This book provides an account of the current understanding of social capital. It covers both theoretical and empirical studies, and the concept is debated throughout....
Specialist groups have often advised health ministers and other decision makers in developing countries on the use of social health insurance (SHI) as a way...
As cities grow and produce more waste, deciding where all the waste will go becomes a public health priority. Although many cities have reserved dumps...
Government debt management has a long tradition, dating back more than two centuries in some European countries. Since the late 1980's, however, many OECD governments...
Government debt management has a long tradition, dating back more than two centuries in some European countries. Since the late 1980's, however, many OECD governments...
The financial sectors in South Asia Region (SAR) are dominated by commercial banks, which account for the vast majority of the financial system s assets....
For countries as diverse as China and Mauritius, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have been a powerful tool to attract foreign investment, promote exportoriented growth, and...
This report tries to establish the facts about Indonesia s public expenditures, presenting trends over time and analyzing the composition across sectors and levels of...
'Future prospects for the agricultural sector in Pakistan depend on its ability to increase output and income of producers.' Agriculture remains the backbone of the...
My principal purpose in writing this book is to use my architectural skills, my prebank professional experience in low cost construction, and my 12 years...
This publication summarizes the proceedings of a senior policy seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The seminar examined two facets of sustainable health care financing:...
Properly used tax expenditures can play an important role in implementing countries' economic and social policies. But they often go unnoticed because they take many...
Teachers present a complex of issues for policy makers, which are not always adequately captured by current indicators and addressed by current policies. This work,...
The literature on technological change and growth has mainly used econometric models to establish that factors, such as the degree of openness, skills, research and...
An Effective State Is Essential To Achieving Socioeconomic And Sustainable Development. With The Advent Of Globalization, There Are Growing Pressures On Governments And Organizations Around...
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance worldclass universities make to competitiveness and economic growth. As a result, there is...
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important contribution that high performance worldclass universities make to competitiveness and economic growth. As a result, there is...
This volume examines wideranging issues confronting cites, and reviews tools, strategies and practices to address them. It examines nine 'windows' of urban management in the...
How much is a cleaner environment worth? For policy makers, that question goes largely unanswered. It's not that the environment is seen as unimportant. It's...
The 200809 global financial crisis shook the ground under the conventional wisdom that had guided mainstream development economics. Much of what had been held as...
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In Africa, where poor roads, ports and railway infrastructure often constrain the rapid and efficient transportation of goods earmarked for export as well as passengers,...
In the last two decades, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has closed many critical gender gaps, especially in ensuring equal access for...
Telecommunications sector policymakers and regulators have a wide range of instruments available to them that can be used to increase access to telecommunications services in...
This study analyzes the impacts of the financial crisis on power sectors in five countries in the region: Armenia, Kyrgyz Republic, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine....
This study provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of the questions of outofcourt debt restructuring from a policyoriented perspective. The starting point of the...
Developing country governments and the development aid community are acutely aware of the need to find more effective ways to improve basic living conditions for...
The evolving nature of conflict has created an impetus to reassess which actors or institutions can contribute to resolving conflict and more importantly how these...
In many countries the delivery of health services is inadequate and one way of improving the situation is to contract with nonstate providers. Performancebased contracting...
This book applies an established analytical framework for health sector reform (Getting Health Reform Right, Oxford, 2004) to the performance problems of the pharmaceutical sector....
In recent years, revelations of grand corruption and the plunder of state assets have led to greater scrutiny of financial relationships with politically exposed persons...
Quite often in developing countries, the economy progresses while the environment deteriorates because pollution control measures appear too costly to implement. What the World Bank...
Geographical differences in living standards are a pressing concern for policymakers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Economies of agglomeration mean that production...
The aim of this report is to draw lessons from Jordan's recent experience in policy design improvements of poverty alleviation proposals. It provides background of...
In 2000, over half of all Guatemalansabout 6.4 million peoplelived in poverty, with about 16% living in extreme poverty. Guatemala rates among the worst in...
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