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Shows how urban resettlement can become a development opportunity for those who are adversely affected by the process of urban development. Examples include improvements to legal systems in Brazil, resettlement programs in slums in India and Mauritania, and restoration of informal sector livelihoods in Morocco and Pakistan.

Offers a comprehensive assessment of early child development across Tonga using the Tongan Early Human Capability Index instrument.

Sub-Saharan Africa's natural resource-rich countries have poor human development. This report shows how these countries should tackle the governance challenges in delivering services, invest in early child development, and use the cash generated by resource rents to support citizen investments in human capital.

By most accounts, poverty reduction in rural Malawi has lacked dynamism in the past decade and the gains from prosperity have not always reached the poorest. This report explores the obstacles to reducing rural poverty and proposes a set of potential solutions to overcome them.

This book shows how catastrophe (cat) bond markets can allow governments to access natural disaster insurance.

This annual conference has become a key event in Europe for the discussion of development issues. It is a unique platform for many of the world's finest development thinkers and experienced policymakers to present their perspectives, ideas, and to challenge researchers and senior staff of the World Bank and other organizations with their views. These papers look at a number of compelling issues surrounding the topic of development.

The toolkit provides practical tools and information to help policy makers and practitioners deal with the sensitive issues involved with infrastructure reform in the public services. It is illustrated with examples, checklists, and templates that walk decision makers through best practice methodologies.

In the coming decades, East Asian economies must face the challenges of an increasingly globalized marketplace. This book explores the changing parameters of competition in East Asia, and argues that success ultimately will depend on the ability of the regions firms to harness the potential of global production networks and to build their own innovative capability. Presenting the latest findings on global production networks and the evolution ...

Contains full-colour world maps, tables and charts that highlight key social and economic data for 210 economies.

This CD-ROM offers a comprehensive database with year-by-year time series of most indicators going back to 1970. This portable database on Africa contains over 1200 indicators of macroeconomic, sectoral and social data for 53 African countries and 20 regional country groups.

China and the WTO analyzes the nature of the reforms involved in Chinas accession to the WTO, assesses their implications for the world economy, and examines the implications for individual households, particularly the poor. Its key objective is to provide the information that will allow policy makers to implement WTO commitments and formulate supporting policies to contribute strongly to economic development and poverty reduction.

There are over 500 million economically active poor people in the world operating microenterprises and small businesses, but most are without access to adequate financial services. The Handbook offers guiding principles and tools for promoting sustainable microfinance and creating viable institutions.

These papers provide a wide-ranging review of theory and practice in taxation (implicit as well as explicit) of the domestic financial sector, emphasizing issues relevant to reform in middle-income countries. Four theoretical chapters model different normative and positive aspects and case studies cover current practice in industrial countries, and episodes of distorting taxation in Brazil, Russia, and Turkey. Other chapters cover VAT, transac...

This book seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Where do we stand today in relation to the target of universal primary completion? Is universal primary completion achievable by 2015? What would he required to achieve it? The book includes a CD-ROM containing a "hands-on" version of the simulation model developed by the authors and all of the background data used.

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge about development. This volume imparts new research findings and discussion on key policy issues related to poverty reduction by eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world. Topics include: fostering entrepreneurship, innovation and growth, challenges of development...