World Bank Publications: 275 books
China 2030
Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms, strengthen its private sector, open its markets to greater competition and innovation, and ensure equality of opportunity to help achieve its goal of a new structure for economic growth....
Going Universal
How 24 Developing Countries are Implementing Universal Health Coverage from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable, through a systematic data collection that provides practical insights to policymakers and practitioners....
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Ninth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies, Doing Business 2012 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: ▪ starting a business ▪ dealing with construction permits ▪ employing workers ▪ registering property ▪ getting credit...
Mining in Africa
Are Local Communities Better Off?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on the welfare effects of mineral resources, which, until now, has concentrated more on the national or...
Africa's Demographic Transition
Dividend or Disaster?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a 'bulge' generation and a large number of working...
Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia
Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The number of people in South Asia's cities rose by 130 million between 2000 and 2011--more than the entire population of Japan. This was linked to an improvement in productivity and a reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty. But the region's cities have struggled to cope with the pressure of population...
Confronting Drought in Africa's Drylands
Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Drylands are at the core of Africa’s development challenge. Drylands make up about 43 percent of the region’s land surface, account for about 75 percent of the area used for agriculture, and are home to about 50 percent of the population, including a disproportionate share of the poor. Due to complex...
South Asia's Turn
Policies to Boost Competitiveness and Create the Next Export Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population †“ especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: -Economies of agglomeration:...
Left Behind
Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region´s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean...
The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface)
A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This classic work remains relevant to anyone with a serious interest in using household survey data...
East Asia and Pacific Cities
Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Urbanization in East Asia and the Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as national and local governments try to keep up with the needs of their growing populations. Among these challenges is a lack of affordable housing, resulting...
Trouble in the Making?
The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Technology and globalization are threatening manufacturing’s traditional ability to deliver both productivity and jobs at a large scale for unskilled workers. Concerns about widening inequality within and across countries are raising questions about whether interventions are needed and how effective...
by Daria Taglioni, Deborah Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus become...
Toward a New Social Contract
Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
The growing economic fissures in the societies of Europe and Central Asia between generations, between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, between rural and urban communities, and between the super-rich and everyone else, are threatening the sustainability of the social contract. The institutions...