The key development issues facing our world today are vividly illustrated in "The Atlas of Global Development". Based upon authoritative data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, this handsome volume provides a wealth of information on crucial global topics such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, corruption, environmental sustainability, ...
Rising densities of human settlements, migration and transport to reduce distances to market, and specialization and trade facilitated by fewer international divisions are central to economic development. The transformations along these three dimensions - density, distance, and division - are most noticeable in North America, Western Europe, and ...
Published in association with the World Bank the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing the world today. Social, economic, and environmental issues that are facing the planet are presented by easy-to read, colourful world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs. Drawing on data from the world bank ...
"The World Development Report 2006: Equity and Opportunity" presents a social development strategy organized around the themes of social inclusion, cohesion, and accountability. It examines equality of opportunities - a potentially important factor affecting both the workings of the investment environment and the empowerment of the poor - by ...
"This book fills an important and large gap in the market for health economics textbooks. It is more rigorous than its competitors, but is also intuitive, with lucid explanation and simple diagrammatic exposition. In a market that is geographically and ideologically segmented, this text is also unusual in its global vision and lack of ideological ...
Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? "World Development Indicators" is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 900 indicators for some 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. It provides a current overview ...
This book examines the public policies of the eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) from 1965 to 1990 that led to faster economic growth than any other part of the world. The countries discussed are Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Government policies fostered rapid capital accumulation, ...
The book presents estimates of total wealth for nearly 120 countries, using economic theory to decompose the wealth of a nation into its component pieces: produced capital, natural resources and human resources. The wealth estimates provide a unique opportunity to look at economic management from a broader and comprehensive perspective. The book?s ...
The hard facts you need to know about the critical issues of our time and the consequences of inaction Current global challenges--issues such as AIDS, poverty, migration, CO2 emissions, and population pressures presented in clear maps, graphs, and photographs Country comparisons--at-a-glance key social development indicators, including ...
Following the success of the first edition (with above 12,000 copies sold to date), the World Bank is publishing this completely revised and updated second edition of the "Guide to the World Bank". It provides detailed information on the largest anti-poverty institution in the world, including its governance, structure, organizing principles, and ...
Many advances have been made in understanding skeletal dysplasias since the first edition of this classic text appeared in 1974. The diagnostic process has been refined, many new disorders have been recognized, and the molecular aspects in many cases have been elucidated. The second edition has been completely updated, with the help of two new co ...
This report on the global AIDS epidemic outlines the strategic role that governments must play in slowing the spread of HIV and mitigating the impact of AIDS in morbidity and mortality. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge that has accumulated in the 15 years since the virus that causes AIDS was first identified, the report highlights policies that ...
Now in its seventh edition, this pocket-sized reference on key development data for over 200 countries provides profiles of each country with 54 development indicators about people, environment, economy, technology and infrastructure, trade, and finance. It is intended as a quick reference for users of World Development Indicators, WDI Online, and ...
At the start of each decade, the World Development Report focuses on poverty reduction. "The World Development Report", now in its twenty-third edition, proposes an empowerment-security-opportunity framework of action to reduce poverty in the first decades of the twenty-first century. It views poverty as a multi-dimensional phenomenon arising out ...
Focuses on major water policy issues in India, and the challenges and critical measures that need to be addressed. This book traces the development of policies in water and their management and has contributions by India's leading water specialists.
This is the 21st annual edition of the World Development Report. It is the standard reference work for international economic data, containing an appendix of social and economic statistics for more than 200 countries. This edition focuses on knowledge and information as a factor of development. It examines both the benefits and risks of a rapidly ...
Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? "World Development Indicators" is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 900 indicators for some 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. It provides a current overview ...
This is the twenty-second edition of the World Development Report. It is the standard reference work for international economic data, containing an appendix of social and economic statistics for more than 200 countries. This Report draws upon the varied experiences of recent decades and looks ahead at opportunities to extend the gains already ...
This report is about building institutions that support markets which promote growth and reduce poverty. It analyzes the myriad of institutions - formal and informal, public and private - that people build and use to undertake activities that maximize returns and to manage risk in markets. These institutions range from unwritten customs and ...
This annually updated reference work reviews a range of environmental issues, such as population, human settlements, food and agriculture, forests and rangelands, wildlife, energy, oceans and coasts, the atmosphere, global systems and cycles, and policies and institutions.
A pocket-sized reference on environmental data for over 200 countries which includes indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. It helps establish a base of information to help set priorities and measure progress toward environmental sustainability goals.
"The World Development Report 2006: Equity and Opportunity" presents a social development strategy organized around the themes of social inclusion, cohesion, and accountability. It examines equality of opportunities - a potentially important factor affecting both the workings of the investment environment and the empowerment of the poor - by ...
This very small atlas is an "at-a-glance" guide to the most pressing environmental problems around the world. It draws on data from the World Bank's Little Green Data Book, providing a wealth of information on key environmental topics for over 200 countries and territories. Taking an in-depth look at such critical issues as agriculture, forestry, ...
Reviews the World Bank's recent work on governance, public sector institutional reform, and capacity building, particularly in core public institutions.
This study addresses the roles of different levels of government and the institutional arrangements involved in the provision of key services with focus on disadvantaged rural areas. This is the third and last of a series of studies on rural decentralization carried out since 1999 by the Bank. The first study, Overview of Rural Decentralization ...
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