Over recent decades, women in Latin
America and the Caribbean have increased their labor force
participation faster than in any other region of the world.
This evolution...
Type: PublicationReport#: 105982Date: May 12, 2016Author:
Chioda,Laura
The natural endowment of the Democrat
Republic of Congo, in the form of land, minerals, and
forests, is unparalleled. The right mix of policies has the
potential to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 105983Date: May 11, 2016Author:
Barra,Alvaro Federico ;
Burnouf,Mathilde Marthe Julienne ;
Damania,Richard ;
Russ,Jason Daniel
The SecureNutrition Series on
Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection is intended to augment
the available guidance on improving nutrition through
multisectoral approaches,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 109507Date: May 10, 2016Author:
Spray,Andrea L.
Within the past decade Maldives moved
from low- to middle-income status, introduced democracy, and
was hailed as a Millennium Development Goal Plus country.
Women face...
The overarching goal of this study is to
facilitate Cameroon’s strategic objective of ensuring that
the country has a well-educated human resources base to
support its...
Type: PublicationReport#: 105204Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Sosale,Shobhana ;
Majgaard,Kirsten
In response to a series of humanitarian
crises, especially the drought-induced emergencies that
occurred in the Horn of Africa in 2011 and the Sahel in
2012, national...
Type: PublicationReport#: 105205Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Agostini,Paola ;
Brenton,Paul ;
Carfagna, Federica ;
Conchedda, Giulia ;
De Haan,Cornelis ;
Del Ninno,Carlo ;
Dingel,Carl Christian ;
Ericksen, Polly ;
Fallavier,Pierre Yves ;
Gerber,Pierre Jean ;
Guo, Zhe ;
Ham,Frederic Francis Paul ;
Henninger,Norbert Eugen ;
Ickowicz, Alexandre ;
Koo, Jawoo ;
Manssouri, Mohamed ;
Mottet, Anne ;
Nash,John D. ;
Place,Frank M. ;
Ringler, Claudia ;
Syroka,Joanna ;
Toure,Ibra ;
Walker, Tom
From May 14, 2016 onwards a low-pressure
zone above Sri Lanka caused torrential rainfall all over the
country, and in some places it was the heaviest recorded
rainfall...
Greenhouse Gas Data Management: Building
Systems for Corporate/Facility-Level Reporting is intended
to serve as a reference document for regulators, GHG
reporting program...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104986Date: April 19, 2016Author:
Guigon,Pierre ;
Rosenheim, David ;
Carr,James Alexander ;
Jorns, Jenna ;
Hedger, Toby Mandel ;
Harris,Deborah J. ;
Boland, Claire ;
Andrews, Sabrina ;
Pelt, Marian Van
More than 122 million people, almost 25
percent of European Union (EU)citizens, are at risk of
poverty or social exclusion. The funding and targetingof
basic services...
Type: PublicationReport#: 113564Date: April 14, 2016Author:
Simler,Kenneth
Water is a key driver of economic and
social development as well as of poverty reduction. Growing
economies and populations need more water resources to
sustain economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104778Date: April 14, 2016Author:
Garcia Garcia,Luis E. ;
Rodriguez,Diego Juan ;
Wijnen,Marcus Marinus Petrus ;
Pakulski, Inge ;
Serrat Capdevila,Aleix ;
Garcia Ramirez,Danielle Alejandra ;
Tayebi,Nooshafarin ;
Guerschman, Juan P. ;
Donohue, Randall J. ;
Niel, Tom G. Van ;
Renzullo, Luigi J. ;
Dekker, Arnold G. ;
Malthus, Tim J. ;
McVicar, Tim R. ;
Dijk, Albert I. J. M. Van ;
Demaria,Eleonora Maria Concepcion
This book presents a tour d’horizon of
the current state of parliamentary indicators and
benchmarks. Though not trying to be prescriptive, there are
already sufficient...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104283Date: April 11, 2016Author:
O'Brien,Mitchell ;
Stapenhurst, Rick ;
Von Trapp,Lisa
Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and
child health (RMNCH) has been a priority for both
governments and civil society in low- and middle-income
countries (LMICs). This...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104777Date: April 11, 2016Author:
Black, Robert E ;
Laxminarayan,Ramanan ;
Temmerman, Marleen ;
Walker,Pat Neff ;
Bustreo,Flavia ;
Jamison,Dean T. ;
Nugent, Rachel ;
Gelband, Hellen ;
Horton,Susan E. ;
Jha,Prabhat K. ;
Mock, Charles N.
The countries of the Latin America and
the Caribbean (LAC) region like other emerging economies,
have benefited from a decade of remarkable growth and some
income per...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104285Date: April 8, 2016Author:
Araujo,Jorge A. De Thompson R. ;
Vostroknutova,Ekaterina ;
Wacker,Konstantin M. ;
Clavijo Munoz,Mateo
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...
Type: PublicationReport#: 105203Date: April 8, 2016Author:
Ratha,Dilip K. ;
Plaza,Sonia ;
Dervisevic,Ervin
The little data book 2016 is a pocket
edition of world development indicators 2016. It is intended
as a quick reference for users of the world development
indicators...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104593Date: April 7, 2016Author:
Kalimili,Bala Bhaskar Naidu ;
Fantom,Neil James
This policy note support for agriculture
and rural development (ARD) access to a huge market for
Serbian agriculture and European Union (EU). The current
framework for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 105069Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Schuman,Irina ;
Goss,Stephen Richard ;
Smith,Garry A.
The economies of Europe and Central Asia
(ECA) are facing complex challenges. In the eastern part of
the region the task of governments is to orchestrate a
coordinated...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104605Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Timmer,Hans ;
Bussolo,Maurizio ;
Gould,David Michael ;
Letelier,Raquel Alejandra ;
Nguyen,Tu Chi ;
Panterov,Georgi Lyudmilov ;
Shaw,William ;
Ushakova,Ekaterina ;
Burns,Andrew ;
Izvorski,Ivailo V. ;
Pigato,Miria A. ;
Sanchez,Carolina
In recent years, a number of reports
have been prepared by organizations on financial inclusion,
a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognized.
However,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 107382Date: April 1, 2016
In the six months since the previous
East Asia and Pacific (EAP) economic update, developing EAP
has faced a challenging external environment. Financial
market conditions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104770Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Edwards,Kim Alan ;
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T. ;
Solmaz,Serhat ;
Sun, Yan ;
Blum,Jurgen Rene ;
Taliercio,Robert R. ;
Rahardja,Sjamsu ;
Maliszewska,Maryla ;
Mishra,Deepak K. ;
Ariyapruchya,Kiatipong ;
Badiani-Magnusson,Reena Chandu ;
Batsuuri,Davaadalai ;
Beck,Hans Anand ;
Del Castillo,Noel Borja ;
Chen,Shaohua ;
Chua,Karl Kendrick Tiu ;
Cruz,Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Davading,Somneuk ;
Demombynes,Gabriel ;
Dewina,Reno ;
Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina ;
Dinh,Viet Tuan ;
Diop,Ndiame ;
Eckardt,Sebastian ;
Fitrani,Fitria ;
Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel ;
Hein,Min Ye Paing ;
Vu,Linh Hoang ;
Kida,Mizuho ;
Kim,Jae Kyun ;
Knight,David Stephen ;
Krishnan,Nandini ;
Kularatne,Chandana ;
Lee,Taehyun ;
Limkin,Joseph Louie C. ;
Litwack,John ;
Ly,Sodeth ;
Mahajan,Sandeep ;
Martin, Miguel ;
Spatafora,Nikola L. ;
Hirano,Yumeka
South Asia shows continued resilience in
the face of turbulent international markets, maintaining its
spot as the fastest-growing region in the world. Growth
performance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104775Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Kitzmuller,Markus
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