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by Blom Andreas ; Cheong Jannette
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Higher education, and in particular technical education, is critical to India's aspirations of becoming a major competitive player in the global knowledge economy. The technical education system is huge and complex, and reforms are imperative. Countrywide policies continue to identify Good Governance...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9)
Improving Health and Reducing Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory chapters...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)
Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6)
Major Infectious Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 8)
Child and Adolescent Health and Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
More children born today will survive to adulthood than at any time in history. It is now time to emphasize health and development in middle childhood and adolescence--developmental phases that are critical to health in adulthood and the next generation. Child and Adolescent Health and Development...
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...
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities
The Example of Bamako, Mali
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety nets programs. All countries have now deployed safety net interventions as part of their core development programs. The number...
Eruptions of Popular Anger
The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Eruptions of Popular Anger: The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath sets out to answer three puzzles—the “Arab inequality†? puzzle of civil uprisings in countries with low-to-moderate and stagnant economic inequality, the “unhappy development†? paradox of increasing dissatisfaction...
Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Protection
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
'Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Protection: Concepts and Applications' provides the conceptual and analytical framework for assessing social protection (SP) programs, as well as provides a practical guide for users seeking to conduct analysis, particularly using the World Bank's Software Platform...
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,...
Better Neighbors
Toward a Renewal of Economic Integration in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book proposes a renewal of 'Open Regionalism' in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) aimed at achieving the region's goals of high growth with stability. The LAC region experienced a growth spurt with equity during the first decade of the 21st Century. It is well understood that an unsustainable...
Cashing in on Education
Women, Childcare, and Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Investments in education across countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have transformed the lives of millions of girls and the prospects of their families and societies. Unleashing the full economic potential of women is nevertheless still a curtailed issue in the region: just about half of...
Beyond Commodities
The Growth Challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Beyond Commodities shows that Latin America and the Caribbean’s growth performance over the last decade cannot be reduced to the commodity boom: growth-promoting reforms that strengthened financial development, increased trade openness and improved infrastructure development also played a significant...