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The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a challenge to economic development. It will analyze the nature, causes and development consequences of modern violence and highlight lessons learned ...

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The lives of women around the world have improved dramatically, at a pace and scope difficult to imagine even 25 years ago. Women have made unprecedented gains in rights, education, health, and access to jobs and livelihoods. More countries than e...

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The world is in the midst of a sporadic and painful recovery from the most severe economic crisis since the 1930s' Great Depression. The unprecedented scale of the crisis and the speed of its transmission have revealed the interdependence of the g...

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This key guide to the World Bank staff organization contains the phone numbers of embassies and legations in Washington, DC as well as for staff members worldwide. It is divided into five sections: alphabetical listing of World Bank Staff; organiz...

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This is a detailed collection of data on Africa, it contains over 500 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering 53 African countries. Additional data may be found on the companion CD-ROM, World Bank database 2001, containing almost ...

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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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To reverse the economic decline that began in the 1970s, many sub-Saharan African countries have undertaken efforts to restructure their economies. This has included liberalizing trade, deregulating markets and prices, privatizing public enterpris...

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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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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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The crisis which gripped East Asia during 1997-99 underscored the urgency for cross-sectoral reform just as the strong revival of virtually all the economies in the region convinced the doubters that the East Asia miracle had by no means run its c...

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This Policy Research Report is the result of a generation of research based on statistical data from around the world. This book provides an integrated view of how financial sector policy can be optimised in the new century. It concludes that poli...

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The World Development Report, now in its 24th edition, is the standard reference work for international economic data. It contains an appendix of social and economic statistics for more than 200 countries. World Development Report 2001: Institutio...

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This report argues that forests offer a huge potential for poverty reduction in India and tries to improve the understanding of Joint Forest Management in India,

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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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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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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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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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