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Achieving Effective Social Protection in Latin America: From Right to Reality (Book)

David A Robalino

ISBN:9780821383988

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Alternative Remittance Systems and Terrorism Financing (Book)

Matteo Vaccani

ISBN:9780821381793

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Berg Water Project: Communication Practices for Governance and Sustainability Improvement (Book)

Lawrence J M Haas

ISBN:9780821384145

The past decade has witnessed a major global shift in thinking about water, including the role that water infrastructure plays in sustainable development. This rethinking aims to balance better the social...more details
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Bioenergy Development: Issues and Impacts for Poverty and Natural Resource Management (Book)

Elizabeth Cushion

ISBN:9780821381298

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Building Broadband: Strategies and Policies for the Developing World (Book)

Yongsoo Kim

ISBN:9780821384190

Access to broadband connectivity is a country 's passport to the global information society and knowledge economy the future. However, the adoption and use of broadband technology today remains extremely uneven and threatens to create a new digital divide. At the end of 2009...more details
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Building Engines for Growth and Competitiveness: China's Experience with Special Economic Zones and Industrial Clusters (Book)

Douglas Zhihua Zeng

ISBN:9780821384329

In the past 30 years, China has achieved an unprecedented development miracle in human history. How did China achieve this? What are the key drivers for such a rapid growth? And most importantly...more details
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Building on Early Gains in Afghanistan's Health, Nutrition, and Population Sector: Challenges and Options (Book)

Tekabe A Belay

ISBN:9780821383353

This volume is the first of its kind to present a comprehensive assessment of the health sector in Afghanistan. Although health outcomes here are some of the worst in the world...more details
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Connecting Landlocked Developing Countries to Markets: Trade Corridors in the 21st Century (Book)

Jean-Franois Arvis

ISBN:9780821384169

This book aims to help the policymaker and development community in general to understand the nature of the problems and policy dilemmas that landlocked countries face to trade with the rest of the World. This volume presents an important breakthrough in the literature...more details
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Delivering Services in Multicultural Societies ()

Alexandre Marc

ISBN:9780821380840

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East Asia and Pacific Update, April 2010 (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382752

The 'World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update 2010, Volume I', is the World Bank's comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region's economies. In this edition...more details
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East Asia and Pacific Update, November 2009: Transforming the Rebound Into Recovery (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382677

The 'East Asia and Pacific Update' is the World Bank 's comprehensive semiannual review of developing economies in the region. This November 2009 issue discusses East Asia's role as the driving force behind the global economic rebound. The region 's economy has rebounded from the financial crisis and global recesesion that began in late 2008...more details
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Economic Informality: Causes, Costs, and Policies--A Literature Survey (Book)

Ana Maria Oviedo

ISBN:9780821379974

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Economic Opportunities for Women in the East Asia and Pacific Region: A Regional Overview (Book)

Amanda Ellis

ISBN:9780821383001

The East Asia and Pacific region has made great progress, relative to other regions, with regard to both economic development and, specifically...more details
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Enhancing Regional Trade Integration in Southeast Europe (Book)

Borko Handjiski

ISBN:9780821382592

The Southeast Europe (SEE) region comprises a group of countries with a common objective, and prospect, to become members of the European Union (EU). To achieve the goal of EU membership...more details
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Evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension Funds ()

Richard Hinz

ISBN:9780821381601

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Financial Services and Preferential Trading Arrangements: Lessons from Latin America (Book)

Mona Haddad

ISBN:9780821382738

This book fills a large gap in the literature on trade in services. It focuses on the dynamics of trade and investment liberalization in a sector of considerable technical and regulatory complexity financial services...more details
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Financing Higher Education in Africa (Book)

Bank World Bank

ISBN:9780821383346

The training and development of human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will help countries in the region diversify their economies, carry out economic transformation...more details
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Fiscal Space for Health in Uganda (Book)

Peter Okwero

ISBN:9780821382905

This paper reviews the performance of the health sector in Uganda. It addresses concerns in the Ugandan health community that health financing must be increased to improve health...more details
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Gender and Governance in Rural Services (Book)

Bank World Bank

ISBN:9780821381564

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Global Development Finance 2010 (Print Edition + Multiple User CD-ROM): External Debt of Developing Countries

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382714

Global Development Finance- the World Bank's annual report on the external debt of developing countries-includes comprehensive data for 128 countries...more details
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Global Development Finance 2010 (Print Edition + Single User CD-ROM): External Debt of Developing Countries

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382707

Global Development Finance- the World Bank's annual report on the external debt of developing countries-includes comprehensive data for 128 countries...more details
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Global Development Finance 2010 CD-ROM: External Debt of Developing Countries (CD)

Policy World Bank

ISBN:9780821382318

'Global Development Finance 2010 (Single User CD-ROM)' provides you with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2008, and country group estimates for 2009. Data is available for over 130 countries that report under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System...more details
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Global Economic Prospects 2002: Making Trade Work for the World's Poor (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821349960

This year's Global Economic Prospects argues for reshaping the global architecture of world trade to promote development and poverty reduction. While the most likely scenario is for recovery beginning in 2002...more details
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Incentives and Dynamics in the Ethiopian Health Worker Labor Market (Book)

William Jack

ISBN:9780821383582

By international standards, health workers in Ethiopia are in short supply. In addition, those who do enter the health fields and remain in the country disproportionately live and work in the capital...more details
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Innovation Policy: A Guide for Developing Countries (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382691

Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense...more details
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International Trade in Services: New Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries (Book)

Olivier Cattaneo

ISBN:9780821383537

The services sector is key to economic growth, competitiveness, and poverty alleviation. Comprising more than two-thirds of the world economy...more details
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Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Communication Practices for Governance and Sustainability Improvement (Book)

Lawrence J M Haas

ISBN:9780821384152

This paper considers the multi-faceted lessons of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project and how the project can serve as a model of mutually beneficial development...more details
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Life Chances in Turkey: Expanding Opportunities for the Next Generation (Book)

Jesko Hentschel

ISBN:9780821384008

Children in Turkey have vastly different odds of success. Their paths are affected by factors over which they have no control, such as how wealthy or educated their parents and even grandparents are. By investing in its children and youth...more details
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Lights Out?: Challenges Facing the Emerging Economies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382967

Emerging Europe and Central Asia, the region made up of the countries of Central and South East Europe (CSE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)...more details
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Low-Carbon Development: Latin American Responses to Climate Change (Book)

Augusto De La Torre

ISBN:9780821380819

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Making Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Work: A Capacity Development Tool Kit (Book)

Marelize G'Orgens-Albino

ISBN:9780821381878

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Migrant Remittance Flows: Findings from a Global Survey of Central Banks (Book)

Jacqueline Irving

ISBN:9780821383605

Drawing on the findings from responses to a survey conducted in 2008 09 from 114 central banks worldwide (of which 33 are in Africa), this paper aims to better understand how central banks and other national institutions regulate and collect data and other information on cross-border remittance flows. Findings indicate that...more details
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Migration and Skills: The Experience of Migrant Workers from Albania, Egypt, Moldova, and Tunisia ()

Jesus Alqueza Sabadie

ISBN:9780821381199

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New Insights Into the Supply and Quality of Health Services in Indonesia: A Health Work Force Study (Book)

Claudia Rokx

ISBN:9780821382981

Over the past decade, Indonesia has implemented significant health sector reforms that include decentralizing responsibilities for service delivery...more details
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New Technologies, New Risks? (Book)

Andrew Zerzan

ISBN:9780821381779

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Petroleum Exploration and Production Rights (Book)

Silvana Tordo

ISBN:9780821381687

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Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Water Utilities: A Review of Experiences in Developing Countries ()

Philippe Marin

ISBN:9780821379578

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Remittance Service Providers (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382608

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Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia (Book)

Anne Stangl

ISBN:9780821384497

Although overall HIV prevalence in South Asia is low, the widespread stigma attached to HIV and AIDS impedes efforts to reach people most in need of prevention...more details
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The Cost of Being Landlocked: Logistics Costs and Supply Chain Reliability (Book)

Jean-Franois Arvis

ISBN:9780821384084

'The Cost of Being Landlocked' proposes a new analytical framework to interpret and model the constraints faced by logistics chains on international trade corridors. The plight of landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) has naturally received special attention for decades...more details
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The Cost of Environmental Degradation: Case Studies from the Middle East and North Africa (Book)

Lelia Croitoru

ISBN:9780821383186

How much is a cleaner environment worth? For policy makers, that question used to go largely unanswered. Many economic activities cause environmental degradation...more details
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The Little Data Book on Gender 2010 (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382912

This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics....more details
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The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations (Book)

Linda G Morra Imas

ISBN:9780821380802

This book provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping...more details
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The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment: An Ieg Evaluation (Book)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821384275

The evaluation finds that the content of the World Bank 's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) is largely relevant for growth and poverty reduction in the sense that it maps well with the determinants of growth and poverty reduction identified in the economics literature. However...more details
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Trade and Transport Facilitation Assessment: A Practical Toolkit for Country Implementation (Book)

John Arnold

ISBN:9780821384121

The 'Trade and Transport Facilitation Assessment' (TTFA) is a tool for identifying inefficiencies in international supply chains that limit a country 's ability to compete in international trade. The TTFA examines problems that affect not only exports competitiveness...more details
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Turmoil at Twenty: Recession, Recovery and Reform in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Book)

Pradeep K Mitra

ISBN:9780821381144

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Two Dragon Heads: Contrasting Development Paths for Beijing and Shanghai ()

Shahid Yusuf

ISBN:9780821381281

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World Development Indicators 2010 (Book)

Policy World Bank

ISBN:9780821382325

Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? 'World Development Indicators' is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development...more details
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World Development Indicators 2010 Package Set (Print Edition Plus Single User CD-ROM)

World Bank Group

ISBN:9780821382653

Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? World Development Indicators is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development...more details
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