Nomenclatura Y Gestión Urbana

Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, Hugues Le Roux

• Paperback | Spaans | Directions in Development
• The most spectacular change in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last few decades has been the dramatic demographic shift from rural areas to cities. As a r... Lees meer

Faith in Conservation

Martin Palmer, Victoria Finlay

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• This book, arising from over twenty years experience of working with the world's major faiths, draws extensively upon joint World Bank and ARC (Allian... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Democratic Decentralization

James Manor

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Advocates of pluralist, competitive politics have regarded decentralization as a device for deepening democracy or for prying closed systems open and ... Lees meer

Water, Electricity, and the Poor

Kristin Komives, Vivien Foster, Jonathan Halpern

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• While consumer utility subsidies are widespread in both the water and electricity sectors, their effectiveness in reaching and distributing resources ... Lees meer

Building Competitive Firms

Ijaz Nabi, Manjula Luthria

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Building Competitive Firms: Incentives and Capabilities explains how firms become competitive in language suitable for both technical and non-technica... Lees meer

Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda

Amanda Ellis, Claire Manuel, C Mark Blackden

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Men and women both play significant, though different, economic roles in Uganda (both contribute around 50% of GDP and women are 39% of business owner... Lees meer

Open and Nimble

Daniel Lederman, Justin T Lesniak

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Does economic size matter for economic development outcomes? If so are current policies adequately addressing the role of size in the development proc... Lees meer

Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• "Foreign direct investment (FDI) is becoming increasingly critical to the economies of developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the s... Lees meer

Challenging Corruption in Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• "Corruption," according to World Bank President James Wolfensohn, "is one of the greatest inhibiting forces to equitable development and to the combat... Lees meer

Integration of Transport and Trade Facilitation

T R Lakshmanan, Uma Subramanian, William P Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Due to declining transport costs and declining tariffs, trade has grown much faster than income since World War II. Furthermore, international trade f... Lees meer

Où sont passés tous les manuels scolaires?

Tony Read

• Paperback | Frans | Directions in Development
• Cette étude de la Banque mondiale est une riche compilation d'informations sur le matériel pédagogique d'apprentissage (MPA) sur la base de la vaste e... Lees meer

Agricultural Growth for the Poor

World Bank Group, Bank World Bank, World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• The majority of the world's poor depend directly or indirectly on agriculture. Despite the strong linkages between broad-based agricultural growth and... Lees meer

Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Development Projects

Michael Bamberger

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• "Much of the early work on poverty was highly quantitative: ... It became increasingly clear, however, that while numbers are essential for policy and... Lees meer

Building a Sustainable Future

Agi Kiss, Inc World Book, Bank World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• In Africa, most especially Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank's mission, to fight poverty, is strongly linked with environmental protection and better... Lees meer

Crisis and Dollarization in Ecuador

World Bank, Paul Beckerman, Andres Solimano

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• Early in 2000, Ecuador, confronted with a serious economic and governance crises, adopted the U.S. dollar as its national currency. The economic situa... Lees meer

Development Finance Institutions

Mark Schreiner, Jacob Yaron

• Paperback | Engels | Directions in Development
• For decades, governments and donors have attempted to improve social welfare through public support for development finance institutions (DFIs). This ... Lees meer

Fournir des manuels scolaires a tous les enfants d'Afrique subsaharienne

Birger Fredriksen, Sukhdeep Brar

• Paperback | Directions in Development
• Le present ouvrage examine les couts et les obstacles financiers entravant la disponibilite des manuels dans les ecoles d'une grande partie de la regi... Lees meer