Search

Searching, published by

There will be no orgnisations as you have selected publisher.

Showing 491-500 of 889 results

Pages

• Document

  Toolkit on hygiene, sanitation and water in schools

  World Bank, 2005

  This toolkit makes available information, resources, and tools that provide support to the preparation and implementation of hygiene, sanitation, and water policies and projects within schools.The toolkit gives the reader an insight into the basic principles of hygiene, sanitation and water policies in schools.
• Document

  Pensions in the Middle East and North Africa: time for change

  D. A. Robalino / World Bank, 2005

  This report reviews more than 30 pension systems in 13 Middle Eastern and North African countries and calls for a series of measures to allow governments to gradually reform their unsustainable pensions systems, and thus avoid future crises.The report highlights six general problems with pension systems in the region:the pension promise is large and unaffordable.
• Document

  Changing patterns of child labor around the world since 1950: the roles of income growth, parental literacy and agriculture

  V. Gunnarsson, P. F. Orazem, G. Sedlacek / World Bank, 2005

  This study explores why and how child labour has declined over time, why child labour persists, and how it may be combated in the future.
• Document

  Risks and rewards of regional trading arrangements in Africa: Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and SSA

  L. Hinkle, R. Newfarmer / World Bank, 2005

  This paper analyses how some of the obstacles in the fundamental design of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and sub-Saharan Africa can be overcome.
• Document

  Coping with risk through mismatches: domestic and international financial contracts for emerging economies

  A de la Torre, S.L. Schmukler / World Bank, 2004

  Why does financial development remain so elusive a goal for most emerging countries? Why, in particular, do currency and duration mismatches continue to be a widespread and recurring feature of these countries’ financial landscape, despite their well-known risks and adverse effects on vulnerability to shocks and growth?In this paper, the authors try to provide new answers to these questions.
• Document

  Competitiveness partnerships : building and maintaining public-private dialogue to improve the investment climate

  B. Herzberg, A. Wright / World Bank, 2005

  Based on the experiences of 40 countries this paper investigates the benefits of competitiveness partnerships - structured dialogue between the public and private sector to improve the investment climate.
• Document

  The responses of child labour, school enrollment, and grade repetition to the loss of parental earnings in Brazil, 1982-1999

  M.C. Neri, E. Gustafsson-Wright, G. Sedlacek, P.F. Orazem / World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines how the loss of earnings by the head of a household in Brazil affects how his children spend their time in school and work. It opens with a simple theoretical explanation of how income shocks may lead to socially inefficient school drop-out and labour market entry by children in credit-constrained households.
• Document

  A Review of Gender Issues in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica

  World Bank, 2002

  This report examines the effect of gender on socio-economic outcomes in three Caribbean countries: the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. Organized in three separate country notes, it covers: demographics, health and reproductive health, violence, education, labor and agriculture. The report is part of a large effort aimed at establishing a strategic social agenda in the region.
• Document

  Migration and inequality

  R. Black, C. Natali, J. Skinner / World Bank, 2005

  This paper focuses on case studies across Central America, Eastern Europe, West Africa and South Asia and demonstrates how the mutual causality between migration and inequality varies both between and within regions.
• Document

  Faith, equity and development

  V. Pinglé / World Bank, 2005

  This theoretical paper, based on existing research, assesses the influence that religious movements have on the development process. The concept of identity politics is used to interpret the motivation for and principles of these movements.The paper is presented in five parts.

Pages