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This book is intended for economists; planners and policy-makers; bankers and business people; journalists; all those concerned with development studies.

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This is the seventeenth annual edition of the World Development Report, the standard reference source for international economic data. This edition contains a special section on the importance of infrastructure in economic development. Chapters in...

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Providing the poor with access to financial services is one of many ways to help increase their incomes and productivity. In many countries, however, traditional financial institutions have failed to provide this service. Microcredit and co-operat...

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The growth of regional trading blocs. often known as regional integration agreements (RIAs), is one of the major developments in international relations. More than one-third of world trade takes place within such agreements. The last ten years hav...

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Vocational education and training (VET) schemes are called on to help unemployed young people and older workers get jobs, to reduce the burden on higher education, to attract foreign investment, to ensure rapid growth of earnings and employment, t...

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Disparities between men and women in basic rights, access to resources, and power to determine their own lives continue to exist in virtually all countries of the world. This report reconfirms the importance of gender equality in the fight against...

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Recent technological advances, particularly in microelectronics and telecommunications, biotechnology, and advanced materials, pose critical challenges and opportunities for developing countries, and for the development banks and other organizatio...

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Recent technological advances, particularly in microelectronics and telecommunications, biotechnology, and advanced materials, pose critical challenges and opportunities for developing countries, and for the development banks and other organizatio...

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Latin America has been surprisingly spared from a generalized wave of corporate governance scandals. One possible explanation is that the region's level of investor protection is adequate. The evidence from the papers in this book says otherwise. ...

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Latin America has been surprisingly spared from a generalized wave of corporate governance scandals. One possible explanation is that the region's level of investor protection is adequate. The evidence from the papers in this book says otherwise. ...

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A two-volume set containing Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth and Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs. Doing Business is a series of annual reports investigating regulations that ease doing business and those that constrain it.

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Explains how development financing affects firms and households

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The study discusses ways of evaluating financial regulations and their effect on macroeconomic, allocative, protective, and other financial systems. It is a handy guidebook to regulatory changes faced by banking and nonbanking markets alike

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The economywide policy reform programs that have been undertaken in developing countries in recent years often address macroeconomic problems with little or no regard for their environmental impact, be it positive or negative. This book and its co...

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This glossary is intended to assist the World Bank's translators and interpreters and others in the Bank and the development community who use Spanish in their work. It contains financial and economic terminology and terms relating to the Bank's p...

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The World Bank Group in collaboration with United Nations Industrial Development Organization and United Nations Environment Programme. Quite often in developing countries, the economy progresses while the environment deteriorates because pollutio...

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