This book diagnoses Cambodian teaching
quality and presents policy options for reform. Through
classroom observation, assessments of mathematics and
pedagogical content...
Type: PublicationReport#: 93439Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Fukao,Tsuyoshi ;
Tandon,Prateek
This report presents the results of a
novel study on land transparency in Vietnam; a study that
focuses on the actual provision of information related to
land. This...
Type: PublicationReport#: 93101Date: December 1, 2014Author:
World Bank
This report provides some practical
guidance on how utilities can define their own smart grid
vision, identify priorities, and structure investment plans.
While most...
Type: PublicationReport#: 93438Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Madrigal,Marcelino ;
Uluski,Robert William
Beyond the terrible toll in human lives
and suffering, the Ebola epidemic currently afflicting West
Africa is already having a measurable economic impact in
terms of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92995Date: November 26, 2014Author:
World Bank
Looking at the economic growth of
seemingly similar countries one can find striking
differences. Why has Australia gotten so much ahead of New
Zealand, in spite of the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92864Date: November 24, 2014Author:
Balcerowicz, Leszek [editor] ;
Rzonca, Andrzej [editor]
This report for the Middle East and
North Africa shows that policies that lower competition and
create an uneven playing field are common and constrain
private sector...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92870Date: November 16, 2014Author:
Hussain,Sahar Sajjad ;
Keefer,Philip E. ;
Sahnoun,Hania ;
Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias ;
Sy,Abdoulaye
One out of every three dollars invested
abroad in 2012 was originated in multinationals from
developing countries. This study sheds light on the
characteristics, motivations,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92869Date: November 14, 2014Author:
Gomez-Mera,Laura ;
Kenyon,Thomas ;
Margalit,Yotam M. ;
Reis,Jose Guilherme ;
Varela,Gonzalo J.
Latin America's population is
aging, and many among the growing elderly population are not
protected by traditional pension schemes. In response,
policy makers have...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92872Date: November 13, 2014Author:
Apella, Ignacio [editor] ;
Rofman, Rafael [editor] ;
Vezza, Evelyn [editor]
This report is about global public goods
(GPGs), particularly those related to the environment, in
the context of the global development process. This concerns
the long-term...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92873Date: November 13, 2014Author:
Davies, Robin [editor] ;
Evans, J. Warren [editor]
Tunisians are striving for the
opportunity to realize their potential and aspirations in a
country that is rich in both human and physical capital, but
whose recent...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92871Date: November 12, 2014Author:
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. [editor] ;
Nucifora, Antonio [editor] ;
Robalino, David [editor]
At the end of 2011, the Indian power
sector found itself in financial crisis, just a decade after
the 2001 bailout of state electricity boards (SEBs) by the
central...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92490Date: November 5, 2014Author:
Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh ;
Khurana,Mani
The International Comparison Program
(ICP) is a large and highly complex worldwide statistical
program conducted under the charter of the United Nations
Statistical...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92494Date: November 5, 2014
The Republic of Armenia is facing a
number of emerging challenges in the water sector. Though
overall water resource availability in the country is good,
the country's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 91641Date: November 4, 2014Author:
Yu,Winston ;
Cestti,Rita E. ;
Lee, Ju Young
While the importance of good teaching
may be intuitively obvious, over the past decade education
research has begun to quantify the high economic stakes
around teacher...
Type: PublicationReport#: 91839Date: October 30, 2014Author:
Bruns,Barbara ;
Lugue, Javier
India has led the developing world in
addressing rural energy problems. By late 2012, the national
electricity grid had reached 92 percent of Indias rural
villages,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92223Date: October 29, 2014Author:
Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh ;
Barnes,Douglas French ;
Mayer,Kristin ;
Samad,Hussain A. ;
Singh,Bipulendu Narayan
In the Western and developed world, New
Public Management reforms aimed to overhaul business as
usual. The reforms brought the notion of performance
contracts into...
Rapid urbanization and economic growth,
new demographic trends, and climate change are key
challenges that developing countries must face as they
strive to meet growing...
Africa is blessed with energy resources
yet they go largely untapped. As a result, only one in three
Africans has access to energy, which stymies economic growth
on...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92221Date: October 24, 2014Author:
Perez Arroyo,Ines ;
Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh ;
Mcmahon,Gary Joseph Raymond ;
Robinson,Peter ;
Romo Mercado,Zayra Luz Gabriela ;
Toledano,Perrine
Bangladesh has made remarkable progress
in raising living standards and reducing poverty,
particularly in previously lagging regions. Rapid solar home
system (SHS) expansion...
Type: PublicationReport#: 91349Date: October 8, 2014Author:
Asaduzzaman,Mohammed ;
Haque,Abul Kalam Enamul ;
Khandker,Shahidur R. ;
Sadeque,Zubair K.M. ;
Samad,Hussain A. ;
Yunus,Mohammad
Although poverty reduction has been a
mainstay of its work for decades, the World Bank has for the
first time, committed to a specific poverty reduction target
to guide...
Type: PublicationReport#: 91350Date: October 8, 2014Author:
Chen,Shaohua ;
Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell ;
Kraay,Aart C. ;
Lanjouw,Peter F. ;
Meyer,Christian Johannes ;
Negre Rossignoli,Mario ;
Prydz,Espen Beer ;
Vakis,Renos ;
Wethli,Ruth Kyla Dolny
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