The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports. Sound financial management, an efficient civil
Despite a low enrollment rate in higher education of 3 percent on average, in comparison with 8 percent in countries with comparable levels of development, Francophone African countries are currently
Participatory development and government accountability depend in part on the existence of media that provide broad access to information from varied sources and that equip and encourage people to rai
Small states face special hurdles in achieving development gains. These states spend significantly more of their GDP on producing public goods and services, and they face higher connectivity costs tha
By 2010, youth will account for 28 percent of the population of Africa; Garcia and Fares (both economists, World Bank's Human Development Network) examine challenges African youths faces in their tran
'Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds' provides a review of the design and experience of risk-based pension fund supervision in countries that have been leaders in the development of these methods.
Since the mid-1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced an acceleration of economic growth that has produced rising incomes and faster human development. However, this growth contrasts with the contin
Although most policymakers and lay people assumed advances in technology would serve as the backbone of global development, few initially regarded sustainable growth as a key factor in globalization's
Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experien
Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority—it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor in the region has doubled, to 300 million—more tha
In this latest entry of the WBI Development Studies series, the authors stress the importance of solid waste management (SWM) in developing countries, and how policies adopted in India in 2000 can be
Produced by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank for presentation at the "1st Summit Meeting of the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum" held in B
The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants and their importance for the development agenda in countrie
The design of a federal system to deal with growth, stabilization, and regional and local development issues is the primary concern of this volume, edited by Anwar Shah. The book provides analytical t
As knowledge increasingly replaces raw materials and labor as a key resource in economic development, the availability of human knowledge and skills is critical in determining a country's rate of econ
China and India's new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa - home to 300 million of the globe's poorest people and the world's most formidable development challenge - presents a signific
Perry et al. (economics and macroeconomics and growth, Latin American and the Caribbean Region and Development Economics, World Bank) assemble nine essays that consider how fiscal policy in Latin Amer
'Administrative Capacity in the New EU Member States' reviews progress made in the development of public management systems capable of meeting European standards in the new member states of the Europe
This title outlines a number of practical initiatives to strengthen the role of development communication in infrastructure projects. The authors aim to facilitate better quality projects and to build
From the Korea Development Institute and the World Bank Institute comes this follow up report to 2000's Korea and the Knowledge-Based Economy: Making the Transition (2000). This report evaluates curre
The editors (all of the World Bank) present a report that is intended to contribute to the debate over Bolivia's economic and social development policy. The volume starts by reviewing issues and provi
Access to basic services plays an important role in both individual well-being and a country's economic development. For this reason, general availability of these services to citizens—regardless of i
The predicted growth of the Indian and Chinese economies, with their massive populations, portends important implications for the rest of the world. In this volume, Winters (director, Development Rese
Development cannot be imposed from the outside. It has to happen from within. This groundbreaking book from South Asia shows how homegrown experiments can be scaled up to transform the lives of millio
Aimed at a broad audience that includes policy makers, development practitioners, and scholars, this report from the World Bank provides a general overview of the financial markets in the East Asia re
Mineral taxation is a significant factor in the achievement of development, and this report gives key practical issues in tax administration, revenue distribution and reporting. This covers general ta
These two volumes analyze Japan from the Knowledge Economy perspective, covering a wide range of sectoral issues in development including the macro economic framework, education and skills training, t
These two volumes analyze Japan from the Knowledge Economy perspective, covering a wide range of sectoral issues in development including the macro economic framework, education and skills training, t
Over the past ten years, methodological development to measure disease burden, new data sets for large populations (eg. Tanzania, South Africa) and research to critically evaluate existing data sets (
Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Systems outlines the "new" vision of microfinance, laying out in plain language what CGAP and others in the development field have learned over the past 10
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has the potential to impede and even reverse development if not addressed early enough. Poverty and income inequality have been shown to facilitate the diffusion of HIV epidemics
This book provides an independent assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative for the World Bank as well as the broader development community. It offers a frank and in-depth review of the
The World Bank and other donors are fully committed to modalities of development support that put countries in the driver's seat, with the poverty reduction strategy process—prepared by national gover
The world of religion has been unacknowledged and often unseen by many development practitioners. The areas of common concern and activity, though, are numerous and have great importance in the global
Benson and Clay of the London based Overseas Development Institute were the principal researchers for this three-year study, initiated to investigate the short- and long-term economic and financial co
This volume synthesizes insights from the vast literature on land policy. It evaluates the implications of these insights for development policy, taking due account of actual experiences in policy im
The importance of social capital for sustainable development is well understood. However, the impact of social capital is not easily quantified and to overcome this, the Social Capital Initiative at t
"The past three decades have seen impressive advances in development in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Gains in income and education have been accompanied by reductions in high levels of infa
This is the ninth edition of the annual report, prepared by the World Bank's Development Prospects Group. The series provides an annual assessment of global economic prospects as they affect developi
Microfinance is not simply banking; it is a development tool. It has been estimated that there are 500 million economically active poor people in the world operating microenterprises and small busines
