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Offers policy-relevant knowledge on strategies to improve service delivery in rural areas especially to rural women. This study covers key economic services, such as agricultural advisory services and related social services, including rural water supply. It presents analytical work from four countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, India and Sri Lanka.

Discusses the evolution and context of the Bank policy for projects on international waterways. This title presents a description of how the Bank faced the challenges stemming from such projects and analyzes the different approaches deliberated by the Bank that led to the issuance of the first policy in 1956.

This book describes effective approaches to reporting and using data from national educational assessment exercises in order to improve the quality of students? learning.

This edited volume brings together revised versions of many of the papers presented during an international Climate Change workshop organised by World Bank, as an initial step in taking stock of existing knowledge on the social dimensions of climate change. Several new papers were also commissioned for this volume.

Early childhood development (ECD) outcomes affect one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability. This book takes stock of ECD indicators in the region and explores access to ECD services for children of different backgrounds. It reviews the evidence on the impact of ECD interventions in the region.

Reflects the collected thinking of the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the MENA Region on the long-term development challenges facing the region and the reform priorities and strategies for effectively meeting these challenges.

In our world, there are many development issues whose resolution requires international action. This book aims to promote an understanding of key global issues and why they matter, of the forces that are shaping public and private action to address these issues, and to highlight the World Bank's own work on these issues.

In most countries, parliament has the constitutional mandate to both oversee and hold government to account. This volume brings together research from various different perspectives and various different legislative settings worldwide. It is suitable for parliamentarians and parliamentary staff, and legislative strengthening practitioners.

What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs? The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary benchmarking of Brazilian cities, and case studies of two urban areas in Northeast Brazil.

Presents the reader with an overview of some of the issues relating to women and Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) in the developing world in contrast to the developed world.

Explores several technologies for moving money and identifies possible terrorist financing risks and measures taken to tackle them.

Energy efficiency is becoming a critical policy tools to meet the substantial growth in energy demand. This book synthesizes lessons from a review of international case studies of Energy Savings Performance Contracts in the public sector. It summarizes experience and outlines the effectiveness of different business and procurement models.

Based on studies of teacher issues in 8 countries in Anglophone Africa, this work suggests that supply, deployment, quality and cost are interrelated, and should be addressed through a comprehensive series of policies. Based on the case studies, it identifies policies which appear to be working, or to offer potential solutions.

Illustrated with 40 cases and examples, this guide provides the user with actionable approaches and tools based on value chain concepts that increase the productivity and performance of agriculture and agribusiness.

Coinciding with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency's (MIGA) twentieth anniversary, this book examines key political risk issues including claims and arbitration, perspectives on pricing from the private, public and multilateral providers, as well as exploring various frontiers in sovereign wealth funds and Islamic finance.

On a global scale, more than 1 billion people live without access to safe, potable water, in part because of poor governance and corruption. This practical guide is suitable for those who wish to diagnose, analyze, and take action against systemic corruption in the water and sanitation sectors.

Rich or poor, countries around the globe are struggling to find a way to pay for health care. This book presents a compelling analysis that shows private health insurance can play a role in providing more affordable access to health care to more people, no matter what their economic status.

Presents an opportunity to investigate the extent to which citizens of ECA countries are satisfied with their lives and with the performances of their governments, and to study key factors influencing their outlook in a systematic way across various countries of the region. This title assesses the impact of transition on people.

Describes the characteristics of public investment management (PIM) in seven EU countries as it applies to a single sector-transport infrastructure. This title highlights some of the common challenges that four EU member states - Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Latvia - face as they plan and execute their transport infrastructure projects.

Explores the challenges that are involved in setting up globally competitive universities, also called 'world-class', 'elite', or 'flagship' universities, that are expected to compete effectively with the best of the best.

Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book provides a comparative analysis of the outcomes of the reforms that have been implemented in Sub-Saharan cotton sectors and of the linkages between sector organization and performance. It highlights challenges facing cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The expansion of bioenergy production can result in many opportunities and challenges globally in the forestry, agricultural, and energy sectors as well as for the poor who depend on these sectors for their livelihood. This book provides an overview of bioenergy developments.

Presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods. This work provides an introduction of the different methodological tools available for evaluating the performance of the health and education sectors.

Examines the wealth of international experience on the efforts underway to multiply linkages between universities and businesses. This book offers guidance on policy measures being deployed by national and regional governments, by firms and universities themselves to enhance the contribution which tertiary institutions can make to economic change.

A comparative analysis of the Southeast Asian tiger economies, centered on Malaysia. It draws upon a comprehensive set of techniques and indicators to assess competitive pressures, gauge industrial and technological capabilities and to indicate the directions of industrial change in Southeast Asia could take.

Provides a comprehensive overview of topics dealing with the assessment, analysis, and management of financial risks in banking.

Large and growing subsidies to residential consumers in Mexico have become a major policy concern. This report explains the growth of subsidies, the current distribution of subsidies across income classes, and uses utility and household survey data to simulate how alternative subsidy mechanisms could improve distributional and fiscal performance.

Portrays the performance of the health sector in Zambia using quantitative techniques. This title brings together the results of three analytical efforts: multi-year national health accounts, a public expenditure tracking and quality of service delivery survey, and resource and impact modeling using the Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks software.

This book summarizes pertinent research using layman terms and attempts to apply it to the acquisition of adult literacy, presenting issues and ideas on designing adult literacy programs that support human memory functions as understood in 2003.

Examines how well the financial systems in the Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe (CESE) economies were prepared for the challenges of multipillar pension reform, how ready they are for the approaching payout of benefits to the first participants, and how determined policy actions might be implemented to complete financial market development.