This study analyzes the national and
inter-provincial burden of disease, the demographics of new
HIV cases, the demand and supply-sides of service delivery,
and conducts...
The demographic dividend describes the
interplay between changes in a population’s age structure
due to the demographic transition and rapid economic growth.
Except...
Type: PublicationReport#: 100383Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Canning,David J. ;
Jobanputra,Sangeeta Raja ;
Yazbeck,Abdo S.
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#: 113054Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Ahuja,Amrita ;
Baird,Sarah Jane ;
Hamory Hicks,Joan ;
Kremer,Michael Robert ;
Miguel,Edward A. ;
Powers,Shawn Michael ;
Dixit,Avinash K. ;
Maskin,Eric ;
Reinhart,Carmen M. ;
R. Reinhart,Vincent ;
Ghatak,Maitreesh
The development objective of the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) economic and social
impact assessment is to provide the Iraqi Government with an
impact analysis...
Type: PublicationReport#: 94032Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Kulaksiz,Sibel
Urbanization is transforming the
developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale,
and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of
consistent data. East...
Type: PublicationReport#: 93877Date: January 1, 2015
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#: 113053Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Love,Innessa ;
Martínez Pería, María Soledad ;
Klasen,Stephan ;
Pieters,Janneke ;
Opazo,Luis ;
Raddatz,Claudio ;
Schmukler,Sergio L. ;
Karayalcin,Cem ;
Yilmazkuday,Hakan ;
Héricourt,Jéroˆme ;
Poncet,Sandra ;
Starosta de Waldemar,Felipe ;
Patlolla,Sandhyarani ;
E. Goodhue,Rachael ;
Sexton,Richard J.
The World Bank supported the community
nutrition project (CNP) in the Lao People’s Democratic
Republic (PDR) from 2009 to 2013, ostensibly to respond to
the global food...
Legal gender differences are widespread:
155 of the 173 economies covered have at least one law
impeding women’s economic opportunities. The total number of
legal gender...
Type: PublicationReport#: 99454Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Iqbal,Sarah
The extractive industries (EI) sector
occupies an outsize space in the economies of many
developing countries. Economists, public finance
professionals, and policy makers...
Chapter one examines the progress made
on sustainable poverty reduction and shared prosperity, as
well as the policies that are needed to make further
progress. With...
Type: PublicationReport#: 100530Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Schellekens,Philip ;
Basu,Kaushik ;
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Kose,Ayhan ;
Ahmed, S. Amer ;
Chandra,Vandana ;
Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose ;
Dennis,Allen Curtis K. ;
Eigen-Zucchi,Christian ;
Gragnolati,Michele ;
Lofgren,Hans ;
Maliszew, Maryla ;
Quillin,Bryce Ramsey ;
Simler,Kenneth ;
Felsenthal,Mark Edgar ;
Littler,Graeme B. ;
Ross-Larson,Bruce C. ;
Vorisek,Dana Lauren ;
Nielsen,Lynge ;
Bayoumi, Tam ;
Duttagupta, Rupa ;
Nolan, Sean
Chapter one (introduction) provides the
background, rationale, and objectives of this work. Chapter
two assesses the status of under-nutrition in Bangladesh,
provides...
Type: PublicationReport#: 100531Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Mahmud,Iffat ;
Mbuya,Nkosinathi Vusizihlobo
At the 2012 World Health Assembly,
member states agreed to a goal of reducing rates of
premature death from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 25
percent by 2025, starting...
Type: PublicationReport#: 100382Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Horton,Susan E. ;
Jamison,Dean T. ;
Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ;
Jha,Prabhat K.
The study is structured around the most
inhibiting constraints to developing PPPs, as shared by all
six countries. Section one provides a brief background of
the infrastructure...
Type: PublicationReport#: 99103Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Shendy,Riham M. E. ;
Kaplan,Zachary A. ;
Mousley,Peter J.
Doing business 2016 is the 13th in a
series of annual reports investigating the regulations that
enhance business activity and those that constrain it. It
presents quantitative...
Type: PublicationReport#: 100885Date: January 1, 2015
Doing business 2016 is the 13th in a
series of annual reports investigating the regulations that
enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing
business...
Type: PublicationReport#: 100884Date: January 1, 2015
Global growth is expected to be 2.8
percent in 2015, marginally lower than anticipated in
January. Growth is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in
2016-17, broadly in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 96582Date: January 1, 2015
This report is part of a broader effort
by the World Bank Group to understand the motives and
challenges of small entrepreneurs in fragile and
conflict-affected situations...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89856Date: December 31, 2014Author:
Rysova,Annoula ;
Speakman,John F.
This study provides an overview of Bank
investments in Early Childhood Development (ECD) from
2000-2013 within the Education, Health, Nutrition and
Population, and Social...
While economic growth in developing
countries over the last ten years has lifted more people out
of poverty than in any previous time, more than one billion
people still...
Type: PublicationReport#: 93123Date: December 8, 2014Author:
Cali,Massimiliano
Pensions at a Glance in Latin America
and the Caribbean provides for the first time an ample range
of indicators for comparing pension system design of 26
countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 94320Date: December 8, 2014Author:
OECD ;
World Bank ;
IDB
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