World Bank Publications imprint: 136 books
Women, Business and the Law 2016
Getting to Equal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In a changing world, how can we be sure that women as well as men entrepreneurs and workers obtain the benefit from these changes? Ensuring that women have the same legal opportunities as men is one part of the picture. By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, Women, Business and...
Growing Smarter
Learning and Equitable Development in East Asia and Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
One-quarter of the world’s school-age children live in East Asia and Pacific. During the past 50 years, some economies in the region have successfully transformed themselves by investing in the continuous upgrading of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of their workforce. Through policy foresight,...
Forcibly Displaced
Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Syrian refugee crisis has galvanized attention to one of the world’s foremost challenges: forced displacement. The total number of refugees and internally displaced persons, now at over 65 million, continues to grow as violent conflict spikes.This report, Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development...
Information and Communications for Development 2018
Data-Driven Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
The Information and Communications for Development series looks in depth at how information and communications technologies are affecting economic growth in developing countries. This new report, the fourth in the series, examines the topic of data-driven development, or how better information makes...
The Sunken Billions Revisited
Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This report updates previous studies that measured in economic terms the extent of biological losses attributable to overfishing globally. The new estimates assess these 'sunken billions' at $83 billion annually. The report further shows that a clear path can lead to the recovery of these considerable...
The Welfare of Syrian Refugees
Evidence from Jordan and Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Syrian refugee crisis, which began in 2011, is one of the most pressing disasters in the world today, with its effects reverberating around the globe. By the end of 2015, more than 7.6 million of the country’s people had been internally displaced and 4.3 million were registered refugees. The number...
Highways to Success or Byways to Waste
Estimating the Economic Benefits of Roads in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. They connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet much of the developing world, Africa in particular, lacks adequate transportation infrastructure. Accordingly investments in transportation...
Measuring Gender Equality
Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right and also smart development policy and business practice. No society can develop sustainably without giving men and women equal power to shape their own lives and contribute to their families, communities, and countries. And yet, critical...
Benchmarking Public Procurement 2016
Assessing Public Procurement Systems in 77 Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Public procurement accounts for around one-fifth of global gross domestic product (GDP). Given its size the public procurement market can improve public sector performance, promote national competitiveness, drive domestic economic growth, and boost economic development. Launched at the request of the...
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016
Comparing Regulatory Good Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016 provides a tool for policy makers to identify and analyze legal barriers for the business of agriculture and to quantify transaction costs of dealing with government regulations. Building on an earlier progress report published in November 2014, this volume presents...
by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
How can governments ensure that women have the same employment and entrepreneurship opportunities as men? One important step is to level the legal playing field so that the rules for operating in the worlds of work and business apply equally regardless of gender. Women, Business and the Law 2018,...
by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2017, the third report in the series, offers insights into how laws and regulations affect private sector development for agribusinesses, including producer organizations and other agricultural entrepreneurs. Globally comparable data and scored indicators encourage...
Making Politics Work for Development
Harnessing Transparency and Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that...
by WorldBank
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The January 2016 edition of Global Economic Prospects discusses current global and regional economic developments and prospects, analyzing key challenges and opportunities confronting developing countries. This volume addresses, among other topics, spillovers from large emerging markets and macroeconomic...