World Bank: 627 books
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
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...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Historically countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have faced a number of obstacles in their transition to democracy and market-based economies. These obstacles include higher levels of corruption and greater administrative and regulatory burdens as they pass laws and implement programs to combat...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Knowledge intensiveness has featured prominently in most strategies to promote agricultural development. In the past strengthened research systems may have increased the supply of new knowledge and technologies, but that has not necessarily translated into enhanced agricultural growth. Knowledge converts...
South Asia's Turn
Policies to Boost Competitiveness and Create the Next Export Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population †“ especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: -Economies of agglomeration:...
by McInerney-Lankford Siobhan; Sano Hans-Otto
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realization both qualitatively and quantitatively. They offer an empirical or evidence-based dimension to the normative content of human rights legal obligations...
Left Behind
Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean...
The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface)
A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This classic work remains relevant to anyone with a serious interest in using household survey data...
East Asia and Pacific Cities
Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Urbanization in East Asia and the Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as national and local governments try to keep up with the needs of their growing populations. Among these challenges is a lack of affordable housing, resulting...
Trouble in the Making?
The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Technology and globalization are threatening manufacturing’s traditional ability to deliver both productivity and jobs at a large scale for unskilled workers. Concerns about widening inequality within and across countries are raising questions about whether interventions are needed and how effective...
by Daria Taglioni, Deborah Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus become...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Africa Development Indicators 2012/13 is the most detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators for 53 countries. A companion CD-ROM has additional data, with some 1,700 indicators covering 19612010. -Basic indicators -National and fiscal accounts...
Toward a New Social Contract
Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, between rural and urban communities, and between the super-rich and everyone else, are threatening the sustainability of the social contract. The institutions...
Golden Aging
Prospects for Healthy, Active, and Prosperous Aging in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Societies across Europe and Central Asia are aging, but people are not necessarily living longer. This demographic trend-caused by a decrease in fertility rather than improved longevity-presents both challenges and opportunities for governments, the private sector, and individuals alike. Some of the...
Shared Prosperity
Paving the Way in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The World Bank has recently defined two strategic goals: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Shared prosperity is measured as income growth among the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution in the population. The two goals should be achieved in a way that is sustainable from economic,...