an Eldis Resource
- Bridging the gap: Improving capabilities and expanding opportunities for women in the Middle East and North Africa region
- ( World Bank Publications , 2010)
- What challenges to economic gender parity do women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) face? This World Bank brief discusses constraints to women’s opportunities, including limited labour...
- Planning climate resilient cities: Early lessons from early adapters
- ( J. Carmin;D. Roberts;I. Anguelovski / World Bank Publications , 2009)
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This paper presents climate adaptation strategies among the early adapters, using Durban, South Africa and Quito, Ecuador as case studies. The paper notes that early adapters were motivated by inte...
- Improving food security in Arab countries
- ( J. Lampietti;N. Magnan;S. Michaels;et al. / World Bank Publications , 2009)
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Arab countries are more exposed than other countries to severe swings in agricultural commodity prices due to the high level of food imports, especially cereals, and continued population growth and...
- A Poverty-Inequality trade-off?
- ( M. Ravallion / World Bank Publications , 2005)
- When inequality rises, does poverty also rise? This paper examines this question using both absolute and relative measures of inequality. Relative inequality is based on ratios - the higher the ratio...
- Governance & corruption diagnostic survey in Malawi report
- ( World Bank Publications , 2006)
- This document presents the findings of the Governance and Corruption Survey in Malawi, which aimed to ascertain the locus and extent of corruption in the country. The survey also aimed to determine ho...
- Distortions to agricultural incentives in Africa
- ( K. Anderson;W.A Masters / World Bank Publications , 2008)
- This paper summarises a set of case studies measuring distortions within and across 21 African countries over time. It seeks to improve understanding of agricultural policy interventions and reforms. ...
- Transitioning to climate resilient development. Perspectives from communities in Peru
- ( F. Sperling;C. Validivia;R. Quiroz / World Bank Publications , 2008)
- While the scientific capacity to forecast El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes, this papers questions the extent to which these advances have benefited vulnerable communities by increas...
- Weathering the storm: economic policy responses to the financial crisis
- ( M. Brahmbhatt / World Bank Publications , 2008)
- This paper evaluates policy stances for developing countries to adopt measures in dealing with the global economic downturn. The global economy is forecast to grow by only 1 percent, with growth in hi...
- The sub prime crisis: implications for emerging markets
- ( W. B. Gwinner;A. Sanders / World Bank Publications , 2008)
- This study discusses some of the recent key characteristics of the US subprime mortgage boom and bust. It contrasts them with characteristics of emerging mortgage markets and makes several policy reco...
- Corruption and fraud detection by supreme audit institutions
- ( K. M. Dye / World Bank Publications , 2007)
- This paper examines the fraud and corruption issues confronting supreme audit institutions (SAIs) and offers some strategies and ideas for improving SAI performance in detecting fraud and corruption....
