World Bank Publications: 275 books
Golden Aging
Prospects for Healthy, Active, and Prosperous Aging in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Societies across Europe and Central Asia are aging, but people are not necessarily living longer. This demographic trend-caused by a decrease in fertility rather than improved longevity-presents both challenges and opportunities for governments, the private sector, and individuals alike. Some of the...
The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018
Building a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
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...
Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure
The Power and Water Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
To sustain Africa’s growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental. In 2010, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic found that to enable Africa to fill its infrastructure gap, some US$ 93 billion per year for the next decade will need to...
Oil, Gas, and Mining
A Sourcebook for Understanding the Extractive Industries
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Oil, Gas, and Mining: A Sourcebook for Understanding the Extractive Industries provides developing countries with a technical understanding and practical options around oil, gas, and mining sector development issues. A central premise of the Sourcebook is that good technical knowledge can better inform...
Une couverture sanitaire universelle pour un développement durable inclusif
Une synthèse de 11 études de cas pays
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
La CSU a pour objectifs de s’assurer que tous peuvent avoir accès à des services de santé de qualité, de préserver l’ensemble des individus contre les risques à la santé publique et de protéger toutes les personnes contre l’appauvrissement attribuable à la maladie. Des pays aussi...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1)
Essential Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
About this Series: From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidisciplinary, and the recommendations...
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Remittances remain a key source of funds for developing countries, far exceeding official development assistance and even foreign direct investment. Remittances have proved to be more stable than private debt and portfolio equity flows, and less volatile than official aid flows, and their annual flow...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9)
Improving Health and Reducing Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
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...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)
Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 6)
Major Infectious Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages...
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...