World Bank: 627 books
The 1.5 Billion People Question
Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Most of the people in low and middle-income countries covered by social protection receive assistance in the form of in-kind food. The origin of such support is rooted in countries’ historical pursuit of three interconnected objectives, namely attaining self-sufficiency in food, managing domestic...
Critical Connections
Promoting Economic Growth and Resilience in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Critical Connections examines how trade, investment, migration, and other linkages among countries drive economic growth in the Europe and Central Asia region. The study breaks new ground by using a multidimensional approach that recognizes how each connectivity channel for growth is likely to be...
Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies
Evolution, Drivers, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2019
This is the first comprehensive study in the context of EMDEs that covers, in one consistent framework, the evolution and global and domestic drivers of inflation, the role of expectations, exchange rate pass-through and policy implications. In addition, the report analyzes inflation and monetary...
Capturing Solutions for Learning and Scaling Up
Documenting Operational Experiences for Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Is your organization missing important lessons from its operational experiences? This step-by-step guide shows you how to systematically capture such knowledge and use it to inform decision making, support professional learning, and scale up successes. The captured lessons--knowledge assets, the central...
Development as Freedom in a Digital Age
Experiences from the Rural Poor in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen’s capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people’s well-being,...
Public Wrongs, Private Actions
Civil Lawsuits to Recover Stolen Assets
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Over the last decade, the topics of corruption and recovery of its proceeds have steadily risen in the international policy agenda, with the entry into force of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2005, the Arab Spring in 2011, and most recently a string of scandals in the...
by van Greuning Hennie; Brajovic Bratanovic Sonja
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
The third edition of 'Analyzing Banking Risk' provides a comprehensive overview of topics dealing with the assessment, analysis, and management of financial risks in banking.The publication emphasizes risk-management principles and stresses that key players in the corporate governance process...
by Nenova Tatiana; Niang Cecile Thioro
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
This book reflects the first comprehensive survey and dataset of access to financial products by the Pakistani population. In Pakistan, access to financing is at low levels, though expanding quickly. Half of Pakistani adults, mostly women, do not engage in the financial system at all. The formal microfinance...
by Topa Giuseppe; Megevand Carole; Karsenty Alain; Debroux Laurent
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and integrate wider economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the value of forests. Based on historical data and extensive...
by Ainsworth Martha
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
High levels of child malnutrition in developing countries contribute to mortality and have long-term consequences for children's cognitive development and earnings as adults. Recent impact evaluations show that many different interventions have had an impact on children's anthropometric outcomes (height,...
by Odugbemi Sina; Jacobson Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Although necessary and often first rate, technocratic solutions alone have been ineffective in delivering real change or lasting results in governance reforms. This is primarily because reform programs are delivered no in controlled environments, but under complex, diverse, sociopolitical and economic...
by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Decentralization and Local Democracy in the World constitutes a global reference on decentralization by presenting the contemporary situation of local governments in all regions of the world. The report analyzes local authorities in each continent under three main themes: the evolution of territorial...
Fair Progress?
Economic Mobility across Generations around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and analysis covering most of the world including developing economies. The analysis considers whether those born in poverty or...
by Spence Michael; Leipziger Danny
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
*What were the causes of the financial and economic crises of 2008-2009?*What intellectual and policy mistakes prevented academics and policymakers from anticipating the crisis?*What is the future of financial regulation both domestic and international?*What role did global macroeconomic imbalances play...