Playing to Strengths

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• It is widely agreed that, over the past decade, accelerating infrastructure investments in India's North Eastern Region (NER) and neighboring countrie... Lees meer

Fiscal Policies for Development and Climate Action

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This report provides actionable advice on how to design and implement fiscal policies for both development and climate action. Building on more than t... Lees meer

Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining

Katherine von Stackelberg, Pamela R. D. Williams, Ernesto Sanchez-Triana

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This framework document provides a practical approach for designing representative studies and developing uniform sampling guidelines to support estim... Lees meer

Unleashing E-Commerce for South Asian Integration

Sanjay Kathuria, Arti Grover, Viviana Maria Eugenia Perego, Aaditya Mattoo, Pritam Banerjee

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This report is part of a broader work program on shaping a more positive narrative on regional integration in South Asia. It is a follow-up to a recen... Lees meer

Back to School

Subhashini Rajasekaran, Joel Reyes

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• "Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem--200 million adolescents and yo... Lees meer

Spatial Analysis of Liberia's Transport Connectivity and Potential Growth

Atsushi IIMI, Kulwinder Rao

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Liberia has been influenced by the Ebola crisis since 2014, but the economy is now recovering quickly. Still, significant challenges lie ahead. Agricu... Lees meer

Persistent Malnutrition in Ethnic Minority Communities of Vietnam

Nkosinathi V N Mbuya, Stephen J Atwood, Phuong Nam Huynh

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Because malnutrition in early life significantly affects the physical and mental development of children, addressing malnutrition is fundamental to th... Lees meer

Jobs and Growth

Mark a Dutz

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Brazil approaches its 2018 election with an economy that is gradually recovering from the deepest recession in its recent economic history. However, f... Lees meer

Voices to Choices

Jennifer L Solotaroff, Aphichoke Kotikula, Tara Lonnberg, Snigdha Ali, Rohini P Pande, Ferdous Jahan

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Women have experienced significant changes in various spheres of their lives during the last decades as Bangladesh made economic progress. Yet women's... Lees meer

Agricultural Innovation in Developing East Asia

The World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Innovation in agriculture has been critical to developing East Asia's economic transformation. The focus on productivity has come at a cost to environ... Lees meer

Building Resilience

Sri Sekar, Kyle Lundin, Christopher Tucker, Joe Figueiredo, Silvana Tordo, Javier Aguilar

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• A sustainable path to development has profound consequences for all economic activities and related policies. The mining industry, which provides inpu... Lees meer

The Global Health Cost of Pm2.5 Air Pollution

World Bank Group

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This report estimates the global, regional, and national costs of health damage from exposure to PM2.5 ambient and household air pollution in 2019. Wh... Lees meer

Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa

Martin Humphreys, Aiga Stokenberga, Matias Herrera Dappe, Olivier Hartmann, Atsushi IIMI

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa analyzes the 15 main ports in East and Southern Africa (ESA) to assess whether their prop... Lees meer

Moving Forward

Matías Herrera Dappe, Charles Kunaka, Mathilde Lebrand, Nora Weisskopf

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• The erosion of its competitiveness is raising concerns about the sustainability of Bangladesh's growth model based on exports of ready-made garments. ... Lees meer

Which Way to Livable and Productive Cities?

Kirsten Hommann, Somik V Lall

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• For African cities to grow economically as they have grown in size, they must create productive environments to attract investments, increase economic... Lees meer

Transforming Agribusiness in Nigeria for Inclusive Recovery, Jobs Creation, and Poverty Reduction

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This report aims to improve understanding of the potential of the agribusiness sector (primary agriculture plus off-farm agribusiness) to accelerate i... Lees meer

Sri Lanka Human Capital Development

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This book analyzes the main achievements and challenges for human capital development in Sri Lanka. It draws several conclusions and provides strategi... Lees meer

Recycling of Used Lead-Acid Batteries

Katherine von Stackelberg, Pamela Williams, Ernesto Sanchez-Triana, Santiago Enriquez

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This framework document provides a practical approach for designing representative studies and developing uniform sampling guidelines to support estim... Lees meer

Maritime Networks, Port Efficiency, and Hinterland Connectivity in the Mediterranean

Jean-François Arvis, Vincent Vesin, Robin Carruthers, César Ducruet, Peter de Langen

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• For millennia, the Mediterranean has been one of the most active trading areas, supported by a transport network connecting riparian cities and beyond... Lees meer

Strengthening Argentina's Integration Into the Global Economy

Martha Martínez Licetti, Mariana Iootty, Tanja Goodwin, José Signoret

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Integration into global markets can improve the efficiency of the Argentinian economy, providing opportunities for private investment to flourish and ... Lees meer

Transition to Diagnosis-Related Group (Drg) Payments for Health

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This book examines how nine different health systems--U.S. Medicare, Australia, Thailand, Kyrgyz Republic, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, China (Beijing) ... Lees meer

Services for Trade Competitiveness

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Recognizing that services affect the ability of countries and their firms to compete on international markets, the World Bank's Trade and Regional Int... Lees meer

A New Dawn for Global Value Chain Participation in the Philippines

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• This book provides the basis for a strategic approach to rethinking, diversifying, and reorienting the Philippines participation in global value chain... Lees meer

Breaking Out of Fragility

World Bank Group

• Paperback | Engels | International Development in Focus
• Breaking Out of Fragility: A Country Economic Memorandum for Diversification and Growth in Iraq Lees meer