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World Development Report 1978-2006 with Selected World Development Indicators 2005
"The World Development Report", published by the World Bank annually since 1978, contains a wealth of information on the economic and social state of the world. This omnibus CD-ROM …
Local Content Policies in the Oil and Gas Sector
A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious to obtain the greatest benefits for their …
Broadband Strategies Handbook
The Broadband Strategies Handbook is a guide for policymakers, regulators, and other relevant stakeholders as they address issues related to broadband development. It aims to help …
Good Practices in Health Financing
For humanitarian reasons and the concern for households’ economic and health security, the health sector is at the center of global development policy. Developing countries and the …
Cleaner Transport Fuels for Cleaner Air in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Urban air pollution is a matter of increasing concern in many of the newly independent states (NIS). Traffic is burgeoning in cities, but vehicle registration, inspection, and …
Social Cohesion and Conflict Prevention in Asia
The papers included in this volume cite a multiplicity of traditional obstacles to social cohesion and integration in the region, ranging from xenophobic nationalism to poverty, …
Fostering Higher Growth and Employment in the Kingdom of Morocco
This book identifies the binding constraints to growth of Morocco. It applies an innovative procedure known as 'growth diagnostic' and has a central finding. The Moroccan economy …
Design for Impact
State aid impact evaluation is new in Romania. Given its novelty, this evaluation seeks to provide evidence on how effective state aid has been, on whether state aid distorted …
Tobacco Control Policies
There are over 1.2 billion tobacco users in the world, most in developing countries. Once a problem primarily in high-income countries, disease and death from tobacco use has …
When growth is not enough
This book assembles a collection of empirical analyses that explore three complementary hypotheses that could help understand why the Dominican Republic continues, to this date, …
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa
Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …