This paper describes the trade
performance of Bangladesh at the macro and micro levels for
goods and services. The analysis of the basic orientation of
trade is crucial...
Latin America and the Caribbean’s story
in the 2000s was one of rapid progress for many. More than
70 million people moved out of poverty and started on the
path to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 107159Date: July 19, 2016Author:
Vakis,Renos ;
Rigolini,Iamele P. ;
Lucchetti,Leonardo Ramiro
Global growth prospects have
deteriorated in 2016. Emerging market and developing
economies are facing increased external headwinds, including
softer growth in advanced...
Type: PublicationReport#: 107216Date: July 14, 2016
Although the Latin American region has
shown an impressive growth in educational attainment over
the past two decades, that education has failed to yield
expected benefits....
The recent past has witnessed phenomenal
growth in MFIs around the world. Today as many as 200
million people are beneficiaries of microfinance. Given its
worldwide...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106672Date: July 14, 2016Author:
Khandker,Kazem Adnan ;
Khalily,Baqui M.A. ;
Samad,Hussain A.
Abundant water, along with high altitude
and geographic proximity to major demand centers in southern
Africa, is one of Lesotho’s most valuable renewable and
sustainable...
Type: PublicationReport#: 108018Date: July 6, 2016
This volume a collaborative work between
the World Bank’ Global Governance Practice and a team of
researchers working with the Korean Development Institute is
dedicated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106581Date: July 5, 2016Author:
Karippacheril, Tina George ;
Kim, Soonhee ;
Beschel Jr, Robert P. (Editor) ;
Choi, Changyong (Editor)
With more than 100 right to information
(RTI) laws also called freedom of information or access to
information laws now in place globally, the groundwork has
been laid...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106580Date: June 29, 2016Author:
Lemieux,Victoria Louise ;
Trapnell, Stephanie E.
The rural economy in Bangladesh has
powerfully advanced economic growth and substantially
reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable
transformation and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106579Date: June 29, 2016Author:
Gautam,Madhur ;
Faruqee,Rashidur R.
South Asia's trade almost doubled
in the past decade, but the share of trade in GDP is still
smaller (47 percent) than in East Asia (55 percent), and
South Asia's economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106772Date: June 28, 2016Author:
Herrera Dappe,Matias ;
Suárez-Alemán,Ancor
Perceptions of eroding living standards
and low life satisfaction are widespread in the Middle East
and North Africa region today, along with pessimism about
prospects...
The Little Data Book on Private Sector
Development 2016 is a reliable cross-country data on aspects
of private sector development, crucial in planning for
economic recovery...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106588Date: June 20, 2016Author:
World Bank Group
Rule of Law is a theoretical concept
social scientists use to describe a political order where
laws are predictable and applied equally to all citizens,
regardless of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106712Date: June 15, 2016Author:
Al-Dahdah,Edouard ;
Corduneanu Huci,Cristina ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Sergenti,Ernest John
The population of Uruguay is undergoing
a slow but sustained aging process, driven by the
demographic transition that started early in the twentieth
century. While this...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106151Date: June 10, 2016
Economic, technological, and political
shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven
firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them
across countries....
Type: PublicationReport#: 106305Date: June 10, 2016Author:
Taglioni,Daria ;
Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
Regenerating urban land draws on the
experience of eight case studies from around the world. The
case studies outline various policy and financial
instruments to attract...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106149Date: June 8, 2016Author:
Amirtahmasebi,Rana ;
Orloff,Mariana ;
Wahba Tadros,Sameh Naguib ;
Altman,Andrew M
Household survey data are very useful
for monitoring the living conditions of citizens of any
country.In developing countries, a lot of this data are
collected through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106741Date: June 7, 2016Author:
Dabalen,Andrew L. ;
Etang Ndip,Alvin ;
Hoogeveen,Johannes G. ;
Mushi,Elvis ;
Schipper,Youdi ;
Engelhardt,Johannes von
The Nigeria Urbanization Review serves
the critical and timely purpose of understanding the
challenges and opportunities of urbanization in Nigeria. The
country’s rapid...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106150Date: June 3, 2016
The household registration system known
as ho khau has been a part of the fabric of life in the
country for over 50 years. The system was implemented as an
instrument...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106381Date: June 1, 2016Author:
Demombynes,Gabriel ;
Vu,Linh Hoang
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
global economic prospects monthly working paper are as
follows: overview;...
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