World Bank: 627 books
Risking Your Health
Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Behaviors that pose risks for an individuals health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer...
Great Teachers
How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and raise student learning levels, which lag far behind those of OECD countries and East Asian countries such as China. This book documents the high economic...
by di Gropello Emanuela; Kruse Aurelien; Tandon Prateek
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
In Indonesia the past two decades have been a time of great progress but also massive transformations and abrupt setbacks. In this context this book reviews the main characteristics of - and trends in - demand for skills in Indonesia. It seeks to document the existence of a possible skills mismatch between...
Simulating Distributional Impacts of Macro-dynamics
Theory and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Simulating Distributional Impacts of Macro-dynamics: Theory and Practical Applications is a comprehensive guide for analyzing and understanding the effects of macroeconomic shocks on income and consumption distribution, as well as using the ADePT Simulation Module. Since real-time micro data is rarely...
by Pereira da Silva Luiz A.; Bourguignon Francois; Bussolo Maurizio
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
A companion to the bestseller, The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution, this title deals with theoretical challenges and cutting-edge macro-micro linkage models. The authors compare the predictive and analytical power of various macro-micro linkage techniques using the traditional...
by Preker Alexander S.; Zweifel Peter; Schellekens Onno
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Financial protection against the cost of illness and inclusion of vulnerable groups - will require better mobilization and use of private means. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in mobilizing additional resources to the health sector and protecting against the catastrophic...
Jobs or Privileges
Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The report Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa shows that policies that lower competition and create an uneven playing field are common and constrain private sector job creation. These policies take different forms across countries and sectors but...
by Ocampo Jose Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Beyond Reform argues that economic growth in developing countries is intrinsically tied to the dynamics of production structures, to the specific policies and institutions created to support it, and the creation of linkages among domestic firms and sectors. Avoiding macroeconomic instability is also...
by McInerney-Lankford, Siobhan ; Darrow, Mac; Rajamani
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
This Study explores arguments about the impact of climate change on human rights examining the international legal frameworks governing human rights and climate change and identifying the relevant synergies and tensions between them. It considers arguments about (i) the human rights impacts of climate...
by Vegas Emiliana; Petrow Jenny
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
In the effort to meet enrollment targets for compulsory education in Latin America, the drive to achieve universal coverage seems to have left education quality behind. In the face of meager student performance, understanding what and how students are learning have emerged as salient issues facing policy...
by Sakho Yaye; Lunde Trine; Arribas-Banos Maria
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Bolivia's informal economic sector is the largest in Latin America, and women-owned businesses tend to be overrepresented in the informal sector and to be less profitable than firms in the formal sector. This study seeks to better understand gender-based differences in firms' tendencies toward formality,...
Emerging Issues in Financial Development
Lessons from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Since the 1990s, the financial systems in developing and developed countries have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity, prompted in part by a series of financial sector and macroeconomic reforms aimed at fostering a market-driven economy in which finance plays a central role. Latin America has been...
Right to Work?
Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
India's 2005 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act creates a justiciable 'right to work' by promising up to 100 days of wage employment per year to all rural households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Work is provided in public works projects at the stipulated minimum wage....
Institutions Taking Root
Building State Capacity in Challenging Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Building and operating successful public institutions is a perennial and long-term challenge for governments, which is compounded by the volatile conditions found in fragile settings. Yet some government agencies do manage to take root and achieve success in delivering results earning legitimacy and...