ellis,Amanda Natalie ;
Manuel, Claire
This volume contributes to broadening
the understanding and application of the concept of
mainstreaming biodiversity. It captures the inputs to, and
findings of an international...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35043Date: November 1, 2005Author:
Akhtar, Tehmina ;
Barnett, Mandy ;
Cadman, Mandy ;
Castro,Gonzalo ;
Cowling, Richard M. ;
Elkan, Paul ;
Elkan, Sarah ;
Frazee, Sarah ;
Gardner,David John ;
Grant, Carl ;
Griffin,Jeffrey F. ;
Huntley, Brian [editor] ;
Kapila, Sachin ;
Krishnan, Pramod ;
Maze, Kristal ;
McCallum, Robert ;
Mcneely,Jeffrey A. ;
Petersen, Caroline [editor] ;
Redford,Kent Hubbard ;
Roledo, Carlos ;
Sandwith,Trevor
Agriculture is yet again causing
contention in international trade negotiations. It caused
long delays to the Uruguay Round in the late 1980s and
1990s, and it is again...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34206Date: November 1, 2005Author:
Anderson,Kym ;
Anderson, Kym [editor] ;
Beghin,John C. ;
Bouet,Antoine ;
Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio ;
Fontagne,Lionel ;
Hart,Chad E. ;
Hertel,Thomas W. ;
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Paley,Jean-Sebastien Pierre-Yves ;
Jensen, Hans G. ;
Josling,Timothy E. ;
Keeney,Roman Michael ;
Kliauga,Erika Madeira ;
Martin, Will ;
Martin, Will [editor] ;
Messerlin,Patrick A. ;
Orden,David R. ;
Sumner,Daniel A. ;
Zobbe, Henrick ;
De Gorter,Harry ;
Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique
Consumer Participation in Infrastructure
Regulation draws on results of a survey questionnaire
conducted among 45 infrastructure regulators in the East
Asia and Pacific...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34478Date: November 1, 2005Author:
Muzzini,Elisa
The themes of the 2006 Global Economic
Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration,
their economic consequences, and how policies can increase
their...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34320Date: November 1, 2005
While consumer utility subsidies are
widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their
effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources to the
poor is...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34334Date: October 25, 2005Author:
Abdullah,Roohi ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Halpern,Jonathan D. ;
Komives,Kristin ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
This evaluation assesses the development
effectiveness of the World Bank's country-level
HIV/AIDS assistance defined as policy dialogue, analytic
work, and lending with...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34325Date: October 11, 2005Author:
Ainsworth,Martha ;
Gaubatz,Judith Hahn ;
Vaillancourt,Denise A.
With 155,000 post offices, India Post is
the largest post office in the world, and it has a value
well beyond that of a postal and savings outlet for
India's people....
Type: PublicationReport#: 35927Date: October 1, 2005Author:
Bell, Simon ;
Carter,Michael R. ;
Ganesan, R. ;
Kumar, Ranjana ;
Lee,Graeme Paul ;
Maran, Dayanidhi ;
Mirchandani, Sanjay ;
Raghavan, U. Srinivasa ;
Saidoun,Amin
With 155,000 post offices, India Post is
the largest post office in the world, and it has a value
well beyond that of a postal and savings outlet for
India's people....
Type: PublicationReport#: 35927Date: October 1, 2005Author:
Bell, Simon ;
Carter,Michael R. ;
Ganesan, R. ;
Kumar, Ranjana ;
Lee,Graeme Paul ;
Maran, Dayanidhi ;
Mirchandani, Sanjay ;
Raghavan, U. Srinivasa ;
Saidoun,Amin
Doing Business 2006, the third report in
the series, found that Eastern European nations were
aggressively courting entrepreneurs with far-reaching
reforms to streamline...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34550Date: September 13, 2005
This report addresses topics discussed
at the fifth annual forum of the Berlin Workshop Series
co-hosted by InWent and the World Bank, held in September
2003. At the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34420Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Kochendorfer-Lucius, Gudrun [editor] ;
Pleskovic, Boris [editor]
Over the past ten years,
private-sector-led growth has revolutionized access to
telecommunications. Every region of the developing world did
benefit in terms of investment,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 34327Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Wahl, Mark [editor[]
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