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  • 1
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    Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals) : A Costume and Social History (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780415552868
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (303 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals) : A Costume and Social History
    DDC: 391/.8
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    Abstract: 〈P〉First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the middle ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of major importance to students of the history of dress but also to anyone who enjoys social history. 〈/P〉〈P〉 〈/P〉〈P〉〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: The Function and Ritual of European Funerals; Chapter Two: The Social Status of Widows; Chapter Three: The Origins of Fashionable Mourning Dress up to 1600; Chapter Four: Mourning Dress 1600-1700; Chapter Five: Mourning Dress 1700-1800; Chapter Six: Mourning Dress 1800-1910; Chapter Seven: Children and Mourning; Chapter Eight: The Mourning Dress and Textile Industries; Chapter Nine: Mourning Jewellery; Chapter Ten: The Colours of Mourning
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Eleven: The Breakdown of Mourning Traditions: Mourning Dress From 1910Appendix 1: A Selection of Popular Mourning Fabrics; Appendix 2: Periods of Mourning; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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  • 2
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    Intercultural Services (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780877193449
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (358 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Intercultural Services
    DDC: 305.8/0071/5
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    Abstract: For worldwide intercultural services, here is one-stop shopping at its best. This easy-to-use guide gives you practical advice to locate, evaluate, purchase, and oversee intercultural services. It describes and provides easy access (including websites and e-mail addresses) to the world's leading intercultural services. These high-impact, productive, and cost-effective service providers are critical to your operation's growth strategy and global success. This handy guide covers the gamut of intercultural services. Whether you are managing a multi-cultural workplace, preparing to enter the globa
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Intercultural Services; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; 1. Exploring Intercultural Services; About the Book; About the Intercultural Field; Terminology and Jargon; Mini-Case: One Company's Experience; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 2. Key Intercultural Concepts; Understanding the Core Concepts; Understanding Cultural Differences; Cross-Cultural Communications; Cross-Cultural Transitional Experiences; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 3. Cross-Border Organizations; Risks and Opportunities; The Globalizing Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: Cross-Border Organizational Relationships and IssuesThe Intercultural Synergy Model; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 4. Cross-Border Roles; New Roles - New Requirements; Cross-Border Team Membership; The Global Manager's Role; Cross-Border Role Analysis; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 5. Foundations of Intercultural Learning; Assessing Intercultural Needs; Intercultural Learning Objectives; Paths to Intercultural Learning; Selecting Approaches, Methods, and Models; Systematic Training and Development; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Intercultural ServicesOverview of Services; International Programs; Professional Services; Online Services; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 7. Intercultural Products; Overview of Products; General Considerations; "Stand Alone" Products; Facilitated Products; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; Videos and Audiotapes; Assessment/Selection Instruments; 8. Intercultural Service Providers; Finding Suitable Providers; Intercultural Trainer Qualifications; Assessing Vendors Information; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 9. Working with Suppliers
    Description / Table of Contents: Managing the RelationshipImproving Supplier Performance; Evaluating Intercultural Learning; Giving Feedback to Suppliers; Assisting Suppliers; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; 10. The Case for Intercultural Services; The Downside Considerations; The Upside Considerations; Convincing Others; Summary and Suggested Action Steps; Resources; Bibliography of "Classics"; Index; About the Author
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    Knowledge and Communities (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780750672931
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (277 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Knowledge and Communities
    DDC: 307
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    Abstract: Knowledge and Communities is the first book dedicated to a major new knowledge management topic. ""Communities of Practice"" are cross-organizational groups of people sharing knowledge, solving common problems, and exchanging insights and frustrations. Knowledge and Communities, a collection of authoritative articles, describes the dynamics of these groups and explains how they enable organizational knowledge to be creating, shared, and applied. The book teaches how organizations can empower both traditional and on-line communities and make them a cornerstone of a general knowledge management
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Knowledge and Communities; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part One Practical Applications; Chapter 1 Communities of Practice: The Key to Knowledge Strategy; Chapter 2 Why Information Technology Inspired but Cannot Deliver Knowledge Management; Chapter 3 The New Task of R&D Management: Creating Goal-Directed Communities for Innovation; Chapter 4 Communities of Practice: Learning Is Social. Training Is Irrelevant?; Chapter 5 Knowledge Diffusion through ""Strategic Communities""; Chapter 6 The Real Value of Online Communities; Part Two Theory Development
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Organizational Learning and Communities of Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and InnovationChapter 8 Communities of Practice, Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge; Chapter 9 Linking Competitive Advantage with Communities of Practice; Chapter 10 Communities of Practice at an Internet Firm: Netovation vs. On-Time Performance; Chapter 11 Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community; Chapter 12 Anatomy of a Flame: Conflict and Community Building on the Internet
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 13 Making Large-Scale Information Resources Serve Communities of PracticeIndex
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    Sport (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780750628921
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (184 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Sport: Social Problems and Issues
    DDC: 306.483
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    Abstract: 〈EM〉Sport: Social Problems and Issues〈/EM〉 provides a detailed analysis and critique of contemporary social problems and issues for the coach, organizer, teacher or student of sport. Drawing upon perspectives from social science, it examines change and development of modern sport, both nationally and internationally, enabling students and practitioners to address those problems and issues which threaten the integrity of sport.〈BR〉〈BR〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Sport: Social Problems and Issues; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part One: Sport as Social Practice and Social Institution; 1. Sport: inside out; Look at it this way; Sport as a social practice; Sport as a socal institution; A delicate balancing act; 2. Sports: change and development; Characteristics of modern sports; Changes to sports processes; Changes to sport worlds; Different sports, different problems; A critical note; 3. Sports in the marketplace; Introduction; Sport and capital; Sponsorship; The sponsorship-advertizing-media axis; Globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Some key questions4. The corruption of sports practice; Introduction; Types of disassociation: contest problems; Typical response to contest problems; Types of disassociation: pre-contest problems; The exploitation and abuse of athletes; Responses to exploitation; Codes of conduct for coaches; A critical note: individual or system; Part Two: Sport and Structural Inequality; 5. Sport, racism and ethnicity; Multiculturalism; Racism; The Afro-Caribbean experience; South Asians and sport; 6. Sport, ability and disability; Introduction; Society disables; The accessibility of sports; Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Competitive sportDifferent but equitable; 7. Sport and gender; What's the problem; Sex, gender and sexism; Gender relations; Who rules, who coaches?; Strategies for equity; 8. Sport and social class; Introduction: the end of the class; Social surveys; Dimension of class; The habitus; An underclass?; Class rules; Summary; References; Further reading; Index
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  • 5
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    Regional Planning for Open Space (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780415480031
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (353 p)
    Series Statement: RTPI Library Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Regional Planning for Open Space
    DDC: 303.660938
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    Abstract: Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis. The importance of open spaces for well-being in urban life is well-established. With case studies on internalization and valuation methods, this book critically examines the liberal discourse that urges the transfer of responsibility for open space from government to the market. European and American expert authors confront political rhetoric with grounded analysis and conclude that the market needs to be combined with governmental efforts
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; About the authors; Chapter 1 Rethinking open space planning in Metropolitan areas; Chapter 2 Planning and development of the Fringe landscapes: On the outer side of the Copenhagen 'fingers'; Chapter 3 Threats to Metropolitan open space: The Netherlands economic and institutional dimension; Chapter 4 Development Constraints reduce urban open space: Actual conditions and future requirements in england; Chapter 5 The viability of Cross-subsidy strategies: A Netherlands case study
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6 Does proximity to open space increase the values of Dwellings?: Evidence from three Dutch case studiesChapter 7 Government or Market: Competing ideals in american metropolitan regions; Chapter 8 Maintaining the Working landscape: The portland Metro Urban Growth Boundary; Chapter 9 The Impact of open space preservation policies: Evidence from the Netherlands and the US; Chapter 10 Spaces of engagement For open space advocacy: A grounded theory on local opposition in the Netherlands; Chapter 11 Formalisation of 'open space as public space' in zoning: The Belgian experience
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12 Aesthetic approaches to active urban landscape planning: European exemplarsChapter 13 Flächenhaushalt reconsidered: Alternatives to the German federal 30 hectares goal; Chapter 14 Planning open spaces: Balancing markets, state and communities; Index
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    Media and the Chinese Diaspora : Community, Communications and Commerce (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780415352048
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (235 p)
    Series Statement: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Media and the Chinese Diaspora : Community, Communications and Commerce
    DDC: 302.230951
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. ""Wanning Sun"" examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media communication is linked to commerce, which is often a key activity of the overseas Chinese. Revealing a great deal about the vibrancy and dynamism of the Chinese-language media, the book considers
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Transnationalism and a global diasporic Chinese mediasphere; 1 Disconnecting transnational ties: The Chinese Pacific Weekly and the transformation of Chinese American community after the Second World War; 2 Chinese-language media and immigrant life in the United States and Canada; 3 Gossip about stars: Newspapers and Pop Culture China; 4 'A hundred flowers bloom': The re-emergence of the Chinese press in post-Suharto Indonesia; 5 'Chinese' Indonesians in national cinema
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Chinese newspapers, ethnic identity and the state: The case of Malaysia7 Radio-activated business and power: A case study of 3CW Melbourne Chinese Radio; 8 Chinese media in New Zealand: Transnational outpost or unchecked floodtide?; Bibliography; Index
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    The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia : The inalienable gift of territory (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780415297677
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (188 p)
    Series Statement: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    Parallel Title: Print version The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia : The inalienable gift of territory
    DDC: 305.89/9226
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    Abstract: Cynthia Chou focuses upon the predicaments of the Orang Suku Laut or 'tribe of sea people', an indigenous people of Indonesia, in view of the challenges imposed upon them by the emergence of new borders on their maritime world
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Orang Laut: People of the sea; 2 Social organization; 3 History and culture change: The making of a marginal culture; 4 The inalienable gift of territory; 5 The fishing economy; 6 Modernization and development: The Islamization process; 7 The transformation of Orang Laut territories: The Growth Triangle; 8 Conclusion; Appendix: Orang Laut fishing gear; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Aeromobilities (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780415449564
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Aeromobilities
    DDC: 303.4832
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    Abstract: 〈P〉〈EM〉Aeromobilities〈/EM〉 provides a broad introduction to the study of air travel, airspaces and aviation from the perspective of the social sciences and the humanities. The book〈EM〉 〈/EM〉makes a strong case for a systematic, interdisciplinary study of some of the most powerful forces that have shaped our mobile globalization.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introducing aeromobilities; Part I Aeromobilities, globalization and social theory; 1 Aeromobilities and the global; 2 Global transfer points: The making of airports in the mobile risk society; Part II The production of airspaces; 3 〉 store 〉 forward 〉: Architectures of a future tense; 4 Connecting the world: Analyzing global city networks through airline flows; 5 Airport code/spaces; 6 Air craft: Producing UK airspace; 7 Around the world in 80 airports; Part III The social life of air travel; 8 Airborne on time
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 A life in corridors: Social perspectives on aeromobility and work in knowledge organizations10 Getting into the flow; Part IV Governing air travel; 11 Science, expertise and local knowledge in airport conflicts: Towards a cosmopolitical approach; 12 Helipads, heliports and urban air space: Governing the contested infrastructure of helicopter travel; Index
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  • 9
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    Communication and Social Cognition : Theories and Methods (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780805853551
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (484 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Communication and Social Cognition : Theories and Methods
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈EM〉Communication and Social Cognition〈/EM〉 represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by 〈EM〉Social Cognition and Communication〈/EM〉, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the study of communication from a social cognitive perspective, with contributions from well-known experts and promising new scholars in diverse areas of communication.〈BR〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Celebrating Social Cognition and Communication; I Message Production; 2 Cognitive Models of Message Production; 3 Communication: A Goal-Directed, Plan-Guided Process; 4 Interaction Goals and Message Production: Conceptual and Methodological Developments; 5 Arguments; II Interpersonal Communication; 6 Cognitive Foundations of Communication in Close Relationships; 7 Attribution and Interpersonal Communication: Out of Our Heads and Into Behavior; 8 Shared Cognition and Communication Within Group Decision Making and Negotiation
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Social Cognition in Family Communication10 Social Cognition Under the Influence: Drinking While Communicating; III Mass Media; 11 Social Cognition and Cultivation; 12 Media and Racism; 13 News and Politics; 14 Comprehension of the Media; IV Social Influence; 15 Attitude Accessibility: Theory, Methods, and Future Directions; 16 Emotion and Persuasion: A Social Cognitive Perspective; 17 Compliance Gaining; 18 Motivation, Social Context, and Cognitive Processing as Evolving Concepts in Persuasion Theory; Author Index; Subject Index
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    Understanding Culture : Theory, Research, and Application (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781848728080
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (538 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Understanding Culture : Theory, Research, and Application
    DDC: 306
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    Abstract: This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume's chapters, as well as in a closing dialog between 14 of the field's top experts
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Editors; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Section I: Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 1. A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture: Moving From Describing Culture to Explaining Culture; Chapter 2. Understanding Cultural Syndrome Effects on What and How We Think: A Situated Cognition Model; Chapter 3. Culture Comparison and Culture Priming: A Critical Analysis; Chapter 4. An Intersubjective Consensus Approach to Culture: The Role of Intersubjective Norms Versus Cultural Self in Cultural Processes
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5. Culture as a Vehicle for Studying Individual DifferencesSection II: Dimensions of National Cultures and Their Measurement; Chapter 6. Cultural Mapping of Beliefs About the World and Their Application to a Social Psychology Involving Culture: Futurescaping; Chapter 7. Culture Matters: National Value Cultures, Sources, and Consequences; Chapter 8. On Finding Improved Ways of Characterizing National Cultures; Chapter 9. Nagging Problems and Modest Solutions in Cross-Cultural Research: Illustrations From Organizational Behavior Literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Section III: Ecological and Economic Foundations of CultureChapter 10. Ecological Determinants of Cultural Variation; Chapter 11. Climate, Psychological Homeostasis, and Individual Behaviors Across Cultures; Chapter 12. The Mutual Constitution of Residential Mobility and Individualism; Chapter 13. The Social and Economic Context of Peace and Happiness; Section IV: Psychological Manifestations of Culture: Cognition, Perception, and Emotion; Chapter 14. Language, Culture, Cognition: How Do They Intersect?; Chapter 15. Culture and Emotional Expression
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 16. Cultural Dialects: Nonverbal Behavior and Person PerceptionChapter 17. Culture Through the Lens of Self-Regulatory Orientations; Chapter 18. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Cultural Differences and Similarities in Time Orientation; Section V: Bicultural and Intercultural Process; Chapter 19. The Bicultural Self and the Bicultural Brain; Chapter 20. Biculturalism in Management: Leveraging the Benefits of Intrapersonal Diversity; Chapter 21. Buffering Acculturative Stress and Facilitating Cultural Adaptation: Nostalgia as a Psychological Resource
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 22. Theory, Critical Incidents, and the Preparation of People for Intercultural ExperiencesChapter 23. Self-Conscious Emotions as Emotional Systems: The Role of Culture in Shame and Pride Systems; Chapter 24. A Cultural Analysis of Harmony and Conflict: Toward an Integrated Model of Conflict Styles; Section VI: Integration and Reflection; Chapter 25. Culture and Information Processing: A Conceptual Integration; Chapter 26. Society, Culture, and the Person: Ways to Personalize and Socialize Cultural Psychology; Section VII: A Dialogue
    Description / Table of Contents: The Present and Future State of Cultural Research and Theory: A Dialogue
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    Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals) : The Pre-history and After-life of Class (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780415571272
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 305.509
    Keywords: Social classes ; History ; Social status ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'.The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and contro
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Class: before and after. A preview; 2 From rank to class; 3 The self-assembly of class; 4 The tendency of industrial society: an interim summary; 5 Corporatism and its discontents; 6 New contradictions, new victims; Notes; Index
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    Love or greatness (Routledge Revivals) : Max Weber and masculine thinking (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780415570749
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (301 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Love or greatness (Routledge Revivals) : Max Weber and masculine thinking
    DDC: 305.3
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    Abstract: This work, first published in 1990, reissues the first thorough examination of the essentially masculine nature of Max Weber's social and political thinking. Through a detailed examination of his central texts, the author demonstrates Weber's masculine reading of 'social life' and shows how his work advocates a masculine form of life that poses a challenge to contemporary women and to feminism. In particular, she addresses the patriarchal implications of Weber's belief in the need to relegate the ethic of brotherly love to a private sphere in order to make possible rational action and the achi
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction: Weber, Freud and masculine thinking; Part One: A world of greatness; 2 Strong man; 3 Conflict, action and greatness; 4 Men's world; 5 Imperial greatness; Part Two: The modern world; 6 Modern bureaucrat; 7 Modern hero; 8 Modern "man"; 9 Modern god; Part Three: A world of love; 10 Brotherly love and practical action; 11 Brotherly love and revolution; 12 Brotherly love and culture; 13 Erotic love as coerdon; Part Four: An alternative world
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Erotic love as sociability. an alternative reality15 Women's world: an alternative rationality; 16 Marx and Weber: an alternative perspective; 17 Love and greatness: an alternative vision; References; Index
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    Determinants of Repayment Performance in Indian Micro-Credit Groups (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (13 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Deininger, Klaus Determinants of Repayment Performance in Indian Micro-Credit Groups
    Abstract: Despite their potential importance and ease of modification, impacts of monitoring and loan recovery arrangements on micro-credit groups' repayment performance have rarely been studied. Data on 3,350 expired group loans in 300 Indian villages highlight that regular monitoring and audits, high repayment frequency, consumption smoothing support through rice credit, and having group savings deposited with the lender all significantly increase repayment rates. Estimated magnitudes of their effects vastly exceed those of members' socio-economic characteristics. Significantly lower repayment on loans originating in externally provided grant resources suggests that stringent monitoring will be essential for these to have a sustainable impact
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    Financial Institutions and Markets Across Countries and Over Time : Data and Analysis (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (46 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Beck, Thorsten Financial Institutions and Markets Across Countries and Over Time
    Abstract: This paper introduces the updated and expanded version of the Financial Development and Structure Database and presents recent trends in structure and development of financial institutions and markets across countries. The authors add indicators on banking structure and financial globalization. They find a deepening of both financial markets and institutions, a trend concentrated in high-income countries and more pronounced for markets than for banks. Similarly, the recent increase in cross-border lending and debt issues has been concentrated in high-income countries, while low and lower-middle income countries have experienced an increase in remittance flows. Low net interest margins, rising profitability and declining stability in high-income countries’ banking sectors characterize the recent financial sector boom in high income countries leading up to the global financial crisis of 2007
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4943
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    Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn? (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (31 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: McKenzie, David Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development
    Abstract: Until recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area lend themselves less to formal evaluations. However, a vanguard of new impact evaluations on areas as diverse as fostering microenterprise growth, microfinance, rainfall insurance, and regulatory reform demonstrates that in many circumstances serious evaluation is possible. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize and distil the policy and implementation lessons emerging from these studies, use them to demonstrate the feasibility of impact evaluations in a broader array of topics, and thereby help prompt new impact evaluations for projects going forward
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    Modeling Migration Dynamics in Albania : A Hazard Function Approach (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (29 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Azzarri, Carlo Modeling Migration Dynamics in Albania
    Abstract: Since 1990 migration flows from Albania have been massive, relative to the size of the country and its population, but they have also fluctuated over time. This paper presents and discusses various descriptive trends, mainly in graphical form. The data come from the Albanian Living Standards Measurement Survey, 2005 round, and cover the period 1990-2004. The resulting observed trends reflect changing push and pull factors in Albania and the two main host countries, Greece and Italy. The paper also presents a hazard approach to modeling Albanian emigration and return migration. This analysis highlights, among other things, the relevance of networks in Albanian migration dynamics, both to promote emigration and to delay return
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4945
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    A Structural Model of Establishment and Industry Evolution : Evidence From Chile (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Seker, Murat A Structural Model of Establishment and Industry Evolution
    Abstract: Many recent models have been developed to fit the basic facts on establishment and industry evolution. While these models yield a simple interpretation of the basic features of the data, they are too stylized to confront the micro-level data in a more formal quantitative analysis. In this paper, the author develops a model in which establishments grow by innovating new products. By introducing heterogeneity to a stylized industry evolution model, the analysis succeeds in explaining several features of the data, such as the thick right tail of the size distribution and the relations between age, size, and the hazard rate of exit, which had eluded existing models. In the model, heterogeneity in producer behavior arises through a combination of exogenous efficiency differences and accumulated innovations resulting from past endogenous research and development investments. Integrating these forces allows the model to perform well quantitatively in fitting data on Chilean manufacturers. The counterfactual experiments show how producers respond to research and development subsidies and more competitive market environments
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    Aid, Natural Disasters and the Samaritan's Dilemma (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Raschky, Paul A Aid, Natural Disasters and the Samaritan's Dilemma
    Abstract: This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country's preparedness against natural disasters. The theoretical model shows that foreign aid can have two opposing effects on a country's level of mitigating activities. In order to test the theoretical propositions, the authors analyze the effect of foreign aid dependence on ex-ante risk-management activity proxied by the death toll from major storms, floods and earthquakes occurring worldwide between 1980 and 2002. They find evidence that the crowding-out effect of foreign aid outweighs the preventive effect in the case of storms, while there is mixed evidence in the case of floods and earthquakes
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    The Mauritanian Labor Market Through the Lens of the 2004 National Household Survey (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Rajadel, Tania The Mauritanian Labor Market Through the Lens of the 2004 National Household Survey
    Abstract: This paper provides a snapshot of Mauritania’s labor market using data from the 2004 national household survey. The results show that the labor market is characterized by lower participation rates, lower employment-to-population rates, and relatively higher unemployment rates than in neighboring countries. The non poor fare better in the labor market than the poor. Although the labor force participation of the poor is higher than that of the non poor, the poor display a higher unemployment rate and a lower employment rate than the non poor. The data also suggest a negative correlation between wage employment and poverty. Substantial differences in labor market indicators emerge when disaggregating the analysis by gender and age-group. Female non-participation is extremely high. Women systematically earn less than men independently of their sector and type of employment and controlling for other factors, such as education. Young adults face considerable difficulties in entering the labor market: more than half of the population aged 15-24 is neither studying nor participating in the labor force. As gender disparities remain important for similar levels of education, more work is needed to understand whether cultural factors may prevent women from entering the labor market. Concerning young adults, future poverty reduction strategies need to pay more explicit attention to the promotion of employment through informed labor market policies
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    The Impacts of International Migration On Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results From A Migration Lottery Program (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Gibson, John The Impacts of International Migration On Remaining Household Members
    Abstract: The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households in developing countries with and without migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining while other households migrate en masse. The authors address these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category of New Zealand’s immigration policy. They survey applicants to the 2002-05 ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for the remaining household members of emigrants with those for members of similar households that were unsuccessful in the ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument to address the second selectivity issue. Using this natural experiment, the authors examine the myriad impacts that migration has on remaining household members, focussing on labor supply, income, durable assets, financial service usage, diet, and physical and mental health. The analysis uses multiple hypothesis testing procedures to examine which impacts are robust. The findings indicate that the overall impact on households left behind is largely negative. The findings also reveal evidence that both sources of selectivity matter, leading studies that fail to adequately address them to misrepresent the impact of migration
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    Mind the Gap? : A Rural-Urban Comparison of Manufacturing Firms (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (51 p)
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    Parallel Title: Rijkers, Bob Mind the Gap?
    Abstract: This paper compares and contrasts the performance of rural and urban manufacturing firms in Ethiopia to assess the impact of market integration and the investment climate on firm performance. Rural firms are shown to operate in isolated markets, have poor access to infrastructure and a substantial degree of market power, whereas urban firms operate in better integrated and more competitive markets, where they have much better access to inputs. Fragmentation may also help explain why urban firms are much larger, much more capital intensive and why they produce much more output per worker. Capital intensity and labor productivity are strongly correlated with firm size. Manufacturing technology choice does not vary strongly across space and increasing returns to scale are modest at best, suggesting that rural-urban differences in output per worker are predominantly driven by differences in capital intensity and Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The average TFP of firms in rural towns is much higher than that of rural firms in remote areas, but small firms in rural towns are not significantly less productive than small firms in other urban areas. A key finding of the paper is that market fragmentation and investment climate constraints impair the growth of the rural non-farm sector. Whereas urban firms exhibit a healthy dynamism, rural firms are stagnant and lack incentives to invest. Paradoxically, limited local demand due to market fragmentation is the most pressing constraint for rural firms, even though they face more severe supply-side constraints than urban firms. Promoting market towns in Ethiopia might be an effective means of capitalizing on the gains from market integration
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-4946
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    What Explains the Low Survival Rate of Developing Country Export Flows? (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (38 p)
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    Parallel Title: Brenton, Paul What Explains the Low Survival Rate of Developing Country Export Flows?
    Abstract: Successful export growth and diversification require not only entry into new export products and markets, but also the survival and growth of export flows. This paper uses a detailed, cross-country dataset of product level bilateral export flows to illustrate that exporting is an extremely perilous activity and especially so in low-income countries. The authors find that unobserved individual heterogeneity in product-level export flow data prevails despite controlling for a wide range of observed country and product characteristics. This questions previous studies that have used the Cox proportional hazards model to model export survival. The authors estimate a Prentice-Gloeckler model, amended with a gamma mixture distribution summarizing unobserved individual heterogeneity. The empirical results confirm the significance of a range of products as well as country-specific factors in determining the survival of export flows. From a policy perspective, an interesting finding is the importance of learning-by-doing for export survival: experience with exporting the same product to other markets or different products to the same market are found to strongly increase the chance of export survival. A better understanding of such learning effects could substantially improve the effectiveness of export promotion strategies
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    Finance and Inequality : Theory and Evidence (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p)
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    Parallel Title: Demirguc-Kunt, Asli Finance and Inequality
    Abstract: This paper critically reviews the literature on finance and inequality, highlighting substantive gaps in the literature. Finance plays a crucial role in most theories of persistent inequality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, economic theory provides a rich set of predictions concerning both the impact of finance on inequality and about the relevant mechanisms. Although subject to ample qualifications, the bulk of empirical research suggests that improvements in financial contracts, markets, and intermediaries expand economic opportunities and reduce inequality. Yet, there is a shortage of theoretical and empirical research on the potentially enormous impact of formal financial sector policies, such as bank regulations and securities law, on persistent inequality. Furthermore, there is no conceptual framework for considering the joint and endogenous evolution of finance, inequality, and economic growth
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    Identifying spatial efficiency-equity tradeoffs in territorial development policies : evidence from Uganda (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Lall, Somik V Identifying spatial efficiency-equity tradeoffs in territorial development policies
    Abstract: In many countries, place specific investments in infrastructure are viewed as integral components of territorial development policies. But are these policies fighting market forces of concentration? Or are they adding net value to the national economy by tapping underexploited resources? This paper contributes to the debate on the spatial allocation of infrastructure investments by examining where these investments will generate the highest economic returns "spatial efficiency", and identifying whether there re tradeoffs when infrastructure coverage is made more equitable across regions "spatial equity". The empirical analysis focuses on Uganda and is based on estimating models of firm location choice, drawing on insights from the new economic geography literature. The main findings show that establishments in the manufacturing industry gain from being in areas that offer a diverse mix of economic activities. In addition, availability of power supply, transport links connecting districts to markets, and the supply of skilled workers attract manufacturing activities. Combining all these factors gives a distinct advantage to existing agglomerations along leading areas around Kampala and Jinja. Infrastructure investments in these areas are likely to produce the highest returns compared with investments elsewhere. Public infrastructure investments in other locations are likely to attract fewer private investors, and will pose a spatial efficiencyequity tradeoff. To better integrate lagging regions with the national economy, lessons from the WDR2009 "Reshaping Economic Geography" calling for investments in health and education in lagging areas are likely to be more beneficial
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    Remittances and Natural Disasters : Ex-Post Response and Contribution To Ex-Ante Preparedness (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (34 p)
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    Parallel Title: Mohapatra, Sanket Remittances and Natural Disasters
    Abstract: Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase in the aftermath of natural disasters in countries that have a larger number of migrants abroad. Analysis of household survey data in Bangladesh shows that per capita consumption was higher in remittance-receiving households than in others after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian remittance-dependent households seem to use cash reserves rather than sell livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance-receiving households, especially those receiving remittances from high-income developed countries, tend to have housing built of concrete rather than mud and greater access to communication equipment, suggesting that they are better prepared against natural disasters
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    Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators 1996-2008 (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Kaufmann, Daniel Governance Matters VIII
    Abstract: This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. These aggregate indicators are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring various dimensions of governance, taken from 35 data sources provided by 33 different organizations. The data reflect the views on governance of public sector, private sector and NGO experts, as well as thousands of citizen and firm survey respondents worldwide. The authors also explicitly report the margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. They find that even after taking margins of error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country comparisons as well as monitoring progress over time. The aggregate indicators, together with the disaggregated underlying indicators, are available at www.govindicators.org
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    The Health Impact of Extreme Weather Events in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Wang, Limin The Health Impact of Extreme Weather Events in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Abstract: Extreme weather events are known to have serious consequences for human health and are predicted to increase in frequency as a result of climate change. Africa is one of the regions that risks being most seriously affected. This paper quantifies the impact of extreme rainfall and temperature events on the incidence of diarrhea, malnutrition and mortality in young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. The panel data set is constructed from Demographic and Health Surveys for 108 regions from 19 Sub-Saharan African countries between 1992 and 2001 and climate data from the Africa Rainfall and Temperature Evaluation System from 1980 to 2001. The results show that both excess rainfall and extreme temperatures significantly raise the incidence of diarrhea and weight-for-height malnutrition among children under the age of three, but have little impact on the long-term health indicators, including height-for-age malnutrition and the under-five mortality rate. The authors use the results to simulate the additional health cost as a proportion of gross domestic product caused by increased climate variability. The projected health cost of increased diarrhea attributable to climate change in 2020 is in the range of 0.2 to 0.5 percent of gross domestic product in Africa
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    The Economic Impact of Banking the Unbanked : Evidence From Mexico (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Bruhn, Miriam The Economic Impact of Banking the Unbanked
    Abstract: This paper examines the effects of providing financial services to low-income individuals on entrepreneurial activity, employment, and income. The analysis exploits cross-time and cross-municipality variation in the opening of Banco Azteca in Mexico to measure these effects with a difference-in-difference strategy. Banco Azteca opened more than 800 branches simultaneously in 2002, focusing on low-income clients. The results show that the opening of Banco Azteca led to an increase in the number of informal business owners by 7.6 percent. Total employment also increased, by 1.4 percent, and average income went up by about 7 percent
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    Aid for Trade : Matching Potential Demand and Supply (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (44 p)
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    Parallel Title: Gamberoni, Elisa Aid for Trade
    Abstract: This paper is designed to help both the beneficiary governments and donors of aid-for-trade identify countries that are under-performing in trade and which are receiving less aid for trade than their global performance might otherwise suggest is necessary. The authors develop ten measures of trade performance and capacity (including trade-related infrastructure, institutions, and incentives) to assess potential demand, and then look at country allocations of aid for trade to see which are receiving below-average amounts in the supply of aid for trade - relative to their potential demand. As they design national development strategies, countries may wish to consider giving greater attention to trade and requesting that donors allocate more aid for trade. As part of the analysis, the paper provides a conceptual framework for selecting indicators of trade performance and its policy determinants that the World Trade Organization and its partners might monitor closely as part of the aid for trade initiative
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    Evaluating the Impact of Egyptian Social Fund for Development Programs (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Abou-Ali, Hala Evaluating the Impact of Egyptian Social Fund for Development Programs
    Abstract: The Egyptian Social Fund for Development was established in 1991 with a mandate to reduce poverty. Since its inception, it has disbursed about
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    More On the Energy : Non-Energy Commodity Price Link (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Baffes, John More On the Energy
    Abstract: This paper examines the energy/non-energy commodity price link, based on a reduced form econometric model and using annual data from 1960 to 2008. The transmission elasticity from energy to the non-energy index is estimated at 0.28. At a more disaggregated level, the fertilizer index exhibited the largest elasticity (0.55), followed by precious metals (0.46), food (0.27), metals and minerals (0.25), and raw materials (0.11). By contrast, only a few price indices responded strongly to inflation, although the trend parameter estimate (often viewed as a proxy for technological progress) is negative for agriculture and positive for metals. A key implication of the pass-through results is that for as long as energy prices remain elevated, most non-energy commodity prices are expected to be high
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    Tax Compliance Perceptions and Formalization of Small Businesses in South Africa (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Coolidge, Jacqueline Tax Compliance Perceptions and Formalization of Small Businesses in South Africa
    Abstract: This paper is based on large-scale surveys of formal and informal small businesses in South Africa, including questions about their experiences and perceptions about tax compliance, tax morale, and related variables. The survey findings suggest that formalization is more likely to take place in urban areas, involving relatively larger firms, and those who already use proper bookkeeping. Informal firms who said they were likely to register for tax in the near future were more likely than other informal firms to report higher satisfaction with government services, and to believe most businesses pay their taxes. The most-cited advantages of being registered for tax included better access to government services, better access to financing, and better opportunities for growth
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    The Growth Aftermath of Natural Disasters (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Fomby, Thomas The Growth Aftermath of Natural Disasters
    Abstract: This paper provides a description of the macroeconomic aftermath of natural disasters. It traces the yearly response of gross domestic product growth - both aggregated and disaggregated into its agricultural and non-agricultural components - to four types of natural disasters - droughts, floods, earthquakes, and storms. The paper uses a methodological approach based on pooling the experiences of various countries over time. It consists of vector auto-regressions in the presence of endogenous variables and exogenous shocks (VARX), applied to a panel of cross-country and time-series data. The analysis finds heterogeneous effects on a variety of dimensions. First, the effects of natural disasters are stronger, for better or worse, on developing than on rich countries. Second, while the impact of some natural disasters can be beneficial when they are of moderate intensity, severe disasters never have positive effects. Third, not all natural disasters are alike in terms of the growth response they induce, and, perhaps surprisingly, some can entail benefits regarding economic growth. Thus, droughts have a negative effect on both agricultural and non-agricultural growth. In contrast, floods tend to have a positive effect on economic growth in both major sectors. Earthquakes have a negative effect on agricultural growth but a positive one on non-agricultural growth. Storms tend to have a negative effect on gross domestic product growth but the effect is short-lived and small. Future research should concentrate on exploring the mechanisms behind these heterogeneous impacts
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    Trade Finance in Crisis : Market Adjustment Or Market Failure? (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Chauffour, Jean-Pierre Trade Finance in Crisis
    Abstract: As world leaders have agreed to massively support trade finance, this paper discusses the singularity of the issues related to trade finance in the context of the global economic crisis. Why should international trade finance be a particular issue of concern in the current circumstances? Are there specific market or government failures associated with trade finance that justify a special and differential treatment of the issue by policymakers? If so, what would then be the most appropriate policy instruments to address those concerns? The paper cautions against the notion of a large trade finance "gap," yet highlights the possible rationales and conditions for an effective intervention in support of trade finance
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    Forecasting Local Climate for Policy Analysis : A Pilot Application for Ethiopia (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Blankespoor, Brian Forecasting Local Climate for Policy Analysis
    Abstract: This paper describes an approach to forecasting future climate at the local level using historical weather station and satellite data and future projections of climate data from global climate models (GCMs) that is easily understandable by policymakers and planners. It describes an approach to synthesize the myriad climate projections, often with conflicting messages, into an easily-interpreted set of graphical displays that summarizes the basic implications of the ensemble of available climate models. The method described in the paper can be applied to publicly-available data for any country and for any number of climate models. It does not depend on geographic scale and can be applied at the subnational, national, or regional level. The paper illustrates the results for future climate for Ethiopia using future climate scenarios projects by 8 global climate models. The graphical displays of nine possible future climate regimes (average temperature, precipitation and their seasonal distribution) for each grid-cell about 50km X 50 km). It also provides the probability associated with each of the nine-climate regimes
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    Aid and Trust in Country Systems (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Knack, Stephen Aid and Trust in Country Systems
    Abstract: The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. A consensus view holds that country systems are strengthened when donors trust recipients to manage aid funds, but undermined when donors manage aid through their own separate parallel systems. This paper provides an analytical framework for understanding donors’ decisions to trust in country systems or instead to micro-manage aid using their own systems and procedures. Where country systems are sufficiently weak, the development impact of aid is reduced by donors’ reliance on them. Trust in country systems will be sub-optimal, however, if donors have multiple objectives in aid provision rather than a sole objective of maximizing development outcomes. Empirical tests are conducted using data from an OECD survey designed to monitor progress toward Paris Declaration goals. Trust in country systems is measured in three ways: use of the recipient’s public financial management systems, use of direct budget support, and use of program-based approaches. The authors show using fixed effects regression that a donor’s trust in recipient country systems is positively related to (1) trustworthiness or quality of those systems, (2) tolerance for risk on the part of the donor’s constituents, as measured by public support for providing aid, and (3) the donor’s ability to internalize more of the benefits of investing in country systems, as measured by the donor’s share of all aid provided to a recipient
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    Implications for Climate-Change Policy of Research On Cooperation in Social Dilemmas (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Irwin, Timothy Implications for Climate-Change Policy of Research On Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
    Abstract: The problem of climate change seems to be a tragedy of the commons: despite the global benefits of reducing green-house gas emissions, no individual has any incentive to reduce his or her own emissions. Yet many people are making efforts to reduce emissions and putting pressure on businesses and governments to do the same. Although the size of these efforts is unclear, their very existence might seem puzzling. The efforts are consistent, however, with some theoretical and empirical evidence about the extent of cooperation in other social dilemmas. This evidence does not imply that greenhouse-gas emissions will be reduced to desirable levels, but it does suggest that the potential for voluntary cooperation should not be ignored. It also suggests that cooperation can be promoted by (i) allowing cooperators to punish defectors without withdrawing their own cooperation; (ii) publicly emphasizing the social benefits and extent of cooperation and the social norms that require it; and (iii) improving the quantity and timeliness of public information about cooperation and defection
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    Too Poor To Grow (2009)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (38 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Lopez, Humberto Too Poor To Grow
    Abstract: Recent theoretical literature has suggested a variety of mechanisms through which poverty may deter growth and become self-perpetuating. A few papers have searched for empirical regularities consistent with those mechanisms - such as aggregate non-convexities and convergence clubs. However, a seemingly basic implication of the theoretical models, namely that countries suffering from higher levels of poverty should grow less rapidly, has remained untested. This paper attempts to fill that gap and provide a direct empirical assessment of the impact of poverty on growth. The paper’s strategy involves including poverty indicators among the explanatory variables in an otherwise standard empirical growth equation. Using a large panel dataset, the authors find that poverty has a negative impact on growth that is significant both statistically and economically. This result is robust to a variety of specification changes, including (i) different poverty lines; (ii) different poverty measures; (iii) different sets of control variables; (iv) different estimation methods; (v) adding inequality as a control variable; and (vi) allowing for nonlinear effects of inequality on growth. The paper also finds evidence that the adverse effect of poverty on growth works through investment: high poverty deters investment, which in turn lowers growth. Further, the data suggest that this mechanism only operates at low levels of financial development, consistent with the predictions of theoretical models that underscore financial market imperfections as a key ingredient of poverty traps
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5012
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    Credit Constraints and Investment Behavior in Mexico's Rural Economy (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (57 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Love, Inessa Credit Constraints and Investment Behavior in Mexico's Rural Economy
    Abstract: This paper uses two recently completed surveys of individual entrepreneurs (farmers and microentrepreneurs) and registered enterprises (agricultural and nonagricultural) operating in Mexico’s rural sector to provide new evidence about the factors influencing the incidence of credit constraints and investment behavior. To measure the incidence of credit constraints, the authors use self-reported information on whether economic agents have a demand for loans, separating formal and informal markets. They define credit constraints as a situation where rural agents report an unsatisfied demand for loans (formal or informal), which originates from rural agents having projects that are too risky or from impediments hindering the ability of rural agents and lenders to reduce information asymmetries. The authors find that the self-reported demand for loans is low. Nevertheless, the incidence of credit constraints is pervasive, especially among individual entrepreneurs. The low use of loans has consequences for the amount of investments that occur in the rural economy, posing a major obstacle to Mexico’s convergence towards its NAFTA partners. The empirical analysis, which includes proxies of business prospects and creditworthiness, shows that improving the availability of loans to credit constrained agents would increase the number of agents making investments and their investment to capital ratios
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    Lock-In Effects of Road Expansion On CO2 Emissions : Results From A Core-Periphery Model of Beijing (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Anas, Alex Lock-In Effects of Road Expansion On CO2 Emissions
    Abstract: In the urban planning literature, it is frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to development patterns that are unsustainable in the long run. One manifestation of such an outcome is that if extensive road investments occur, urban sprawl and decentralization are advanced and locked-in, making subsequent investments in public transit less effective in reducing vehicle kilometers traveled by car, gasoline use and carbon dioxide emissions. Using a simple core-periphery model of Beijing, the authors numerically assess this effect. The analysis confirms that improving the transit travel time in Beijing’s core would reduce the city’s overall carbon dioxide emissions, whereas the opposite would be the case if peripheral road capacity were expanded. This effect is robust to perturbations in the model’s calibrated parameters. In particular, the effect persists for a wide range of assumptions about how location choice depends on travel time and a wide range of assumptions about other aspects of consumer preferences
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    Coping With Crises : Why and How To Protect Employment and Earnings (2009)
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    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Paci, Pierella Coping With Crises
    Abstract: Events of the past two years are a reminder that crises are a recurring phenomenon with deep and often protracted impacts on labor markets. This paper examines the challenges inherent in crafting policy responses, with particular attention to developing countries. It focuses on the potential tradeoffs between offsetting adverse short-term impacts and preserving incentives for economic recovery and future growth, and between protecting the most vulnerable and compensating those most immediately impacted. It also highlights how policymakers’ room for maneuver is constrained in crisis times by deteriorating fiscal space, limited institutional capacity, and mounting political pressures. Based on empirical evidence from previous crises, the paper asserts that taking a myopic and reactive approach may be costly and counterproductive. Instead, it advocates a more comprehensive approach, designed to build institutions - such as automatic stabilizers and safety nets - that can deliver a coordinated and coherent policy package. This approach will make crises catalysts for institutional changes and long-run growth
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    A Polycentric Approach for Coping With Climate Change (2009)
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    Parallel Title: Ostrom, Elinor A Polycentric Approach for Coping With Climate Change
    Abstract: This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues that single policies adopted only at a global scale are unlikely to generate sufficient trust among citizens and firms so that collective action can take place in a comprehensive and transparent manner that will effectively reduce global warming. Furthermore, simply recommending a single governmental unit to solve global collective action problems is inherently weak because of free-rider problems. For example, the Carbon Development Mechanism (CDM) can be ‘gamed’ in ways that hike up prices of natural resources and in some cases can lead to further natural resource exploitation. Some flaws are also noticeable in the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) program. Both the CDM and REDD are vulnerable to the free-rider problem. As an alternative, the paper proposes a polycentric approach at various levels with active oversight of local, regional, and national stakeholders. Efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions are a classic collective action problem that is best addressed at multiple scales and levels. Given the slowness and conflict involved in achieving a global solution to climate change, recognizing the potential for building a more effective way of reducing green house gas emissions at multiple levels is an important step forward. A polycentric approach has the main advantage of encouraging experimental efforts at multiple levels, leading to the development of methods for assessing the benefits and costs of particular strategies adopted in one type of ecosystem and compared to results obtained in other ecosystems. Building a strong commitment to find ways of reducing individual emissions is an important element for coping with this problem, and having others also take responsibility can be more effectively undertaken in small- to medium-scale governance units that are linked together through information networks and monitoring at all levels. This paper was prepared as a background paper for the 2010 World Development Report on Climate Change
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5095
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    Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) : Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions (2009)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (208 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) : Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions
    DDC: 306.9
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    Abstract: This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration.Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of '
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Political philosophy and social welfare; Part One: Needs, welfare and social policy; 2 Needs, rights and welfare; 3 Human needs, objectivity and morality; 4 The moral basis of welfare provision; Part Two: Needs, welfare and political processes; 5 Needs, interests and power; 6 Objectivity, social justice and social policy; 7 True and false needs; 8 Markets, needs and welfare; Part Three: Community, welfare and social policy; 9 Community and the legitimation of social policy; 10 Markets, community and welfare; Bibliography
    Description / Table of Contents: Name indexSubject index
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    Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Second Edition (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781420071818
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (606 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Public Administration and Public Policy
    Parallel Title: Print version Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Second Edition
    DDC: 303.625
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    Abstract: Traditionally, resources on terrorism and counterterrorism tend to focus on the social, behavioral, and legal aspects of the subject, with minimal emphasis on the scientific and technological aspects. Taking into account these practical considerations, the second edition of Science and Technology of Terrorism and Counterterrorism discusses the nature of terrorism and the materials used by terrorists. It describes how intelligence professionals and law enforcement personnel can detect and destroy these materials, and how they can deal with terrorist groups.This volume begins by introducing the
    Description / Table of Contents: Front cover; Contents; Preface; Authors; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. A Brief Theory of Terrorism and Technology; Chapter 3. Group Psychology of Terrorism; Chapter 4. Aerosols: Fundamentals; Chapter 5. Biological Terrorism: Effects, Toxicity, and Effectiveness; Chapter 6. Biological Terrorism: Classification and Manufacture; Chapter 7. Biological Terrorism: Weaponization and Delivery Systems; Chapter 8. Biological Terrorism: Sensors and Detection Systems; Chapter 9. Biological Terrorism: Consequences and Medical Preparedness
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10. Biological Terrorism: Preparation for Response-What the Government Can Do in Defending the HomelandChapter 11. Agroterrorism: Agroeconomic Bioterrorism; Chapter 12. Agroterrorism: Attributes and Implications of High-Impact Targets in U.S. Agriculture; Chapter 13. Nuclear Terrorism: Nature of Radiation; Chapter 14. Nuclear Terrorism: Radiation Detection; Chapter 15. Nuclear Terrorism: Radiation Detectors-Applications in Homeland Security; Chapter 16. Nuclear Terrorism: Dose and Biological Effects; Chapter 17. Nuclear Terrorism: Nuclear Weapons
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 18. Nuclear Terrorism: Threats and CountermeasuresChapter 19. Chemical Terrorism: Classification, Synthesis, and Properties; Chapter 20. Chemical Terrorism: Toxicity, Medical Management, and Mitigation; Chapter 21. Chemical Terrorism: Destruction and Decontamination; Chapter 22. Chemical Terrorism: Sensors and Detection Systems; Chapter 23. Chemical Terrorism: Weaponization and Delivery System; Chapter 24. Chemical Terrorisms: Threats and Countermeasures; Chapter 25. Cyber-Terrorism; Chapter 26. Personal Protective Equipment; Chapter 27. National Response Plan and Preparedness
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 28. Government and Voluntary AgenciesChapter 29. The National Infrastructure Protection Plan; Index; Back cover
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    The media and development : what's the story? (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 29 p) , 26 cm
    Edition: Online edition s.l.
    Series Statement: World Bank working paper no. 158
    Series Statement: World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 302.2309172/4
    Keywords: Business incubators / Developing countries ; Mass media / Economic aspects / Developing countries ; Mass media / Social aspects / Developing countries
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionThe media's role in development -- Trends in expanding the media's role in development -- In the developing world.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29)
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7828-1
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    Voices to Choices : Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank | Washington, D.C. : The World Bank Group
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (282 pages)
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    Series Statement: International Development in Focus
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    DDC: 305.43095492
    Abstract: Women have experienced significant changes in various spheres of their lives during the last decades as Bangladesh made economic progress. Yet women's economic engagement and empowerment are subdued, as they cannot make sufficient choices for themselves. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic developments in gender equality in Bangladesh. Through examining women's participation in the labour force, ownership and control of household assets, use and control of financial assets, and opportunities for entrepreneurship, the authors have made concrete recommendations to overcome challenges that lie ahead for women's economic empowerment. This book is an important contribution to the knowledge on interventions required by the policy makers and broader stakeholders towards narrowing gender gaps. --Fahmida Khatun, PhD, Executive Director, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), BangladeshThe women's story is central to Bangladesh's economic and social transformation. There is an urgent need to deepen researched understanding of the multidimensional pathways of women's economic empowerment and extent of real progress made. Voices to Choices is an important contribution to this story. Surely, the journey of women's economic empowerment remains a long and challenging one. Realizing the full benefits of new opportunities is often hampered by both new and entrenched insecurities. The task is as much one of empowering women's agency as of dismantling barriers. The responsibility is as much women's as society's. --Hossain Zillur Rahman, PhD, Executive Chairman, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC)This book provides critical insights and is timely, as it outlines how girls and women in Bangladesh have gained more opportunities in labor force participation,(...)
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1374-0
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-1374-0
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    Freight Transport for Development Toolkit : Integrated Logistics Services (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Abstract: Globalization has imposed entry requirements on developing economies. Countries need to have the ability to synchronize the business processes which take place within local producers with business processes, which take place in the supply chains of their suppliers and their customers. Integrated logistics services are nowadays a critical component of international freight transport systems, but their development and coverage vary widely across countries, in particular in the developing world. This paper explains this important development. It documents the increasingly important role, which third party logistics service providers play in facilitating business process connectivity and thus in integrating producers based in developing countries into the global economy. It provides a look at the global significance of integrated logistics services in a globalized economy, and goes on to review specific examples of establishment of such services in developing countries. These examples in turn suggest a set of specific policy recommendations to help policymakers enable the development of efficient logistics services to serve both their domestic and international markets. The paper describes ways in which integrated logistics services have evolved over the past 20 years. It describes aspects of that development, which have particular significance for accelerating the economic growth of developing economies. From a review of various means, which third party service providers have used to integrate the business processes of their clients into the supply chains of their clients, it attempts to develop some general principles, which can help policy makers to enhance the competitiveness of their own economies. In additional it discusses the interface between public and private sectors and particular ways in which public policy can enhance competitiveness through this important growth leverage. It goes on to discuss appropriate means and modes for regulating an emerging third party logistics industry and, finally, it suggesting specific initiatives and service design initiatives, which can help, accelerate economic development
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    Supply Chain Security Guide (2009)
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    Abstract: A supply chain is a system of resources, organizations, people, technologies, activities and information involved in the act of transporting goods from producer to consumer and user. This (SCS) guide is intended for trade and transport government officials, port authorities and transport, cargo and logistics communities, in particular in developing countries. The purpose of the guide is to make concerned trade and transport-related officials, managers and personnel in developing countries acquainted with, and aware of, the many initiatives mushrooming in the field of supply chain security, what these will mean for their respective organizations, and how to tackle the inlaid challenges. This chapter attempts to clarify the background and current status of the multitude of programs that exist across the world today. This is achieved by, firstly, giving a brief account of the changing security environment (post 9/11) and its resulting implications for SCS programs. This is important as it helps to explain the motivation of the programs which are later expanded upon in more detail within the chapter. Within this section, the motivations for different types of programs, not directly linked to the events of 9/11 but to other reasons, such as combating illegal activities, enhancement of efficiency and standardization are also explained. Secondly, a list of the main programs is present under four main subheadings: compulsory programs, major voluntary programs, regional or national programs, and others. Tables are presented at the end of the section summarizing the main points of each program. Finally, some of the issues surrounding the programs are presented in the concluding section
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    Leveraging ICT for Growth and Competition in Bangladesh : IT/ITES Industry Development (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Abstract: The objective of this study is to assist Bangladesh in becoming a viable player in the IT/ITES industry in five years by identifying the strategies, programs and investments needed in order for the country to leverage ICT for economic growth and competitiveness, as well as for social development by increasing gender equality and youth employment. Why is it important for Bangladesh to concentrate its efforts in developing the IT/ITES industry? First of all, industry development is aligned with many of the goals for Digital Bangladesh as described in the manifesto, including development of software exports, IT parks, youth employment, etc. Secondly, the global IT/ITES is too large to be ignored - leaving a significant untapped market for which many countries are competing. Beyond direct economic benefits, IT/ITES growth can generate large-scale employment. India and the Philippines are established competitors while China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Pakistan are emerging as new threats. To-date, the IT/ITES industry development activities in Bangladesh, while not without its successes, generally lacks widely accepted, centralized leadership or focus. This must change if Bangladesh is going to mount serious competition for an increase in market share
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    Regional Collaboration on IT-Enabled Services : Smart Strategies for Jobs & Growth in South Asia (2009)
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    Abstract: The new millennium catalyzed a shift in the focus of South Asian economies to the service sector. The South Asian countries share many common characteristics - a young population, familiarity with the English language, and an emphasis on quantitative skills at the school level. This report on "Regional Collaboration on Information Technology (IT) Enabled Services-Smart Strategies for Jobs and Growth in South Asia" was initiated by the South Asia regional programs and South Asia poverty reduction, economic policy, finance and private sector development unit. It responds to a need expressed by our client countries for World Bank support to build their capability in the IT enabled services sector. The current study was commissioned with a view to facilitate their efforts through regional collaboration. This study suggests collaborative initiatives that could drive the growth of the industry through a two pronged approach: increase business through joint promotional activities, sub-contracting of work, building common standards and world class business practices; and develop supply side resources such as skills, support infrastructure and enabling policies. This study makes practical recommendations for collaborative growth between the countries in South Asia, who aspire to become the region of choice for global outsourcing
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    Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model (2009)
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    Abstract: This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity's approach. It addresses two questions: to what extent are policies as of 2004 still reducing rewards from farming in developing countries and thereby adding to inequality across countries in farm household incomes? Are they depressing value added more in primary agriculture than in the rest of the economy of developing countries, and earnings of unskilled workers more than of owners of other factors of production, thereby potentially contributing to inequality and poverty within developing countries (given that farm incomes are well below non-farm incomes in most developing countries and that agriculture there is intensive in the use of unskilled labor)? Results are presented for the key countries and regions of the world and for the world as a whole. They reveal that, by moving to free markets, income inequality between countries will be reduced at least slightly, all but one-sixth of the gains to developing countries will come from agricultural policy reform, unskilled workers in developing countries the majority of whom work on farms will benefit most from reform, net farm incomes in developing countries will rise by 6 percent compared with 2 percent for non-agricultural value added, and the number of people surviving on less than US
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    Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality, and Poverty : Introduction and Summary (2009)
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    Abstract: Reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions affecting agriculture in developing countries, particularly by cuts to agricultural export taxes and by some reductions in government assistance to agriculture in high-income countries, but international trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. This paper summarizes a series of empirical studies that focus on the effects of the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade for poverty and inequality, especially in developing countries. To obtain different insights into the various impacts, two global studies are undertaken using the World Bank's Linkage model, one multi-country study uses the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model, and ten country case studies are also included, each using a national economy-wide model. The Linkage model results suggest that liberalization will reduce international inequality, largely by boosting farm incomes and raising real wages for unskilled workers in developing countries, and will reduce the number of poor people worldwide by 3 percent. The analysis based on the GTAP model for a sample of 15 countries, and the ten stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty, especially if only the non-poor are subjected to increased income taxation to compensate for the loss of trade tax revenue
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    Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Poverty and Inequality in Argentina (2009)
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    Abstract: Using the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions, this chapter studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both global and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with a special focus on export taxes. Argentina offers an interesting case study as the only large agricultural exporter that has, at many points in its history, applied export taxes to several of its agricultural products. The chapter combines results from a global economy-wide model (World Bank's linkage model), a national computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, and micro-simulations. The results suggest that liberalization of world trade (including subsidies and import taxes, but not export taxes), both for agricultural and non-agricultural goods, reduces poverty and inequality in Argentina. However, if only agricultural goods are included, indicators for poverty and inequality do not improve and even deteriorate somewhat. This is particularly the case if export taxes are eliminated. The chapter discusses the possible reasons for those results, offers some caveats, and suggests some lines for further research
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    Financing Public Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa : Patterns and Emerging Issues (2009)
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    Series Statement: Recent Economic Development in Infrastructure
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    Abstract: To be credible, any plan for scaling up infrastructure in Africa must rest on a thorough evaluation of how fiscal resources are allocated and financed. Because in every plausible scenario the public sector retains the lion's share of infrastructure financing, with private participation remaining limited, a central purpose of such an evaluation is to identify where and how fiscal resources can be better used if not increased without jeopardizing macroeconomic and fiscal stability. The stakes are high, because the magnitude of Africa's infrastructure needs carries a commensurate potential for misuse of scarce fiscal resources. The authors analyze recent public expenditure patterns to identify ways to make more fiscal resources available for infrastructure. The authors do this in three ways. First, we quantify the level and composition of public spending on infrastructure so as to match fiscal allocations to the particular characteristics of individual subsectors and to countries' macroeconomic type (low-income fragile, low-income no fragile, oil-exporting, and middle-income). Second, the authors evaluate public budgetary spending for infrastructure against macroeconomic conditions to get a sense of the scope for making additional fiscal resources available based on actual allocation decisions in recent years. And, third, the authors look for ways to make public spending for infrastructure more efficient, so as to better use existing resources. Any exercise of this kind encounters data limitations. First, because it was not feasible to visit all sub national entities, some decentralized infrastructure expenditures probably have been underrepresented, with particular implications for the water sector. Second, it was not always possible to fully identify which items of the budget are financed by donors, and contributions by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to rural infrastructure projects are likely to have been missed completely. Third, it was not always possible to obtain full financial statements for all of the infrastructure special funds that the authors identified. Fourth, accurate recording of annual changes in fixed capital formation (capital expenditure) of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) remains a methodological challenge. Fifth, accurate measurement of existing public infrastructure stock will require further methodological development
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    A Handbook for Tax Simplification (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Investment Climate Assessment
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    Abstract: The purpose of this handbook is to provide policy makers with a framework to assess a tax system in its entirety, measure its various parameters and how it is administered, and defines best practices for tax policy and administration that will yield a tax system that is simple and predictable and does not create an undue burden on private enterprise. This handbook is primarily designed for policy makers and tax practitioners. The goal is to analyze the impact of income tax, the value added tax (VAT), and other local taxes that are imposed on business. This handbook does not analyze the effects of trade and labor taxes such as social security. The administration of the customs duty is unique and has been addressed extensively in the literature on customs modernization. Labor taxes primarily imposed on salaried individuals are not covered by this handbook, even though their incidence affects business. VAT has been included even though it is a tax on consumption because the administrative burden to comply with it is primarily on business
    DOI: 10.1596/28206
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    Potential Climate Change Mitigation Opportunities in Waste Management Sector in Vietnam (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Environmental Study
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    Abstract: Along with economic growth and improved living standards, waste from households, industries, and commercial or service establishments is expected to increase rapidly over the next years. Managing this waste is a hard challenge for the Government of Vietnam because of its substantial cost and lack of awareness and participation of people and businesses. Wastes can be classified according to: their form (wastewater, solid waste); their origin (industrial wastes, agricultural wastes, urban (municipal) wastes); and their hazardous nature (non-hazardous or hazardous)
    DOI: 10.1596/28217
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    Examining Early Child Development in Low-Income Countries : A Toolkit for the Assessment of Children in the First Five Years of Life (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Education Study
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: The primary purpose of this toolkit is to provide a resource for researchers from various disciplines interested in planning and evaluating programs or interventions aimed at improving the health and development of infants and young children. The toolkit aims to: provide an overview of issues affecting early development and its measurement; discuss the types of tests typically used with children under five years; provide guidelines for selecting and adapting tests for use in developing countries, and make recommendations for planning successful assessment strategies. The toolkit focuses on children who have not yet entered school, and are thus under six years old. The primary reason we are focusing on this age group is that during the first five years of life, children's language, early understanding of mathematics and reading, and self-control emerge. The extent to which children master these skills during this critical period has implications for success in school (Lerner, 1998), and thus we wanted to focus on children in this pre-school period. The toolkit is essential at this time for the following reasons: children in developing countries are growing up at a disadvantage; assessments of children must expand to include a wider range of outcomes; and no such toolkit exists as present
    DOI: 10.1596/28107
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    Financing Public Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa : Patterns and Emerging Issues, Cross-Country Annex (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Recent Economic Development in Infrastructure
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: To be credible, any plan for scaling up infrastructure in Africa must rest on a thorough evaluation of how fiscal resources are allocated and financed. Because in every plausible scenario the public sector retains the lion's share of infrastructure financing, with private participation remaining limited, a central purpose of such an evaluation is to identify where and how fiscal resources can be better used if not increased without jeopardizing macroeconomic and fiscal stability. The stakes are high, because the magnitude of Africa's infrastructure needs carries a commensurate potential for misuse of scarce fiscal resources. The authors analyze recent public expenditure patterns to identify ways to make more fiscal resources available for infrastructure. The authors do this in three ways. First, we quantify the level and composition of public spending on infrastructure so as to match fiscal allocations to the particular characteristics of individual subsectors and to countries' macroeconomic type (low-income fragile, low-income no fragile, oil-exporting, and middle-income). Second, the authors evaluate public budgetary spending for infrastructure against macroeconomic conditions to get a sense of the scope for making additional fiscal resources available based on actual allocation decisions in recent years. And, third, the authors look for ways to make public spending for infrastructure more efficient, so as to better use existing resources. Any exercise of this kind encounters data limitations. First, because it was not feasible to visit all sub national entities, some decentralized infrastructure expenditures probably have been underrepresented, with particular implications for the water sector. Second, it was not always possible to fully identify which items of the budget are financed by donors, and contributions by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to rural infrastructure projects are likely to have been missed completely. Third, it was not always possible to obtain full financial statements for all of the infrastructure special funds that the authors identified. Fourth, accurate recording of annual changes in fixed capital formation (capital expenditure) of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) remains a methodological challenge. Fifth, accurate measurement of existing public infrastructure stock will require further methodological development
    DOI: 10.1596/28237
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    Stock Taking of Lithuania's Science, Technology and Innovation System (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Knowledge Economy Study
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: This report documents the progress of Lithuania in science, technology and innovation (STI) in areas singled out by three major international reports prepared by the Norwegian Research Council (1996), the World Bank (2003) and the CREST-OMC panel (2007). The task was to summarize recommendations of these studies, report on the progress achieved to date and point to priorities for the future. From a low point in the mid-1990s the Lithuanian STI system has gradually strengthened. Funding for R&D has increased and Lithuanian research groups have stepped up their performance in terms of publication output and relevance. It is the opinion of the reviewers that marked progress is evident and visible with respect to the goals of the three reports. This development has indeed been very positive and shows the strong commitment for a continuous improvement of the basic framework conditions for R&D in Lithuania. Nonetheless challenges remain. In order to further the development of STI-policies in Lithuania the report offers new recommendations in four areas: oversight and governance, science base, R&D linkages, and increasing innovative capacity
    DOI: 10.1596/28129
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    Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City : A Case Study of an Emerging Eco-City in China (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: City Development Strategy
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: China is experiencing rapid and large scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban environmental challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese Government has fully recognized these challenges and is aiming to promote more sustainable urbanization in line with the objectives of the eleventh five year plan, which calls for 'building a resource-conserving and environmentally friendly society'. Various initiatives are being pursued to support this objective, both at the national and local levels. At the local level, cities have responded by developing 'eco-cities', which aim to promote a more sustainable urbanization model. More than one hundred eco-city initiatives have been launched in recent years. One such initiative is the Sino-Singapore Tianjin eco-city. The purpose of this report is to review the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City (SSTEC) project from a comprehensive perspective with a view to achieving the following principal objectives: (i) create a detailed knowledge base on the project; (ii) provide policy advice on key issues, especially those related to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project; (iii) estimate SSTEC's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction potential; and (iv) contextualize the project among the broader ecological urban development initiatives in China. Broadening the World Bank's engagement beyond the GEF was assessed as important given the project's complexity, and its potential to shed light on China's sustainable urban development challenges
    DOI: 10.1596/28143
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    Procurement Monitoring and Social Accountability : Curriculum Development Program (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Public Sector Study
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: The devolution of procurement responsibilities to local levels of government is increasingly occurring across South Asia. This trend is significant because increasingly localized decision-making better enables communities to hold government authorities accountable for the effectiveness of public spending, which can lead to various improved development outcomes, such as improvements in quality of service delivery; greater empowerment and understanding by end-users services supplied through public procurement processes; and improved oversight and accountability of service delivery agencies. The objective of this report is to set out an overview of the strategic approach developed by World Bank Institute (WBI) as a component of the Norwegian governance trust fund (NTF) program `procurement and service delivery: establishing effective collaboration between government and beneficiaries on monitoring procurement outcomes`. WBI received funds under the NTF to facilitate the development of context and audience-specific knowledge products by recognized practitioners and civil society organizations in South Asia as part of a broader effort to create a practical curriculum on social accountability in procurement
    DOI: 10.1596/28212
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    Study on Skills Development for the Informal Sector of the Nigerian Economy (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Other Social Protection Study
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    Abstract: The problems of employment have become a central global concern in recent times. This makes nearly all the governments and development partners to be fully engaged in finding a lasting solution to the problems. In the past, development planning efforts were concentrated on the development of a modern industrial sector. It was believed that this would serve the domestic market and facilitate the absorption of redundant or surplus workers in the urban economy. It was also the belief that rapid economic growth and development would be achieved. The study is structured into five chapters. While chapter one looks at the background to the study, the terms of reference and the structure of the report, chapter two focuses on copious relevant literature on skills development bringing out the conceptual definitions, theoretical and empirical issues in the informal sector of the economy. Chapter three presents the methodology of how training providers as well as the beneficiaries of the programs were surveyed in the study. Chapter four gives the inventory of the programs for the informal sector skills development and a detailed analysis of five most important non- state-run programs in the country. Chapter five forms the conclusions and recommendations of the work
    DOI: 10.1596/28119
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    Thailand Economic Monitor, April - June 2009 (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: A solid financial armor could not protect Thailand against the impact of the global financial crisis on its real economy. Despite a sound banking system and low external vulnerabilities, the Thai economy contracted 5.7 percent between October 2008 and March 2009, as the magnitude and speed of the contraction in foreign demand, and resulting shock to the real economy, has been greater than anticipated. There continues to be little impact of the global financial crisis on Thailand's banks: liquidity remained adequate as financial institutions did not face solvency concerns given their adequate capitalization and lack of exposure to 'toxic' assets or risky derivative contracts. The combination of a sound financial sector, low external roll-over and balance-of-payment financing requirements, and, more recently, large current account surpluses, has led to capital inflows, build-up in reserves and an appreciation of the Baht relative to other currencies in the region. However, the impact of the global crisis on the real sector was far more severe than expected. Export volumes contracted by 8.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to the World Bank's forecast in December of a 3.0 percent expansion. Exports contracted a further 16 percent in the first quarter of 2009. The aggravation of Thailand's political crisis, which had been dampening investor and consumer confidence since 2006, compounded the shock to the real economy. As a result, real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted in the fourth quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009 after 38 quarters of growth, and is expected to contract for 2009 as a whole, the first annual contraction since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998
    DOI: 10.1596/28123
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    Republic of Serbia Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Corporate and Household Debt Restructuring (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Financial Sector Assessment Program
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: Nonperforming Loans (NPLs) in the banking system constituted 16.5 percent of total loans, owing primarily to the corporate sector. The Credit Bureau, maintained by the Association of Serbian Banks, also discloses dramatic increases in corporate and retail defaults over the past year. NPL resolution and loan loss mitigation is hampered by a still evolving but uneven collateral and enforcement framework that complicates restructuring and leads to delays and lower recoveries in execution procedures. Corporate debt resolution is further complicated by a pattern of corporate misconduct designed to circumvent a creditor's legitimate enforcement rights. This is particularly acute in response to account blockages. In an effort to survive, business owners frequently engage in a pattern of corporate fraud to avoid their legitimate obligations by creating alter ego or shell companies through which to conduct their ongoing business activities, with all funds passing through the new legal entity. That entity is free from debt and can open bank accounts, engage in contracts, and carry on business as usual using the corporate assets of the prior legal entity under cleverly disguised lease or contractual use obligations. In most modern economies, such practices constitute fraud or fraudulent transfers that can carry stiff penalties, including loss of business privileges. Other reported abuses include applying for voluntary dissolution during which the owner or a friendly receiver continues to operate the business for years in an apparent wind-down of the business, while ignoring creditor claims
    DOI: 10.1596/28121
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    Confronting "Death on Wheels" : Making Roads Safe in Europe and Central Asia (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Other papers
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: This report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities in addressing road safety in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It presents information on the size, characteristics, and causes of the problem; presents evidence on the effectiveness of measures that countries world-wide have adopted to improve road safety; briefly describes current international road safety policy; and discusses a range of strategies and actions that could be undertaken by the World Bank in coordination and partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), multilateral development banks, other international agencies and donors, as well as with private and civil society institutions. A primary audience of this report is internal-particularly managers and staff of the World Bank working in the transport, health, education, and governance sectors, to raise awareness about the multisectoral nature of the road safety challenge and of effective options to address it. It proposes ways that the World Bank might engage more to support ECA countries in tackling this issue, working in partnership with other international agencies and donors. The secondary audience is external policymakers, senior analysts, program managers, and their advisers in the governments of ECA countries, private sector officials, and civil society and international organizations working in this field. The goal is to support discussion on appropriate choices and instruments for advancing the road safety agenda as a top development priority over the short and medium term
    DOI: 10.1596/27840
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    Practical Guide to Corporate Governance : Experiences from the Latin American Companies Circle (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Corporate Governance Assessment
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: This publication details 14 firms recognized for better corporate governance practices that had suffered less damage than average listed Latin American companies during the finanicial crisis. It offers an opportunity for business leaders in Latin America to learn from the experience of peers who have successfully implemented substantive improvements in governance standards and practices. Although the guide has been in the works for several years, the timing of its publication coincides with a global financial crisis that has catapulted corporate governance to a top spot on the global policy agenda. With gaps in governance from inadequate risk management to distorted incentives structures factoring in as contributing to the crisis, good corporate governance practices will be an important part of the response needed for Latin American economies, as well for others around the world. Within this context, there has been a remarkable growth in awareness and activity surrounding corporate governance during the last decade, as recognized by the Latin American roundtable on corporate governance. This is an ongoing initiative of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Finance Corporation/World Bank Group that has brought together policy-makers, regulators, stock exchanges, investors, companies and other stakeholders on an annual basis to promote improved policies and practices specific to the Latin American context. This practical guide is an outgrowth of these efforts, involving many steps along the way. When members of the Roundtable called for greater participation from private sector companies in the Roundtable's corporate governance improvement efforts, the companies circle was born. A first book of case studies was launched in 2005, with an expanded second edition issued in 2006. Members of the circle were keen to share experiences and believed a wider audience of Latin businesspeople will benefit from a practical guide exploring the ways and whys of their governance improvements
    DOI: 10.1596/28085
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    Business Registration Reform Case Studies : Bulgaria (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Investment Climate Assessment
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    Abstract: This case study focuses on the attempts of the government of Bulgaria (GoB) to promote and implement reform of the business registration system to better suit the new economic framework that emerged in the country following the collapse of communist rule. The uniqueness of the Bulgarian case is that there were two distinct stages of business registration reforms, which marked two separate periods in the sociopolitical development of Bulgaria: the transformation from planned to market economy and the accession of the country to the European Union (EU). This collection of case studies describes experiences and draws lessons from varied business registration reform programs in economies in vastly different stages of development: Bulgaria, Estonia, Ireland, Madagascar, and Malaysia. The case studies were written based on a desk study of reforms in each country discussed. Then, more detailed information was gathered by field-based researchers. In some cases, detail on the business registration process that was in place prior to implementation of reforms was unavailable. As such, data on the number of businesses registered and the time required to completed registration before and after the reforms cannot be compared and contrasted. The partial success of the reform during the first year was a consequence of problems in four areas: lack of legislative will, insufficient financial support, inappropriate organizational structure of the new business registration agency, and weak human resource management. All of these problems delayed progress and had negative effects on the registration agency and the business community
    DOI: 10.1596/28069
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    Indonesia Economic Quarterly, December 2009 : Back on Track? (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: The Indonesian economic quarterly reports on and synthesizes the past three month s key developments in Indonesia s economy. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses their implications for the outlook for Indonesia s economic and social welfare. Its coverage ranges from the macro economy to financial markets to indicators of human welfare and development. Indonesia s economy appears to be broadly backed on track. Economic activity has been picking up, inflation has remained moderate, financial markets have risen, and the newly reelected government, having established the strong fundamentals that supported Indonesia through the global crisis, appears to be now gearing up for new investments in Indonesia s physical infrastructure, human services and institutions of state. Indonesia seems well-positioned to get back on its pre-crisis growth trajectory, with the possibility of further acceleration and more inclusive growth. The sustainability of the global recovery is still not entirely clear and portfolio flows into emerging markets, which have surged in the last nine months, may as easily be reversed as policy makers elsewhere move to unwind the large monetary and fiscal stimulus efforts initiated over the last year
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    Action Plan for Strengthening Financial Services Consumer Protection in Azerbaijan (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Financial Accountability Study
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: This Action Plan is based on the World Bank's Technical Note on Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy in Azerbaijan published in June 2009. The Action Plan focuses on the Legal and Regulatory Issues of the Technical Note's Key Findings and Recommendations, proposing specific actions for Azerbaijani authorities, financial institutions and consumer organizations so that consumer protection is strengthened and made more effective and efficient. The Action Plan should be the base upon which specific legal changes should be drafted and against which their implementation should be evaluated. Beside the Technical Note itself, the Action Plan draws on best international practices and experiences of regulators and supervisors that have tried to introduce improved consumer protection in their countries. It should also be noted that a well-balanced consumer protection regime serves also the interest of financial institutions as it provides them with better informed clients and also makes sure that clients understand their obligations under the contracts they signed. The Action Plan is divided into five parts that cover the key areas based on the recommendations of the Technical Note: (a) Legal Mandate, (b) Effective Supervision and Regulation, (c) Disclosure of Information, (d) Business Practices, and (e) Dispute Resolution
    DOI: 10.1596/27715
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    20 Years of HIV in Bangladesh : Experiences and Way Forward (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Other Health Study
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    Abstract: This report synthesizes data from surveillance, behavioral surveys and published and unpublished research to better understand emerging patterns and trends in the HIV epidemic in Bangladesh. Taking stock of 20 years of experience with HIV in Bangladesh, this report summarizes what is known about the coverage and impact of HIV prevention services, including knowledge on risk and protective behaviors. The report is divided into nine chapters. Chapter one provides a brief introduction and an overview of the methodology used for this exercise. Chapter two discusses the risks and vulnerabilities of the high risk groups including female sex workers, injecting drug users, male who have sex with male, hijra and overlapping populations, while chapter three discusses the trend of the infection amongst partners of high risk groups. Bangladesh continues to report low condom use, which is analyzed and discussed in chapter four. Structural factors including macro level and intermediate level factors that affect HIV interventions in Bangladesh are addressed in chapter five. The national HIV response is discussed in chapter six. The report concludes with a discussion of the main findings, with recommendations for the future in chapter seven, and chapter eight and nine are annexes and references
    DOI: 10.1596/27592
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    Mongolia : The Economic Value of the Upper Tuul Ecosystem (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Other Environmental Study
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    Abstract: The economic value of the Upper Tuul ecosystem in Mongolia reports on a study carried out under the auspices of the World Bank and the Government of Mongolia. The goal of the study was to improve understanding about the economic value of the Upper Tuul ecosystem for Ulaanbaatar's water supplies and how this might be affected by different land and resource management options in the future. The study also aims to develop and apply ecosystem valuation methods that can be used more widely in the country, to generate information about the contribution of the environment to the Mongolian economy, and to make the case for improved budget allocations for the conservation of the Upper Tuul. Integrating eco-hydrological and economic valuation techniques, the study traces through the biophysical effects and socioeconomic impacts of future land and resource degradation, and ecosystem conservation, in the upper watershed
    DOI: 10.1596/27593
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    Sudan Investment Climate Assessment (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Investment Climate Assessment
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    Abstract: This report on Sudan's Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) provides a baseline assessment of challenges to productivity, diversification and inclusion. Chapter 1 describes some of the questions underlying the three issues of competitiveness, diversification and broad-based growth. Chapter 2 analyzes firm performance and competitiveness. Chapter 3 discusses markets and trust. Chapter 4 describes the role of the financial sector. Chapter 5 analyses the informal sector. Chapter 6 discusses the conflict-affected private sector development. Chapter 7 discusses regional inclusion, and Chapter 8 makes some preliminary conclusions and recommendations
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    Turkey : Strengthening the Framework for Sub-National Borrowing (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Policy Notes
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    Abstract: Local government finance has taken on increasing importance in Turkey, with the evolving fiscal decentralization and the growing role of local administrations in public investment. The focus of this policy note is on sub-national borrowing as an essential component of the framework for sustainable sub-national finance. Sound management of sub-national borrowing is important for ensuring debt sustainability. Past problems with fiscal deficits by local administrations in Turkey have led to two major debt restructurings. The Government has undertaken many laudable improvements in the system of fiscal management and control of local administrations in recent years, in particular by regulating the procedures for borrowing, raising the requirements for accounting and reporting, and tightening the terms for Treasury guarantees of foreign borrowing. The rest of the policy note is organized as follows. The next section summarizes the framework for sub-national borrowing in Turkey and reviews areas for further development, including in particular, an effective insolvency mechanism. Section three presents rationales for a sub-national insolvency mechanism and describes how the entry points for reform have contributed to varying modalities across countries. Section four discusses key design issues for a sub-national insolvency mechanism, driven by the fundamental difference between public and private insolvency. Final section five presents possible medium-term reform options for Turkey
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    From Falling Behind to Catching Up : A Country Economic Memorandum for Malawi (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464811951
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (80 p)
    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Public Sector Governance
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    Abstract: Despite decades of development efforts supported by significant amounts of foreign aid, Malawi has experienced weak and volatile economic growth performance over a sustained period of time. Malawi's growth remains an outlier even compared to its geographically and demographically similar peers. Moreover, growth has been distributed unequally, with little impact on poverty. Per capita income has improved only minimally in the 50 years since independence, and Malawi now has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world. From Falling Behind to Catching Up aims to improve readers' understanding of the puzzle of Malawi's development performance and identify ways for the country to achieve robust growth and stay on a stable growth path that helps the poor. The book places a strong emphasis on assessing Malawi's growth experience since independence from a comparative international perspective. It seeks to benchmark Malawian outcomes on growth, structural change, and transformation against peers and explores possible reasons for divergence from international trends. The book also puts deeper drivers of economic growth at the center of the discussion, looking in particular at the institutions and policies that may have affected Malawi's growth outcomes and ones that could help Malawi avoid macroeconomic instability in the future. This book first begins by discussing Malawi's macroeconomic situation and challenges in fiscal management, reviewing and drawing lessons from the instability, slippages, and shocks Malawi has experienced since independence. Second, given how critical the agricultural sector is to poverty reduction in Malawi, the overview explores the current state of agricultural markets. Third, looking at the factors that may constrain higher growth in the future, challenges in private sector development and job creation are discussed. Finally, building on the analysis of challenges, the book concludes with a summary of policy recommendations aimed at helping Malawi begin catching up with its peers
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1194-4
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    Evaluacion ambiental estrategica para la formulacion de politicas : un instrumento para la buena gobernabilidad (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (p)
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    Abstract: La edicion de este libro se deriva de documentos de antecedentes preparados originalmente como base para un estudio del Banco Mundial publicado en 2005, titulado 'Integrating Environmental Considerations in Policy Formulation: Lessons from Policy- Based SEA Experience'. Las politicas publicas constituyen una herramienta clave para atender la degradacion ambiental actual y futura y el uso de los recursos naturales. El libro contiene importantes ensenanzas sobre como mejorar el diseno y la implementacion de la Evaluacion Ambiental Estrategica (EAE) a las politicas publicas, tanto desde la perspectiva de la oferta como de la demanda, para hacerlas mas sostenibles. Asimismo se explora la eficacia de la aplicacion de la EAE a las politicas y presenta un nuevo marco conceptual y metodologico para su aplicacion
    DOI: 10.1596/978-9-5883-0770-1
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    Banque Mondiale - Rapport Annuel 2009 : Bilan De L'Exercice (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821381557
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (64 p)
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    Abstract: Le present rapport couvre la periode allant du 1er juillet 2008 au 30 juin 2009. Conformement aux reglements respectifs de la Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le developpement (BIRD) et de l'Association internationale de developpement (IDA) - qui, reunies, prennent le nom de Banque mondiale -, ce Rapport annuel a ete etabli par les Administrateurs des deux institutions. Monsieur Robert B. Zoellick, President de la BIRD et de l'IDA, et President du Conseil des Administrateurs, a soumis ce rapport, ainsi que les budgets administratifs et les etats financiers audites, au Conseil des Gouverneurs. Les rapports annuels de la Societe financiere internationale (IFC), de l'Agence multilaterale de garantie des investissements (MIGA) et du Centre international pour le reglement des differends relatifs aux investissements (CIRDI) sont publies separement
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8088-8
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    Transforming Karachi into a Livable and Competitive Megacity : A City Diagnostic and Transformation Strategy (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464812125
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (128 pages)
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    Series Statement: Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Infrastructure
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    Abstract: With a population of 16 million, Karachi is the largest megacity in Pakistan. Despite being a large city that is home to many, it has seen a substantial decline in quality of life and economic competitiveness in recent decades. Basic service delivery is very poor, with very low indicators for water supply, sanitation, public transport and public spaces. Pollution levels are high, and the city is vulnerable to disasters and climate change. A highly complex political economy, institutional fragmentation, land contestation, crime and security issues and social exclusion exacerbate these issues and make city management challenging.The Karachi City Diagnostic and Transformation Strategy attempts to present detailed data on the economy, livability and key urban services of the city, by identifying and quantifying the requirements to bridge the services gap in the city. It also proposes pathways towards the transformation of Karachi into a more livable, inclusive and economically competitive city by outlining policy actions that the city can undertake.The first part of the report provides an in-depth review of Karachi and is organized into three themes focused on key aspects of city management: (i) city growth and prosperity discussing city economy, competitiveness, business environment and poverty; (ii) city livability discussing urban and spatial planning, urban governance and municipal service delivery (water and sanitation, public transport and solid waste); and (iii) sustainability and inclusiveness discussing the city's long term resilience based on fiscal management, disaster resilience and climate change, and social inclusion. In each section, a diagnostic is provided on the issues, along with possible prioritized actions to resolve them.The second part of the report concludes by identifying four pillars for city transformation. These include: (i) building inclusive, coordinated and accountable institutions; (ii) greening Karachi for sustainability and resilience; (iii) leveraging on the city's economic, social and environmental assets; and (iv) creating a smart city through smart policies and technology
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1211-8
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    Democratic Republic of Congo Urbanization Review : Productive and Inclusive Cities for an Emerging Democratic Republic of Congo (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464812040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (86 pages)
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    Series Statement: Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Environment and Sustainable Development
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    Abstract: The Democratic Republic of Congo has the third largest urban population in Sub-Saharan Africa (estimated at 43% in 2016) after South Africa and Nigeria. It is expected to grow at a rate of 4.1% per year, which corresponds to an additional 1 million residents moving to cities every year. If this trend continues, the urban population could double in just 15 years. Thus, with a population of 12 million and a growth rate of 5.1% per year, Kinshasa is poised to become the most populous city in Africa by 2030.Such strong urban growth comes with two main challenges - the need to make cities livable and inclusive by meeting the high demand for social services, infrastructure, education, health, and other basic services; and the need to make cities more productive by addressing the lack of concentrated economic activity. The Urbanization Review of the Democratic Republic of Congo argues that the country is urbanizing at different rates and identifies five regions (East, South, Central, West and Congo Basin) that present specific challenges and opportunities. The Urbanization Review proposes policy options based on three sets of instruments, known as the three 'I's - Institutions, Infrastructures and Interventions - to help each region respond to its specific needs while reaping the benefits of economic agglomerationThe Democratic Republic of the Congo is at a crossroads. The recent decline in commodity prices could constitute an opportunity for the country to diversify its economy and invest in the manufacturing sector. Now is an opportune time for Congolese decision-makers to invest in cities that can lead the country's structural transformation and facilitate greater integration with African and global markets. Such action would position the country well on the path to emergence
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1203-3
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    Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9) : Improving Health and Reducing Poverty (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464805288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (426 pages)
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    Series Statement: Disease Control Priorities
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    Abstract: As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory chapters (1-3) in this volume take as their starting point the elements of the Essential Packages presented in the overview chapters of each volume. First, the chapter on intersectoral policy priorities for health includes fiscal and intersectoral policies and assembles a subset of the population policies and applies strict criteria for a low-income setting in order to propose a "highest-priority" essential package. Second, the chapter on packages of care and delivery platforms for universal health coverage (UHC) includes health sector interventions, primarily clinical and public health services, and uses the same approach to propose a highest priority package of interventions and policies that meet similar criteria, provides cost estimates, and describes a pathway to UHC
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0527-1
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    LAC Semiannual Report October 2017 : Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Monetary Policy Dilemma in Latin America (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (73 pages)
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    Abstract: After a growth slowdown that lasted six years (including a contraction of 1.3 percent last year), the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region is finally expected to resume positive growth in 2017, with market analysts forecasting real GDP growth of 1.2 percent for 2017 and 2.3 percent for 2018. The recovery, particularly in South America, will be led by a strong rebound in Argentina, which is expected to grow by 2.8 percent in 2017 and 3.0 percent in 2018, and Brazil, which is expected to resume positive growth as well, expanding by 0.7 percent in 2017 and 2.3 in 2018, after contracting for two consecutive years. The usual external drivers of growth (particularly commodity prices, and growth in China and U.S.) are expected to remain relatively neutral, which points to the need for the region to reinforce its own sources of growth (e.g., structural reforms, investment in infrastructure, and further international trade both within and outside the region). Unfortunately, the region finds itself in a weak fiscal situation with 28 out of 32 countries with an overall fiscal deficit, which implies that a gradual but sustained fiscal consolidation will be needed in the years ahead.The report's main focus (Chapter 2) is on the monetary policy dilemma faced by countries in LAC. When a typical commodity-exporter country in LAC is hit by, say, a negative terms of trade shock, real GDP falls, the currency depreciates, and inflation increases. The Central Bank faces the dilemma of (i) increasing policy rates to defend the currency/fight inflation, but at the cost of aggravating the recession or (ii) reducing the policy rate, thus stimulating output, but encouraging further depreciation and inflation. Traditionally, LAC countries have chosen the first option and have thus pursued procyclical monetary policy (i.e., increasing policy rates in bad times). Recently, however, many countries have been able to switch and become countercyclical (i.e., reducing policy rates in bad times), which enables them to prop up the economy in recessionary times (which is particularly important when lack of fiscal space precludes countercyclical fiscal policy)
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1217-0
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    Wage Inequality in Latin America : Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464810404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
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    Series Statement: Latin American Development Forum
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    Abstract: What caused the decline in wage inequality of the 2000s in Latin America? Looking to the future, will the current economic slowdown be regressive? Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future addresses these two questions by reviewing relevant literature and providing new evidence on what we know from the conceptual, empirical, and policy perspectives.The answer to the fi rst question can be broken down into several parts, although the bottom line is that the changes in wage inequality resulted from a combination of three forces: (a) education expansion and its eff ect on falling returns to skill (the supply-side story); (b) shifts in aggregate domestic demand; and (c) exchange rate appreciation from the commodity boom and the associated shift to the nontradable sector that changed interfi rm wage diff erences. Other forces had a non-negligible but secondary role in some countries, while they were not present in others. These include the rapid increase of the minimum wage and a rapid trend toward formalization of employment, which played a supporting role but only during the boom.Understanding the forces behind recent trends also helps to shed light on the second question. The analysis in this volume suggests that theeconomic slowdown is putting the brakes on the reduction of inequality in Latin America and will likely continue to do so-but it might not actuallyreverse the region's movement toward less wage inequality
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1039-8
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    The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 : Building a Sustainable Future (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464810473
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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    Abstract: Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth-the assets such as infrastructure, forests, minerals, and human capital that produce GDP. In contrast, corporations routinely report on both their income and assets to assess their economic health and prospects for the future. Wealth accounts allow countries to take stock of their assets to monitor the sustainability of development, an urgent concern today for all countries. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future covers national wealth for 141 countries over 20 years (1995-2014) as the sum of produced capital, 19 types of natural capital, net foreign assets, and human capital overall as well as by gender and type of employment. Great progress has been made in estimating wealth since the first volume, Where Is the Wealth of Nations? Measuring Capital for the 21st Century, was published in 2006. New data substantially improve estimates of natural capital, and, for the first time, human capital is measured by using household surveys to estimate lifetime earnings. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 begins with a review of global and regional trends in wealth over the past two decades and provides examples of how wealth accounts can be used for the analysis of development patterns. Several chapters discuss the new work on human capital and its application in development policy. The book then tackles elements of natural capital that are not yet fully incorporated in the wealth accounts: air pollution, marine fisheries, and ecosystems. This book targets policy makers but will engage anyone committed to building a sustainable future for the planet
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1046-6
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    Innovations in WASH Impact Measures : Water and Sanitation Measurement Technologies and Practices to Inform the Sustainable Development Goals (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464811982
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (120 pages)
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    Series Statement: Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Infrastructure;Directions in Development - Environment and Sustainable Development
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    Abstract: The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) at its core. A dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) declares a commitment to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all." Monitoring progress toward this goal will be challenging: direct measures of water and sanitation service quality and use are either expensive or elusive. However, reliance on household surveys poses limitations and likely overstated progress during the Millennium Development Goal period.In Innovations in WASH Impact Measures: Water and Sanitation Measurement Technologies and Practices to Inform the Sustainable Development Goals, we review the landscape of proven and emerging technologies, methods, and approaches that can support and improve on the WASH indicators proposed for SDG target 6.1, "by 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all," and target 6.2, "by 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations." Although some of these technologies and methods are readily available, other promising approaches require further field evaluation and cost reductions.Emergent technologies, methods, and data-sharing platforms are increasingly aligned with program impact monitoring. Improved monitoring of water and sanitation interventions may allow more cost-effective and measurable results. In many cases, technologies and methods allow more complete and impartial data in time to allow program improvements. Of the myriad monitoring and evaluation methods, each has its own advantages and limitations. Surveys, ethnographies, and direct observation give context to more continuous and objective electronic sensor data. Overall, combined methodologies can provide a more comprehensive and instructive depiction of WASH usage and help the international development community measure our progress toward reaching the SDG WASH goals
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1197-5
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    Privilege-Resistant Policies in the Middle East and North Africa : Measurement and Operational Implications (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464812088
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (186 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: MENA Development Report
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    Abstract: Renewing the social contract, one of the pillars of the new World Bank Group strategy for the Middle East and North Africa, requires a new development model built on greater trust; openness, transparency, inclusive and accountable service delivery; and a stronger private sector that can create jobs and opportunities for the youth of the region. Recent analytic work trying to explain weak job creation and insufficient private sector dynamism in the region point to formal and informal barriers to entry and competition. These barriers privilege a few (often unproductive) incumbents who enjoy a competition-edge due to their connections or ability to influence policy making and delivery. Policy recommendations to date in the field of governance for private sector policymaking have been too general and too removed from concrete, actionable policy outcomes. This report proposes -for the first time- to fill this policy and operational gap by answering the following question: What good governance features should be instilled in the design of economic policies and institutions to help shield them from capture, discretion and arbitrary implementation?The report proposes an innovative conceptual and measurement framework that encapsulates the governance features that could shield policies from capture, discretion and arbitrary enforcement that limits competition. The report offers a menu of operational and technical entry-points to enhance privilege-resistant policy making in a concrete way, that is politically tractable in different country contexts
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1207-1
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    Doing Business 2018 : Reforming to Create Jobs (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464811470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Doing Business
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    Abstract: Fifteen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2018 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: - Starting a business - Dealing with construction permits - Getting electricity - Registering property - Getting credit - Protecting minority investors - Paying taxes - Trading across borders - Enforcing contracts - Resolving insolvency These areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2017, ranks economies on their overall "ease of doing business", and analyzes reforms to business regulation - identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. Doing Business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. It is a flagship product produced in partnership by the World Bank Group that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More than 137 economies have used the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground. In addition, the Doing Business data has generated over 2,182 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals since its inception.Data Notes; Distance to Frontier and Ease of Doing Business Ranking; and Summaries of Doing Business Reforms in 2016/17 can be downloaded separately from the Doing Business website
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    Estudio de la urbanizacion en Centroamerica : Oportunidades de una Centroamerica urbana (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464812217
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
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    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Countries and Regions
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    Abstract: Centroamerica experimenta una transicion importante. Las poblaciones urbanas aumentan a gran velocidad,lo que trae consigo desafios apremiantes asl coma oportunidades para impulsar un crecimiento sostenido,inclusivo y resiliente. Hoy en dfa, el 59 par ciento de la poblacion de Centroarnerica vive en zonas urbanas,pero se espera que en la proxirna generacion 7 de cada 10 personas habran de vivir en ciudades, lo queequivale a sumar 700,000 nuevos residentes urbanos cada afio. Al ritmo actual de urbanizacion, la poblacionurbana de la region se duplicara en tarnafio en 2050, dando la bienvenida a mas de 25 millones de nuevoshabitantes urbanos que dernandaran una mejor infraestructura, una mayor cobertura y calidad de lasservicios urbanos, y mejores oportunidades de empleo. A medida que un mayor nurnero de personas seconcentre en las zonas urbanas, las gobiernos nacionales y locales de Centroarnerica tienen tantooportunidades coma desafios para asegurar la prosperidad de las generaciones actuales y futuras de su pals.El Estudio de la Urbanlzacion en Centroarnerica: Oportunidades de una Centroarnerica Urbana ofrece unamejor comprension de las tendencias y las implicaciones de la urbanizacion en las seis pafses de la region -Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panarna-v las acciones que las gobiernos centralesy locales pueden tomar para obtener las beneficios previstos de esta transforrnacicn. El estudio hacerecomendaciones sabre coma las polfticas urbanas pueden contribuir a abordar las principales desaffos dedesarrollo de la region, coma la falta de inclusion social, la alta vulnerabilidad a las desastres naturales y lafalta de oportunidades econornicas y de competitividad. En concreto, el estudio se centra en cuatro areasprioritarias para las ciudades de Centroarnerica: instituciones para la gestion de la ciudad, acceso a unavivienda adecuada y bien ubicada, resiliencia a las desastres naturales y aumento de la competitividad a travesdel desarrollo econornico local.Este libro sera de interes para tomadores de decisiones nacionales y locales, el sector privado, la sociedadcivil, investigadores y personas que trabajan en temas de desarrollo en America Central yen el mundo, cuyaatencion se centra en la forma de aprovechar las oportunidades que trae la urbanizacion en el siglo 21
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    Options for Aged Care in China : Building an Efficient and Sustainable Aged Care System (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464810763
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (346 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Human Development
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    Abstract: 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 rapid increase in the elderly population. According to the United Nations World Population Prospects, the proportion of older people age 65 and over will increase by about one-fourth by 2030, and the elderly will account for about one quarter of the total population by 2050. Population aging will not only pose challenges for elder care but also have an impact on the economy and all aspects of society (World Bank, 2016a).The government is aware of the need to develop an efficient and sustainable approach to aged care. To this end, the General Office of the State Council issued the 12th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Aged Care Services in China and the Development Plan for a System of Social Services for the Aged (2011-2015). It is now in the process of formulating the 13th Five-Year National Plan on Aging, which will further elaborate and finalize the reform roadmap for 2016 to 2020. The Plan is expected to be finalized and launched by June 2016. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) helped draft these plans and is now leading the development of policy measures for the provision of social services for the elderly. This volume has been prepared to support the translation of the broad ideas on aged care provision expressed in the 12th and 13th Five-Year Plans and other government plans into reality and to help the government tackle the challenges described above. It strives to identify a policy framework that fits the Chinese context and can be put in place gradually. Specifically, it aims to provide an up-to-date understanding of the evolving aged care landscape in China; review international experiences in long-term care provision, financing, and quality assurance and assess their relevance to China's current situation; discuss implications of current developments and trends for the future of aged care in China; and propose policy options based on available evidence and best practices
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    Cuando no basta el crecimiento : Razones de la rigidez de la pobreza en la Republica Dominicana (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464811906
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (188 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Poverty
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    Abstract: La Republica Dominicana se destaca por ser una economia en rapido crecimiento que no le ha sido posible generar una reduccion proporcional en la pobreza. Tres razones han sido planteadas anteriormente para explicar esta paradoja: (i) un mercado laboral que no traduce el aumento de la productividad en aumentos salariales; (ii) una economia interna con debiles encadenamientos intersectoriales; (iii) y un sector publico que ni gasta lo suficiente, ni particularmente bien, para reducir la pobreza. Ademas, el pais permanece mayormente expuesto a desastres naturales y choques exogenos que, si no se mitigan adecuadamente, pueden afectar la sostenibilidad del crecimiento a largo y mediano plazos. Esta obra conjuga varios analisis empiricos que exploran tres hipotesis complementarias que podrian ayudar a entender porque la Republica Dominicana, aun hoy, sigue experimentando altas tasas de crecimiento economico con reduccion limitada de la pobreza. La primera hipotesis trata de probar si el patron de rapido crecimiento economico con la pobreza persistente que se observa en la RD lo impulsa en parte una metodologia de la pobreza que no toma en cuenta la variacion de precios que claramente afecta los patrones de consumo de los hogares de ingresos bajo y aquellos de mejor posicion economica. Si se sostiene esa hipotesis, la RD puede enfrentar una situacion en la cual se subestiman los ingresos del hogar con respecto a los hogares en el extremo inferior de la distribucion. La segunda hipotesis intenta validar si el patron de especializacion en la RD podria ser tal que no favorece la mano de obra no calificada. Si se sostiene esa hipotesis, entonces el rendimiento del capital probablemente es mucho mayor que el rendimiento de la mano de obra lo que podria ser un indicio de que la RD ha tenido una ventaja comparativa en productos que son de uso intensivo de capital. La tercera hipotesis investiga si la pobreza y la desigualdad salarial en la RD se ven afectadas no solo por la inmigracion, sino tambien por la emigracion. El aporte del volumen, por tanto, descansa precisamente en ofrecer una exploracion mas cuidadosa de los asuntos especificos que giran en torno a explicaciones comunes para las deficiencias de la RD en reducir la pobreza de manera mas rapida
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    Hacia la cobertura universal en salud y la equidad en America Latina y el Caribe : Evidencia de paises seleccionados (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464811784
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Human Development
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    Abstract: En las ultimas tres decad ...
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    Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition : Atteindre fes cibles mondiales en matiere de retard de croissance, d'anemie, d'allaitement maternel et d'emaciation (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464811432
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
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    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Human Development
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    Abstract: L'ouvrage Un cadre d'investissement pour la nutrition: atteindre les cibles mondiales en matiere deretard de croissance, d'anemie, d'allaitement maternel et d'emaciation estime les couts et lesimpacts des differents scenarios de financement qui permettraient l'atteinte des cibles mondiales denutrition adoptees par l' Assemblee mondiale de la sante en matiere de retard de croissance, danemiechez la femme, d'allaitement matemel exclusif et de mise a I'echelle du traitement de I'emaciationsevere chez le jeune enfant. 11 faudra, pour atteindre ces quatre cibles, proceder a des financementsmondiaux de 70 milliards de dollars sur lOans, ceci dans des interventions specifiques a la nutritiona fort impact. Ces investissements auraient toutefois des retornbees substantielles : 65 millions de casde retard de croissance et 265 millions de cas danemie chez la femme auraient ete evites en 2025comparati vement a I' annee de reference 2015. En outre, sur 10 ans, au moins 91 millions d' enfantssupplementaires auraient ete traites pour emaciation severe et 105 millions de nourrissonsadditionnels auraient ete beneficiaires d'un allaitement matemel exclusif au cours de leurs premierssix mois de vie. L'atteintede l'ensemble de ces cibles permettrait d'eviter au moins 3,7 millions demortalites infantiles. Chaque dollar investi dans ce paquet d'interventions genererait des rendementseconorniques de4 a 35 dollars, ce qui fait du financement de la nutrition precoce l'une desinterventions de developpement les plus rentables. Certaines des cibles - particulierement celles quisont axees sur la reduction du retard de croissance chez l'enfant et de I'anemie chez la femmeparaissentambitieuses et demanderont des efforts concertes de financement, de mise a l' echelle etd' engagement continu; toutefois, l' experience tiree de plusieurs pays indique que leur atteinte restepossible. Les investissements au cours des 1000 premiers jours decisifs de la petite enfance sontinalienables, transportables et porteurs de retombees tout au long de la vie - non seulement pour lesenfants directement concernes, mais aussi pour nous tous - sous forme de societes plus robustes,qui agissent comme moteur des economies a venir
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    Doing Business 2019 : Training for Reform (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464813382
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
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    Series Statement: Doing Business
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    Abstract: Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: - Starting a business - Dealing with construction permits - Getting electricity - Registering property - Getting credit - Protecting minority investors - Paying taxes - Trading across borders - Enforcing contracts - Resolving insolvencyThese areas are included in the distance to frontier score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. This edition also presents the findings of the pilot indicator entitled 'Contracting with the Government,' which aims at benchmarking the efficiency, quality and transparency of public procurement systems worldwide.The report updates all indicators as of May 1, 2018, ranks economies on their overall 'ease of doing business', and analyzes reforms to business regulation -- identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most.Doing Business illustrates how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. It is a flagship product produced in partnership by the World Bank Group that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. Almost 140 economies have used the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground
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    Working with Smallholders : A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464812781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 pages)
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    Abstract: The world's population is ...
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1277-4
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    Back to School : Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (144 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: International Development in Focus
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    Abstract: "Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages. It analyzes the available evidence for what works, how, and why for reengaging and retaining these young people in education. The study further explores for whom and in what contexts the identified interventions can be effective, considering variations in both individual and contextual characteristics of the targeted youth. The synthesized findings from this review are used to build a broad theory of change which can guide efforts of policy and programming for designing contextualized interventions for education reengagement
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1404-4
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    Seizing Opportunity from Crisis : Making Multilateralism Work (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Speeches of World Bank Presidents
    Abstract: Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, recalled a moment in John Maynard Keynes life when he called for deeds that restore the public trust that governments are up to the challenge of the current crisis. What started in 2007 as a financial crisis quickly spiraled into an economic crisis, with estimates for 2009 for the first contraction of the global economy since World War II and the largest decline of trade in 80 years. Developing countries are being battered in successive waves as private capital flows slump sharply. These events could next become a social and human crisis, with political implications. Zoellick reviewed the difficulties for each region of the world. Unlike the 1930s, however, central banks have stepped in with creative solutions to keep credit flowing. But the challenge ahead requires a spirit of innovation backed by action. The World Bank Group's Board is considering a new proposal: the launch of a USD 50 billion Global Trade Liquidity Program. Zoellick called for the member of the G-20 to make multilateralism work and to empower the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank Group to monitor national policies. Bringing sunlight to national decision-making would contribute to transparency, accountability, and consistency across national policies. It is time to institutionalize "early warning" systems to protect the poor from cuts in social programs during times of economic crisis. Modern multilateralism will require that rising economic powers have a larger say in how institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF are run
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    Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Water and Sanitation Program
    Abstract: In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and consultations with the urban poor communities. The present volume is adocumentation of this research and supports the Guidance Notes on Improving WaterSupply and Sanitation Services for the Urban Poor in India
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    East Asia and Pacific Update, April 2009 : Battling the Forces of Global Recession (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
    Abstract: Developing East Asia is battling the forces of global recession. The impact of the crisis in the advanced countries was transmitted to the economies of the region with unusual speed. In the region, the initial global financial turbulence was marked by sudden reversals of capital flows in the middle-income economies, rapidly declining equity market prices, a sharp increase in the price of external private capital, a shortage of dollar liquidity, and in some cases, a depreciating currency. Now with aggregate global demand falling precipitously, region-wide declines in exports and industrial production are triggering widespread factory closures, rising unemployment, and lower real wages, with disproportionate effects on the poor and near-poor. Authorities in many countries are implementing social programs and cash transfers to assist those most in need. Where possible, policymakers have responded quickly with expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, including fiscal stimulus packages, although in most cases these measures will only mitigate, not overcome, the contraction forces operating on their economies
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    Building Partnerships for Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services in Africa (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Water and Sanitation Program
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    Abstract: This briefing note provides a rapid scan of partnership initiatives by the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) to improve the state of water and sanitation services in Africa. The note aims to highlight the gains and challenges of the major collaborative initiatives, focusing on where progress has been made or activities are ongoing at a strategic, thematic, and regional or country level. The collaboration is now focusing on: a) intensifying operational cooperation and joint work in additional African countries, including fragile and post-conflict countries; b) continuing to share information and to participate in capacity-building activities, with an emphasis on training in operational contexts; c) intensifying joint work in water supply, and particularly sanitation and hygiene; and, d) developing a monitoring system focused on results rather than inputs
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    The Poverty Impacts of Global Commodity Trade Liberalization (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Abstract: This paper examines the poverty impacts of global merchandise trade reform by looking at a wide range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Overall, the authors find that trade reform tends to reduce poverty primarily through the inclusion of agricultural components. The majority of developing country sample experiences small poverty increases from non-agricultural reforms. The authors explore the relative poverty-friendliness of agricultural trade reforms in detail, examining the differential impacts on real after-tax factor returns of agricultural versus non-agricultural reforms. This analysis is extended to the distribution of households by looking at stratum-specific poverty changes. The author's findings indicate that the more favorable impacts of agricultural reforms are driven by increased returns to peasant farm households' labor as well as higher returns for unskilled wage labor. Finally, the authors examine the commodity-specific poverty impacts of trade reform for this sample of countries. The authors find that liberalization of food grains and other processed foods represent the largest contributions to poverty reduction. More specifically, it is tariff reform in these commodity markets that dominates the poverty increasing impacts of wealthy country subsidy removal
    DOI: 10.1596/28157
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    Global Poverty and Distributional Impacts of Agricultural Distortions (2009)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Abstract: This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agricultural and other trade distortions using a newly developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that liberalization of agriculture will increase global extreme poverty (US
    DOI: 10.1596/28154
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    Governance, Fragility, and Conflict : Reviewing International Governance Reform Experiences in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries (2009)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Abstract: This report seeks to inform the development of a framework for addressing governance reform in fragile and conflict affected environments through are view of international experiences. The report analyzes the experience both of countries that sustained a transition to peace and those that fell back into conflict. Pertinent lessons will be drawn selectively from a range of fragile and conflict affected countries, including Haiti, Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique, Liberia, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, and Angola. No specific typologies have been adopted or formed in order to assess these lessons, because typologies can be limiting and experiences can be better assessed based on the specificity of each country's context. The first section of the report sets out broadly accepted definitions of key terms such as governance, state building, and fragility. The second section reviews experiences with diverse governance dimensions and explores the objectives, opportunities, and constraints associated with each
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