World Bank: 627 books
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...
Doing Business 2014
Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting...
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...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance and Growth presents the World Bank's latest short-term forecasts. In addition, the report presents evidence that the financial boom played a critical role in the growth boom experienced by developing countries between 2003 and 2007, but that tighter...
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...
Doing Business 2015
Going Beyond Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Twelfth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2015 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: Starting a business Dealing with construction permits Getting electricity Registering property Getting credit...
by Barnes Jeff; O'Hanlon Barbar; Feeley Frank; Kimberly McKeon; Nelson Gitonga; Caytie Decker
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Kenya's private sector is one of the most developed and dynamic in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the health sector - where the leading causes of death are HIV/AIDS, acute respiratory infection, diarrheal diseases, and malaria - the private commercial (for-profit) sector and the not-for-profit sector play critical...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor (2003). One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the approaches that the public sector, private sector, and civil society can employ...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The Little Data Book on Africa 2012/2013 is a pocket edition of Africa Development Indicators 2012/2013. It contains some 115 key indicators on economics, human development, governance, and partnership and is intended as a quick reference for users of the Africa Development Indicators 2010 book and African...
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...