Books published by World Bank Publications

A how-to guide on all the steps involved with survey implementation, this volume covers survey management, questionnaire design, sampling, respondent's psychology and survey participation, and data management. It is a reference for those who use and produce survey data.

For various reasons - people are concerned for the well being of the most vulnerable groups in society: women, the poor, and the elderly. This book explores two themes: the orientation of government towards its more vulnerable groups and the extent to which government is responsive to its citizens.

The third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management, this book offers assessments of needs, trends, and challenges in the international political risk insurance industry. It examines the lessons that can be learned from investment losses, insurance claims, and arbitrations.

This book demonstrates how community and local government initiatives play a key role in arresting pollution during the rapid industrialization experienced by Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. The approaches described are relevant to current pollution problems and are reviewed from the perspective of developing countries.

This book brings together the insights and experiences of some of the world's leading policymakers and global thought leaders - individuals who have had substantial influence on the policy reforms and development strategies in their native countries - to examine the uneven outcomes of the.

Provides an overview of the key elements of a successful customs modernization strategy and draws lessons from a number of successful customs reforms as well as from customs reform projects that have been undertaken by the World Bank.

This work analyzes five major bilateral treaty regimes on the South Asian subcontinent: between India and Bangladesh for the Ganges River; India and Nepal for the Kosi, Gandaki, and Mahakali rivers; and India and Pakistan for the Indus River. It also explains the legal regimes of these rivers.

Uses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.

Since 1984, the World Bank has financed 87 Financial Management Information System (FMIS) projects in 51 countries totaling over US $2.2 billion, of which US $938 million was for FMIS related information and communication technology (ICT) solutions. This study presents the World Bank's experience with these investment operations and shares the achievements and challenges observed.

Analyses the impacts of the financial crisis on power sectors in five countries: Armenia, Kyrgyz Republic, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. It concludes that policymakers need to prioritize public spending and create a legal and regulatory environment more conducive to private investment.

This Study explores arguments about the impact of climate change on human rights, examining the international legal frameworks governing human rights and climate change and identifying the relevant synergies and tensions between them. It considers arguments about (i) the human rights impacts of climate change at a macro level and how these impacts are spread disparately across countries; (ii) how climate change impacts human rights enjoyment within states and the equity and discrimination dimensions of those disparate impacts; and (iii) the role of international legal frameworks and mechanisms, including human rights instruments, particularly in the context of supporting developing countries'' adaptation efforts.The Study surveys the interface of human rights and climate change from the perspective of public international law. It builds upon the work that has been carried out on this interface by reviewing the legal issues it raises and complementing existing analyses by providing a comprehensive legal overview of the area and a focus on obligations upon States and other actors connected with climate change. The objective has therefore been to contribute to the global debate on climate change and human rights by offering a review of the legal dimensions of this interface as well as a survey of the sources of public international law potentially relevant to climate change and human rights in order to facilitate an understanding of what is meant, in legal terms, by "human rights impacts of climate change" and help identify ways in which international law can respond to this interaction. This is a complex and dynamically evolving legal and policy landscape and this study aims to capture its most salient features insofar as they appear at present. The Study employs the following three-part conceptual understanding of the links between human rights and climate change. First, climate change may affect the enjoyment of human rights: this is explored in part II and draws from the existing work of the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the UN Human Rights Council and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. Second, measures to address climate change may impact the realization of human rights. This is a subset of the discussion of "impacts" targeting "secondary" human rights impacts of measures aimed at addressing climate change. Third, human rights have relevance to policy and operational responses to climate change, such that human rights obligations (both substantive and procedural) may be relevant to the design and implementation of effective responses to climate change, particularly in relation to adaptation and to some extent also to mitigation. Human rights may also have a role in promoting resilience to climate change and may reinforce sustainable development goals.

Demonstrates that PPP financing remains viable and can bring value to the economy, despite the difficulties that projects face. The global financial crisis has created new opportunities for the Europe and Central Asia Region to refocus PPP projects on value-for-money and financial sustainability, as the primary drivers for private participation.

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.

Explores the threats to education quality in the developing world that cannot be explained by lack of resources. This study reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery failures in public education, and documents what we know about the extent and costs of such failures across low and middle-income countries.

Even with increased emphasis on basic education for all, many individuals fail to achieve basic skills to succeed in life. This presents evidence that one core reason is that by the time a child is old enough to attend school, there is already a wide disparity in cognitive skills and in emotional and behavioural development among children from households of different socioeconomic backgrounds.