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Increasing Professionalism in Public Finance Management

Sarah Jane Squire, Ivor Beazley

• Paperback
• How do you make government more effective and efficient? Part of the answer lies in the ability to manage money well. This study describes steps taken...

Human Rights Indicators in Development

Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Hans-Otto Sano

• Paperback
• Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realizati...

Institutional Pathways to Equity

• Paperback
• Part of the ""New Frontiers of Social Policy"" series, which examines issues and approaches to extend the boundaries of social policy beyond conventio...

Too global to fail

World Bank

• Paperback

Financial Transition in Europe and Central Asia

• Paperback
• With 21 papers on issues concerning financial sector transition in Europe and Central Asia, this book places the transition economies in the context o...

Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries

• Paperback
• Presents several different approaches to modeling the effects of the outcome of the Doha negotiations, and investigates why these (and other) modeling...

Global Monitoring Report 2010

• Paperback
• This year's Global Monitoring Report, The MDGs after the Crisis, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and ...

Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor

Andrew Dymond, Juan Navas-Sabater

• Paperback
• This work outlines various approaches that can be integrated to help close the ""access gap"" to telecommunications where needed. These include: desig...

Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to Growth

Alexander Pitt, Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang

• Paperback
• 'Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to Growth' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to c...

Empowering Women

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, F.Scott Scribner

• Paperback

Municipal Finances

• Paperback

BLUEPRINT 2050

• Paperback
• Protection and management of coastal and marine areas are important mechanisms for alleviating poverty in the developing tropics. Tanzania has had con...

Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa

World Bank

• Paperback
• Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa

Enterprise Restructuring and Economic Policy in Russia

Simon Commander, Qimiao Fan, Mark E. Schaffer

• Paperback

Urban Air Quality Management Strategy in Asia Greater Mumbai Report

• Paperback

The International Migration of Women

• Paperback
• 190 million people - 3 percent of the world's population - presently live outside their country of birth and half are women. This volume is the first ...

THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER-LEGAL AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

• Paperback
• Traces the issue of the right to water through a number of international legal instruments, particularly General Comment No. 15 which recognizes such ...

LE SYSTEME EDUCATIF CONGOLAIS (FRENCH)

• Frans | Paperback
• The Congolese Country Status Report is a detailed analytical document of the education sector drawn up by a national team supported technically by the...

Voices of the Poor

• Paperback
• Includes three volumes: ""Can Anyone Hear Us?""; ""Crying Out for Change""; and ""From Many Lands"".

Governance of Technical Education in India

• Paperback
• Examines the development of technical education in India, something that is seen as critical to India's aspirations of becoming a major competitive pl...

Better Governance for Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Arup Banerji

• Paperback
• Governance in the Middle East and North Africa affects growth and development in the region. This work calls on countries in the region to commit to f...

Innocent Bystanders

• Hardcover
• The drug policies of wealthy consuming countries emphasise criminalisation and eradication. Such extreme responses risk unintended, costly consequence...

Reforming Severance Pay

• Paperback
• Termination pay includes severance, mass redundancy, or end-of-service pay and is widely used as income protection for the unemployed. This book revie...

Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations

• Paperback
• Reviews the specific design and implementation challenges facing social health insurance (SHI) in low- and middle-income countries and presents case s...