Bank Bank: 1056 books
Pioneers of the Field
South Africa's Women Anthropologists
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers, Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in South Africa was uniquely female-dominated. The book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women through the use of a rich cocktail of new...
Capital for the Future
Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The gradual acceleration of growth in developing countries is a defining feature of the past two decades. This acceleration came with major shifts in patterns of investment, saving, and capital flows. This second volume in the Global Development Horizons series analyzes these shifts and explores how...
by World Bank;
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Increasingly the role of management and governance is recognized as important for providing and delivering effective services at all levels of education. In view of the growing demand for more and better services at secondary education levels, these are crucial issues that must be addressed urgently....
by World Bank; Sutherland-Addy Esi
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Evidence of gender inequity and inequality in terms of access, retention and performance in secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa raises many questions. While transition rates from primary to secondary are higher for girls than boys, and the repetition rates are lower, girls still significantly trail...
by World Bank Publications
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
This Toolkit provides an overall framework with practical tools and information to help policymakers design and implement corporate governance reforms for state-owned enterprises. It covers the key elements of corporate governance, including legal and regulatory framework, state ownership arrangements,...
Irrigation Management Transfer
Strategies and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Over the years, various factors like increased competition for water, fiscal constraints faced by the government in continued subsidies for irrigation management, the demonstrated improvement in water use equity and efficiency when managed by the users, have led to the devolution of irrigation management...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Inequality in South Asia appears to be moderate when looking at standard indicators such as the Gini index, which are based on consumption expenditures per capita. But other pieces of evidence reveal enormous gaps, from extravagant wealth at one end to lack of access to the most basic services at the...
The Economic Impact of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic
Short- and Medium-Term Estimates for West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty. This impact results partly from the health-care costs...
by World Bank; Fay Marianne; I. Block Rachel; Ebinger Jane
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
The climate is changing and many Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries are vulnerable to the consequences. Many countries are facing warmer temperatures, a changing hydrology and more extremes, droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires. Already the frequency and cost of...
Societal Dynamics and Fragility
Engaging Societies in Responding to Fragile Situations
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Today's world is changing at breakneck speed, shaking the very foundations of many societies. Increased mobility through massive urbanization and migration allows people unprecedented access to different cultures and ideas; advanced technologies speed the pace of human interaction; the globalization...
Women With Attitude
Lessons for Career Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book answers all the questions you’ve ever wanted to ask top-ranking women directors: How did they make it to the top? What do they think of their success? How does it affect their lives? It brings individual stories of accomplishment together with expert research into the emergence of women...
by Andrew Kakabadse, John Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
First published in 2004, this volume recognises that, as society changes, so must its organisations; as organisations change, so must their management competencies. The requirement for organisations to be flexible, innovative and adaptable in environments of increasing complexity and uncertainty is...
MADE: Bestselling Las Vegas Organized Crime Thriller Series
(Trilogy eBox set / 3 books for price of 1)
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
MADE: Sex, Drugs and Murder; The Recipe for Success. MADE is Book 1 of an Epic, Crime Thriller trilogy. It's about Andy Cooper; a military vet, turned hustler, turned Gangster, turned Crime Boss. His marriage is on the rocks; fresh out of the military, AC finds himself broke and lost with a Wife...
The Everything Jewish History and Heritage Book
From Abraham to Zionism, all you need to understand the key events, people, and places
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
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