Sub-Saharan Africa's turnaround
over the past couple of decades has been dramatic. After
many years in decline, the continent~^!!^s economy picked up
in the mid-1990s....
Type: PublicationReport#: 142488Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Beegle,Kathleen G. ;
Christiaensen,Luc
It is widely agreed that, over the past
decade, accelerating infrastructure investments in
India's North Eastern Region (NER) and neighboring
countries, along with connectivity...
Type: PublicationReport#: 144027Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Kathuria,Sanjay ;
Mathur,Priya-000196531
It was the summer of 1969 and the
Cuyahoga River was on fire. This wasn’t the first time the
river in northern Ohio had burned, it wasn’t even the tenth.
Every few years,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 140973Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Damania,Richard ;
Desbureaux, Sébastien ;
Rodella,Aude-Sophie ;
Russ,Jason Daniel ;
Zaveri,Esha Dilip
Moving more freight by rail and
waterways would reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
truck-induced congestion, and noise pollution and contribute
to the integrated logistics...
Type: PublicationReport#: 133233Date: December 31, 2018Author:
Aritua,Bernard
This study provides a basic diagnostic
of access to safe water and sanitation in Uganda and their
relationship with poverty. While the analysis is not meant
to lead...
Electricity shortages are among the
biggest barriers to South Asia’s development. Some 255
million people—more than a quarter of the world’s off-grid
population—live...
Type: PublicationReport#: 132854Date: December 11, 2018Author:
Zhang,Fan
East Asia has been a paragon of global
development success. The dramatic transformation of the
region over the past half century—with a succession of
countries having...
Type: PublicationReport#: 132849Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Mason,Andrew D. ;
Shetty,Sudhir
Food safety is linked in direct and
indirect ways to achieving many of the Sustainable
Development Goals, especially those on ending hunger and
poverty, and promoting...
Type: PublicationReport#: 133154Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Jaffee,Steven M. ;
Henson,Spencer ;
Unnevehr,Laurian J. ;
Grace, Delia ;
Cassou,Emilie
This year’s edition of International
Debt Statistics, successor to Global Development Finance and
World Debt Tables, is designed to respond to user demand for
timely,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 132008Date: November 13, 2018Author:
World Bank Group
Education has a large untapped potential
to contribute to human capital, well-being, and wealth in
the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). In fact, it
has been...
Type: PublicationReport#: 131974Date: November 13, 2018Author:
World Bank
Emerging market and developing
economies, like advanced economies, have experienced a
remarkable decline in inflation over the past half-century.
Yet, research into...
China is aging at an unprecedented rate.
Improvements in life expectancy and the consequences of the
decades-old family planning policy have led to a rapid
increase...
Type: PublicationReport#: 132213Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Glinskaya,Elena E. ;
Feng,Zhanlian
This report explores the key
characteristics of High-Growth Firms (HGFs), focusing
particularly on those aspects that have been or can be used
as filters for policy...
Rapid economic growth is Rwanda's
overarching development goal— a strategic choice to anchor
its long-term vision. Vision 2050 encapsulates this choice
with long-term,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 131875Date: November 1, 2018
This book focuses on how school
facilities can affect children’s learning outcomes,
identifying parameters that can inform the design,
implementation, and supervision...
Type: PublicationReport#: 132579Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Barrett,Peter Stephen ;
Treves,Alberto ;
Shmis,Tigran ;
Ambasz,Diego ;
Ustinova,Maria
Sixteenth in a series of annual reports
comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing
Business 2019 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10
areas of everyday...
Type: PublicationReport#: 131572Date: October 31, 2018
Sixteenth in a series of annual reports
comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing
Business 2019 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10
areas of everyday...
Type: PublicationReport#: 131572Date: October 31, 2018
The stagnation of productivity in the
developing world, and indeed, across the globe, over the
last two decades dictates a rethinking of productivity
measurement, analysis,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 134222Date: October 25, 2018Author:
Cusolito,Ana Paula ;
Maloney,William F.
For millennia, the Mediterranean has
been one of the most active trading areas, supported by a
transport network connecting riparian cities and beyond to
their hinterland....
Type: PublicationReport#: 131217Date: October 22, 2018Author:
Arvis,Jean Francois ;
Vesin,Vincent ;
Carruthers,Robin C. ;
Ducruet,Cesar ;
De Langen,Peter Wubbe
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