Serbia’s economy is increasingly
integrating with the economies of other countries in central
and Western Europe, a change that brings many challenges and
opportunities....
Type: PublicationReport#: 105068Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Christensen,Garry N.
The South American (SA) sub-region of
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), on which this report
focuses for the most part, is experiencing another episode
of stress...
Type: PublicationReport#: 105074Date: April 1, 2016Author:
De La Torre,Augusto ;
Ize,Alain ;
Filippini,Federico ;
Sasson,Martin
The track record of Sub-Saharan Africa’s
power sector is dismal. Two out of three households in
Sub-Saharan Africa, close to 600 million people, have no
electricity...
South Asia must create good-quality jobs
for a rapidly expanding young population and bring more
women into the labor force. The apparel sector in South Asia
is labor...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104271Date: March 23, 2016Author:
Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C. ;
Robertson,Raymond
The enabling the business of agriculture
2016 report covers 40 countries in seven regions. Ten topics
have been developed to measure regulations that can impact
firms...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104281Date: March 15, 2016
Mental, neurological, and substance use
(MNS) disorders contribute approximately 10 percent of the
global burden of disease. They often run a chronic course,
are highly...
Type: PublicationReport#: 104282Date: March 10, 2016Author:
Jamison,Dean T. ;
Nugent, Rachel ;
Gelband, Hellen ;
Horton,Susan E. ;
Jha,Prabhat K. ;
Laxminarayan,Ramanan ;
Mock, Charles N.
This publication Key Labor Market
Indicators: Analysis with Household Survey Data is an
introduction to labor market indicator analysis and a guide
for analyzing household...
Type: PublicationReport#: 108799Date: March 10, 2016Author:
Pietschmann,Ina ;
Kapsos,Steven ;
Bourmpoula,Evangelia ;
Sajaia,Zurab ;
Lokshin,Michael M.
The Congo Basin represents 70 percent of
the African continent's forest cover and constitutes a
large portion of Africa's biodiversity. The objective
of the two-year...
Many Roma are among the poorest and most
vulnerable Europeans, facing poverty, exclusion, and
discrimination. In European Union member countries in
Central and Eastern...
Type: PublicationReport#: 102804Date: February 6, 2016Author:
Gatti,Roberta V. ;
Karacsony,Sandor I. ;
Anan,Kosuke ;
Ferre,Celine ;
De Paz Nieves,Carmen
The World Bank Research Observer is
intended for anyone who has a professional interest in
development. Observer articles are written to be accessible
to non specialist...
This study aims to provide policy makers
in the region with analysis of the nini issue and options
for addressing it in their countries. To do so, the study
undertakes...
Type: PublicationReport#: 99447Date: January 15, 2016Author:
De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E. ;
Rogers,F. Halsey ;
Székely, Miguel
This paper is organized in following
helearning dynamics and support for economic reforms : why
good news can be bad;a helping hand or the long arm of the
law? experimental...
Type: PublicationReport#: 118207Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Wijnbergen,Sweder J. G. van ;
Willems,Tim ;
Henrique de Andrade,Gustavo ;
Bruhn,Miriam ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Hariri,Jacob Gerner ;
Justesen,Mogens K. ;
Hering,Laura ;
Paillacar,Rodrigo ;
Dang,Hai-Anh H. ;
Rogers,F. Halsey ;
Loyalka,Prashant Kumar ;
Huang,Xiaoting-000525044 ;
Zhang,Linxiu ;
Wei,Jianguo ;
Yi,Hongmei ;
Song,Yingquan ;
Shi,Yaojiang ;
Chu,James ;
Bhattacharya,Rudrani ;
Patnaik,Ila
The overarching objective of the World
Bank Group’s support to India and its low-income states is
to support poverty reduction and shared prosperity. With a
young population...
School feeding programs are gaining
increasing recognition for their twin roles as a long-term
social protection investment as well as acting as a
productive safety...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106307Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Drake,Lesley ;
Woolnough, Alice ;
Burbano, Carmen ;
Bundy,Donald A. P.
A goal dedicated to clean water and
sanitation was recently endorsed by the United Nations
General Assembly as part of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) framework...
Type: PublicationReport#: 103171Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Hutton,Guy ;
Varughese,Mili Chachyamma
Global growth again fell short of
expectations in 2015. Growth is expected to edge up in
2016-18 but the forecast is subject to substantial downside
risks. In addition...
Type: PublicationReport#: 102506Date: January 1, 2016
Since independence, Lebanon’s political
development has been influenced primarily by its evolving
confessional system. However, this system, originally
established to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 103201Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Le Borgne,Eric ;
Jacobs,Thomas James
This report presents an in-depth
examination of how students in Shanghai achieved the highest
scores in the areas of reading, science, and mathematics on
a respected...
The year 2015 marks 70 years since
Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence, 40 years since
Reunification, and just short of 30 years from the launch of
Doi Moi, which...
Type: PublicationReport#: 103435Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Cao,Sinh Viet ;
Demombynes,Gabriel ;
Kwakwa,Victoria ;
Mahajan,Sandeep ;
Shetty,Sudhir ;
Đam, Vũ Đức ;
Vinh, Bùi Quang ;
Van Trotsenburg,Axel
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
came into force at the beginning of 2016. They build on the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and articulate a new
global...
Type: PublicationReport#: 106587Date: January 1, 2016
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