Authors:L. Alan Winters, Shahid Yusuf,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: global, economy, india, china, giants, dancing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0821367498
ISBN-13: 9780821367490

China is now the world’s fourth largest economy and growing very fast. India’s economic salience is also on the rise. Together these two countries will profoundly influence the pace and nature of global economic change. Drawing upon the latest research, this volume analyzes the influences on the rapid future development of these two countries and examines how their growth is likely to impinge upon other countries. It considers international trade, industrialization, foreign investment and capital flows, and the implications of their broadening environmental footprints. It also disc

Author: Brigit Helms
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: systems, financial, inclusive, building, access
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2006-01-19
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821363603
ISBN-13: 9780821363607

In the past ten years, the world of microfinance has changed dramatically. The field has moved rapidly from early innovations in providing loans to help poor entrepreneurs start businesses to a bold vision of creating entire financial systems that work for the poor. Microfinance has proven to be an effective tool for reducing poverty and helping poor people to improve their lives. And yet a diverse range of potential clients still lack access to an array of financial services not just credit for enterprise but also a safe place to save, the ability to transfer funds to family members, insura

Author: Ligang Song
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: outcomes, prospects, process, transformation, ownership, china
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2005-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821362372
ISBN-13: 9780821362372

China’s emergence as a global economic player has been accompanied by a major internal transformation. Over the past decade, the economy has made the transition from complete reliance on state-owned and collective enterprise to a mixed economy where private enterprise also plays a strong role. Gaizhi, a Chinese term meaning "transforming the system," has become a major phenomenon in most parts of the country; in many cases it has involved full privatization. China s Ownership Transformation applies descriptive and econometric analysis to survey, and official statistical data to exami

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: Tim E. J. Campbell
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: caribbean, america, world, bank, paper, discussion, latin, government, taking, risk, engine, reform, local, innovations
Number of Pages: 29
Published: 1997-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 082133882X
ISBN-13: 9780821338827

Authors:World Bank, Paul Collier, David Dollar,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: world, bank, policy, research, report, economy, globalization, poverty, building, inclusive, growth
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 082135048X
ISBN-13: 9780821350485

Globalization is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Although this international integration presents considerable opportunities for developing countries, it also contains significant risks. Associated with international integration are concerns about increasing inequality, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty focuses on globalization in terms of growing economic integration resulting from the increased flow of goods and services, people, capital, and information. The

Authors:Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga, Guillermo E. Per
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: latin, american, development, forums, threat, america, india, challenge, china, opportunity
Number of Pages: 331
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821373080
ISBN-13: 9780821373088

The economic successes of China and India are viewed with admiration but also with concern because of the effects that the growth of these Asian economies may have on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. The evidence in "China’s and India’s Challenge to Latin America" indicates that certain manufacturing and service industries in some countries have been negatively affected by Chinese and Indian competition in third markets and that LAC imports from China and India have been associated with modest unemployment and adjustment costs in manufacturing industries. The book als