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  Thailand’s growth path: from recovery to prosperity

  K. Richter / World Bank, 2006

  Thailand is one of the most successful developing countries. After decades of rapid growth, the economy rebounded quickly from the 1997-98 Asian crisis and is set to continue its expansion into the future. Nevertheless, there are doubts about the resilience of the Thai economy.
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  Improving Women's Participation in Further Education

  B. Ali Diallo / World Bank, 2003

  Are there many women in further education in Niger? What steps have or must be taken to ensure that more women join university? Rates of access to further education are very low in Niger (1.9%) and only 0.34% of women have access to university. This paper looks at the case of Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey, the only non-religious university in Niger.
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  Determinants of deposit-insurance adoption and design

  E.J. Kane, L. Laeven, A. Demirgüç-Kunt / World Bank, 2006

  This report seeks to identify factors that influence decisions about a country's financial safety net using a new dataset on 170 countries covering the 1960-2003 period. The analysis finds that pressure to emulate developed-country regulatory frameworks and power-sharing political institutions dispose a country toward adopting design features that inadequately control risk-shifting. Overall,
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  Growth trends in the developing world: country forecasts and determinants

  E. Ianchovichina, P. Kacker / World Bank, 2005

  Presenting real per capita GDP growth forecasts for all developing countries for the period 2005-14 the authors find that important factors determining economic growth in 55 of these countries are:continued improvements in public infrastructurerising secondary school enrolmenttrade opennessfinancial deepeningCombined, these four policy indicators can result in an averag
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  Approaches to private participation in water services: a toolkit

  World Bank, 2006

  This paper aims to assist governments in developing countries that are interested in using private participation to help expand access to safe water and sanitation services at reasonable cost.
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  Institutional analysis toolkit for safety net interventions

  M. Mathauer / World Bank, 2004

  This toolkit provides a guideline on how to undertake an institutional capacity assessment for the following elementsa country’s overall formal safety net system and related actorsa safety net programme/project, or components already in existencea programme/project in the process of being designed, which encompasses a safety net component or intervention.The toolkit include
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  Corporate governance: observance of standards and codes

  World Bank, 2006

  As part of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) programme by the World Bank and IMF, this internet resource brings together country by country implementation assessments. The goal of the ROSC initiative is to identify weaknesses that may contribute to a country’s economic and financial vulnerability.
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  Assessing World Bank support for trade 1987-2004: an IEG evaluation

  World Bank, 2006

  This report analyses the Bank's contribution to freer trade in developing countries and makes concrete recommendations on how to boost trade opportunities to better alleviate poverty in the future.
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  Hazards of nature, risks to development: an IEG evaluation of World Bank assistance for natural disasters

  World Bank, 2006

  This report assesses World Bank assistance for natural disasters, reviewing disaster preparedness and response. The report calls for new thinking that integrates predictable disaster risks into development programmes.
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  Debt relief for the poorest: an evaluation update of the HIPC initiative

  World Bank, 2006

  This update builds on IEG’s 2003 evaluation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative. About $50 billion has been committed in nominal debt service relief under the Enhanced HIPC initiative to decision point countries, of which $15.4 billion has been committed since the previous evaluation.

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