World Bank Publications: 275 books
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...
Making Politics Work for Development
Harnessing Transparency and Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that...
by WorldBank
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The January 2016 edition of Global Economic Prospects discusses current global and regional economic developments and prospects, analyzing key challenges and opportunities confronting developing countries. This volume addresses, among other topics, spillovers from large emerging markets and macroeconomic...
Moving for Prosperity
Global Migration and Labor Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Migration presents a stark policy dilemma. Research repeatedly confirms that migrants, their families back home, and the countries that welcome them experience large economic and social gains. Easing immigration restrictions is one of the most effective tools for ending poverty and sharing prosperity...
Live Long and Prosper
Aging in East Asia and Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Aging is a challenge which countries in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) regions are grappling with or will soon confront. It raises many questions for policymakers ranging from potential macroeconomic impacts, to fiscal challenges of supporting pension, health and long-term care systems, and labor market...
Beyond Scarcity
Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Water has always been a source of risks and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet rapidly changing socioeconomic, political, and environmental conditions make water security a different, and more urgent, challenge than ever before. This report shows that achieving water security means...
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016
Taking on Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 is the first of an annual flagship report that will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policy makers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity....
Global Economic Prospects, January 2019
Darkening Skies
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
The outlook for the global economy has darkened. Global financing conditions have tightened, industrial production has moderated, trade tensions have intensified, and some large emerging market and developing economies have experienced significant financial market stress. Faced with these headwinds,...
ICT in Agriculture (Updated Edition)
Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity, to enhance...
Securing Development
Public Finance and the Security Sector
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Securing Development: Public Finance and the Security Sector highlights the role of public finance in the delivery of security and criminal justice services. This book offers a framework for analyzing public financial management, financial transparency, and oversight, as well as expenditure policy issues...
The Innovation Paradox
Developing-Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Since Schumpeter, economists have argued that vast productivity gains can be achieved by investing in innovation and technological catch-up. Yet, as this volume documents, developing country firms and governments invest little to realize this potential, which dwarfs international aid flows. Using new...
The World Bank Legal Review
Legal Innovation and Empowerment for Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Much has been written about the role of law in furthering development. More analysis and debate is needed to understand more fully the true nature of this role. The World Bank Legal Review collects much of this debate and analysis, contributed by scholars and practitioners from around the world. The...