The World Bank: 15 books
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the organization to changing circumstances and address concerns among external stakeholders about the role of aid in development. The reforms were motivated largely by widespread recognition that the Bank’s development...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Over the last decade, a policy revolution has been underway in the developing and emerging world. Country after country is systematically providing non-contributory transfers to poor and vulnerable people, in order to protect them against economic shocks and to enable them to invest in themselves and...
Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016
Long-Term Finance
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 focuses on the ability of financial systems to sustainably extend the maturity of financial contracts for private agents. The challenges of extending the maturity structure of finance are often considered to be at the core of effective, sustainable financial...
Global Economic Prospects, June 2015
The Global Economy in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Global growth is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2015, but is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in 2016-17. Growth in developing countries and some high-income countries is set to disappoint again this year. The prospect of rising borrowing costs will compound the challenges many developing countries...
Urban China
Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The State of Social Safety Nets 2018 Report examines global trends in the social safety net/social assistance coverage, spending, and program performance based on the World Bank Atlas of Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) updated database. The report documents the main...
China 2030
Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms, strengthen its private sector, open its markets to greater competition and innovation, and ensure equality of opportunity to help achieve its goal of a new structure for economic growth....
Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — Now
Priorities for City Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban...
by Asian Development Bank, The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Asia and the Pacific has a significant rise in migration: about one in three migrants comes from Asia according to the United Nations. Currently, over 80 million people from Asia and the Pacific live and work outside of their countries of origin. Migration and remittances have both positive and negative...
Capital for the Future
Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The gradual acceleration of growth in developing countries is a defining feature of the past two decades. This acceleration came with major shifts in patterns of investment, saving, and capital flows. This second volume in the Global Development Horizons series analyzes these shifts and explores how...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Inequality in South Asia appears to be moderate when looking at standard indicators such as the Gini index, which are based on consumption expenditures per capita. But other pieces of evidence reveal enormous gaps, from extravagant wealth at one end to lack of access to the most basic services at the...
Societal Dynamics and Fragility
Engaging Societies in Responding to Fragile Situations
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Today's world is changing at breakneck speed, shaking the very foundations of many societies. Increased mobility through massive urbanization and migration allows people unprecedented access to different cultures and ideas; advanced technologies speed the pace of human interaction; the globalization...
The Economic Impact of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic
Short- and Medium-Term Estimates for West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty. This impact results partly from the health-care costs...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment, for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities which is intended to assist in decision-making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs. The approach seeks to strengthen coherence and consensus within and across cities in understanding...
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