Bank Bank: 1056 books

The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs.It is serves as a tool for: guidance;...

Emerging East Asian economies have seen their share of world exports more than triple during the past quarter-century, and intraregional trade has driven this growth. Broad measures of development in East Asia have improved at the same headlong pace. Why push further integration now? Two economic events...

Developing Countries, Agriculture and the WTO explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from a developing country perspective. The handbook is of particular interest for both developed and developing countries. Chapters cover market access, domestic support, export competition,...

Published in association with Harper Collins the completely revised and updated third edition of the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. 'This is an excellent up-to-date source book which will be invaluable for students of and staff...

Following the serious economic crisis in 2001-02, Argentina mobilized an unprecedented effort to provide income support to the segment of the population most in need. Now, as growth has returned and social indicators recovered to precrisis levels, there is an opening to move from emergency support programs...

The book "Gender and Governance in Rural Services: Insights from India, Ghana and Ethiopia" provides policy-relevant knowledge on strategies to improve agricultural and rural service delivery with a focus on providing more equitable access to these services, especially for women. It focuses India, Ethiopia,...

Social inclusion is on the agenda of governments, policymakers, and nonstate actors around the world. Underpinning this concern is the realization that despite progress on poverty reduction, some people continue to feel left out. This report aims to unpack the concept of social inclusion and understand...

Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences...

Policy makers recognize that developing capacity for knowledge and technology driven growth is necessary for Swaziland to steadily integrate into the global economy and to be competitive; in particular because Swaziland is not rich in exploitable natural resources. The Education Training and Skills Development...

With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators countries and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the remaining gaps.

Learning to love our bodies can be among the most transformational things we do in life. But how do we get our bodies to love us back? In her guidebook Health Matters, Rosie Bank shares fifty-two practical lessons that will help others gradually improve their lives, health, and overall vitality in...

A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart" does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In 2008 Walmart acquired a controlling share in a large...

Economic losses in marine fisheries resulting from poor management, inefficiencies, and overfishing add up to US50 billion per year. Taken over the last three decades, these losses total over US2 trillion, a figure roughly equivalent to the GDP of Italy.The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification...

This report provides the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of Iraqi income and expenditure in several decades. The report makes extensive use of the Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey the first nationwide income and expenditure survey since 1988. IHSES data is complemented income and expenditure...