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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanized regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Western...
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World
Volume 2, Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes are now in their teens. The new pension concept was born in the early 1990s, implemented from the mid-1990s in Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, legislated most recently in Norway and Egypt and serves as inspiration for other reform countries. This innovative...
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World
Volume 1, Progress, Lessons, and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes are now in their teens. The new pension concept was born in the early 1990s, implemented from the mid-1990s in Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, legislated most recently in Norway and Egypt and serves as inspiration for other reform countries. This innovative...
Africa's Cities
Opening Doors to the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study,...
Getting the Full Picture on Public Officials
A How-to Guide for Effective Financial Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Financial disclosure systems are a vital component of transparency. By now 161 countries around the world have introduced financial disclosure systems, becoming commonplace around the world. But, although the rules are on the books, many practitioners are still struggling with the intricacies of the...
Unbreakable
Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich...
Reaping Digital Dividends
Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
From East to West, the economies of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) are not taking full advantage of the internet to foster economic growth and job creation. The residents of Central Asia and the South Caucasus pay some of the highest prices in the world for internet connections that are slow and unreliable....
Reaping Richer Returns
Public Spending Priorities for African Agriculture Productivity Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Enhancing the productivity of agriculture is vital for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic future and is one of the most important tools to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity in the region. How governments elect to spend public resources has significant development impact in this regard. Choosing...
Decarbonizing Development
Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon...
Regenerating Urban Land
A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements....
Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation
Changing Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are poor nor what can be done...
by Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates...
Migrating to Opportunity
Overcoming Barriers to Labor Mobility in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The movement of people in Southeast Asia is an issue of increasing importance. Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are now the origin of 8 percent of the world's migrants. These countries host only 4 percent of the world's migrants but intra-regional migration has turned Malaysia,...
Work and Family
Latin American and Caribbean Women in Search of a New Balance
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Over recent decades, women in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased their labor force participation faster than in any other region of the world. This evolution occurred in the context of more general progress in women’s status. Female enrollment rates have increased at all levels of education,...