Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, country, study, world, jamaica, sustained, growth, road
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 082135826X
ISBN-13: 9780821358269

The Road to Sustained Growth in Jamaica is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank’s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Jamaica’s economic history is a story of paradoxes and potential. It has an English-speaking and a reasonably well-educated labor force, is close to the world’s largest market, the United States, and has an abundance of natural beauty, which has spurred tourism. Many of its s

Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, country, study, chile, protection, risk, management, social, household
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 2004-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0821359533
ISBN-13: 9780821359532

Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank’s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile takes a critical look at the country’s social protection "system" – broadly defined to include policy interventions, public institutions, and the regulation of private institutions that lower the we

Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, studies, strategy, integrated, poverty, alleviation, brazil, rural
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821352067
ISBN-13: 9780821352069

Authors:World Bank Group, Policy World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, country, study, studies, review, republic, joining, development, policy, slovak
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2003-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821355104
ISBN-13: 9780821355107

The Slovak economy experienced in 2002 its best performance since it pulled out of the financial crisis of 1998. However, soon after recovery was under way and had begun to generate jobs, macroeconomic imbalance resurfaced, while more than 18 percent of the labor force remains unemployed. Accession to the EU provides a window of opportunity to tackle those remaining challenges. This study suggests an eleven-point agenda for immediate policy action and a longer-term overhaul of major spending programs in the areas of education, health, and social protection. The success of this strategy is p

Author: World Bank
Publisher: A World Bank Policy Research Report
Keywords: bank, policy, research, report, world, ownership, business, economics, politics, government, bureaucrats
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 1996-01-11
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0195211065
ISBN-13: 9780195211061

After more than a decade of privatization, state-owned enterprises still account for nearly as large a share of developing countries’ economies as they did twenty years ago. Drawing on detailed case studies of twelve countries, this report explains how divestiture and other measures improve the economy, why politics often impedes reforms, how countries overcome obstacles, and why so few countries have reformed. The final chapter offers detailed guidance on how to competently reform state-owned companies.

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, report, development, geography, reshaping, economic
Number of Pages: 383
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0821376403
ISBN-13: 9780821376409

Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development. The transformations along these three dimensions - density, distance, and division - are most noticeable in North America, Western Europe, and Japan, but countries in Asia and Eastern Europe are changing in ways similar in scope and speed. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography concludes that these spatial transformations are essential, and should be encouraged.The conclu

Author: The World Bank
Publisher: A World Bank Policy Research Report
Keywords: world, integration, bank, policy, report, financial, road, capital, flows, developing, countries, private
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1997-11-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195211162
ISBN-13: 9780195211160

The world’s financial markets are rapidly integrating into a single global marketplace, and developing countries are being drawn into this process starting from different points and moving at various speeds. Those with adequate institutions and sound policies in place may proceed smoothly along the road toward financial integration and gain the many benefits that integration can bring. Most of the developing economies lack many of the necessary prerequisites for such a move; a few are so unprepared that integration may do them more harm than good. Developing countries may have little cho