Stagnant global trade, subdued
investment, and heightened policy uncertainty marked another
difficult year for the world economy. A moderate recovery is
expected for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 113224Date: January 10, 2017Author:
Kose,Ayhan ;
Ohnsorge,Franziska Lieselotte ;
Romer,Paul M
The Little Data Book on Information and
Communication Technology 2017 illustrates the progress of
this revolution for 217 economies around the World. It
provides comparable...
Type: PublicationReport#: 111909Date: January 10, 2017
Ukraine’s economic progress has been
uneven since the start of the transition in 1991.
Productivity is low partly because of the slow pace of
market-oriented reforms...
Type: PublicationReport#: 111553Date: January 3, 2017Author:
Del Carpio,Ximena Vanessa ;
Kupets,Olga ;
Olefir,Anna ;
Muller,Noël
This year the World Development
Indicators database has been improved to include more
indicators that cover the Sustainable Development Goals and
more data disaggregated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 158330Date: January 1, 2017
The World Bank Economic Review is a
professional journal used for the dissemination of research
in development economics broadly relevant to the development
profession...
Type: PublicationReport#: 140496Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Aburto-Oropeza, Octavio ;
Leslie, Heather M. ;
Mack-Crane, Austen ;
Nagavarapu,Sriniketh Suryasesha ;
Reddy, Sheila M.W. ;
Sievanen. Leila ;
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar ;
Cunha,Barbara ;
Trezzi,Riccardo ;
Bas,Maria ;
Berthou, Antoine ;
Van De Walle,Dominique ;
Ravallion,Martin ;
Mendiratta,Vibhuti ;
Koolwal,Gayatri B. ;
Diao,Xinshen ;
Harttgen,Kenneth ;
Mcmillan,Margaret S. ;
Wydick,Bruce W. ;
Glewwe,Paul W. ;
Rutledge, Laine ;
Rijkers,Bob ;
Baghdadi,Leila ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Mu,Ren ;
Du,Yang ;
Gibson,John ;
Le,Trinh ;
Kim, Bonggeun ;
Beasley,Elizabeth Ruth ;
Huillery,Elise ;
Bell,Clive L.G. ;
Mejia,Daniel ;
Restrepo,Pascual ;
Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana
The World Bank Economic Review is a
professional journal used for the dissemination of research
in development economics broadly relevant to the development
profession...
South Asia has a huge need to create
more and better jobs for a growing population – especially
in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming
as compared...
Type: PublicationReport#: 115406Date: January 1, 2017Author:
.org; ;
000175192:Sydnella E. Kpundeh:skpundeh@worldbank
Water has always been a source of risks
and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet
rapidly changing socioeconomic, political, and environmental
conditions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 120105Date: January 1, 2017
Water has always been a source of risks
and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet
rapidly changing socioeconomic, political, and environmental
conditions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 120105Date: January 1, 2017
Sri Lanka has the 14th-largest gender
gap in labor force participation (LFP) globally. LFP rates
among Sri Lankan women age 15 years and older were 36
percent for 2015...
Type: PublicationReport#: 121117Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Solotaroff,Jennifer ;
Kuriakose,Anne T. ;
Joseph,George
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are
experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic
growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low
capital investment,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 112756Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Lall,Somik V. ;
Henderson,John Vernon ;
Venables,Anthony J.
Data is a term used to describe pieces
of information, facts, or statistics that have been gathered
for any kind of analysis or reference purpose. Analytics are
the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 128220Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Caire,Dean Eduard ;
Camiciotti,Leonardo ;
Heitmann,Soren ;
Lonie,Susie ;
Racca,Christian ;
Ramji,Minakshi ;
Xu,Qiuyan
Stagnant global trade, subdued
investment, and heightened policy uncertainty marked another
difficult year for the world economy. A moderate recovery is
expected for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 112054Date: January 1, 2017
Global value chains (GVCs) break up the
production process so at different steps can be carried out
in different countries. Today’s official statistical
information...
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are
experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic
growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low
capital investment,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 112756Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Lall,Somik V. ;
Henderson,John Vernon ;
Venables,Anthony J.
Behavioral Insights for Development:
Cases from Central America brings together a set of
experiences that applied behavioral insights to different
areas of public policy—in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 119839Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar ;
Zoratto,Laura De Castro
In conjunction with supporting the
expansion of financial inclusion through digital financial
services (DFS), it is important to ensure their
sustainability and reliability...
Type: PublicationReport#: 128218Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Denyes,Lesley Sarah ;
Lonie,Susie
Forests play important provisioning and
supporting roles in the livelihoods of rural households and
many of those who live in extreme poverty are to some degree
reliant...
Type: PublicationReport#: 119495Date: December 31, 2016Author:
Kim Bakkegaard,Riyong ;
Agrawal,Arun ;
Animon,Illias ;
Hogarth,Nicholas ;
Miller,Daniel John ;
Persha,Lauren Michelle ;
Rametsteiner,Ewald ;
Wunder,Sven ;
Zezza,Alberto
The number of migrants has risen rapidly
in the past few years for various reasons: job
opportunities, labor shortages resulting from falling birth
rates, internal conflict...
International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2017
focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and
other major financial indicators for low, middle and
high-income countries....
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