Nomenclatura Y Gestión Urbana

Hugues LeRoux, Lucien Godin, Roberto Chavez, Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Florence Verdet

• Paperback | Frans | Directions in Development
• A complete review of current urban planning taking place throughout Africa. Lees meer

The Political Economy of Democratic Decentralization

James Manor

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Advocates of pluralist, competitive politics have regarded decentralization as a device for deepening democracy or for prying closed systems open and ... Lees meer

Faith in Conservation

Martin Palmer, Victoria Finlay

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• This book, arising from over twenty years experience of working with the world's major faiths, draws extensively upon joint World Bank and ARC (Allian... Lees meer

The Manila Water Concession

Mark Dumol

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• In January 1997 the Government of the Philippines awarded two long-term concession contracts, handing over to private consortia the responsibility to ... Lees meer

Building Competitive Firms

Ijaz Nabi, Manjula Luthria

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• 'Building Competitive Firms: Incentives and Capabilities' explains how firms become competitive in language suitable for both technical and non-techni... Lees meer

Water, Electricity, and the Poor

Quentin Wodon, Vivien Foster, Kristin Komives, Jonathan Halpern

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources ... Lees meer

Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda

Mark C Blackden, Amanda Ellis, Claire Manuel

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Men and women both play significant, though different, economic roles in Uganda (both contribute around 50% of GDP and women are 39% of business owner... Lees meer

Open and Nimble

Daniel Lederman, Justin T Lesniak

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Does economic size matter for economic development outcomes? If so are current policies adequately addressing the role of size in the development proc... Lees meer

Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Foreign direct investment (FDI) is becoming increasingly critical to the economies of developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the sc... Lees meer

Agriculture, Trade, and the Wto in South Asia

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• South Asia is home to approximately 1.3 billion people, of whom 70 percent live in rural areas. Therefore, agriculture plays a crucial role in the reg... Lees meer

Public Finance for Poverty Reduction

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• This book presents some basic theoretical concepts of public finance with a particular emphasis on its impact poverty reduction. Eight case studies fr... Lees meer

Challenging Corruption in Asia

Vinay K Bhargava, Emil Bolongaita

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Combating corruption is now high on the policy agenda across Asia. However, many policymakers are handicapped by the lack of useful analytical tools. ... Lees meer

Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• As England's Industrial Revolution started the process of urbanization that has since characterized development throughout the world, a poet worried a... Lees meer

Integration of Transport and Trade Facilitation

Uma Subramanian, T R Lakshmanan, William P Anderson, Frannie A Leautier

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Due to declining transport costs and declining tariffs, trade has grown much faster than income since World War II. Furthermore, international trade f... Lees meer

Agricultural Growth for the Poor

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• The majority of the world's poor depend directly or indirectly on agriculture. Despite the strong linkages between broad-based agricultural growth and... Lees meer

Où sont passés tous les manuels scolaires?

Tony Read

• Paperback | Frans | Directions in Development
• Cette étude de la Banque mondiale est une riche compilation d'informations sur le matériel pédagogique d'apprentissage (MPA) sur la base de la vaste e... Lees meer

Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Development Projects

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Much of the early work on poverty was highly quantitative: ... It became increasingly clear, however, that while numbers are essential for policy and ... Lees meer

Building a Sustainable Future

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• In Africa, most especially Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank's mission, to fight poverty, is strongly linked with environmental protection and better... Lees meer

Development Finance Institutions

Mark Schreiner, Jacob Yaron

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• For decades, governments and donors have attempted to improve social welfare through public support for development finance institutions (DFIs). This ... Lees meer

Crisis and Dollarization in Ecuador

Paul Beckerman, Andres Solimano

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Early in 2000, Ecuador, confronted with a serious economic and governance crises, adopted the U.S. dollar as its national currency. The economic situa... Lees meer

Understanding and Measuring Social Capital

• The importance of social capital for sustainable development is well understood. However, the impact of social capital is not easily quantified and to... Lees meer

Structured Finance in Latin America

Sophie Sirtaine, Hela Cheikhrouhou, Emanuel Salinas, Dimitri Vittas, W Britt Gwinner, John Pollner

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• 'Structured Finance in Latin America' explores how structured finance mechanisms can channel pension savings to support projects in underserved sector... Lees meer

Slum Upgrading and Participation

Ivo Imparato, Jeff Ruster

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• This book offers five geographically and institutionally diverse case studies from Latin America, where some of the longest-running and most successfu... Lees meer

Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• While Tanzania has been at the forefront of creating a positive legal framework and political context for gender equality, certain legal, regulatory, ... Lees meer