World Bank Publications imprint: 136 books
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 8)
Child and Adolescent Health and Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
More children born today will survive to adulthood than at any time in history. It is now time to emphasize health and development in middle childhood and adolescence--developmental phases that are critical to health in adulthood and the next generation. Child and Adolescent Health and Development...
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities
The Example of Bamako, Mali
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety nets programs. All countries have now deployed safety net interventions as part of their core development programs. The number...
Eruptions of Popular Anger
The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Eruptions of Popular Anger: The Economics of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath sets out to answer three puzzles—the “Arab inequality†? puzzle of civil uprisings in countries with low-to-moderate and stagnant economic inequality, the “unhappy development†? paradox of increasing dissatisfaction...
Better Neighbors
Toward a Renewal of Economic Integration in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book proposes a renewal of 'Open Regionalism' in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) aimed at achieving the region's goals of high growth with stability. The LAC region experienced a growth spurt with equity during the first decade of the 21st Century. It is well understood that an unsustainable...
Cashing in on Education
Women, Childcare, and Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Investments in education across countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have transformed the lives of millions of girls and the prospects of their families and societies. Unleashing the full economic potential of women is nevertheless still a curtailed issue in the region: just about half of...
Beyond Commodities
The Growth Challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Beyond Commodities shows that Latin America and the Caribbean’s growth performance over the last decade cannot be reduced to the commodity boom: growth-promoting reforms that strengthened financial development, increased trade openness and improved infrastructure development also played a significant...
Innovative Experiences in Access to Finance
Market-Friendly Roles for the Visible Hand?
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Interest in access to finance and awareness of its importance have increased significantly since the early 2000s. Growing evidence suggests that lack of access to credit prevents many households and firms from financing high-return investment projects, which has an adverse effect on growth and poverty...
Shock Waves
Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two...
Deliberation and Development
Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond...
Opening the Black Box
The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Opening the Black Box: Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidance on how to assess contextual drivers of social accountability effectiveness. This publication aims to more strategically support citizen engagement at the country level and for a specific...
Wage Inequality in Latin America
Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
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...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 7)
Injury Prevention and Environmental Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
The substantial burden of death and disability that results from interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change, and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low- and middle-income countries. Injury...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 4)
Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden,...