Investing in children in their early
years represents a unique window of opportunity to improve
individual, community, and societal outcomes. For poverty
reduction and...
The objectives of this study are
threefold: a) to review and compare the PMR
crediting-related activities presented in MRPs; b) to assess
whether and how these crediting-related...
Type: PublicationReport#: 98840Date: August 1, 2015
The International Comparison Program
(ICP) is a global statistical initiative that collects
prices, national accounts expenditures, and related
information from the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 99028Date: August 1, 2015Author:
Brannon,Morgan ;
Dikhanov,Yuri M. ;
Djayeola,Biokou Mathieu ;
Hamadeh,Nada ;
Mouyelo-Katoula,Michel ;
Rissanen,Marko Olavi ;
Romand,Virginia ;
Song,Inyoung ;
Vogel,Frederic A. ;
Yamanaka,Mizuki ;
Abels,Miglena ;
Jerbi,Imededdine ;
Lee,Min Ji ;
Min,Kyung Sam
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...
Sindh's environmental and climate
change problems call for urgent responses. A number of
feasible interventions could be carried out to address the
categories of environmental...
This book brings together two fields
that rarely converse with one another: deliberative
democracy and development studies. The study of
deliberation— which explores...
Type: PublicationReport#: 98134Date: July 13, 2015Author:
Heller, Patrick [editor] ;
Rao,Vijayendra
In an effort to better understand and
improve parenting education, the government of Indonesia
commissioned a review of its existing programs to discover
which programs...
This World Bank report is a rich
compilation of information on teaching learning materials
(TLM) in Africa based on the extensive and multi-faceted
experience of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97932Date: July 8, 2015Author:
Read, Tony
Over the last decade, a policy
revolution has been underway in the developing and emerging
world. Country after country is systematically providing
non-contributory...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97882Date: June 29, 2015Author:
Honorati,Maddalena ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Yemtsov,Ruslan G.
The expansion of international trade has
been essential to development and reducing poverty but the
relationship between economic growth, poverty reduction and
trade...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97607Date: June 25, 2015Author:
Bartley Johns,Marcus ;
Brenton,Paul ;
Cali,Massimiliano ;
Hoppe,Mombert ;
Piermartini, Roberta
Over the last decade Latin America and
the Caribbean region has achieved important progress towards
the World Bank Group's goals of eradicating extreme
poverty and boosting...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97881Date: June 18, 2015Author:
Cord,Louise J. ;
Genoni,Maria Eugenia ;
Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
The Little Green Data Book 2015 is a
pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for
over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the
headings of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97715Date: June 16, 2015
This book seeks to critically examine
the challenges of fragility and security in West Africa,
along with the factors of resilience. It seeks to
investigate key drivers...
Societies across Europe and Central Asia
are aging, but people are not necessarily living longer.
This demographic trend-caused by a decrease in fertility
rather than...
This volume contains the Papers and
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Bank Conference on
Development Economics (ABCDE) held on June 15–16, 2015, in
Mexico City. The theme...
Type: PublicationReport#: 140495Date: June 16, 2015Author:
Basu,Kaushik ;
Foster,Andrew D.
Over the past three decades, many
countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have recognized
health as a human right. Since the early 2000s, 46 million
more people...
The report examines recent trends in
Croatia's in trade, productivity, innovation
performance and policy governance framework, to help
identify priorities for the development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97477Date: June 10, 2015Author:
Aprahamian,Arabela Sena [editor] ;
Correa,Paulo Guilherme [editor]
Stabilizing climate change entails
reducing net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to zero. This
report outlines three principles to guide countries in their
efforts...
Type: PublicationReport#: 96410Date: June 9, 2015Author:
Fay,Marianne ;
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille ;
Rozenberg,Julie ;
Narloch,Ulf Gerrit ;
Kerr,Thomas Michael
For Costa Rica, the Dominican
Republic-Central America-free trade agreement (CAFTA-DR) has
been more than a trade agreement. Costa Rica has used trade
liberalization...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97251Date: June 5, 2015Author:
Koehler-Geib,Fritzi [editor] ;
Sanchez,Susana M. [editor]
This report provides a status update on
the human resources for health (HRH) sub-system in six Latin
American and Caribbean countries: Colombia, Costa Rica,
Jamaica,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 97475Date: June 4, 2015Author:
Carpio,Carmen ;
Santiago Bench,Natalia
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