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  • - A Strategy for Employment and Growth
    av World Bank
    431,-

    Assesses the impact of the strong economic growth on employment. This study addresses the question of what Nigeria could do to increase the availability of quality jobs and reduce rising youth unemployment, and proposes a strategy to sustain and further accelerate Nigeria's growth performance and enhance quality of employment.

  • - connectivity and logistics to sustain Bangladesh's success
    av World Bank
    501

    This book provides a granular diagnostic of Bangladesh's logistics system, its demand and associated costs, and the actions needed to improve its performance. It provides insights on chokepoints and makes a case for a comprehensive yet strategic approach to addressing them.

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    - health and economic consequences of an impending global challenge
    av World Bank
    404,-

    Obesity is a global ticking time-bomb with huge potential negative economic and health impacts, especially for the poor. Countries and global partners need to act urgently to address this ensuing epidemic with emphasis highlighting interventions that require corrective public action rather than one of individual responsibility.

  • - the future of manufacturing-led development
    av Mary Hallward-Driemeier, World Bank & Gaurav Nayyar
    490,-

    Shifting the attention from high-income countries, this report takes the perspective of developing countries to ask:If new technologies reduce the importance of low-wage labour, how can developing countries compete?; Do countries need to industrialize to develop?; How can countries at different levels of development take advantage of new opportunities?

  • - managing India's teacher workforce
    av Vimala Ramachandran & World Bank
    563,-

    Takes a detailed look at the complexity of the teacher management system in India. It compares and contrasts teacher management policies in nine Indian states with actual practice on the ground, identifying key implementation challenges.

  • - building the resilience of the poor in the face of natural disasters
    av World Bank & Stephane Hallegatte
    563,-

    This report moves beyond asset and production losses and shifts its attention to how natural disasters affect people's well-being. Disasters are far greater threats to wellbeing than traditional estimates suggest. This approach provides a more nuanced view of natural disasters than usual reporting, and a perspective that takes fuller account of poor people's vulnerabilities.

  • - reaching the global targets for stunting, anemia, breastfeeding, and wasting
    av Meera Shekar & World Bank
    563,-

  • - linking innovation and local benefits
    av Vincent Roquet & World Bank
    490,-

    Shows how urban resettlement can become a development opportunity for those who are adversely affected by the process of urban development. Examples include improvements to legal systems in Brazil, resettlement programs in slums in India and Mauritania, and restoration of informal sector livelihoods in Morocco and Pakistan.

  • - reform experiences and challenges ahead in the Kazakhstan power sector
    av World Bank, Mirlan Aldayarov & Istvan Dobozi
    490,-

    The Kazakhstan Power Sector Assessment study aims to objectively identify the principal challenges faced by the Kazakhstan power sector in its ongoing transition and outlining potential policy options; and draw lessons from Kazakhstan's experience in sector reforms for the broader international audience.

  • - a handbook for policy makers and practitioners
    av World Bank & Joel Cooper
    681,-

    This handbook is part of the wider WBG engagement in supporting countries with Domestic Resource Mobilization. It covers all relevant aspects that have to be considered when introducing or strengthening transfer pricing regimes aimed at addressing country specific risks and promoting compliance among taxpayers.

  • - weak investment in uncertain times
    av World Bank
    490,-

    Published semiannually, this report includes analysis of topical policy challenges faced by developing countries through in-depth research in the January edition, and shorter analytical pieces in the June edition.

  • - public finance and the security sector, a guide to public expenditure reviews in the security and criminal justice sectors
    av World Bank
    622,-

    Provides policymakers from government finance agencies, security and justice ministries, and international organisations with an introduction to the key issues related to public expenditure reviews in the security sector.

  • av World Bank & Tom Walker
    490,-

    Sub-Saharan Africans make their living from agriculture. Based on a detailed review of currently available technologies, this paper argues that improving the productivity and stability of agriculture has the potential to make a significant contribution to reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience.

  • - evidence from Jordanian schools and primary healhcare facilities
    av Tamer Rabie & World Bank
    490,-

  • av Pablo Acosta & World Bank
    490,-

    This report looks at the trends in public social spending in Central America from 2007 to 2014, conducts international benchmarking, examines measures of the effectiveness and efficiency of social spending, and assesses the quality of selected institutions influencing public social spending.

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    - five critical steps toward integrating lagging and leading areas in the Middle East and North Africa
    av World Bank
    476

  • - comparing business regulation in 190 economies
    av World Bank
    568

  • Spar 19%
    av World Bank
    434

    Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula faces growing risks from environmental hazards. Oil spills, hurricanes, coral bleaching, extreme flooding, and erosion have all been experienced over the past decade. This report explores selected topics that aim to inform decision-making in the region.

  • av World Bank
    642,-

    Provides actionable advice on how to design and implement fiscal policies for both development and climate action. Building on more than two decades of research in development and environmental economics, it argues that well-designed environmental tax reforms are especially valuable in developing countries.

  • - a multisector partnership to address TB in southern Africa's mining sector
    av Barry Kistnasamy, Patrick L. Osewe & World Bank
    563,-

    Presents key activities, promising practices, and lessons learned from the World Bank Tuberculosis in the Mining Sector Initiative - a multisectoral, multicountry, public-private regional initiative in southern Africa. It examines how ministries, sectors, and partners have been brought together to address the epidemic's varied dimensions.

  • - A Country Economic Memorandum for Malawi
    av Praveen Kumar, World Bank & Richard Record
    490,-

  • - key findings and lessons learned
    av World Bank & Harika Masud
    563,-

  • - engaging in the next generation of global value chains
    av World Bank
    563,-

    This volume supports Vietnam's path to economic prosperity by identifying policies and targeted interventions that will drive development through leveraging GVC participation that take major shifts in trade policy and rapid technological advances in ICT into account.

  • - a handbook for policy makers and practitioners
    av World Bank
    622,-

    Proposes a simple framework to understand the political economy of subsidy reform and applies it to four in-depth country studies covering more than 30 reform episodes. The most successful reforms involve active efforts by policy leaders to identify the political forces supporting energy subsidies and redirect or inoculate them.

  • - managing urban growth for productive and livable cities in Mexico
    av World Bank
    490,-

    Analyses the spatial development patterns of Mexican cities and examines how recent urban spatial growth has affected economic performance and livability. Based on the analysis, this report offers recommendations and instruments to support more sustainable spatial development and to make Mexican cities become more productive and inclusive.

  • - measurement, magnitudes, and explanations
    av World Bank, Alexandria Valerio & Michael J. Handel
    490,-

    Uses data from the World Bank's STEP Household Skills Survey to explore patterns of educational mismatch in 12 developing countries. Workers are considered "mismatched" if their personal education is different than that required by their jobs. The report finds that over-education is common across diverse developing contexts.

  • - lessons from the experiences of seven reforming countries
    av World Bank, Ivor Beazley & Donald Moynihan
    490,-

    Performance budgeting is a reform adopted by governments in many OECD countries and encouraged by development agencies. This book explores the experiences of seven countries and suggests a fresh approach to avoid classic pitfalls and adopting ideas from successful reformers.

  • - status, case studies, and policy options
    av World Bank, Maddalena Honorati & Sara Johansson de Silva
    490,-

    After years of high growth and poverty reduction, Ghana is now facing important economic and social challenges. More jobs, jobs that pay better, and jobs that include the more vulnerable groups will be needed. This book provides a diagnostic of Ghana's workers and jobs and possible policy directions going forward.

  • - thematic assessment, a diagnostic trade integration study
    av World Bank
    622,-

    Identifies a four-pillar strategy for Bangladesh to sustain and accelerate export growth: breaking into new markets, breaking into new products, improving worker and consumer welfare, and building a supportive environment.

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