This report lays out why overweight and
obesity is a ‘ticking time bomb’ with huge potential
negative economic and health impacts, especially for the
poor and people...
Type: PublicationReport#: 145558Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Shekar,Meera ;
Popkin,Barry M.
This report lays out why overweight and
obesity is a ‘ticking time bomb’ with huge potential
negative economic and health impacts, especially for the
poor and people...
Type: PublicationReport#: 145558Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Shekar,Meera ;
Popkin,Barry M.
Policymakers across the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) have long tried to integrate their
people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring
communities together...
Type: PublicationReport#: 145925Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Lall,Somik V. ;
Mahgoub,Ayah ;
Avner,Paolo ;
Biau,Julie ;
Chunet,Alex Maxime Julien ;
D'Aoust,Olivia Severine ;
Deichmann,Uwe Klaus ;
Mathi lde, Katrin Heger ;
Murray,Sally Beth ;
Naomasa,Emiko ;
Tello Medina,Diana Cristina ;
Xiao,Yuan
Fragility and conflict pose a critical
threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between
1990 and 2015, successful development strategies reduced the
proportion...
Type: PublicationReport#: 146627Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Corral Rodas,Paul Andres ;
Irwin,Alexander ;
Krishnan,Nandini ;
Mahler,Daniel Gerszon ;
Vishwanath,Tara
Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps
to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to
the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural
disasters,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 148677Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Bowen,Thomas Vaughan ;
Del Ninno,Carlo ;
Andrews,Colin ;
Coll-Black,Sarah ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Johnson, Kelly ;
Kawasoe,Yasuhiro ;
Kryeziu,Adea ;
Maher,Barry Patrick ;
Williams,Asha M.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the youngest
population of any region of the world, and that growing
working-age population represents a major opportunity to
reduce poverty and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 137952Date: December 31, 2019Author:
Arias Diaz,Omar S. ;
Evans,David ;
Santos,Indhira Vanessa
Approximately 4.1 million people live in
the three states of the Yucatán Peninsula: Quintana Roo,
Yucatán, and Campeche. Some 30 municipalities are in a
coastal territory...
Type: PublicationReport#: 144653Date: December 27, 2019Author:
Sanchez-Triana,Ernesto ;
Ruitenbeek,Herman Jack ;
Enriquez,Santiago ;
Siegmann,Katharina
This book presents the main findings of
a study on school learning environments and student
outcomes, which the World Bank conducted in 2019 in three
regions of the...
A new paradigm for power sector reform
emerged during the 1990s, under the influence of the
Washington Consensus, and began to spread across the
developing world. This...
Type: PublicationReport#: 144082Date: December 1, 2019Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Rana,Anshul
Corruption is the abuse of entrusted
power for private gain. Corruption holds back economic
development, prevents a free market from operating for
businesses and consumers,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 144070Date: December 1, 2019Author:
Brun,Jean Pierre ;
Silver,Molly Jeanette
Universal basic income (UBI) is emerging
as one of the most hotly debated issues in development and
social protection policy. But what are the features of UBI?
What...
Type: PublicationReport#: 143852Date: November 26, 2019Author:
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Rigolini,Iamele P. ;
Yemtsov,Ruslan G.
Malnutrition is a huge burden on the
Arab Republic of Egypt's economy. Undernutrition
manifested by poor linear growth (stunting), wasting, and
micronutrient deficiencies...
We live in troubled times. Over the past
decade, the world economy has been wracked by financial
crises, sovereign debt problems, backlash from political
conflict and...
Over a decade has passed since the
collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers marked
the onset of the largest global economic crisis since the
Great Depression....
Type: PublicationReport#: 143851Date: November 6, 2019
Thailand has made outstanding progress
in reversing the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
epidemic. To address this, the Thai government since 2016
has allocated...
This book addresses current issues
related to the development, administration, scoring and
usage of public examinations. High-stakes public
examinations exert a dominant...
Type: PublicationReport#: 143132Date: October 29, 2019Author:
Kellaghan,Thomas ;
Greaney,Vincent M.
Doing Business 2020 is the 17th in a
series of annual studies investigating the regulations that
enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing
Business...
Type: PublicationReport#: 143038Date: October 25, 2019
Doing Business 2020 is the 17th in a
series of annual studies investigating the regulations that
enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing
Business...
Type: PublicationReport#: 143038Date: October 23, 2019
Growth in the developing East Asia and
Pacific region slowed in the first half of 2019 given
weakening global demand and heightened policy uncertainty
amid ongoing trade...
Type: PublicationReport#: 142525Date: October 9, 2019
Global GDP growth is decelerating, while
trade and industrial production are stagnating. The slowdown
has been severe in South Asia, which in recent quarters was
no...
Type: PublicationReport#: 142628Date: October 7, 2019Author:
Beyer,Robert Carl Michael
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