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

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

Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Transition Countries

Nora Dudwick, Karin Fock, David Sedik

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 104
• In the past fifteen years, most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States have shifted from predominantly col... 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 | Frans | 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

Mohammad 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
• The paper compares the EU and US securities regulations, and specifically MiFID with the corresponding US regulations. It primarily focuses on the reg... Lees meer

Development of Capital Markets and Institutional Investors in Russia

Michel Noel, Zeynep Kantur, 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

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

In Search of Land and Housing in the New South Africa

Rogier Van Den Brink, Dave deGroot, Ntombini Marrengane

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 130
• In Search of Land and Housing in the New South Africa is part of the World Bank Working Papers series. These papers are published to communicate the r... Lees meer

Treasury Diagnostic Toolkit

Ali Hashim, Allister J Moon

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 19
• Treasury Diagnostic Toolkit is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoin... Lees meer

Internal Labor Mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic Region

Pierella Paci, Mateusz Walewski, Erwin R Tiongson

• 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

Consensus, Confusion, and Controversy

Rogier Van Den Brink, Hans Binswanger, John W Bruce

• 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

Clearing the Global Health Fog

Rifat Atun, Thyra De Jongh, Federica V Secca

• 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

Enhancing Regional Trade Integration in Southeast Europe

Borko Handjiski, Robert Lucas, Philip Martin

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 185
• The Southeast Europe (SEE) region comprises a group of countries with a common objective, and prospect, to become members of the European Union (EU). ... Lees meer

Economic Informality

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

• 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

Jannette Cheong

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 190
• Higher education, and in particular technical education, is critical to India's aspirations of becoming a major competitive player in the global knowl... Lees meer

Private Health Sector Assessment in Mali

The World Bank, Mathieu Lamiaux, Francois Rouzaud

• 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

The U.S.-Honduras Remittance Corridor

Isaku Endo, Sarah Hirsch, Jan Rogge

• Paperback | Engels | World Bank Working Papers | nr. 177
• Acting on Opportunity to Increase Financial Inclusion and Foster Development of a Transnational Economy describes the remittance regulatory and market... Lees meer