Public Expenditure Policies in Southeast Europe

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 134
• The countries of Southeast Europe have undergone a significant transition over the past decade. Helped by macroeconomic stabilization and efforts in a... Lees meer

Breaking the Cycle

Ilhem Baghdadli

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 147
• Burundi, situated in the heart of the Great Lakes Region, is one of the poorest nations in the world. Beset by coups d'états, presidential assassinati... Lees meer

Escaping Stigma and Neglect

Mirey Ovadiya, Giuseppe Zampaglione

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 164
• People with disabilities in Sierra Leone are disadvantaged in regards to their access to social services and the economic opportunities available to t... Lees meer

Le marche europeen des produits horticoles

• Paperback | Frans | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 64
• Le commerce est essentiel à la croissance économique et la réduction de la pauvreté. En Afrique subsaharienne, où les trois quarts de la population vi... Lees meer

Mieux Former La Population Active Pour Préparer l'Avenir

Sajitha Bashir

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 157
• La présente étude examine les principaux défis auxquels Madagascar est confrontée et plaide en faveur d'une refonte immédiate du système d'éducation p... Lees meer

Restoring Balance

M Asaduzzaman, Douglas F Barnes, Shahidur R Khandker

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 181
• Rural energy's importance to the Bangladesh economy cannot be underestimated, The problems rural people face in obtaining safe, clean, and reliable en... Lees meer

Youth Employment and Skills Development in the Gambia

Nathalie Lahire, Richard Johanson, Ryoko Tomita Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 217
• The report aims to gain a better understanding of youth employment outcomes in the hope of crafting more sound and responsive policies. The first part... Lees meer

Comparing European and U.S. Securities Regulations

Tanja Boskovic, Caroline Cerruti, Michel Noel

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 184
• This paper, aimed at professionals, scholars, and government officials in the field of securities regulations, compares the European (specifically the... Lees meer

New Technologies, New Risks?

Andrew Zerzan

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 174
• New financial and communication technologies offer a great opportunity to improve the lives of people everywhere. For instance, millions of impoverish... Lees meer

Development of Capital Markets and Institutional Investors in Russia

Michel Noel, Zeynep Kantur, Sue Rutledge, Yevgeny Krasnov

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 87
• This study reviews the recent developments in capital markets and institutional investors in Russia, and examines the policy challenges ahead for the ... Lees meer

National Oil Companies and Value Creation

Brandon S Tracy, Silvana Tordo, Noora Arfaa

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 217
• "National Oil Companies (NOCs) directly or indirectly control the majority of oil and gas reserves. As such, they are of great consequence to their co... Lees meer

In Search of Land and Housing in the New South Africa

Stephen Berrisford, Dave deGroot, Michael Kihato, Ntombini Marrengane, Zimkhitha Mhlanga, Rogier Van Den Brink

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 130
• This study outlines the difficulties poor communities face in accessing peri-urban land in South Africa that could have implications and lessons for s... Lees meer

Consensus, Confusion, and Controversy

Rogier Van Den Brink, Hans Binswanger, John W Bruce, Frank Byamugisha, Glen Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 71
• Land reform can be divided broadly into land tenure reform (the establishment of secure and formalized property rights in land) and land redistributio... Lees meer

Treasury Diagnostic Toolkit

Ali Hashim, Allister J Moon

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 19
• Improvement in the management of public finances in developing countries has been an increasingly important focus of World Bank and IMF assistance to ... Lees meer

Internal Labor Mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic Region

Erwin Tiongson, Pierella Paci, Mateusz Walewski, Jacek Liwinski, Maria M Stoilkova

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 105
• Large regional disparities in labor market indicators exist in Central Europe and the Baltic region. Such disparities appear to be persistent over tim... Lees meer

Clearing the Global Health Fog

Rifat Atun, Thyra De Jongh, Federica V Secca, Kelechi Ohiri, Olusoji Adeyi

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 166
• A longstanding debate on health system organization relates to the benefits of integrating programs that emphasize specific interventions into mainstr... Lees meer

The Role of Communication in Large Infrastructure

Leonardo Mazzei, Gianmarco Scuppa

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 84
• Describes how the timely use of two-way communication in large water infrastructure projects leads to improved project design and is key to identify a... Lees meer

Options to Increase Access to Telecommunications Services in Rural and Low-Income Areas

Arturo Muente-Kunigami, Juan Navas-Sabater

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 178
• Telecommunications sector policy-makers and regulators have a wide range of instruments available to them that can be used to increase access to telec... Lees meer

Private Health Sector Assessment in Mali

The World Bank, Mathieu Lamiaux, Francois Rouzaud, Wendy Woods

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 212
• Under its Health in Africa Initiative, IFC intended to conduct a country assessment of the private health sector in Mali, working in close collaborati... Lees meer

Economic Informality

Ana Maria Oviedo, Mark R Thomas, Kamer Karakurum-Özdemir

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 167
• This survey assembles recent theoretical and empirical advances in the literature on economic informality and analyzes the causes and costs of informa... Lees meer

Governance of Technical Education in India

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 190
• Reforms are imperative for the huge and complex technical education system in India. A recent Learning Forum brought together senior policy makers and... Lees meer

Enhancing Regional Trade Integration in Southeast Europe

Borko Handjiski, Robert Lucas, Philip Martin, Selen Sarisoy Guerin

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 185
• The countries of the Southeast Europe region have the common objective of joining the European Union (EU). To achieve this goal, these countries have ... Lees meer

Private Participation in Infrastructure in Developing Countries

Clive Harris

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 5
• The rapid growth of private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in developing countries during the 1990s was followed by a subsequent decline in inv... Lees meer

The U.S.-Honduras Remittance Corridor

Isaku Endo, Sarah Hirsch, Jan Rogge, Kamil Borowik

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 177
• This paper provides an overview of remittances and migration between Honduras and the United States and analyzes the remittance regulatory and market ... Lees meer