World Bank Publications: 275 books
The Inverting Pyramid
Pension Systems Facing Demographic Challenges in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Europe’s pension systems –among the most celebrated features of its social welfare model— face tremendous challenges. With only 11 percent of the world’s population, Europe spends about 60 percent of global outlays on social protection, largely in pensions. In many countries, pension rules have...
Growing Green
The Economic Benefits of Climate Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Pollution from fossil fuels and degraded natural lands are raising the earth’s temperature. The evidence of the causes of global warming is clear, as are its consequences. The economic impacts of climate change are already apparent and they threaten development gains. Extreme weather events have...
Building Better Policies
The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible. An emphasis...
by Peter Reuter
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of developing countries to tax havens and other financial centers in the developed world. This volume assesses the dynamics of these flows, much of which...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Creating jobs and increasing productivity are at the top of agenda for policymakers across the world. Knowledge accumulation and skills are recognized as central in this process. More-educated workers not only have better employment opportunities, earn more, and have more stable and rewarding jobs, but...
Logged On
Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Logged On looks at mobile and smart phone technology through the lens of good government management. How will developing governments deliver goods and services that citizens care about? How will government in these countries leapfrog over traditional public management reforms to help reach out to and...
by Hugo Nopo
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality and lower well-being indicators among women, afro-descendants, and indigenous peoples. This is a period in which the world and particularly Latin America has...
Voice and Agency
Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels of gender-based violence and discriminatory laws and norms that prevent women from owning property, being...
National Assessments of Educational Achievement, Volume 4
Analyzing Data from a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Effective assessment of the performance of educational systems is a key component in developing policies to optimize the development of human capital around the world. The five books in the National Assessments of Educational Achievement series introduce key concepts in national assessments of student...
by Jose Guilherme Reis, Thomas Farole
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools for conducting an analysis of a country's trade competitiveness in terms of growth and share performance, diversification, and quality. It aims to facilitate the identification of the main constraints to improved trade competitiveness and the policy responses to overcome these constraints.
by Hinh T. Dinh, Vincent Palmade, Vandana Chandra
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
This book examines how light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa's need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries....
The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa
A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
For the past two decades, experiments in decentralization and federalization have been developing in Africa, Asia, and the formerly communist states of Eastern Europe. Many of the powers previously in the hands of the central government or its deconcentrated structures have been transferred to lower...
Regulatory Assessment Toolkit
A Practical Methodology For Assessing Regulation on Trade and Investment in Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The services sector—ranging from telecommunications and banking to business processing and outsourcing—is increasingly recognized as part and parcel of any trade strategy, both as a source of export diversification in its own right as well as a key component of a country’s competitiveness. Unlike...
by Naazneen Barma, Kai Kaiser, Tuan Minh Le
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management. From the perspective of public interest or good governance, many resource-dependent developing countries pursue apparently short-sighted...