Books published by World Bank Publications

The World Bank's annual report on the external debt of developing countries includes comprehensive data for 128 countries, as well as summary data for regions and income groups.

Reviews the current Human Resources for Health (HRH) situation in Ethiopia, summarizes the evidence on population use of select health services, and offers relevant policy options to assist the government finalize its new Human Resources Strategy and address remaining health challenges.

Provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of the questions of out-of-court debt restructuring from a policy-oriented perspective. The starting point of the analysis is given by the World Bank Principles for Effective Insolvency and Creditor Rights Systems. The study offers an overview of out-of-court restructuring, which is not seen as fundamentally opposed to formal insolvency procedures.

Many countries that subscribe to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens. Health insurance has been considered and promoted as the major financing mechanism to improve access to health services, as well to provide financial risk protection.

Offers a broad, detailed investigation of the Indian remittance market and analyses its characteristics based on the General Principles for International Remittance Services (GPs). It identifies some of the key actions and public policy measures for the improvement and future development of this market that would make it more contestable, transparent, accessible, and sound.

Presents a detailed account of the evolution of the World Bank's sanctions process since its inception in 1996, with particular focus on the most recent round of reforms, and showing how the model has moved closer to a judicial model while ramaining essentially administrative in nature.

Without a resurrection of strong economic growth in major economies, the likelihood of rapid economic development in poor developing countries is dampened. The nature of that ascent is the subject of this volume. More than a dozen contributors scan the economic horizon, spell out the new fiscal reality, and highlight the policy choices on which economic regrowth will depend.

Focusing on two developing countries, Malawi and Namibia, the purpose of this study is to provide an initial answer to the question if and how measures to address proceeds of crime contributes to economic development, and also to develop a framework that enable governments in developing countries to analyze the main sources of ill-gotten money and its effects on the economy.

Identifying factors that help developing countries succeed in exporting services and provide lessons for others, this publication focuses on how developing countries succeeded in increasing key services exports and the strategies that were successful for services exports as well as those that did not deliver the expected results.

Takes stock of Africa's financial systems in light of recent changes in the global financial system, including the greater risk aversion of international investors, a shift in economic and financial powers towards emerging markets and the regulatory reform debate - and the increasing role of technology.

This book is designed to identify a range of strategies that will help officials meet their traditional control responsibilities while at the same time facilitating legitimate trade. It also provides advice to development professional and key policy makers about what works, what doesn't and why.

Applies an established analytical framework for health sector reform to the performance problems of the pharmaceutical sector. The first section presents the basic ideas for analysis. The second part of the book devotes one chapter to each of five'control knobs': finance, payment, organization, regulation and persuasion. The last part of the book is a set of teaching cases.

Drawing on the experience of practitioners, the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative launched this study to identify the barriers to stolen asset recovery internationally, provide brief analysis of the impact of these barriers, and propose recommendations for overcoming these obstacles.

Designed for those who may be interested in media development programs, but are unclear about the whys, hows, and whens, this handbook introduces the fundamentals of media development, provides ways to conceptualize and analyze the sector, and helps guide programming based on political economy analysis as well as individual country context

Provides key pieces of information needed for informed debate about large-scale land acquisition by drawing on the experience from past land expansions, discussing predictions for potential future demand, and providing empirical evidence of what is happening on the ground in the countries most affected by the recent increase in demand for land.

This report reviews how citizens can influence service delivery through access to information and opportunities to use it to hold providers accountable. It focuses on social accountability measures that support the use of information to increase transparency and service delivery and grievance redress mechanisms to help citizens use information to improve accountability.

Provides an innovative framework to analyze the process of industrial upgrading and diversification, a key feature of economic development. Based on this framework, it provides concrete advice to development practitioners and policy makers on how to unleash a country's growth potential.

The development of an effective state, a reliable infrastructure, and a dynamic private sector has long been hampered by political economy obstacles in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Resilience of an African Giant identifies these obstacles, which prevent the country from realizing its economic potential, and outlines how they can be - and in some cases have been - overcome.

Seeks to identify channels of technology transfer and absorption for Southern African enterprises, constraints to greater technology absorption, and discuss policy options open to governments and the private sector in light of relevant international experience. It has been done based on sector and enterprise case studies carried in four countries: South Africa, Mauritius, Lesotho and Namibia.