Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: development, indicators, world, gender, data, book, little
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0821378724
ISBN-13: 9780821378724

This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics. It presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 countries in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development Goals. The book’s summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates.

Author: Sanjay Kathuria
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: growth, directions, development, trade, agenda, balkan, integration, western
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-06-10
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821374729
ISBN-13: 9780821374726

Though Western Balkan countries have enjoyed respectable growth rates over the past five years, they now face a shifting international and domestic environment. Trade preferences are eroding, export competition is increasing, and the easier phase of post-transition growth is waning. In order to reduce still-high poverty rates and work toward EU accession, Western Balkan countries need to improve and then sustain their economic growth performance. Western Balkan Integration and the EU examines topics related to current account imbalances, export patterns, regional integration in goods and provi

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: doing, independent, evaluation, business, indicators, group, ifc, studies, measure, taking, world, bank
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2008-06-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821375520
ISBN-13: 9780821375525

This independent evaluation of the Doing Business Indicators assesses the methods and processes used to construct the indicators, their relevance to development outcomes, and their usefulness to policy makers and other stakeholders. It makes recommendations for improving the collection and presentation of data and for greater clarity in communicating what the indicators can and cannot capture.

Authors:Francois Bourguignon,  Yehuda Elkana,
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: future, directions, budapest, proceedings, learned, lessons, building, economic, education, research, capacity
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-03-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0821365959
ISBN-13: 9780821365953

This book presents papers from the capacity building conference on "Scaling up the Success of Capacity Building in Economic Education and Research," which took place in Budapest at the Central European University campus, held June 14 15, 2005, and co-hosted by CEU and the WB. For the last 15 years, the World Bank and its partners, private foundations and governments, have supported the centers of excellence for building capacity in modern economics education and research in developing and transition countries. To strengthen the efforts, the Central European University (CEU) and the World Bank

Authors:Nagy K. Hanna, Christina Zhen-wei Qiang, Asheeta
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: working, papers, bank, world, informatization, china, rural
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0821380184
ISBN-13: 9780821380185

China s recent economic growth has expanded industrialization and urbanization, upgraded consumption, increased social mobility, and initiated a shift from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry and services. However, more than half of China s people still live in rural areas where average income per capita is less than a third of the urban average. China has adopted a new development paradigm in its 11th Five-Year Plan (covering 2006 11), emphasizing the building of a Harmonious Society (he xie she hui) with more balanced development across regions. The new development parad

Authors:David H. Peters,  Sameh El-saharty, Banafsheh Sia
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: evidence, action, directions, development, countries, developing, health, service, delivery, improving
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821378880
ISBN-13: 9780821378885

Reliable information on how health service strategies affect the poor is in short supply. In an attempt to redress the imbalance, Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries presents evidence on strategies for strengthening health service delivery, based on systematic reviews of the literature, quantitative and qualitative analyses of existing data, and seven country case studies. The authors also explore how changes in coverage of different health services affect each other on the national level. Finally, the authors explain why setting international targets for health services

Authors:Kulsum Ahmed,  Ernesto Sanchez-triana,
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: governance, directions, development, instrument, policies, environmental, assessment, strategic
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0821367625
ISBN-13: 9780821367629

Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. SEA has been used extensively for programs and plans, but has less frequently been applied to policies. In the cases where it is applied, the very unusual nature of policy formulation as an ongoing, iterative and adaptive process, rather than a linear, rational process, often has meant that SEA, as applied, has had limited success in influencing decision-making. This book foc