World Bank Publications imprint: 136 books
Earth Observation for Water Resources Management
Current Use and Future Opportunities for the Water Sector
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Water systems are building blocks for poverty alleviation, shared growth, sustainable development, and green growth strategies. They require data from in-situ observation networks. Budgetary and other constraints have taken a toll on their operation and there are many regions in the world where the data...
Stop the Violence in Latin America
A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. The magnitude of the problem is staggering and persistent. Of the top 50 most violent cities in the world, 42 are in LAC. In 2010 alone,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Volume 3, Cancer, presents the complex patterns of cancer incidence and death around the world and evidence on effective and cost-effective ways to control cancers. The DCP3 evaluation of cancer will indicate where cancer treatment is ineffective and wasteful, and offer alternative cancer care packages...
by Alexandre Marc, Neelam Verjee, Stephen Mogaka
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Since independence, the West African sub-region has been an arena for a number of large-scale conflicts and civil wars, as well as simmering and low-intensity uprisings. Contrary to perceptions, West Africa in its post-independence history has experienced fewer conflict events and fatalities from conflict...
Valuing Services in Trade
A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Valuing Services in Trade: A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics provides a framework, guidance, and practical tools for conducting an analysis and diagnostics of the trade competitiveness of a country’s services sector. The proposed methods subsequently identify the main constraints to improved...
by Kathleen Beegle, Luc Christiaensen, Andrew Dabalen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising†? and an “African 21st century.†? Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements...
Going Universal
How 24 Developing Countries are Implementing Universal Health Coverage from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners....
Mining in Africa
Are Local Communities Better Off?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on the welfare effects of mineral resources, which, until now, has concentrated more on the national or...
Africa's Demographic Transition
Dividend or Disaster?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a 'bulge' generation and a large number of working...
Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia
Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The number of people in South Asia's cities rose by 130 million between 2000 and 2011--more than the entire population of Japan. This was linked to an improvement in productivity and a reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty. But the region's cities have struggled to cope with the pressure of population...
Confronting Drought in Africa's Drylands
Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Drylands are at the core of Africa’s development challenge. Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including a disproportionate share of the poor. Due to complex...
South Asia's Turn
Policies to Boost Competitiveness and Create the Next Export Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population †“ especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: -Economies of agglomeration:...
Left Behind
Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean...
The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface)
A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This classic work remains relevant to anyone with a serious interest in using household survey data...