Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration, and Governance

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• The importance of good land governance to strengthen women's land rights, facilitate land-related investment, transfer land to better uses, use it as ... Lees meer

Lessons Learned and Not Yet Learned from a Multicountry Initiative on Women's Economic Empowerment

Sara Johansson De Silva, Pierella Paci, Josefina Posadas

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• Launched in 2007, the Results-Based Initiatives (RBI) aimed to provide comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous evidence on effective interventions that ... Lees meer

Etude Sur Le Secteur Prive de La Sante En Republique Du Congo de La Te En Republique Du Congo

The World Bank

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• Le Congo est engagé dans un processus de réformes économiques et sociales depuis le milieu des années 80. Ces réformes structurelles visent la restruc... Lees meer

Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

David Evans, Stephanie Hausladen, Katrina Kosec, Natasha Reese

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• Given the success of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs elsewhere, in 2010 the Government of Tanzania rolled out a pilot CCT program in three di... Lees meer

Increasing Professionalism in Public Finance Management

Sarah Jane Squire, Ivor Beazley

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• In countries such as the United Kingdom, the need to manage fi nances in a professional manner has been hampered by the severe fi scal constraints of ... Lees meer

Accelerating Health Reforms Through Collective Action

World Bank Group

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• This publication briefly describes the processes and methodologies for building and sustaining multistakeholder coalition to drive reforms in the heal... Lees meer

Human Rights Indicators in Development

Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Hans-Otto Sano

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• Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realizati... Lees meer

Unleashing the Potential of Renewable Energy in India

Gevorg Sargsyan, Mikul Bhatia, Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Krishnan Raghunathan, Ruchi Soni

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• India has 150GW of renewable energy potential, about half in the form of small hydropower, biomass, and wind and half in solar, cogeneration, and wast... Lees meer

Sub-Saharan African Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research

Andreas Blom, George Lan, Mariam Adil

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• This book analyzes Africa's current performance in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) research, as well as future trends. It looks at Af... Lees meer

Infrastructures financées par des ressources naturelles

Håvard Halland, John Beardsworth, Bryan Land, James Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• Depuis quelques dizaines d'années, les pays en développement riches en ressources naturelles utilisent ces dernières en tant que garanties pour obteni... Lees meer

Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in South Asia

Sameh El-Saharty, Sadia Chowdhury, Naoko Ohno, Intissar Sarker

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• Identifies the interventions and factors that have contributed to reducing maternal mortality ratio and improving maternal and reproductive health out... Lees meer

Learning in the Face of Adversity

Husein Abdul-Hamid, Harry Patrinos, Joel Reyes, Jo Kelcey, Andrea Diaz Varela

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) operates one of the largest nongovernmental school systems ... Lees meer

Economics of Climate Change in the Arab World

Dorte Verner, Clemens Breisinger, Manfred Wiebelt, Perrihan Al-Riffai, Olivier Ecker, Jose Funes, Richard Robertson, Rainer Thiele, Tingju Zhu

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• This book takes both a global as well as a local perspective in assessing the impacts of climate change on the economy, agricultural sector, and house... Lees meer

Improving Higher Education in Malawi for Competitiveness in the Global Economy

Michael Mambo, Muna Meky, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Jamil Salmi

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• Provides analysis, policy options, and implementation strategies, towards improving the performance of the Malawian higher education system. Lees meer

Belarus Heat Tariff Reform and Social Impact Mitigation

Fan Zhang, Denzel Hankinson

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• The Government of the Republic of Belarus (GoB) plans to increase district heating tariffs to cost-recovery levels and gradually phase out subsidies, ... Lees meer

Financial and Fiscal Instruments for Catastrophe Risk Management

John Pollner

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• This applied study addresses the large flood exposures of Central Europe and proposes efficient financial and risk transfer mechanisms to mitigate fis... Lees meer

Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kirsten Majgaard, Alain Mingat

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis takes stock of education in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on the collective knowledge gained t... Lees meer

Health Financing Policy

Cheryl Cashin

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• The global movement toward universal health coverage (UHC) is accompanied by requests for large increases in government health spending in some countr... Lees meer

Expanding Tertiary Education for Well-Paid Jobs

Andreas Blom, Reehana Raza, Crispus Kiamba, Himdat Bayusuf, Mariam Adil

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• Expanding Tertiary education with quality, relevance and equity is one of the most decisive challenges for Kenya's future, including the achievement o... Lees meer

Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway

Arturo Ardila-Gomez, Adriana Ortegón-Sánchez

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• Urban transport systems are essential for economic development and improving citizens' quality of life. To establish high-quality and affordable trans... Lees meer

Household Energy Access for Cooking and Heating

Koffi Ekouevi, Voravate Tuntivate

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• This paper conducts a review of the World Bank's financed operations and selected interventions by other institutions on household energy access in an... Lees meer

Labor Market Dynamics in Libya

The World Bank

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• Since the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime, Libya has been mired in deep political strife. An economy in which agriculture once flourished... Lees meer

New Voices in Investment

Laura Gómez-Mera, Thomas Kenyon, Yotam Margalit, José Guilherme Reis, Gonzalo Varela

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• One out of every three dollars invested abroad in 2012 was originated in multinationals from developing countries. This study sheds light on the chara... Lees meer

The El Sector de Las Industrias Extractivas

Håvard Halland, Martin Lokanc, Arvind Nair

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Studies
• En el primer volumen, "The Extractive Industries Sector", se ofrece una resena general de las cuestiones fundamentales para la economia de las IE; se ... Lees meer