Bank Bank: 1056 books
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2004
China's accession to the WTO requires a great many specific policy reforms. However, if the best results are to be obtained, it is important that these reforms be implemented as part of a consistent development program, rather than simply by treating them as a recipe. To do this, policy makers must understand...
Strengthening Carbon Financing for Grassland Management in the People's Republic of China
Mitigation Options in Grassland-Based Animal Husbandry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The majority of the People's Republic of China's 3.9 million square kilometers of grasslands are degraded and contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases. Restoring degraded grasslands and increasing the efficiency of forage utilization are key strategies for addressing sustainable grassland management....
Strengthening Carbon Financing for Grassland Management in the People's Republic of China
Incentive Mechanisms and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is being impacted by climate change. The resulting degradation and desertification of grasslands are projected to lead to decreased productivity and severely affect livestock and ecosystems. Financial incentives are required to improve environmental management...
Making Grasslands Sustainable in Mongolia
Assessment of Key Elements of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for Grassland and Livestock Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Climate change is a threat to Mongolia's economic growth, sustainable development, and fragile environment. Well-designed actions to mitigate climate change can provide multiple benefits, including socioeconomic development and resilience to climate variability and change. Nationally appropriate mitigation...
Global Monitoring Report 2013
Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals examines rural-urban disparities in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how urbanization, if managed well, can contribute to the attainment of these goals. The report provides information...
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...
Women, Business and the Law 2016
Getting to Equal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In a changing world, how can we be sure that women as well as men entrepreneurs and workers obtain the benefit from these changes? Ensuring that women have the same legal opportunities as men is one part of the picture. By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, Women, Business and...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? This year's Global Monitoring Report, The MDGs after the Crisis, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing countries. Although the recovery is under way, the impact...
World Development Report 2015
Mind, Society, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that humans...
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...
Growing Smarter
Learning and Equitable Development in East Asia and Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
One-quarter of the world’s school-age children live in East Asia and Pacific. During the past 50 years, some economies in the region have successfully transformed themselves by investing in the continuous upgrading of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of their workforce. Through policy foresight,...
Forcibly Displaced
Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Syrian refugee crisis has galvanized attention to one of the world’s foremost challenges: forced displacement. The total number of refugees and internally displaced persons, now at over 65 million, continues to grow as violent conflict spikes.This report, Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development...