Books by World Bank Publications

Presents the first global economic analysis undertaken to explore the emerging epidemics of HIV among men who have sex with men in low- and middle-income countries. Using a scenario-based approach, it systematically reviews the available data to investigate and characterize these epidemics and propose evidence-based and rights affirming responses.

How can the Middle East and North Africa region reduce spatial disparities in well-being without compromising growth? The solution lies in matching the policy package to a lagging area's specific characteristics. Drawing on the World Bank's 2009 World Development Report, Reshaping Economic Geography, the book proposes three policy packages.

Examines India's experience with poverty reduction in a period of rapid economic growth. Marshalling evidence from multiple sources of survey data and drawing on new methods, it asks how India's structural transformation - from rural to urban, and from agriculture to non-farm sectors - is impacting poverty.