This practice guide is primarily
intended as a reference and guidance for emerging market
economies in their migration to a formal macroprudential
policy framework....
Type: PublicationReport#: 87810Date: April 29, 2014Author:
Krishnamurti,Damodaran ;
Lee,Yejin Carol
Within any economy, agriculture is the
sector that is most sensitive to climate change. In Armenia,
however, the risks are even more pronounced because the
majority...
Type: PublicationReport#: 87811Date: April 29, 2014Author:
Ahouissoussi,Nicolas ;
Boehlert, Brent ;
Neumann, James E. ;
Sharrow, Steven ;
Srivastava,Jitendra P.
The unanticipated spike in international
food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard.
The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 87813Date: April 25, 2014
Food and nutrition security has emerged
as a primary development goal at the top of the
global agenda. In 2012 the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) methodology...
Type: PublicationReport#: 87812Date: April 22, 2014Author:
Lokshin,Michael M. ;
Moltedo,Ana ;
Sajaia,Zurab ;
Troubat, Nathalie
There is a growing interest in the role
that entrepreneurship can play as a catalyst to achieve
economic and social development objectives, including
growth, innovation,...
Improving access to information and
communications technology (ICT) and related services in the
countryside, or rural informatization, is a long-standing
Chinese policy...
The six case studies in this book were
prepared as background studies for a synthesis report on
land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Collectively...
Type: PublicationReport#: 87063Date: April 14, 2014
The World Bank has recently defined two
strategic goals: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared
prosperity. Shared prosperity is measured as income growth
among...
Type: PublicationReport#: 86944Date: April 8, 2014Author:
Bussolo,Maurizio ;
Lopez-Calva,Luis-Felipe
The technology and innovation landscape
has changed considerably since 2006 when Finland as a
Knowledge Economy: Elements of Success and Lessons Learned
[see also report...
Type: PublicationReport#: 86943Date: April 8, 2014Author:
Halme, Kimmo [Editor] ;
Lindy, Ilari [Editor] ;
Piirainen, Kalle A. [Editor] ;
Salminen, Vesa [Editor] ;
White, Justine [Editor]
The East Asia and Pacific Economic
Update is a joint report of the East Asia Pacific Chief
Economists Office and the East Asia Pacific Poverty
Reduction and Economic...
Type: PublicationReport#: ACS11185Date: April 7, 2014
South Asia experienced a strong cyclical
rebound in 2013Q3 growth but has since slowed again. The
strong regional growth performance between July and
September 2013...
Type: PublicationReport#: 86812Date: April 6, 2014Author:
Kitzmuller,Markus ;
Rama,Martin G.
Growth in developing countries is
expected to pick up from 4.8 percent in 2013 to 5.0 percent
in 2014, 5.4 percent in 2015, and 5.6 percent in 2016.
Stronger global...
Type: PublicationReport#: 88180Date: April 1, 2014Author:
Ablaza,Christine Marie ;
Artuso,Fabio ;
Beath,Andrew ;
Chua,Karl Kendrick Tiu ;
Clarke,Julian Latimer ;
Coates,Brendan Mark ;
Epetia, Tina ;
Hofman,Bert ;
Hu,Bingjie ;
Limkin,Joseph Louie C. ;
Lord,Montague ;
Mansour,Wael ;
Mishra,Deepak K. ;
Ollero,Antonio M. ;
Punongbayan,Jan Carlo Borruel ;
Rahardja,Sjamsu ;
Record,Richard James Lowden ;
Sabarillo,Anthony ;
Shetty,Sudhir ;
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T. ;
Wihardja,Maria Monica
This report summarizes the findings of a
long and meticulous journey of data gathering and analysis
to quantify the health losses from road deaths and injuries
worldwide,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 86304Date: March 31, 2014Author:
Bhalla, Kavi ;
Brauer, Michael ;
Burnett, Richard ;
Cohen,Aaron Roi ;
Freedman, Greg ;
Leach-Kemon, Katherine ;
Murray, Christopher J. L. ;
Shahraz, Saeid ;
Shotten,Marc Sanford
In recent years, services tradability
has increased. Services that previously required the
physical proximity between the consumer and the producer can
now be delivered...
Type: PublicationReport#: 86024Date: March 10, 2014Author:
Molinuevo,Martin ;
Saez,Juan Sebastian
Given the success of conditional cash
transfer (CCT) programs elsewhere in the world, in 2010 the
Government of Tanzania - via the Tanzania Social Action Fund
(TASAF)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 86023Date: March 4, 2014Author:
Evans, David K. ;
Hausladen, Stephanie ;
Kosec,Katrina L. ;
Reese,Natasha Elizabeth
The World Bank Group promotes small and
medium enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and
targeted interventions. Targeting means focusing benefits on
one size-class...
Type: IEG Evaluation,PublicationReport#: 93485Date: March 1, 2014
This report concerns the relationship
between information and communication technologies (ICTs)
and post conflict reconstruction, especially with ways in
which ICTs...
Type: PublicationReport#: 84355Date: February 3, 2014Author:
Kelly,Timothy John Charles ;
Souter,David
In 2012, the Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC) region continued its successful drive to
reduce poverty and build the middle class. The proportion of
the region's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 85162Date: February 1, 2014
In 2006, India embarked on an ambitious
attempt to fight poverty by attempting to introduce a wage
floor in a setting in which many unskilled workers earn less
than...
Type: PublicationReport#: 85414Date: February 1, 2014Author:
Dutta,Puja Vasudeva ;
Murgai,Rinku ;
Ravallion,Martin ;
Van De Walle,Dominique
This toolkit addresses the questions
what and why, while focusing on the answer to how it can be
done. The toolkit is pervaded by answers to the first
question, while...
Type: PublicationReport#: 85412Date: February 1, 2014Author:
Fritsche,Gyorgy Bela ;
Soeters,Robert ;
Meessen,Bruno
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