World Bank Publications: 275 books
by Bruno Losch, Sandrine Freguin-Gresh, Eric Thomas White
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This book makes a compelling case for reintegrating structural issues into agricultural and rural development policies, which have for the last 30 years over-focused on short-term issues. It shows how the liberalization of agriculture in many late developing countries has not in fact led to the development...
Services Trade and Development
The Experience of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant...
by Emile van der Does de Willebois, J.C. Sharman, Robert Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the benefi cial owner—the puppet master and benefi ciary of it all. Linking the benefi cial owner to the...
Jobs for Shared Prosperity
Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, when thousands of young women and men fought for the opportunity to realize their aspirations and potential, the question of jobs continues to be crucial in the Middle East and North Africa region. This report uses jobs as a lens to weave together the complex dynamics...
by Augusto de la Torre, Alain Ize, Sergio L. Schmukler
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
During the 1980s and 1990s, financial sectors were the Achilles' heel of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since then, these sectors have grown and deepened, becoming more integrated and competitive, with new actors, markets, and instruments springing up and financial inclusion...
by Raj Nallari, Shahid Yusuf, Breda Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The global crisis of 2008-09 has brought to the forefront a plethora of economic and political policy issues. There is a re-opening of discussion on basic economic concepts, appropriate framework for analysis, role of private and public sectors in the economy, structural transformation of economies,...
by Alan Winters, Shahid Yusuf
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2007
China is now the world's fourth largest economy and growing very fast. India's economic salience is also on the rise. Together these two countries will profoundly influence the pace and nature of global economic change. Drawing upon the latest research, this volume analyzes the influences on the rapid...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region is one of the most water stressed regions in the world. Water scarcity has already become a challenge to development in many of the countries. Due to increasing population and Projected climate change impacts, MENA’s annual water demand gap is projected...
Left Out of the Bargain
Settlements in Foreign Bribery Cases and Implications for Asset Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Over the past decade, countries have increasingly used settlements-that is, any procedure short of a full trial-to conclude foreign bribery cases and have imposed billions in monetary sanctions. There exists a gap in knowledge, however, regarding settlement practices around the world and the disposition...
Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction
Managing Disasters in Small Steps
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Many areas of the world are at risk from landslides and their consequences; rainfall-triggered landslides particularly affect developing countries in the tropics. Rapid urbanization and the associated growth of unauthorized and densely populated communities in hazardous locations, such as steep slopes,...
by Souleymane Coulibaly, Uwe Deichmann, William R. Dillinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Faced with changing economic circumstances and a reorientation of trade toward Europe and Asia, will Eurasia’s cities be able to adjust? Will some cities be granted the flexible regulations and supportive policies necessary for growth? And will some others be allowed to dwindle with policies put in...
Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity
A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs into a development opportunity by improving land governance...
Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence
Dealing with Crises That Endanger Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The presence of turbulence in multiple areas of our society--food, fuel, and finances-being but three critical areas presently being impacted means that long-held assumptions are no longer true, that the past is not prologue, and that the future is not clear. And enter into this unstable present the...
Tourism in Africa
Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Tourism energizes economies and fuels the economic transformation of countries from Cape Verde to South Africa. Its benefits are clear: it can trigger infrastructure improvements, create good jobs, increase domestic consumption, and diversify exports. It also empowers women, young people, and marginalized...