World Bank Publications: 275 books
Key Labor Market Indicators
Analysis with Household Survey Data
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Key Labor Market Indicators: Analysis with Household Survey Data is an introduction to labor market indicator analysis and a guide for analyzing household survey data using the ADePT ILO (International Labour Organization) Labor Market Indicators Module. The analytical framework and approach taken up...
Privilege-Resistant Policies in the Middle East and North Africa
Measurement and Operational Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Renewing the social contract, one of the pillars of the new World Bank Group strategy for the Middle East and North Africa, requires a new development model built on greater trust; openness, transparency, inclusive and accountable service delivery; and a stronger private sector that can create jobs...
A Step Ahead
Competition Policy for Shared Prosperity and Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Sustainable economic development has played a major role in the decline of global poverty in the past two decades. There is no doubt that competitive markets are key drivers of economic growth and productivity. They are also valuable channels for consumer welfare. Competition policy is a powerful tool...
High-Growth Firms
Facts, Fiction, and Policy Options for Emerging Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Remarkably, a small fraction of firms account for most of the job and output creation in high-income and developing countries alike. Does this imply that the path to enabling more economic dynamism lies in selectively targeting high-potential firms? Or would pursuing broad-based reforms that minimize...
Trust, Voice, and Incentives
Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
This report examines the role of incentives, trust, and engagement as critical determinants of service delivery performance in MENA countries. Focusing on education and health, the report illustrates how the weak external and internal accountability undermines policy implementation and service delivery...
Productivity Revisited
Shifting Paradigms in Analysis and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the slowing of global growth amid spectacular technological advances, and developing countries’ frustratingly slow progress in catching up to the technological frontier. Productivity Revisited brings together...
Global Economic Prospects, January 2015
Having Fiscal Space and Using It
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
As in previous years, global growth disappointed in 2014, but a lackluster recovery is underway, with increasingly divergent prospects in major economies and developing countries. Looking ahead, growth is expected to rise slowly, supported by continued recovery in highincome countries, low oil prices,...
Global Financial Development Report 2014
Financial Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? 'World Development Indicators' is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 800 indicators for more than 150 economies and 14 country groups in...
Atlas of Global Development
A Visual Guide to the Worlds Greatest Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED INCLUDING SPECIAL eBOOK-ONLY CONTENT Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated fourth edition of the Atlas of Global Development is a comprehensive guide to the most critical issues facing our changing world today. A visual guide to...
Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011
Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011: Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World (ABCDE) presents papers from a global gathering of the worlds leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 - June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
With some six billion mobile subscriptions now in use worldwide, around three-quarters of the world's inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone. Mobiles are arguably the most ubiquitous modern technology – in some developing countries, more people have access to a mobile phone than to clean water,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanized regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Western...
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World
Volume 2, Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes are now in their teens. The new pension concept was born in the early 1990s, implemented from the mid-1990s in Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, legislated most recently in Norway and Egypt and serves as inspiration for other reform countries. This innovative...