Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: development, indicators, world, gender, data, book, little
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0821378724
ISBN-13: 9780821378724

This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics. It presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 countries in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development Goals. The book’s summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates.

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: crossroads, commodities, prospects, economic, global
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 082137799X
ISBN-13: 9780821377994

The eruption of the worldwide financial crisis has radically recast prospects for the world economy. Global Economic Prospects 2009 analyzes the implications of the crisis for low- and middle-income countries, including an in-depth look at long-term prospects for global commodity markets and the policies of both commodity producing and consuming nations. Developing countries face sharply higher borrowing costs and reduced access to capital, cutting into their capacity to finance investment spending. The looming recession presents new risks, coming as it does on the heels of the recent food and

Authors:Daniela Klingebiel, Luc Laeven,  World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: world, bank, discussion, paper, crises, banking, real, fiscal, effects, managing
Number of Pages: 49
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0821350560
ISBN-13: 9780821350560

Authors:Jiwei Lou, World Bank,
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: world, economy, bank, discussion, paper, market, socialist, reform, china, laying, foundation, macroeconomic
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0821340182
ISBN-13: 9780821340189

Author: World Bank Grou
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: finance, development, global, vulnerability, bank, managing, world, appendix, analysis, statistical, mobilizing
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0821359843
ISBN-13: 9780821359846

Global Development Finance 2005 I: Analysis and Statistical Appendix addresses two key challenges in development finance: first, how to raise resources flowing to low-income countries, which are heavily constrained in their access to market-based finance. Second, how to manage the vulnerability inherent in developing countries¡¦ access to finance -- vulnerability stemming from changes in the global macro environment, as well as from shifting donor priorities (affecting aid and concessional finance) and changing debt dynamics in developing countries. Global Development Finance 2005 II: Summary

Author: World Bank Grou
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: development, sustainable, environmentally, monographs, series, studies, measure, expanding, wealth, indicators
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0821339567
ISBN-13: 9780821339565

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: group, win, bank, evaluation, world, reforms, independent, studies, policy, energy, phase, climate, change
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0821378503
ISBN-13: 9780821378502

Climate change threatens to derail development, even as development pumps ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere already polluted with two centuries of Western emissions. The World Bank, with a newly-articulated Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change, must confront these entangled threats in helping its clients to carve out a sustainable growth path. This evaluation assesses the Bank’s experience with key win-win policies in the energy sector.