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World Bank Publications Catalog July - December 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:18 +0000

Browse our fully interactive catalog, featuring forthcoming titles for the July - December 2009 season and bestsellers. Highlights include "World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change," "Doing Business 2010," and "Courage and Hope: Stories from Teachers Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa"
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Information and Communications for Development 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:01 +0000

Over the last decade, information and communication technologies (ICT) have been increasingly used to achieve development goals. Developing countries, including poorer ones, have enjoyed rapid technological progress to help pull millions of people out of poverty. ICTs help transform economic and social activities for firms, governments and citizens.
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The World Bank Annual Report 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:06:33 +0000

The World Bank Annual Report 2009, Year in Review, explores the impact of the global financial and economic crisis in developing countries, and fast-track funding and programs that can help member countries withstand the debacle. In addition, new and ongoing programs and projects in health, climate change, infrastructure, and several other areas are highlighted. A new feature this year is personal-impact stories for each region, relaying the positive effects of World Bank assistance on individuals.
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Turmoil at Twenty

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:06:08 +0000

Two decades since the fall of the Berlin wall, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, is experiencing the deepest contraction and is expected to see the weakest recovery in output among all emerging and developing economy regions a result of the global financial and economic crisis. Their commitment to open trade and financial integration as part of the transition from plan to market has brought many gains, but a combination of large global imbalances during this period and policy weaknesses in a number of countries made them vulnerable to the crisis.
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia - Appendix_a_and_b

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:45:54 +0000

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Tags: trade policies, trade balance, taxation, real gdp, price indexes, per capita income, multilateral trade, income, gdp per capita, gdp deflator, gdp, exports, comparative advantage, agriculture, agricultural output
Pages: 136

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:43:32 +0000

Distortions to Agricultural incentives in Asia is the third volume in a series of books that brings together analytical narratives of the evolution over the past half–century of policy–imposed distortions to farmer incentives and food prices in 80 countries. Drawing ...
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Tags: value added, uruguay round, trade policies, trade balance, taxation, real gdp, price indexes, per capita income, multilateral trade, income, gdp per capita, gdp deflator, gdp, exports, comparative advantage, agriculture, agricultural output
Pages: 470

Organisation et performances des filieres cotonnieres Africaines : lecons des reformes

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:10:02 +0000

Cotton is a major source of foreign exchange earnings in more than 15 countries across all regions of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) and a crucial source of cash income for millions of rural people in these countries. The crop is, therefore, critical ...
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Tags: capita consumption, by-products, buyers, benchmarking, benchmark, average yields, aquaculture, annual payments, agriculture, agricultural price, agricultural marketing, agricultural land, agricultural commodities, administrative support, accounting
Pages: 262

Handbook on Poverty and Inequality

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:16:50 +0000

For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, the Handbook is the place to start. Designed initially to support training courses on poverty analysis, it consists of explanatory text with numerous examples, interspersed with multiple-choice questions (to ensure active learning) and combined with extensive practical exercises using Stata statistical software.
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Turmoil at Twenty

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:21:15 +0000

Two decades since the fall of the Berlin wall, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, is experiencing the deepest contraction and is expected to see the weakest recovery in output among all emerging and developing economy regions a result ...
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Tags: global finance, foreign currency, fiscal policy, financial systems, emerging economies, debt restructuring, debt, capital flows, capital account, banking sector, bank regulation, arbitrage
Pages: 275

Debt Relief and Beyond: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:26:41 +0000

The history of debt relief goes back several decades. It reveals that a country’s accumulation of unsustainable debt stems from such factors as deficiencies in macroeconomic management, adverse terms-of-trade shocks, and poor governance. Debt-relief initiatives have provided debt ...
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Tags: strategic debt management, poverty and public policy, external debt, debt market, banks and banking reform, bankruptcy and resolution of financial distress
Pages: 478