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Product Description: International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2015 (formerly Global Development Finance) provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS)...read more
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9781464804137 | World Bank, December 15, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2015 (formerly Global Development Finance) provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).
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9781464803444 | World Bank, December 23, 2014, cover price $60.00
Product Description: Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty...read more
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9781464804380 | World Bank, November 26, 2014, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty.
Product Description: The World Bank Group has remained an important partner for the government of Brazil in addressing many key policy challenges. The World Bank adapted its program effectively to meet shifting country needs, which moved to subnational government support in the mid-2000s...read more
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9781464802164 | World Bank, November 11, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The World Bank Group has remained an important partner for the government of Brazil in addressing many key policy challenges.
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9781464803611 | World Bank, October 7, 2014, cover price $35.00
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9781464803512 | 12 edition (World Bank, October 24, 2014), cover price $35.00
Product Description: The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...read more
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9781464803369 | World Bank, October 21, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Product Description: State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are still signifi cant players in critical economic sectors such as infrastructure, finance, natural resources, and manufacturing. They are under increasing pressure to improve their performance. These pressures come from various sources, including the need to enhance their competitiveness and that of the economy as a whole, especially where SOEs are major players; to provide essential infrastructure, financial, and other services to businesses and consumers more efficiently and cost effectively; to access alternative sources of finance through the capital markets while reducing their fiscal burden and fi scal risk; and to enhance the transparency and accountability of the use of scarce public funds...read more
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9781464802225 | World Bank, October 2, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are still signifi cant players in critical economic sectors such as infrastructure, finance, natural resources, and manufacturing.
9780345290694, titled "Man Called Horse" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $1.75 | also contains Man Called Horse
Product Description: Republic of Iraq Public Expenditure Review: Toward More Efficient Spending for Better Service Delivery provides an integrated perspective on how Iraq needs to provide better public service delivery while maintaining macroeconomic stability and fiscal discipline...read more
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9781464802942 | World Bank, August 27, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Republic of Iraq Public Expenditure Review: Toward More Efficient Spending for Better Service Delivery provides an integrated perspective on how Iraq needs to provide better public service delivery while maintaining macroeconomic stability and fiscal discipline.
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9781464802065 | World Bank, July 29, 2014, cover price $49.95
Product Description: This revised edition of the Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Toolkit (TCD) provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools needed to conduct an analysis of trade competitiveness. The toolkit can be used to assess the competitiveness of a country's overall basket of exports, as well as specific traded sectors...read more
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9781464801679 | Revised edition (World Bank, March 17, 2017), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This revised edition of the Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Toolkit (TCD) provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools needed to conduct an analysis of trade competitiveness.
Product Description: The Little Green Data Book is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, oceans, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation...read more
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9781464801754 | World Bank, June 18, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Little Green Data Book is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries.
Product Description: This Book has been prepared by the World Bank, based on an extensive consultation-based diagnostic exercise initiated at the request from the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat. The EAC - in its ongoing efforts to deepen the economic linkages within its fast-growing region and strengthen the competitiveness of its Partner States â launched a review of the conduciveness of the existing legal, regulatory, institutional and financial framework in place within the region to foster increased public-private partnership investments in regional infrastructure...read more
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9781464802270 | World Bank, June 16, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This Book has been prepared by the World Bank, based on an extensive consultation-based diagnostic exercise initiated at the request from the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat.
Product Description: In economic growth the largest differences between developed and developing economies are in innovation performances. Innovation is critical for growth, but it is increasingly important for addressing major development changes, such as those related to inclusion and sustainability...read more
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9781464801365 | World Bank, June 9, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In economic growth the largest differences between developed and developing economies are in innovation performances.
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9781464801778 | World Bank, June 10, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This Little Data Book presents tables for over 213 economies showing the most recent national data on key indicators of information and communications technology (ICT), including access, quality, affordability, efficiency,sustainability, and applications.
Product Description: The Little Data Book 2014 is a pocket edition of World Development Indicators 2014. It is intended as a quick reference for users of the World Development Indicators database, book, and mobile app. The database covers more than 1,200 indicators and spans more than 50 years...read more
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9781464801655 | World Bank, May 7, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Little Data Book 2014 is a pocket edition of World Development Indicators 2014.
Product Description: The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the organization to changing circumstances and address concerns among external stakeholders about the role of aid in development. The reforms were motivated largely by widespread recognition that the Bank's development programs were excessively driven by a culture of lending, with insufficient attention to client needs and the quality of results, which are crucial to development effectiveness...read more
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9780821397152, titled "The Matrix System at Work: An Evaluation of the World Bankâs Organizational Effectiveness" | World Bank, July 30, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the organization to changing circumstances and address concerns among external stakeholders about the role of aid in development.
Product Description: The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. International prices for food and other agricultural products increased by more than 100 percent between early 2007 and mid-2008. Prices for food cereals more than doubled; and those for rice doubled in the space of just a few months...read more
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9781464800917 | World Bank, April 24, 2014, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard.
Product Description: World Development Indicators 2014 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help users of all kindspolicymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizensfind and use data related to all aspects of development, including those that help monitor and understand progress toward the two goals...read more
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9781464801631 | World Bank, May 12, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: World Development Indicators 2014 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty.
Product Description: Women perform 66% of the world's work, produce 50% of the food, but earn 10% of the income and own 1% of the property. To shed light on why this grim statistic still holds true, Women, Business and the Law aims to examine legal differentiations on the basis of gender in 143 of the world's economies...read more
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9781472906434 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 2, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Women perform 66% of the world's work, produce 50% of the food, but earn 10% of the income and own 1% of the property.
Product Description: International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2014 (formerly Global Development Finance) provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS)...read more
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9781464800511 | World Bank, February 11, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2014 (formerly Global Development Finance) provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).
Product Description: This report tries to put boundaries around the abstraction that is âsocial inclusionâ. It is intended for policy makers, academics, activists and development partners â indeed anyone who is curious about how to address inclusion in a world that is witness to intense demographic, spatial, economic and technological transitions...read more
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9781464800108 | World Bank, November 26, 2013, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: This report tries to put boundaries around the abstraction that is âsocial inclusionâ.
Product Description: Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion...read more
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9780821399859 | World Bank, November 7, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders.
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9780821399842 | 11 edition (World Bank, October 25, 2013), cover price $35.00
Product Description: The past 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the worldâmany of them for the better. Across the continents, many countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation...read more
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9780821399033, titled "World Development Report 2014: Risk and Opportunity: Managing Risk for Development" | World Bank, October 7, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The past 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the worldâmany of them for the better.
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