World Bank Publications: 275 books
Financing Africa's Cities
The Imperative of Local Investment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the next decades. Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time, decentralization...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The use of matching contributions to enhance the participation and level of savings in pensions system has now been in use for nearly three decades in a number of high income countries. Increasingly, countries across the full range of economic development are looking to the design as a means of addressing...
Fail-Safe Management
Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Balancing Act
Cutting Energy Subsidies while Protecting Affordability
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia there are significant pressures for residential energy tariffs to rise, as government budgets are increasingly stretched and cannot afford to pay large energy subsidies. Further pressures for tariffs to rise come from environmental concerns, as the tariff levels that...
by Emanuela di Gropello, Prateek Tandon, Shahid Yusuf
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This book assesses whether East Asian higher education is providing research and innovation for growth and delivering its graduates with the skills necessary for productivity in the labor market. It also seeks to determine how higher education systems could be improved in order to deliver these outcomes....
by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the...
by Ahmad Ahsan, Manolo Abella, Andrew Beath
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US$112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more than 7 million migrant workers, mostly from other Asian countries. These migrant workers account for...
Entrepreneurship in Latin America
A Step Up the Social Ladder?
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This book looks at both the potential and limits of policies to promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean. Who are the regionÂ’s entrepreneurs? They tend to be middle-aged males with secondary and, often, tertiary education who represent only...
Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values
Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility....
Understanding Policy Change
How to Apply Political Economy Concepts in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
How does the social and political context in which decision-makers find themselves in affect their ability to realize their reform goals? How does this context facilitate or inhibit specific reform agendas and projects? How can we operationalize and evaluate these risks and opportunities in order to...
Enterprising Women
Expanding Economic Opportunities in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This book brings together new household and enterprise data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to inform policy makers and practitioners on ways to expand women entrepreneursÂ’ economic opportunities. Sub-Saharan Africa boasts the highest share of women entrepreneurs, but they are disproportionately...
Inclusion and Resilience
The Way Forward for Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges to the poor and vulnerable in the region by bringing together new evidence, data, and country-specific...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Although labor is usually the unique asset upon which poor people can make a living, little is known about the functioning of labor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this volume is to contribute to the building of knowledge in this area. In this book, the authors use a unique set of identical...
Tales from the Development Frontier
How China and Other Countries Harness Light Manufacturing to Create Jobs and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales...