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World development indicators 2014
ISBN: 9781464801631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. World Development Indicators 2014 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help users of all kinds policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens find and use data related to all aspects of development, including those that help monitor and understand progress toward the two goals. Six themes are used to organize indicators world view, people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links. As in past editions, World view...
World Development Indicators 2014 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development...
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Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises: A Toolkit
ISBN: 9781464802225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are still signifi cant players in critical economic sectors such as infrastructure, finance, natural resources, and manufacturing. They are under increasing pressure to improve their performance. These pressures come from various sources, including the need to enhance their competitiveness and that of the economy as a whole, especially where SOEs are major players; to provide essential infrastructure, financial, and other services to businesses and consumers more efficiently and cost effectively; to access alternative sources of finance through the capital...
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are still signifi cant players in critical economic sectors such as infrastructure, finance, natural resources, and man...
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The Welfare Impact of Rural Electrification: A Reassessment of the Costs and Benefits
ISBN: 9780821373675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rural electrification can have many benefits-not only bringing lighting, but improving the quality of health care, spreading information and supporting productive enterprises. The extent of these benefits has been questioned, arguing that they may be insufficient to justify the investment costs. This book quantifies these benefits. It finds that the benefits can indeed be high, substantially outweighing the costs, and that consumer willingness to pay is generally sufficient to achieve financial sustainability. However, benefits could be increased further by providing smart subsidies to assist...
Rural electrification can have many benefits-not only bringing lighting, but improving the quality of health care, spreading information and supportin...
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A Guide to Competitive Vouchers in Health
ISBN: 9780821358559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A Guide to Competitive Vouchers in Health provides a broad outline of the problems health systems face, the rationale behind government intervention, particularly in the form of subsidies, and the different ways that governments and donors subsidize health care. The guide provides readers with an understanding of the concept of competitive voucher schemes in health; the advantages competitive voucher schemes might offer as an instrument to delivery subsidies; circumstances where competitive voucher schemes are better suited than other instruments to deliver subsidies; and steps to follow when...
A Guide to Competitive Vouchers in Health provides a broad outline of the problems health systems face, the rationale behind government intervention, ...
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The Little Green Data Book 2017
ISBN: 9781464810343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Little Green Data Book 2017 is based on World Development Indicators 2017 and its online database. Defining, gathering, and disseminating international statistics is a collective effort of many people and organizations. The indicators presented in World Development Indicators are the fruit of decades of work at many levels, from the field workers who administer censuses and household surveys to the committees and working parties of the national and international statistical agencies that develop the nomenclature, classifications, and standards fundamental to the international statistical...
The Little Green Data Book 2017 is based on World Development Indicators 2017 and its online database. Defining, gathering, and disseminating internat...
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Global Development Finance 2011: External Debt of Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780821386736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Global Development Finance 2011: External Debt of Developing Countries is a continuation of the World Bank's publications Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996). As in previous years, GDF 2011 provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS). It also includes tables of key debt ratios for individual reporting countries and the composition of external debt stocks and flows for...
Global Development Finance 2011: External Debt of Developing Countries is a continuation of the World Bank's publications Global Development Finance, ...
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Global Development Horizons 2011: Multipolarity - The New Global Economy
ISBN: 9780821386927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends: the shift in the balance of global growth from developed to emerging economies, the rise of emerging-market firms as a force in global business, and the evolution of the international monetary system toward a multicurrency regime. Pursuit of growth opportunities on a global level has meant that the international presence of emerging-market firms in...
Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a new World Bank flagship report,...
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Angola: Oil, Broad-Based Growth, and Equity
ISBN: 9780821371022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once one of the world's largest staple food producers, Angola is now known as a major oil exporter--the second largest producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Angola is also the world's fourth largest producer of rough diamonds in terms of value, with the potential to become one of the leading global diamond producers. In addition to oil and diamonds, the country is well endowed with agricultural resources which remain mostly untapped. However, despite the country's significant natural wealth, a prolonged civil war, the rapid development of the oil sector, and the policies pursued after Independence...
Once one of the world's largest staple food producers, Angola is now known as a major oil exporter--the second largest producer in sub-Saharan Africa....
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Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9780821355749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging with the World' describes why expanding trade and investment is vital for this region. The greatest economic challenge is to create enough jobs for its rapidly growing labor force, which is increasingly young and educated, to ward off threats to social and political stability inherent in high unemployment rates. This effort requires higher, and more sustainable, economic growth than has been achieved in the past two decades. Expanding trade and private investment offers the best hope. The potential is enormous...
'Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging with the World' describes why expanding trade and investment is vita...
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World Bank Group Impact Evaluations: Relevance and Effectiveness
ISBN: 9780821397176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations assess changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention. Both innovations in statistical methods and the demand for evaluations that can measure such development results are increasing. The World Bank Group is the largest producer of impact evaluations among all development institutions. Thus, IEG has evaluated the relevance, quality, and influence of World Bank and IFC impact evaluations. IEG finds that the World Bank Group portfolio...
Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations as...
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Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential?
ISBN: 9780821379240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Argentina's youth--6.7 million between the ages of 15 and 24--are an important, but to a certain extent untapped, resource for development. Over 2 million (31 percent) have already engaged in risky behaviors, and another 1 million (15 percent) are exposed to risk factors that are correlated with eventual risky behaviors. This totals 46 percent of youth at some form of risk. This book addresses the risks faced by youth in Argentina such as low education attainment, unemployment, teenage pregnancy, use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, becoming victims of crime, and low level of civic...
Argentina's youth--6.7 million between the ages of 15 and 24--are an important, but to a certain extent untapped, resource for development. Over 2 mil...
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Enhancing Agricultural Innovation: How to Go Beyond the Strengthening of Research Systems
ISBN: 9780821367414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An innovation system can be defined as a network of organizations, enterprises, and individuals demanding and supplying knowledge and bringing it into a social and economic use. This book's primary aim, therefore, is to focus on the largely unexplored operational aspects of the innvoation systems concept and to explore its potential for agriculture. 'Enhancing Agricultural Innovation' evaluates real-world innovation systems and assesses the usefulness of the concept in guiding investments to support knowledge-intensive, sustainable agricultural development. A typology of innovation systems is...
An innovation system can be defined as a network of organizations, enterprises, and individuals demanding and supplying knowledge and bringing it into...
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Opportunities for environmentally healthy, inclusive, and resilient growth in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
ISBN: 9781464813573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula faces growing risks from environmental hazards. Oil spills, hurricanes, coral bleaching, extreme flooding, and erosion have all been experienced over the past decade. This report explores selected topics that aim to inform decision-making in the region.
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula faces growing risks from environmental hazards. Oil spills, hurricanes, coral bleaching, extreme flooding, and erosion have...
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Building a Sustainable Future: The Africa Region Environment Strategy
ISBN: 9780821351468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Africa, most especially Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank's mission, to fight poverty, is strongly linked with environmental protection and better management of renewable natural resources. In both rural and urban areas, the poor of Africa are impacted by the loss of natural resources and environmental services. They are also at the highest risk from natural disasters--most particularly floods and drought. This environmental strategy report identifies the current thinking of the Africa region within the World Bank Group. It helps detail the World Bank's commitment to assist African...
In Africa, most especially Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank's mission, to fight poverty, is strongly linked with environmental protection and better...
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Global Financial Development Report 2013: Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance
ISBN: 9780821395035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Global Financial Development Report 2013 is the first in a new World Bank series. It provides a unique contribution to financial sector policy debates, building on novel data, surveys, research, and wide-ranging country experience, with emphasis on emerging-market and developing economies. The global financial crisis has challenged conventional thinking on financial sector policies. Launched on the fourth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse a turning point in the crisis this volume re-examines a basic question: what is the proper role of the state in financial development? To address...
Global Financial Development Report 2013 is the first in a new World Bank series. It provides a unique contribution to financial sector policy debates...
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Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large Scale Action
ISBN: 9780821363997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG to halve poverty and hunger but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development. Underweight prevalence among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on non-income poverty and malnutrition remains the world's most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality. Nearly a third of children in the developing world are either...
Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG to halve poverty and hunger but to meet other goals in ma...
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'Trade Blocs' analyzes both the political and economic benefits of trade blocs. It addresses the implications of these new forms of trading arrangements, and analyzes the policy options that countries now face. The book comes to some of the following conclusions: - Selecting high-income countries as partners may be the best option for developing countries in terms of potential for income convergence over time. - There is no evidence to suggest that regional agreements either aid or impede (WTO-based) trade liberalization efforts. - Economic gains depend on securing an effective increase in...
'Trade Blocs' analyzes both the political and economic benefits of trade blocs. It addresses the implications of these new forms of trading arrangemen...
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The Road to Stability and Prosperity in South Eastern Europe: A Regional Strategy Paper
ISBN: 9780821347256 / Miękka / 2000 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'There is no denying that achieving social and political stability and sustainable development will take years for most countries. Nor will progress towards these goals be smooth or automatic. Several factors indicate how difficult this road will be.' The past decade of transition and conflict has left the South East European region with a legacy of inadequate growth and declining living standards. In the past several years, overall growth has declined, increasing the gap between these economies and the rest of Europe. More alarming is that there has been a deterioration in living standards,...
'There is no denying that achieving social and political stability and sustainable development will take years for most countries. Nor will progress t...
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Le Système Éducatif Centrafricain: Contraintes Et Marges de Manoeuvre Pour La Reconstruction Du Système Éducatif Dans La Perspective de la Réduction d
ISBN: 9780821375266 / Francuski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Cette analyse sectorielle de l'education en Republique Centrafricaine (RCA) s'ajoute a la liste croissante des Rapports d'Etat des Systemes Educatifs Nationaux (RESEN) que la Banque Mondiale a soutenu dans la region Afrique. Comme dans les rapports similaires, le RESEN de la RCA est le produit de la collaboration entre une equipe nationale composee de cadres du Ministere de l'Education et d'autres ministeres et une equipe d'appui de la Banque Mondiale et des partenaires au developpement, en particulier le Pole de Dakar en analyse sectorielle (UNESCO-BREDA). Le rapport est destine a etablir...
Cette analyse sectorielle de l'education en Republique Centrafricaine (RCA) s'ajoute a la liste croissante des Rapports d'Etat des Systemes Educatifs ...
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Connecting East Asia: A New Framework for Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780821361627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Much of East Asia continues to grow rapidly, driven to a considerable extent by China. Urbanization is proceeding at pace. Demand for infrastructure services is increasing massively, particularly in cities. Much of the demand comes from the newly urbanized poor. Infrastructure has to meet their needs, but has also to continue to provide the underpinnings for the region's growth. The complexity of responding to these demands is greater than ever, and the cost of getting things wrong very high. Poorly conceived infrastructure investments today would have a huge environmental, economic, and...
Much of East Asia continues to grow rapidly, driven to a considerable extent by China. Urbanization is proceeding at pace. Demand for infrastructure s...
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