Books published by World Bank Publications

Describes the remittance regulatory and market environment, financial inclusion strategies by financial institutions, transnational economic activities, and the impacts of remittances on the Honduran economy.

Prepared by the Commission on Growth and Development, this volume brings together and evaluates the knowledge on the issues of leadership and growth.

Presenting results of original research as well reviewing and synthesizing existing studies, this title presents an analysis of Sri Lanka's youth unemployment by analyzing four key labor market aspects: employment creation, employability, entrepreneurship, and equal opportunity.

Guides public sector managers and development practitioners through the process of large-scale housing reconstruction after major disasters, based on the experiences of reconstruction programs in Aceh (Indonesia), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Gujarat (India) and Bam (Iran).

A report that provides an analysis of Pakistan's relationship with the financial sector. It examines regulatory and institutional arrangements and proposes development options, building on international practice examples.

A report that discusses the opportunities and challenges for the Caribbean associated with trade liberalization and provides an agenda of policy actions to accelerate trade integration and growth and reduce poverty.

Analyzes public expenditure on health in a post-conflict situation in the context of a Government's measure to eliminate user fees for maternal and child health care services.

A guide that provides perspectives, tools and experiences regarding how to engage stakeholders and enhance development effectiveness through participatory communication strategies.

Discusses how to design retirement income transfers to prevent poverty during old-age, when the coverage of contributory pension systems is low.

Addresses the risks faced by youth in Argentina such as low education attainment, unemployment, teenage pregnancy, use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, becoming victims of crime, and low level of civic participation, as well as the policy options for addressing them.

Describes how schools have been used as a platform for delivering familiar, safe, and simple health and nutrition interventions to hard-to-reach children in low-income countries. It will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of education, health and nutrition, and early childhood development.

A study that intends to assess the scope for increased gasification in the countries of South East Europe, including Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A guide that intends to enhance the chances of effective partnerships being developed between the public and the private-sector by addressing one of the main obstacles to effective PPP project delivery: having the right information on the right projects for the right partners at the right time.

Looking at eight cities in six Latin American countries, this book uses a methodology that combines the hedonic pricing method and the life-satisfaction approach to identify and value housing characteristics and neighborhood amenities and services.

Climate change threatens to derail development. The World Bank, with an articulated Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change, must confront these entangled threats in helping its clients to carve out a sustainable growth path. This title assesses the Bank's experience with key win-win policies in the energy sector.

Compiles methods of raising development finance including securitization of future flow receivables, diaspora bonds, and GDP-indexed bonds. This book highlights the role of shadow sovereign ratings in facilitating access to international capital markets.

Includes the papers that concern: trade and economic performance - does Africa's fragmentation matter; protectionist policies and manufacturing trade flows in Africa; criss-crossing globalization - the phenomenon of uphill skills flows; the aid-migration trade off; characterizing conflict forms; and, public goods provision in South Asia.

Provides a management decision-making tool for developing a communication strategy for reforms. This book features an approach that has been used face-to-face in workshops as well as through educational technologies such as computer-based modules.

There is a need for the international community to improve its understanding of the role that China is playing in the development of Africa's infrastructure and its implications for Africa's development. This report seeks to contribute to such an understanding by providing estimates of the overall volume of finance and analysis of its composition.

Examines the reasons for and approaches to "engendering" macroeconomic theory and policy, offering a history of how gender came to become an analytical category in economics. This book explores the collection and use of gender-disaggregated statistics for macroeconomic policy making.

This first volume describes the purposes and features of national assessments, as well as issues in designing, implementing, analyzing, and reporting. It also describes major international, regional, and national assessments in a range of countries.

The Angolan economy is now experiencing massive oil windfall gains that are expected to last throughout the next decade. This paper proposes a strategic approach for spending and distributing the oil revenue for the well being of people in Angola.

Reviews risk mitigation instruments - guarantee and insurance products - focusing on those offered by multilateral and bilateral official agencies, and presents with case transactions trends and developments that make these instruments conducive in securing financing for infrastructure projects in developing countries.

Based on country studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda and a literature review. This paper suggests several critical and promising areas for improvement in the quality of secondary teachers through new approaches to recruitment; and pre-service and in-service teacher development.

Domestic government debt markets play a critical role in managing public debt effectively and reducing the vulnerability of developing countries to financial crises. This book draws insights from 12 developing and emerging market country case studies.

Addresses a large knowledge and capacity gap in the Reproductive Health community and provides tools for key actors to empower positive change. This work is a synopsis of the materials developed for WBI's learning program on Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform.

Offers information on how countries can fight money laundering and terrorist financing. This second edition discusses the problems caused by the crimes - money laundering and terrorist financing, the specific actions countries need to take to address them, and the role international organizations play in the process.