Countries everywhere are divided into
two distinct spatial realms: one urban, one rural. Classic
models of development predict faster growth in the urban
sector, causing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89917Date: August 4, 2014Author:
Mahajan,Sandeep
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: August 1, 2014Author:
Rysova,Annoula ;
Speakman,John F.
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...
Type: PublicationReport#: 113057Date: August 1, 2014Author:
Wagstaff, Adam ;
Bredenkamp,Caryn ;
R. Buisman,Leander ;
Dercon,Stefan ;
Bruhn,Miriam ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
De Hoop,Jacobus Joost ;
C. Rosati,Furio ;
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Manning,Nick ;
Pierskalla,Jan Henryk
Restrictions on economic activity in
area C of the West Bank have been particularly detrimental
to the Palestinian economy. Area C constitutes about 61
percent of the...
Climate change is a major source of
concern in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,
and migration is often understood as one of several
strategies used by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89371Date: July 2, 2014Author:
Bougnoux, Nathalie ;
Joseph,George ;
Liverani,Andrea ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
The purpose of Guidelines : selection
and employment of consultants by World Bank borrowers is to
define the Bank's policies and procedures for
selecting, contracting,...
Ghana has a youthful population of 24
million and has shown impressive gains in economic growth
and in poverty reduction over the last two decades. The
necessary sustained...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89064Date: June 25, 2014Author:
Darvas,Peter ;
Wright,Robert Palmer
The goals of Universal Health Coverage
(UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality
health services, to safeguard all people from public health
risks, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 88862Date: June 25, 2014Author:
Maeda,Akiko ;
Cashin,Cheryl ;
Harris, Joseph ;
Ikegami,Naoki ;
Reich,Michael Robin
Pakistan's urban air pollution is
among the most severe in the world and it engenders
significant damages to human health and the economy. Air
pollution, inadequate...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89065Date: June 24, 2014Author:
Sanchez-Triana, Ernesto ;
Enriquez, Santiago ;
Afzal, Javaid ;
Nakagawa, Akiko ;
Khan, Asif Shuja
Most countries in the world aspire to
protect poorest and most vulnerable families from
destitution and thus provide some type of income support to
those who are very...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89068Date: June 24, 2014Author:
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Pop,Lucian Bucur ;
Tesliuc,Emil Daniel ;
Yemtsov,Ruslan G.
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake of
magnitude 9.0 occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of
Japan's Tohoku region. The Great East Japan Earthquake
was the first...
To address the growth in resultant
out-of-pocket (OOP) payments and associated problems of
financial barriers to access, the government issued several
policies aimed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89066Date: June 20, 2014Author:
Dao,Huong Lan ;
Fuenzalida-Puelma,Hernan L. ;
Hurt,Kari L. ;
Somanathan,Aparnaa ;
Tandon,Ajay
According to World Bank and Egmont Group
data, the financial intelligence units (FIUs) in at least 79
jurisdictions are authorized to postpone suspicious
transactions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 89063Date: June 19, 2014Author:
Davis-Crockwell, Susan ;
Intscher,Horst ;
Stroligo,Klaudijo
This handbook aims to help local
government practitioners, particularly staff of medium and
large cities, improve strategic management of municipal
finances. The demands...
This report analyzes the paths by which
developing country labor markets adjust to permanent
trade-related shocks. Trade shocks can bring about
reallocation of labor...
Type: PublicationReport#: 88890Date: June 17, 2014Author:
Ruppert Bulmer,Elizabeth N. ;
Hollweg,Claire Honore ;
Lederman,Daniel ;
Rojas Alvarado,Luis Diego
Education has played an important role
in making Vietnam a development success story over the last
20 years. In the 1990s and early 2000s Vietnam experienced
rapid economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: 88895Date: June 17, 2014Author:
Badiani-Magnusson,Reena C ;
Bodewig,Christian ;
Macdonald,Kevin Alan David ;
Newhouse,David Locke ;
Rutkowski,Jan Jerzy
Over the past three decades,
China's urbanization has supported high growth and
rapid transformation of the economy. Today, more than half
of the world's population...
Any time there is an economic crisis;
there is the very real potential that its consequences for
human welfare will be severe. Thus when the developed world
plunged...
Type: PublicationReport#: 88887Date: June 12, 2014Author:
Bussolo,Maurizio ;
Dixon,Peter B. ;
Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel ;
Fruttero,Anna ;
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Oliveri,Maria Laura ;
Rimmer, Maureen ;
Savescu,Cristina ;
Verikios, George ;
De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E.
Central Asia is often associated with
the silk route or road, the longest overland trade route
connecting China to Europe and one of the oldest in history.
Growth opportunities...
Type: PublicationReport#: 88891Date: June 12, 2014Author:
Arvis,Jean Francois ;
Rastogi,Cordula
The aim of this publication is to
examine how labor and health economics can be used to
analyze and better understand the role and functions of
health worker labor markets....
Type: PublicationReport#: 88889Date: June 12, 2014Author:
Edoka,Ijeoma Peace ;
Mcpake,Barbara ;
Scott, Anthony
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