Government strategies for setting energy
prices are not uniform across the Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC) region—or even across fuels. Instead, they
cover a full...
Type: PublicationReport#: 119770Date: September 11, 2017Author:
Beylis,Guillermo Raul ;
Cunha,Barbara
In addition to its impact on economic
growth and macroeconomic stability, fiscal policy affects
the distribution of income across households and individuals
through...
South Asia plays a key role in the
global development arena, with the world’s largest
working-age population, a quarter of the world’s
middle-class consumers, the world’s...
Type: PublicationReport#: 119070Date: August 22, 2017Author:
Riley,Thyra A. ;
Kulathunga,Anoma
This book is comprised of one study and
three field evaluations of civic tech initiatives in
developing countries. The study reviews evidence on the use
of twenty-three...
Type: PublicationReport#: 119037Date: August 21, 2017Author:
Peixoto,Tiago Carneiro ;
Sifry, Micah L. ;
Mellon,Andrew Jonathan ;
Sjoberg,Fredrik Matias
Logistics has been a major growth sector
in the world economy in terms of levels of activity and
expenditure for many decades. In addition to being an
important sector...
Type: PublicationReport#: 118559Date: August 10, 2017Author:
McKinnon, Alan ;
Flothmann, Christoph ;
Hoberg, Kai ;
Wiederer,Christina Katharina ;
Arvis,Jean Francois
The World Bank Research Observer is
intended for anyone who has a professional interest in
development. Observer articles are written to be accessible
to nonspecialist...
Type: PublicationReport#: 140545Date: August 1, 2017Author:
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Banerjee,Abhijit V. ;
Hanna,Rema Nadeem ;
Kreindler,Gabriel E. ;
Olken,Benjamin ;
De Renzio,Paolo Giovanni ;
Wehner,Joachim Hans-Georg ;
Klapper,Leora ;
Singer,Dorothe
Since the establishment of Ghana
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003, the
government of Ghana has made substantial progress toward its
goal of universal...
Urbanization in East Asia and the
Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the
rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as
national and local...
Type: PublicationReport#: 117827Date: July 27, 2017Author:
Baker,Judy L. ;
Gadgil,Gauri Uday
The Skills Toward Employment and
Productivity (STEP) survey is an initiative of the World
Bank in cooperation with other development partners and
nongovernmental agencies....
Interest in access to finance and
awareness of its importance have increased significantly
since the early 2000s. Growing evidence suggests that lack
of access to credit...
Type: PublicationReport#: 117873Date: July 5, 2017Author:
De La Torre,Augusto ;
Schmukler,Sergio L. ;
Gozzi,Juan Carlos
Latin America can dramatically narrow
itsinfrastructure service gap by spending efficiently on the
right things. It remains to be seen whether spending better
will be...
Type: PublicationReport#: 117647Date: July 1, 2017Author:
Fay,Marianne ;
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Fox,Charles James Edward ;
Narloch,Ulf Gerrit ;
Straub,Stephane ;
Slawson,Michael Alan
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)
region has the undesirable distinction of being the
world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per
100,000 inhabitants. The...
Type: PublicationReport#: 117872Date: July 1, 2017Author:
Chioda,Laura
While the Philippines has achieved
remarkable progress in raising the education level of its
labor force, the standard proxy for educational attainment,
years of formal...
Type: PublicationReport#: ACS22716Date: June 29, 2017Author:
Acosta,Pablo Ariel ;
Igarashi,Takiko ;
Hamanaka,Rosechin Olfindo ;
Rutkowski,Jan Jerzy
The Little Green Data Book 2017 is a
pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for
over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the
headings of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 117480Date: June 29, 2017
Is your organization missing important
lessons from its operational experiences? This step-by-step
guide shows you how to systematically capture such knowledge
and use...
Type: PublicationReport#: 117648Date: June 28, 2017Author:
Janus,Steffen Soulejman
Sustainable economic development has
played a major role in the decline Of global poverty in the
past two decades. There is no doubt that competitive markets
are key...
Information and communication have
always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown
crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought
information...
Type: PublicationReport#: 117319Date: June 27, 2017
This report presents an overview of
current trends in tax policy, tax administration, and
international taxation and provides a broad landscape of
practical examples...
Type: PublicationReport#: 116658Date: June 16, 2017Author:
Junquera-Varela,Raul Felix ;
Verhoeven,Marinus ;
Shukla,Gangadhar Prasad ;
Haven,Bernard James ;
Awasthi,Rajul ;
Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
Data are a crucial ingredient in any
successful education system, but building and sustaining a
data system are challenging tasks. Many countries around the
world have...
Type: PublicationReport#: 119805Date: June 10, 2017Author:
Abdul-Hamid,Husein
This new sourcebook admirably
illuminates the spectrum of integrated policy interventions
necessary to transform natural resource wealth into
sustainable development,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 115792Date: June 6, 2017Author:
Cameron,Peter Duncanson ;
Stanley,Michael C.
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