World Bank Publications: 275 books
The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5
Fostering Development through Opportunity, Inclusion, and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This volume will explore the potentially transformative role of effective laws and legal institutions in providing people with more opportunity that is both inclusive and equitable. Laws, legal frameworks and judicial institutions can create opportunity by providing the space to build human capital and...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2012 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion Index (“Global Findex”) database providing country-level indicators on the use of formal bank accounts, payments behavior, savings patterns, credit patterns, and insurance decisions. It provides...
World Development Report 2014
Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
World Development Indicators 2014 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help users of all kinds—policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens—find...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace of development....
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries. Written as a companion to the World Development Report...
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...
East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape
Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asias Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
As the global population heads toward 9 billion by 2050, decisions made today will lock countries into growth patterns that may or may not be sustainable in the future. Care must be taken to ensure that cities and roads, factories and farms are designed, managed, and regulated as efficiently as possible...
East Asia Pacific at Work
Employment, Enterprise, and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacific is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labor-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about a third of the world’s labor force. Leveraging this...
Integrating Human Rights into Development, Second Edition
Donor Approaches, Experiences, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The past two decades have witnessed a convergence between human rights and development, particularly at the level of international political statements and policy commitments. This phenomenon is captured in milestones such as the 2007 OECD DAC Action Oriented Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development...
by Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, Anna Reva
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring...
Inclusion Matters
The Foundation for Shared Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Social inclusion is on the agenda of governments, policymakers, and nonstate actors around the world. Underpinning this concern is the realization that despite progress on poverty reduction, some people continue to feel left out. This report aims to unpack the concept of social inclusion and understand...
by Charles Kunaka, Robin Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Trade and transport corridors—major routes that facilitate the movement of people and goods between regions and between countries—have existed for millennia. They enable regions and countries to offer high-capacity transport systems and services that reduce trade and transport costs by creating economies...