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  • Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa

    Edited by Kathleen Beegle, Aline Coudouel, Emma Monsalve ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety nets programs. All countries have now deployed safety net interventions as part of their core development programs. The number of programs has skyrocketed since the mid-2000s though many programs remain limited in size. ... Read more

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  • Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa

    Edited by Kathleen Beegle, Aline Coudouel, Emma Monsalve ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety nets programs. All countries have now deployed safety net interventions as part of their core development programs. The number of programs has skyrocketed since the mid-2000s though many programs remain limited in size. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Made in Africa

    Learning to Compete in Industry

    by Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand ...
    The role of industry in low income countries is important. Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of industry. Africa doesn’t have enough industry to reach the Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about three ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Economic Development

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Marcelo M. Giugale ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments, development banks, think-tanks, academics, NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obvious reforms never happen? Why are prosperity and equity so elusive? Is the current backlash against globalization another show-stopper? The revised ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness: Evaluative Lessons from World Bank Group Experience

    by World Bank ...
    The report assesses the World Bank Group?s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand for food and to reducing poverty particularly in the poorest developing countries. Between 1998 and 2008 the period covered by this evaluation the World Bank Group (WBG) provided 23.7 billion in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Good Enough for Government Work

    The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

    by Amy E. Lerman ...
    American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens—Republicans and Democrats alike—hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job managing public programs and providing public services. When social problems arise, Americans are therefore skeptical that the government has the ability ... Read more

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  • Corruption

    Costs and Mitigating Strategies

    by International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept., International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept. ...
    In an environment in which growth and employment prospects in many countries remain subdued and a number of high-profile corruption cases have fueled moral outrage, and amid a growing consensus that corruption can seriously undermine a country’s ability to deliver inclusive economic growth in a number of different areas, addressing corruption globally—in both developed and developing countries—has ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rethinking Investment Incentives

    Trends and Policy Options

    Edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, Lisa Sachs ...
    Governments often use direct subsidies or tax credits to encourage investment and promote economic growth and other development objectives. Properly designed and implemented, these incentives can advance a wide range of policy objectives (increasing employment, promoting sustainability, and reducing inequality). Yet since design and implementation are complicated, incentives have been associated ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • World Development Report 2014

    Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had been stagnant for decades are growing, people who had suffered deprivation for generations are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Poverty in the Philippines

    Causes, Constraints, and Opportunities

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and rising food, fuel, and commodity prices, addressing poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. The proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly in the past four decades, and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People's Republic ... Read more

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  • Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs

    by World Bank ; International Monetary Fund ...
    With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators countries and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the remaining gaps. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD