Demographic Change in Uruguay

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• Uruguay's population is slowly aging, driven by the demographic transition that started early in the 20th century. While this reflects significant imp... Lees meer

Financing Health Care in East Asia and the Pacific

John C Langenbrunner, Aparnaa Somanathan

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• The East Asia and Pacific region is characterized by wide variations in sources of healthcare financing, pooling of funds, purchasing of care services... Lees meer

The Health Workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carmen Carpio, Natalia Santiago Bench

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• The health workforce is the foundation of care and affects quality and outcomes; human resources for health (HRH) constitutes the largest portion of t... Lees meer

Do Our Children Have a Chance?

José R Molinas Vega, Ricardo Paes De Barros, Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi, Marcelo Giugale

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region is making progress in opening the doors of development to all. But it still has a long way to go. At the ... Lees meer

Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

Akiko Maeda, Edson Araujo, Cheryl Cashin, Joseph Harris, Naoki Ikegami, Michael R Reich

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• The goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality health services, to safeguard all people from public hea... Lees meer

Analyzing Markets for Health Workers

Barbara McPake, Anthony Scott, Ijeoma Edoka

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• This publication is part of the Bank's multiyear program to enhance its knowledge of HRH policies. The program's ultimate objective is to strengthen k... Lees meer

Putting Nigeria to Work

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• Public debate in Nigeria on the country's progress since its return to democracy in 1999 has been dominated by two seemingly opposite themes. The firs... Lees meer

Stepping Up Skills in Urban Ghana

Peter Darvas, Marta Favara, Tamara Arnold

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• The Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP) Survey is an initiative of the World Bank in cooperation with other development partners and nong... Lees meer

Building the Skills for Economic Growth and Competitiveness in Sri Lanka

Halil Dundar, Benoît Millot, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Harsha Aturupane, Tilkaratne A Piyasiri

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• Despite armed internal conflict and the global financial crisis, Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in recent years, enjoying healthy economic gro... Lees meer

Children and Youth in Crisis

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• The successful development of children and young people requires that we protect and nurture a set of interrelated physiological, cognitive, and socio... Lees meer

Striving for Better Jobs

Roberta Gatti, Diego F Angel-Urdinola, Joana Silva, András Bodor

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• While economic growth has been sustained for a number of years in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this has not resul... Lees meer

Twenty Years of Health System Reform in Brazil

Michele Gragnolati, Magnus Lindelow, Bernard Couttolenc

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• It has been over twenty years since the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System or SUS) was formally established by the 1988 Constitut... Lees meer

Options for Aged Care in China

Elena Glinskaya, Zhanlian Feng

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• China is aging at an unprecedented rate. Improvements in life expectancy and the consequences of the decades-old family planning policy have led to a ... Lees meer

Accounting for Mismatch in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Michael J Handel, Alexandria Valerio, Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• To stimulate economic advancement, low- and middle-income countries need well-educated and trained workforces to fill the types of skilled jobs that d... Lees meer

Early Childhood Education and Development in Poor Villages of Indonesia

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• Indonesia has begun to emerge into middle-income status, yet persistent poverty and stark inequalities continue to affect young children's development... Lees meer

Faire de l'Enseignement supérieur le moteur du développement en

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• La relance de la croissance économique de l'Afrique subsaharienne depuis le début du millénaire est une évolution encourageante. Maintenir cette crois... Lees meer

Thirty Years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Argentina

Fernando Lavadenz, Carla Pantanali, Eliana Zeballos

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• The 1992 creation of the National HIV/AIDS Program was a fundamental step for Argentina to reach the second lowest burden of HIV/AIDS in South America... Lees meer

Reducing Poverty and Investing in People

Victoria Monchuk

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• For the past two decades, Africa has experienced strong economic growth. However, high levels of chronic poverty persist, with poor households exposed... Lees meer

Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America

Pablo Acosta, Rita Almeida, Thomas Gindling, Christine Lao Pena

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• Central America has come a long way both in terms of economic and political stability. Increasingly the region is focusing on implementing productivit... Lees meer

The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China

Fang Cai, John Giles, Philip O'Keefe, Dewen Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• This volume first examines projected demographic changes that will affect the economic well-being of China's rural elderly over the next twenty years,... Lees meer

The Global HIV Epidemics Among People Who Inject Drugs

Arin Dutta, Andrea Wirtz, Anderson Stanciole, Robert Oelrichs, Iris Semini, Farley Cleghorn

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• People who inject drugs (PWID) are at higher risk for acquiring HIV infection than the general population in many countries. Injecting drug use is pre... Lees meer

Building Effective Employment Programs for Unemployed Youth in the Middle East and North Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• Given the labor market challenges that countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are facing---notably high unemployment, prevalence ... Lees meer

Understanding the Poverty Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• This study documents the effects of the 2008-09 global financial crisis on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In doing so, it describes... Lees meer

Fostering Skills in Cameroon

Shobhana Sosale, Kirsten Majgaard

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development - Human Development
• Cameroon has strong goals for its growth and development. By 2035, it aims to be an emerging economy. The country's medium-term goals are focused on a... Lees meer