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Law and Development.....................................................................31 Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.......................................31 Poverty Reduction.............................................................................32 Private Sector Development...........................................................32 Public Sector Development.............................................................33 Rural Development...........................................................................33 Social Development..........................................................................33 Social Protections and Labor..........................................................33 Transport...........................................................................................34 Urban Development.........................................................................34 Order Form........................................................................................35 Index...................................................................................................36 World Bank Publications Distributors.......................................... C3

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World Development Indicators 2012 Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues?

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 800 indicators for more than 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 90 tables. It provides a current overview of the most recent data available as well as important regional data and income group analysis in six thematic sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.

WDI 2012 presents the most current and accurate development data on both a national level and aggregated globally. It allows you to monitor the progress made toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals endorsed by the United Nations and its member countries, the World Bank, and a host of partner organizations. These goals, which focus on development and the elimination of poverty, serve as the agenda for international development efforts.

The WDI 2012 CD-ROM contains time series data for more than 200 economies from 1960-2010, single-year observations, and spreadsheets on many topics. It contains more than 1,000 country tables and the text from the World Development Indicators 2012 print edition.

The Windows-based format permits users to search for and retrieve data in spreadsheet form, create maps and charts, and fully download them into other popular software programs for study or presentation purposes.

Print Edition. April 2012.

460 pages. Stock no. C18985 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8985-0). US$75.00 CD-ROM. June 2012. Stock no. C18989 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8989-8). US$50.00 Print Edition plus CD-ROM. June 2012.

460 pages. Stock no. C18994 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8994-2). US$100.00

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World Development Indicators, along with several other databases, is now available free of charge as part of the World Bank’s new Open Data Initiative.

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Global Development Finance 2012 External Debt of Developing Countries Global Development Finance 2012: External Debt of Developing Countries (GDF) provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 129 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System (DRS). It also includes tables of key debt ratios for individual reporting countries and the composition of external debt stocks and flows for individual reporting countries and regional and income groups along with some graphical presentations.

Longer time series and more detailed data are available from the Global Development Finance 2012 CD-ROM and the World Bank open databases, which contain more than 200 time series indicators, covering the years 1970 to 2010 for most reporting countries, and pipeline data for scheduled debt service payments on existing commitments to 2018. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios, as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, and debt restructurings in greater detail than can be included in the GDF book. The CD-ROM also contains the full contents of the print version of GDF 2012. Text providing country notes, definitions, and source information is linked to each table.

Print Edition. December 2011.

340 pages. Stock no. C18997 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8997-3). US$75.00 CD-ROM. February 2012. Stock no. C19463 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9463-2). US$50.00 Print Edition plus CD-ROM. February 2012. 340 pages. Stock no. C19464 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9464-9). US$100.00

Global Development Finance 2012 is unique in its coverage of the important trends and issues fundamental to the financing of the developing world. This report is an indispensible resource for governments, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, bankers, and the entire development community.

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Global Development Finance, along with several other databases, is now available free of charge as part of the World Bank’s new Open Data Initiative.

The Global Development Finance database contains more than 200 time series indicators, covering the years 1970 to 2010 for most reporting countries, and pipeline data for scheduled debt service payments on existing commitments to 2011.

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Global Monitoring Report 2012 Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals The rapid increases in world food prices since 2005 have raised widespread concerns about their possible impact on poverty, hunger, and general progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This year’s report summarizes the short- and longterm impact of food prices on several MDGs, explores future trends, and reviews policy responses, from domestic policies such as social safety nets, nutritional programs, and agricultural policies, to regional trade policies to support by the international community.

This year’s theme is used as a filter to examine progress toward the M ­ DGs — especially for women, children, and countries in fragile situations. The Global Monitoring Report is prepared jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

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April 2012. 196 pages. Stock no. C19451 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9451-9). US$29.95

Overview Chapter 1: Progress toward the Poverty MDG in light of recent food price shocks Chapter 2: Linking food prices to the MDGs: how nutritional programs can improve the odds of reaching the MDGs Chapter 3: Growth and macroeconomic adjustment in developing countries Chapter 4: Challenges for the international development framework

World Development Report 2012 Gender Equality and Development This year’s World Development Report (WDR) focuses on the economics of gender equality and development, taking an explicit economic approach to understanding what drives gender outcomes and how to improve them. It makes the case that gender equality is a core development objective in its own right. It is also smart economics. Greater gender equality can enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for the next generation, and make institutions more representative.

WDR 2012 provides a comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding the achievement of gender equality and bridges the knowledge gap on how and why gender equality matters for development. It is essential reading and an invaluable reference for policy makers, academics, and development practitioners looking for a better understanding of the linkages between gender equality and development.

The World Development Report 2012: n Focuses on the economics of gender equality n Draws on quantitative and qualitative data, including new field research n Builds on the view of development as a process of expanding freedoms equally for all individuals, and considers gender equality as a core development goal in itself January–June 2012 catalog

Paperback. September 2011.

426 pages. Stock no. C18810 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8810-5). US$26.00 Hardcover. October 2011.

426 pages. Stock no. C18825 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8825-9). US$50.00

n Analyzes

how markets, formal and informal social institutions, interact and influence household decision-making n Informs policy decisions by building on and synthesizing the growing body of multidisciplinary theory, evidence, and data on how gender equality matters for development while highlighting the major knowledge gaps that remain.

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Doing Business 2012 Doing Business in a More Transparent World Ninth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies, Doing Business 2012 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: n Starting a business n Dealing with construction n Employing workers n Registering property n Getting credit n Protecting investors

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n Paying taxes n Trading across borders n Enforcing contracts n Closing a business n Getting electricity

The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2011, ranks countries on their overall “ease of doing business,” and analyzes reforms to business regulation — identifying which countries are strengthening their business environment the most.

Doing Business 2012 includes a new set of indicators on the time, steps, and cost for a private business to get an electricity connection. The data on connection services can inform utilities, regulators, and governments seeking to strengthen the performance of the electricity sector. Drawing on a now longer time series, this year’s report also introduces a new “distance to frontier” measure to illustrate how the regulatory environment for business has changed in each economy since Doing Business 2006 was published in 2005.

October 2011. 264 pages.

Stock no. C18833 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8833-4). US$35.00

Doing Business at a Glance 2012 Mobile Application Doing Business at a Glance 2012 draws on the data and information from Doing Business, giving you portable access to the most recent ratings and data from 2011 and 2012, without the need for an Internet connection. For more info or to download the app, visit apps.worldbank.org/ doingbusiness.

Africa Development Indicators 2011 Africa Development Indicators 2011 is the most detailed collection of data on Africa. It contains macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators for 53 countries. A companion CD-ROM has additional data, with some 1,700 indicators covering 1961–2009. Indicators include: n Basic indicators n National and fiscal accounts n External accounts and

exchange rates

n Millennium Development Goals n Private sector development n Trade and regional

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n Infrastructure n Human development n Agriculture, rural

development, and the environment n Labor, migration, and population n HIV/AIDS and malaria

Designed as both a quick reference and a reliable dataset for monitoring development programs and aid flows in the region, Africa Development Indicators 2011 is an invaluable tool for analysts and policy makers who want a better understanding of Africa’s economic and social development.

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Print Edition plus CD-ROM. October 2011. 194 pages.

Stock no. C18731 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8731-3). US$100.00 CD-ROM. September 2011.

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flagship T itl e s The Little Data Book 2012 Now in its tenth edition, this pocket-sized reference on key development data for over 200 countries provides profiles of each country with 54 development indicators about people, environment, economy, technology and infrastructure, trade, and finance. It is intended as a quick reference for users of World Development Indicators and the Atlas of Global Development.

June 2012. 248 pages. Stock no. C18992 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8992-8). US$15.00

The Little Data Book on Climate Change 2011 The Little Data Book on Climate Change provides a broad overview of climate change data and includes a diverse set of indicators selected from both the global economic and scientific communities. These indicators reflect recognition of the intrinsic relationship between climate change and development, and attempt to synthesize important aspects of current and projected climate conditions, exposure to climate impacts, resilience, greenhouse gas emissions, and the state of efforts to take action.

November 2011. 260 pages. Stock no. C18959 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8959-1). US$15.00

The Little Data Book on Gender 2011 This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics.

The book presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 countries in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation, and the Millennium Development Goals. The book’s summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates.

September 2011. 246 pages. Stock no. C18881 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8881-5). US$15.00

The Little Green Data Book 2012 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, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation.

June 2012. 248 pages. Stock no. C18993 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8993-5). US$15.00

The Little Data Book on External Debt 2012 The Little Data Book on External Debt provides a quick reference for users interested in external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, and the currency composition of long-term debt for all countries reporting through the Debtor Reporting system. A pocket edition of Global Development Finance 2012, it contains statistical tables for 135 countries as well as summary tables for regional and income groups.

June 2012. 152 pages. Stock no. C18999 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8999-7). US$15.00

THE Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2012 The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2012 provides data for more than 20 key indicators on the business environment and private sector development in a single page for each of the World Bank member countries and other economies with populations of more than 30,000. These more than 200 country pages are supplemented by aggregate data for regional and income groupings.

June 2012. 244 pages. Stock no. C18995 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8995-9). US$15.00

The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2012 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.

June 2012. 240 pages. Stock no. C18996 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8996-6). US$15.00 January–June 2012 catalog

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Localizing Development Does Participation Work?

By Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao

Policy Research Reports

June 2012. 200 pages. Stock no. C18256 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8256-1). US$35.00

The idea that fostering citizen participation is central to resolving problems of good governance and development is one that has acquired tremendous force in recent times. It is the unifying theme that underlies many different approaches toward localizing development, whether in the form of community-based/-driven projects or the decentralization of government decision making. Community participation in the development process is expected to build demand for inclusive and effective local governance, empower poor and vulnerable groups, improve the delivery of public services, and increase access to resources and livelihood opportunities – particularly for the most marginalized. In line with this, both governments and donors have invested very substantial resources in programs and projects that use participatory approaches to build local institutions.

Localizing Development examines the conceptual foundations of this approach and builds an analytical framework in which civic participation is viewed as a potential solution to specific civil society, market, and government failures. It then uses this framework to accomplish two things. First, it reviews the evidence on the efficacy of participatory approaches to problems of development. It then identifies the ways in which observed policy choices for inducing participation are intimately shaped and constrained by the historical, sociocultural, and political context. In assembling the evidence, the authors takes a broad multidisciplinary view, drawing on the evidence to provide key lessons for policy.

Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean The Road Ahead

By Augusto de la Torre, Alain Ize, and Sergio L. Schmukler

During the 1980s and 1990s, financial sectors were the Achilles’ heel of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since then, these sectors have grown and deepened, becoming more integrated and competitive, with new actors, markets, and instruments springing up and financial inclusion broadening. To crown these achievements, the region’s financial systems were left largely unscathed by the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Now that the successes of LAC’s macrofinancial stability are widely recognized and tested, it is high time for an in-depth stocktaking of what remains to be done.

Latin America and Caribbean Studies

November 2011. 264 pages.

Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Road Ahead provides both Stock no. C18847 a stocktaking and a forward-looking assessment of the region’s financial development.

(ISBN: 978-0-8213-8847-1). US$20.00 Rather than going into detail about sector-specific issues, the report focuses on the main architectural issues, overall perspectives, and interconnections. The report’s value added thus hinges on its holistic view of the development process, its broad coverage of the financial services industry beyond banking, its emphasis on benchmarking, its systemic perspective, and its explicit effort to incorporate the lessons from the recent global financial crisis.

The report builds on and complements several overview studies on financial development in both LAC countries and the developing world that were published in the past decade. It will be of interest to policy makers and financial analysts interested in improving the financial sector in the LAC region.

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More and Better Jobs in South Asia South Asia has created nearly 800,000 jobs per month during the last decade. Robust economic growth in large parts of the region has created better jobs — those that pay higher wages for wage workers and reduce poverty for the self-employed, the largest segment of the region’s employed. Going forward, South Asia faces the enormous challenge of absorbing 1 to 1.2 million entrants to the labor force every month for the next two decades at rising levels of productivity.

South Asia Development Matters

This calls for an agenda that cuts across sectors and includes improving the reliability of electricity supply for firms in both urban and rural settings, dealing decisively with issues of governance and corruption, making access to land easier for urban informal firms, and strengthening transport links between rural firms and their markets. It requires improving nutrition in early childhood to avoid cognitive impairment, intensifying the focus on quality of learning in education systems, equipping workers with the skills that employers demand, and reorienting labor market regulations and programs to protect workers rather than jobs.

December 2011. 368 pages.

Stock no. C18912 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8912-6). US$39.95

This book is the first title in South Asia Development Matters, a new series that will serve as a vehicle for in-depth synthesis of economic and policy analysis on key development topics for South Asia. It will be of interest to policy makers, their advisers, researchers, and students of economics who seek solutions, not only to the challenge of creating more and better jobs in South Asia but globally as well.

Golden Growth Restoring the Luster of the European Economic Model

By Indermit S. Gill and Martin Raiser

The public debt crisis in Europe has shaken the confidence not just in the Euro, but in the European model. Aging and uneconomical Europeans are being squeezed between innovative Americans and efficient Asians, it is said. With debt and demographics dragging them down, one hears that European economies will not grow much unless radically new ways are discovered.

The end of complacency in Europe is a good thing, but this loss of confidence could be dangerous. The danger is that in a rush to rejuvenate growth, the attractive attributes of the European development model could be abandoned along with the weak. In fact, the European growth model has many strong points and enviable accomplishments.

One can say without exaggeration that Europe had invented a “convergence machine,” taking in poor countries and helping them become high-income economies. World Bank research has identified 27 countries that have grown from middle income to high income since 1987: a few thanks to the discovery and exploitation of massive natural resources (e.g., oil in Oman and Trinidad and Tobago), several others like Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea, embracing aggressive export-led strategies Eastern Europe and Central Asia Flagship that involved working and saving a lot, postponing political liberties, and looking out January 2012. 384 pages. only for themselves. But half of the countries that have grown from middle income to high income — Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Stock no. C18965 Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia — are actually in Europe. This is why the (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8965-2). US$45.00 European model was so attractive and unique, and why with some well-designed efforts, it could be made right again.

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Information and Communications for Development 2012 Transformative Mobile

June 2012. 275 pages.

Stock no. C18991 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8991-1). US$45.00

Information and Communications for Development 2012, third in this series, highlights the transformative potential that mobile applications holds for different sectors of the economy – health, agriculture, financial services – and the potential they bring for stimulating economic growth and entrepreneurship in developing economies, and engaging a citizen-centric approach to the delivery of government services. The report positions mobile applications as more than just software code running on a mobile handset, but rather highlights the need to develop an ecosystem of supporting services to ensure that mobile applications achieve their full development potential.

The Information and Communications for Development Report has become the World Bank’s main flagship vehicle for publishing research on ICT policy and market trends. The first volume, Global Trends and Policies, was published in 2006, followed by the second issue, Extending Reach and Increasing Impact. Over time, it has gained a reputation for informed analysis and insight.

“...an essential and practical guide for policy makers, government officials, and academic practitioners who are working to ensure that their countries seize the opportunities offered by ICT.” —Dr. Craig R. Barrett, Chairman, United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development, and Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation

Putting Higher Education to Work Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia

By Emanuela di Gropello, Prateek Tandon, and Shahid Yusuf

Impressive gains have been made in expanding access to higher education in East Asia over the past few decades, and the significance of higher education is expected to increase as developing economies face the challenge of sustaining growth in a competitive environment. Still, much work needs to be done if higher education is to realize its full potential to produce the skills and research needed for innovation and growth.

Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia takes an indepth and comprehensive look at higher education in East Asia — how it has changed, how it will continue to evolve, and how it can be improved. Using innovative firm surveys and the latest available evidence from the region, the authors identify functional skills needed for competitiveness and productivity, and look at how higher education systems can produce the type of skills and kind of commercially applicable research that will drive growth.

Though focused on the developing countries in East Asia, the book’s methodologies, messages, and careful guidance will be of interest and value to researchers and policy makers in all regions where higher education and training are important issues.

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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report

November 2011. 288 pages.

Stock no. C18490 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8490-9). US$39.95

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The New Microfinance Handbook A Financial Market System Perspective

By Joanna Ledgerwood and Julie F. Earne

June 2012. 504 pages. Stock no. C18927 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8927-0). US$49.95

The New Microfinance Handbook takes a market systems approach to financial inclusion, oriented by client needs. Framing the book with the client as the central element recognizes the emerging awareness that financial needs of the poor are many and are provided by multiple market players beyond the scope of any single institutional form. The book explores the fundamentals of this expanded view through examining client needs (demand), products and providers (supply), and the support systems required to increase financial access to the poor with a focus on operational support, rules and regulations, infrastructure and delivery channels, information, and funding.

The objective of The New Microfinance Handbook is to provide a strategic guide to help assess the financial service needs of the poor and to determine how a diversified financial sector can address these needs. It takes a different approach from the original Microfinance Handbook. Rather than write from the “institutional” perspective (supply driven), this time the authors consider first and foremost the clients and their needs (demand side) and how the market can better meet their needs. The result is a book that is less of a “how-to” guide but rather a description of financial markets and how they work, or do not work, in serving the needs of the poor — and what is needed to improve the market. The book aims to facilitate access to and usage of financial products and services that genuinely meet the many needs of the poor through various sustainable financial service providers.

New Structural Economics A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy

By Justin Yifu Lin

Economic development is a process of continuous technological innovation and structural transformation. Development thinking is inherently tied to the quest for sustainable growth strategies.

Authored by Justin Y. Lin, Chief Economist of the World Bank, this book uses a neoclassical approach to study the determinants of economic structure and its transformation, and draws new insights for development policy. The market is the basic mechanism for effective resource allocation at each level of development. However, economic development as a dynamic process entails structural changes, including industrial upgrading and diversification, and corresponding improvements in hard and soft infrastructure. Such upgrading and improvements require coordination, and go hand in hand with large externalities to firms’ transaction costs and returns to capital investment. Thus, in addition to an effective market mechanism, the government should play an active role in facilitating structural changes.

January 2012. 352 pages.

Stock no. C18955 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8955-3). US$39.95

New Structural Economics presents empirical evidence in support of this framework as well as concrete advice to development practitioners.

“New Structural Economics is a truly important and ambitious book. . . .This book will become an essential reference for scholars and for policy makers not only in developing countries, but also, increasingly, in developed countries.”

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Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Toolkit

By Jose Guilherme Reis and Thomas Farole

This toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and practical tools for conducting an analysis of a country’s trade competitiveness in terms of growth and share performance, diversification, and quality. It aims to facilitate the identification of the main constraints to improved trade competitiveness and the policy responses to overcome these constraints.

Table of Contents Overview and Guidelines For Conducting a Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic Module 1 Summary – Conducting the Trade Outcomes Analysis Module 2 Summary – Conducting the Competitiveness Diagnostics Module 3 Summary – Moving from Analysis to Policy Options

Trade and Development Series

January 2012. 257 pages.

Stock no. C18937 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8937-9). US$39.95

Implementation Toolkit Module A: Trade Outcomes Analysis Module B: Competitiveness Diagnostics Module C: Policy Options for Competitiveness and Case Studies Appendix

Preferential Trade Agreement Policies for Development A Handbook Edited by Jean-Pierre Chauffour and Jean-Christophe Maur

Economists have repeatedly warned against them, NGOs have fought them, and some governments have begrudgingly (at least in appearance) signed them. Yet, in the last twenty years the growth in number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been unabated. Even more strikingly, their scope has broadened while their number was increasing. Deep integration provisions in PTAs have now become ubiquitous.

This handbook on PTA policies for development offers an introduction into the world of modern preferential trade agreements. It goes beyond the traditional paradigm of trade creation versus trade diversion to address the economic and legal aspects of the regulatory policies that are contained in today‘s PTAs. The book maps the landscape of PTAs, summarizes the theoretical arguments, political economy, and development dimensions of PTAs, and presents the current practice in the main policy areas typically covered in PTAs (from agriculture policy, rules of origin, customs unions, trade remedies, product standards, technical barriers, to behind the border issues related to investment, trade facilitation, competition, government procurement, intellectual property, labor rights, human rights, environment, migration, and dispute resolution). These are also usually the policies driven by powerful trading blocs as they strive to influence the evolution of the global trading system.

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Trade and Development Series

June 2011. 532 pages.

Stock no. C18643 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8643-9). US$49.95

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New Century, Old Disparities Ethnic and Gender Earnings Gaps in Latin America Income inequality problems are linked, to an important extent, to earnings differentials between men and women, and to a greater extent, between whites and ethnic minorities. Individuals who self-report being members of an ethnic minority receive hourly earnings that are, on average, 38% below the earnings of the rest of the population in the region.

When faced with such striking differences in the effective capacity for income generation, many questions arise: How much of these differences are explained by differences in human capital? To what extent do individuals with the same observable endowment of human capital receive different salaries on the basis of their gender or ethnic condition? For what segments of the labor market are these wage differentials most pronounced? How have these gaps evolved over the years? To what extent are women and minorities confronted by access barriers to certain segments of the labor markets? What would the labor income distribution be if women or ethnic minorities reached the same human capital characteristics of their men or non-minority counterparts? What policy options promise to diminish these earnings gaps?

Latin American Development Forum

February 2012. 224 pages.

Stock no. C18686 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8686-6). US$30.00

This book tries to answer these questions using an innovative technique of matching comparisons. This book aims to reach an important audience of policy and decision makers, as well as members of civil society, especially minority groups, who otherwise have limited access to these information sources.

From Right to Reality Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Helena Ribe, David Robalino, and Ian Walker

This study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and antipoverty safety nets. The authors identify interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region.

From Right to Reality argues for a redesign of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. It advocates well-targeted, tax-funded, tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low-income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation Latin American Development Forum of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book January 2012. 448 pages. develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP Stock no. C18687 sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and labor market programs, and (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8687-3). US$39.95 safety net transfers.

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Does What You Export Matter?

In Search of Empirical Guidance for Industrial Policies

By Daniel Lederman and William Maloney

Does what economies export matter for development? If so, can industrial policies improve on the export basket generated by the market? This book reviews relevant literature and takes stock of conceptual, empirical, and policy viewpoints, and it assesses indicators that can guide public sector interventions. That is, given conceptual arguments in favor of intervention, does data allow us to do so with a high degree of confidence? In asking this question, the authors assume that government failures do not trump market failures: The authors attempt to “give industrial policy (IP) a chance.”

Latin American Development Forum

January 2012. 144 pages.

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Agricultural Innovation Systems An Investment Sourcebook Managing the ability of agriculture to meet rising global demand and to respond to the changes and opportunities will require good policy, sustained investments, and innovation – not business as usual. Investments in public R&D, extension, education, and their links with one another have elicited high returns and pro-poor growth, but these investments alone will not elicit innovation at the pace or on the scale required by the intensifying and proliferating challenges confronting agriculture.

Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) investments must be specific to the context, responding to the stage of development in a particular country and agricultural sector, especially the AIS. This sourcebook contributes to identifying, designing, and implementing the investments, approaches, and complementary interventions that appear most likely to strengthen AIS and to promote agricultural innovation and equitable growth. It emphasizes the lessons learned, benefits and impacts, implementation issues, and prospects for replicating or expanding successful practices. The information in this sourcebook derives from approaches that have been tested at different scales in different contexts. It reflects the experiences and evolving understanding of numerous individuals and organizations concerned with agricultural innovation, including the World Bank.

Agriculture and Rural Development Series

February 2012. 562 pages.

Stock no. C18684 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8684-2). US$49.95

This information is targeted to the key operational staff in international and regional development agencies and national governments who design and implement lending projects and to the practitioners who design thematic programs and technical assistance packages. The sourcebook can also be an important resource for the research community and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

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The Land Governance Assessment Framework Identifying and Monitoring Good Practice in the Land Sector

By Klaus Deininger, Harris Selod, and Anthony Burns

Increased global demand for land posits the need for well-designed country-level land policies to protect long-held rights, facilitate land access and address any constraints that land policy may pose for broader growth. While the implementation of land reforms can be a lengthy process, the need to swiftly identify key land policy challenges and devise responses that allow the monitoring of progress, in a way that minimizes conflicts and supports broader development goals, is clear.

The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) makes a substantive contribution to the land sector by providing a quick and innovative tool to monitor land governance November 2011. 164 pages. at the country level. The LGAF offers a comprehensive diagnostic tool that covers Stock no. C18758 five main areas for policy intervention: legal and institutional framework; land use (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8758-0). US$25.00 planning, management and taxation; management of public land; public provision of land information; and dispute resolution and conflict management. The LGAF assesses these areas through a set of detailed indicators that are rated on a scale of precoded statements (from lack of good governance to good practice). While land governance can be highly technical in nature and tends to be addressed in a partial and sporadic manner, the LGAF posits a tool for a comprehensive assessment, taking into account the broad range of issues that land governance encompasses, while enabling those unfamiliar with land to grasp its full complexity. The LGAF will make it possible for policymakers to make sense of the technical levels of the land sector, benchmark governance, identify areas that require further attention and monitor progress. It is intended to assist countries in prioritizing reforms in the land sector by providing a holistic diagnostic review that can inform policy dialogue in a clear and targeted manner.

Agriculture and Rural Development Series

In addition to presenting the LGAF tool, this book includes detailed case studies on its implementation in five selected countries: Peru, the Kyrgyz Republic, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Tanzania.

Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World Edited by Judy L. Baker

Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable.

Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and result in the loss of basic services, damage or destruction to homes, loss of livelihoods, malnutrition, disease, disability, and loss of life.

Urban Development Series

This study analyzes the key challenges facing the urban poor given the risks associated with climate change and disasters, particularly with regard to the delivery of basic services, and identifies strategies and financing opportunities for addressing these risks.

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Urban Risk Assessments An Approach for Understanding Disaster and Climate Risk in Cities This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment (URA), for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities that is intended to assist in decision-making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs. The approach seeks to strengthen coherence and consensus within and across cities in understanding and planning for risk from natural disasters and climate change. The target audience for this book includes policy makers, urban practitioners and technical staff, and international organizations.

The Urban Risk Assessment is a flexible approach based on three reinforcing pillars that collectively contribute to the understanding of urban risk: a hazard impact assessment, an institutional assessment, and a socioeconomic assessment. The URA is designed to allow flexibility in how it is applied dependent on available financial resources, available data relating to hazards and its population, and institutional capacity of a given city. Based on the identified needs and priorities, city governments can select the most appropriate level of risk assessment.

Chapters 1 and 2 of the book are aimed at policy makers, with information on why and how to invest in measures that strengthen the understanding of urban risk; Chapter 1 February 2012. 240 pages. provides background information on the growing importance of disaster and climate Stock no. C18962 risk management strategies at the city level, and Chapter 2 provides guidance on (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8962-1). US$35.00 how to operationalize and mainstream the Urban Risk Assessment with ongoing urban management and development activities. Chapters 3 and 4 are aimed at practitioners, and provide details on the conceptual approach, components, uses, and monitoring requirements for carrying out an Urban Risk Assessment.

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Urban Agriculture Case studies of Accra, Bangalore, Lima, and Nairobi and a Global Review

By Daniel Hoornweg, Marielle Dubbeling, Judy Baker, Anjali Acharya, and Gisela Campillo

This book provides a detailed review of urban agriculture in Accra, Bangalore, Lima, and Nairobi. These four cities help to highlight how urban agriculture provides an important component of municipal management that enhances food security, increases urban resilience, and responds to increasing climate variability. In addition to a detailed survey of these four cities, the report provides an overview of urban agriculture, the use of grey water, and the economics of urban agriculture.

Urban Development Series

January 2012. 192 pages.

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Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century A Practitioner’s Handbook Urban flooding is a significant challenge that today increasingly confronts the residents of the expanding cities and towns of developing countries, as well as policy makers and national, regional, and local government officials. This Handbook presents the state-of-the art in urban flood risk management in a thorough and user-friendly way. It serves as a primer in integrated urban flood risk management for technical specialists, decision makers, and other concerned stakeholders in the private and community sectors. It covers the causes, probability and impacts of floods; the measures that can be used to manage flood risk, balancing structural and non-structural solutions in an integrated fashion; and the means by which these measures can be financed and implemented, and their progress monitored and evaluated. The Handbook provides an operational guide on how most effectively to manage the risk of floods in rapidly urbanizing settings — and within the context of a changing climate.

Urban Development Series

January 2012. 336 pages.

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Financing Africa’s Cities Edited by Thierry Paulais

This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent — which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet — in the next decades.

Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time, decentralization has resulted in increased responsibilities for local government; but in most cases, institutional reforms were carried out without the transfer of a sufficient level of resources, and local capacities in governance and project management are weak.

Which mechanisms will finance these extensive needs, and how will African local governments meet these needs? Specifics on how to finance African cities have not been studied. The actual scale of this market has not been fully grasped. A systemic approach to this market is difficult because of its diversity (country size; institutional context; characteristics of urban network; availability of capital market, currency, etc.) and a lack of data. Donors’ assistance methods in the sector are disparate, marked by disputes between different schools of thought; special-purpose vehicles created by donors operate according to a variety of methods and with wide-ranging and sparsely disseminated results.

What is the best way to transform these systems, often antiquated in many respects, into modern financing systems that facilitate access to domestic markets, mobilize local savings, and reinforce local government autonomy? There is no single answer to this question in regard to such a variety of institutional and economic contexts. The main objective of the study is to clarify the debates and to enlighten the choices of African decision makers at the local and national level.

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Light Manufacturing in Africa Focused Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Productive Jobs Edited by Hinh Dinh, Vincent Palmade, Vandana Chandra, and Frances Cossar

Light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa’s need for structural transformation and productive job creation, given its potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries. Based on five different analytical tools and data sources, the book examines in detail the binding constraints in each of the subsectors relevant for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): apparel, leather goods, metal products, agribusiness, and wood products.

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Africa Development Forum

This book will be very valuable to African policy makers, professional economists, and anyone interested in economic development, industrialization, and structural transformation of developing countries.

Closing the Water Gap in the Middle East and North Africa Challenges and Options Edited by Bekele Debele Negewo

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region can be considered the most waterscarce region of the world. Large-scale water management problems are already apparent in the region. As the MENA region’s population doubles over the next 40 years, per capita water availability will fall by more than 50 percent by 2050. Moreover, climate change will affect weather and precipitation patterns with the consequence that the MENA region may see more frequent and severe droughts.

Nevertheless, this very scarce water is managed poorly. Most countries overexploit their fossil aquifers to meet the water demand gap. Many countries in the region are using desalinated water as an alternative mix in their water supply portfolio. However, desalinated water is expensive, and the desalination process is energy intensive.

Overexploitation of fossil aquifers is not sustainable, nor is the use of fossil fuel for desalination to meet the water gap.

MENA Development Report

May 2012. 192 pages. Stock no. C18838 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8838-9). US$25.00

The World Bank has undertaken this initiative to generate an improved understanding of water issues in the region and an overview of available options under different scenarios of water supply and demand management. This study applies state-of-the-art approaches to assess the current and future water demand, supply, and shortage in the 22 MENA countries. The analyses are based on results of nine global climate change models. It explores options, and associated costs, to overcome water shortage.

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The Puppet Masters How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It

By Emile van der Does de Willebois, J.C. Sharman, Robert Harrison, Ji Won Park, and Emily Halter

What do nearly all cases of grand corruption have in common? They rely on corporate vehicles — legal structures such as companies, foundations, and trusts — to conceal ownership and control of tainted assets. Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures — these form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the beneficial owner — the puppet master and beneficiary of it all. Linking the beneficial owner to the proceeds of corruption is notoriously hard. With sizable wealth and resources on their side, they exploit transnational constructions that are hard to penetrate and stay aggressively ahead of the game.

StAR Initiative

November 2011. 240 pages.

Stock no. C18894 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8894-5). US$25.00

The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It takes these corporate vehicles as its angle of investigation. It builds upon cases, interviews with investigators, corporate registries, and financial institutions, as well as a “mystery shopping” exercise that provides factual evidence of a criminal practice.

This report is solidly built on step-by-step arguments and designed to deliver practical, applicable, and well-substantiated recommendations. It is intended for use by policy makers in developing national legislation and regulation as well as international standard setters. It also provides helpful information for practitioners engaged in investigating corrupt officials and academics involved in the study of financial crime.

Draining Development?

Controlling flows of illicit funds from developing countries Edited by Peter Reuter

A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of developing countries to tax havens and other financial centers in the developed world. This volume assesses the dynamics of these flows, much of which is from corruption and tax evasion. What causes them, what are their consequences, and how might they be controlled?

The chapters by authors from a variety of backgrounds, including criminologists and practicing lawyers as well as economists, examine many dimensions of the phenomenon. For example, one chapter examines the political economy of the issue. Two other chapters examine major illegal markets (drug trafficking and human smuggling) to assess how they contribute to these flows. Other chapters are concerned with the corporate role in the phenomenon, particularly the possibility that transfer pricing (in which firms set prices for international trade among wholly owned affiliates) might play a major role in moving money illicitly.

StAR Initiative

February 2012. 550 pages.

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Illicit Enrichment

By Lindy Muzila, Michelle Morales, Marianne Mathias, and Tammar Berger

Illicit enrichment is criminalized under Article 20 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which defines it as the “significant increase in the assets of a public official that he or she cannot reasonably explain in relation to his or her lawful income.” Despite broad international recognition of the criminalization of illicit enrichment, it has not been universally accepted as an anti-corruption measure. Instead, such criminalization continues to generate extensive debate and controversy.

StAR Initiative

May 2012. 120 pages. Stock no. C19454 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9454-0). US$30.00

Against this background, based on country experience, this study aims at providing an analysis of how the criminalization of illicit enrichment works, with a view to shedding light on any contributions that it has made to the fight against corruption and promoting the recovery of stolen assets. This study does not seek to recommend or oppose the adoption of illicit enrichment provisions. Rather, it aims to assist jurisdictions considering such steps by highlighting key questions that might arise during implementation, including how the offense is defined and enforced domestically by States. Similarly, this study does not endorse nor criticize any practice carried out by States in the implementation of the criminalization of illicit enrichment.

Income and Asset Disclosure A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners

By Alexandra Habershon and Stephanie Trapnell

Income and asset disclosure (IAD) systems, also called financial disclosure systems, are gaining prominence as a tool in the fight against corruption, and have the potential to support efforts in both prevention and enforcement. This contribution is recognized in the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and other international anticorruption agreements.

Income and asset disclosure systems require that public officials declare their income, assets, and financial interests. They are intended to prevent and help detect the use of public office for private gain, and to help build a climate of integrity in public administration. As a corruption–prevention mechanism, an income and asset disclosure system can provide timely and much-needed guidance to officials about the principles and behaviors of ethical conduct in public office, and remind them that their behavior is subject to scrutiny. It also provides a means for detecting and investigating irregularities in officials’ declared income and assets, and for detecting and avoiding potential conflicts of interest before they occur.

Income and Asset Disclosure: A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners examines the objectives, design features, and implementation approaches that can contribute to the effectiveness of an income and asset disclosure (IAD) system, and enhance its impact as a prevention and enforcement tool.

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StAR Initiative

May 2012. 150 pages.

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Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond Edited by Ibrahim Sirkeci, Jeffrey H. Cohen, and Dilip Ratha

During the 2008 financial crisis, the possible changes in remittance-sending behavior and potential avenues to alleviate a probable decline in remittance flows became concerns. This book brings together a wide array of studies from around the world focusing on the recent trends in remittance flows. Data analyzed by the book reveals three trends. First, the more diversified the destinations and the labour markets for migrants, the more resilient are the remittances sent by migrants. Second, the lower the barriers to labor mobility, the stronger the link between remittances and economic cycles in that corridor. And third, as remittances proved to be relatively resilient in comparison to private capital flows, many remittance-dependent countries became even more dependent on remittance inflows for meeting external financing needs.

December 2011. 480 pages.

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The authors have gathered a select group of researchers from academic, practitioner, and policy making bodies. Thus the book can be seen as a conversation between the different stakeholders involved in or affected by remittance flows globally. The book is a first-of-its-kind attempt to analyze the effects of an ongoing crisis on remittance flows globally.

Rents to Riches?

The Political Economy of Natural Resource-Led Development

By Naazneen Barma, Kai Kaiser, Tuan Minh Le, and Lorena Viñuela

This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management.

From the perspective of public interest or good governance, many resource-dependent developing countries pursue apparently short-sighted and suboptimal policies in relation to the extraction and capture of resource rents, and to spending and savings from their resource endowments. This work contextualizes these micro-level choices and outcomes.

Table of Contents Section I: A Governance and Political Economy Framework for Natural Resource Management

1. Overview

2. The Political Economy of the Natural Resource Paradox Section II: The Political Economy of Engaging Across the Natural Resource Value Chain

3. Extracting Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Contracts and Ownership

4. Taxing Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Fiscal Regimes for Extractive Industries

5. Investing the Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Public Infrastructure Creation

6. Recommendations

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Ascent after Decline Regrowing Global Economies after the Great Recession Edited by Otaviano Canuto and Danny M. Leipziger

The Great Recession of 2009–11 was not simply a severe business cycle slowdown or even a combined credit, housing, and asset market collapse. It left permanent scars, especially on the advanced economies. In its wake, policy makers must navigate uncharted economic territory where “business as usual” no longer applies and deep structural changes mark the global economic landscape.

Fundamental questions about the daunting task of “regrowing growth” have now taken center stage for economists, politicians, and policy makers alike: Will international capital flows be encouraged or discouraged? How open will export markets be, given the structural changes and their implications for employment? How much reliance will there be on market solutions when governments — now overly indebted and wary of additional relief expenditures — are expected to deliver on the promise of economic growth?

Without a resurrection of strong economic growth in major economies, the likelihood of rapid economic development in poor developing countries is dampened. The nature of that ascent is the subject of this volume. In Ascent after Decline, more than a dozen January 2012. 325 pages. distinguished contributors scan the economic horizon, spell out the new fiscal reality, Stock no. C18942 and highlight the policy choices on which economic regrowth will depend. If the (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8942-3). US$39.95 Great Recession has taught one lesson, it is that when fundamental shifts occur, the outcomes will entail new elements that shape future directions and affect policy. How these pressing policy questions are answered will, in large measure, determine the future face of globalization.

Some Small Countries Do It Better Rapid Growth and its Causes in Singapore, Ireland, and Finland

By Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts — in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages has presented the greatest challenge. Hence the search is on for growth recipes not so tightly bound to investment, to manufacturing activities, and to the export of manufactured products.

In casting around for such recipes validated by demonstrated results, the experience of economies that have relied more on other drivers of growth – human capital and knowledge – is highly attractive. Finland and Ireland are among the tiny band of small nations that grew rapidly for well over a decade by achieving the maximum mileage from an adequate investment in physical assets and by harnessing the potential of human capital and technologies. Singapore combined high investment with a comprehensive and complementary strategy of building high-quality human and knowledge assets. This approach enabled the three countries to diversify much faster into higher tech manufactures and tradable services and profit from globalization.

February 2012. 160 pages.

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The experiences of Singapore, Finland, and Ireland show how small resource-poor economies, even if peripherally located, can achieve rapid and sustained growth: through a strategy of building quality human capital that attracts technology-intensive FDI and enables national firms to compete in global markets for high-value products and services.

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A Guide to Assessing Needs Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results

By Ryan Watkins, Maurya West Meiers, and Yusra Visser

The earliest decisions that lead to development projects are among the most critical in determining long-term success. This phase of project development transforms exciting ideas into project proposals, setting the stage for a variety of actions that will eventually lead (if all goes well) to desirable results. From deciding to propose a sanitation project in South Asia to selecting approaches that strengthen school management in South America, these decisions are the starting place of development. This book is your guide to assessing needs and then making essential decisions about what to do next.

December 2011. 244 pages.

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Needs assessments support this early phase of project development with proven approaches for gathering information and making justifiable decisions. Filled with practical strategies, tools, and guides, you will find that this book covers both largescale formal needs assessments, as well as less formal assessments that guide daily decisions. Included in the book is a blend of rigorous methods and realistic tools that can help you make informed and reasoned decisions. Use the tools featured in the book to conduct focus groups, develop surveys, prioritize needs, and lead group decision making, developing a comprehensive, yet realistic, approach to identifying needs and selecting among alternative ways forward.

Broadband Strategies Handbook Edited by Tim Kelly, Carlo Rossotto

The Broadband Strategies Handbook is a guide for policymakers, regulators, and other relevant stakeholders as they address issues related to broadband development. It aims to help readers, particularly those in developing countries, by identifying issues and challenges in broadband development, analyzing potential solutions to consider, and providing practical examples from countries that have addressed broadbandrelated matters.

The Handbook looks at how broadband is defined, why it is important, and how its development can be encouraged. Throughout the volume, broadband is viewed as an ecosystem consisting of both supply and demand components, both of which are equally important if the expansion of broadband networks and services is to be successful. In addressing the challenges and opportunities that broadband gives rise to, the Handbook discusses the policies and strategies that government officials and others should consider when developing broadband plans, including the legal and regulatory issues, what technologies are used to provide broadband, how to facilitate universal broadband access, and how to generate demand for broadband services and applications.

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The World Bank Legal Review International Financial Institutions and Global Legal Governance Edited by Hassane Cissé, Daniel D. Bradlow, and Benedict Kingsbury

This book focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities for International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in the post-crisis world. It includes contributions from academics, practitioners and Bank staff. The contributions cover a broad array of issues, included governance reform and constitutional framework of IFIs, privileges and immunities, responsibility of international organizations, issues related to fragile and conflict-affected states, climate finance, and the recent financial crisis. The book is organized in three main areas, namely: (i) Law, Justice, and Development Series

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Law of International Organizations: Issues Confronting IFIs (ii) Legal Obligations and Institutions of Developing Countries: Rethinking Approaches of IFIs (iii) International Finance and the Challenges of Regulatory Governance

Living through Crises Perspectives from Qualitative Monitoring, 2008–11

By Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, and Anna Reva

What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008–11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope, presenting the compelling perspectives of affected communities in developing and transition countries on shocks and coping, vulnerability and resilience.

New Frontiers of Social Policy

The book brings together qualitative crisis monitoring conducted during 2008–2011 in March 2012. 288 pages.

Stock no. C18940 communities in sixteen countries, including eight country case studies that illustrate how people in specific localities were impacted by global shocks, what coping strategies (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8940-9). $39.95 they applied, and which sources of support proved helpful. The studies in this book reveal striking similarities in people’s coping responses across otherwise different countries. They also reveal widespread concern over high and volatile food prices, suggesting that the still ongoing global food crisis needs far more attention from policymakers.

As the most comprehensive qualitative research on crisis impacts and coping carried out in developing countries, the book also highlights the capacity for participatory research to pick up impacts and responses that other approaches may miss and contributing to the knowledge of how to qualitatively assess shocks, vulnerability, and resilience. This book will serve as an indispensable source of reference for future crisis monitoring efforts. Written in accessible language, this book will help specialists and non-specialists alike understand how large economic crises impact people and communities and what is the role of public policy in protecting against risk.

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The World Development Report 2012 App for iPad makes this key World Bank flagship on gender equality and development both accessible and mobile. Go straight to the analysis, data, and policy recommendations you need via key message, region, topic, and dozens of keywords. You can also access bonus material on gender—some created specifically for this app that supplements the report and its findings.

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Doing Business at a Glance lets you: n View the 2011 and 2012 rankings and indicators, along with business reform summaries for each economy n Compare 2011 and 2012 rankings and indicators from economy to economy or economy to region n Sort economies by their “ease of doing business” ranking or any of the other rankings and indicators n Read the complete published Doing Business 2011 and Doing Business 2012 reports.

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The World Bank Results at a Glance app features easy offline access to more than 450 World Bank results profiles, organized by topic, country, MDG, or keyword. Supplementary material includes a timeline and FAQs about the World Bank, information on The International Development Association (IDA) and MDGs, and more.

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The free World Bank DataFinder app lets you access 50 years of World Bank data on global economic indicators, chart and visualize that data, and share those charts for use in your presentations, research, and projects. The DataFinder is perfect for anyone looking to quickly access global economic indicators and trends on the fly.

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A gri c u lt u r e • C o nfli c t and D e v e l o pm e nt • Ed u c ati o n Education Reform in Mozambique

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A Report Card from the First Five Years

Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia

By Louise Fox, Lucrecia Santibañez and Vy Nguyen, Pierre Andre

This book reviews Mozambique’s education policy reforms undertaken in 2004. It analyzes the impact of the reforms, who benefitted most, and why. It links these reforms to the skills requirement of the labor market now and in the near future.

By Hamid R. Alavi

The study examines private sector participation in rice and (yellow) maize markets in five ASEAN countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, with the objective of identifying the potential role that it could play to provide greater regional food security.

Directions in Development

Directions in Development

Case Studies on Fe y Alegría

November 2011. 284 pages. Stock no. C18626 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8626-2). US$35.00.

January 2012. 125 pages. Stock no. C18975 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8975-1). US$25.95.

Faith-based Schools in Latin America Edited by Juan Carlos Parra Osorio and Quentin Wodon

This volume, that includes evaluations of academic performance and other management aspects and pedagogical practices of Fe y Alegría schools, is a selection of contributions made at the international workshop “Fe y Alegría: Expanding the Quality Education Opportunities in Latin America.”

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World Development Report 2011

January 2012. 144 pages. Stock no. C18695 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8695-8). US$20.00.

Conflict, Security, and Development

The Status of the Education Sector in Sudan

The 2011 WDR on Conflict, Security and Development underlines the devastating impact of persistent conflict on a country or region’s development prospects - noting that the 1.5 billion people living in conflict-affected areas are twice as likely to be in poverty. Its goal is to contribute concrete, practical suggestions on conflict and fragility.

This report covers several aspects of the education sector in northern Sudan. It begins by setting the scene in terms of the historical and economic context and by providing an outline of the administrative set up, which is particularly important in northern Sudan’s decentralized education system.

World Development Report

May 2011. 412 pages. Stock no. C18439 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8439-8). US$26.00.

World Bank Studies

February 2012. pages. Stock no. C18857 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8857-0). US$25.00.

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Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Implementing a National Assessment of Educational Achievement

A Comparative Analysis

By Kirsten Majgaard and Alain Mingat

Edited by Vincent Greaney and Thomas Kellaghan

This book focuses on the practical tasks involved in running a large-scale national assessment program.

Part I gives an overview, Part II a methodology to select a representative student sample, Part III how to clean and manage data, and Part IV useful preanalysis steps such as estimates, survey weights, and the like.

Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis takes stock of education in Sub-Saharan Africa by drawing on the collective knowledge gained through the preparation of Country Status Reports for more than 30 countries.

World Bank Studies

January 2012. pages. Stock no. C18889 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8889-1). US$25.00.

National Assessments of Educational Achievement

December 2011. 312 pages. Stock no. C18589 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8589-0). US$30.00.

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Skills for the 21st Century in Latin America and the Caribbean

Impact Evaluation in Practice

This report contributes to the debate about the quality of education and returns to education investment in Latin America and the Caribbean.

It aims to improve our understanding of the links from investment in education and training to labor market outcomes and provide a basis for policy choices that will strengthen future outcomes.

By Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings and Christel M. J. Vermeersch This book builds on a core set of teaching materials developed for the “Turning Promises to Evidence” workshops organized by the office of the Chief Economist for Human Development (HDNCE) in partnership with regional units and the Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) at the World Bank.

Directions in Development

December 2010. 264 pages. Stock no. C18541 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8541-8). US$35.00.

By Cristian Aedo and Ian Walker

December 2011. 138 pages. Stock no. C18971 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8971-3). US$25.95.

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The Benefits of Renewable Energy in Nepal

No Small Matter The Impact of Poverty, Shocks, and Human Capital Investments in Early Childhood Development Edited by Harold Alderman The book offers the most updated findings on topics such as economic crises and young children, fragility and young children, the economic gradient of cognitive impairment, the convergence of equity and efficiency in ECD programs, and home based versus center based approaches for under 3.

Human Development Perspectives

February 2011. 208 pages. Stock no. C18677 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8677-4). US$35.00.

By Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Avjeet Singh and Hussain A. Samad

This study presents a robust and dynamic Monitoring and Evaluation framework and implementation mechanisms for all the renewable energy programs managed by Alternative Energy Promotion Center of Nepal incorporating not only the activities undertaken and the outputs but also the impact on the beneficiaries.

World Bank Studies

July 2011. 136 pages. Stock no. C18779 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8779-5). US$25.00.

Unleashing the Potential of Renewable Energy in India

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By Gevorg Sargsyan, Mikul Bhatia, Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Krishnan Raghunathan and Ruchi Soni

Greening the Wind Environmental and Social Considerations for Wind Power Development

By George C. Ledec, Kennan W. Rapp, and Robert G. Aiello

This book provides advice for the planning, construction, and operation of land-based wind power projects in ways that can avoid harm to birds, bats, and natural habitats; manage visual and other local impacts in ways acceptable to most stakeholders; and address compensation, benefits-sharing, and sociocultural concerns.

World Bank Studies

November 2011. 162 pages. Stock no. C18926 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8926-3). US$25.00.

This title assesses the existing barriers for tapping renewable energy and delves deeper into the economic feasibility of renewable energy development in India, and analyses what needs to be done to realize the potential.

World Bank Studies

June 2011. 64 pages. Stock no. C18780 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8780-1). US$15.00.

National Oil Companies and Value Creation

By Silvana Tordo, Brandon S. Tracy, and Noora Arfaa

Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management A Communication Practitioner’s Handbook for Large Water Infrastructure

By Leonardo Mazzei, Lawrence J.M. Haas, and Donal T. O’Leary

This Handbook offers how-to ideas to help infrastructure practitioners identify good practice improvements in communication, starting with the World Bank’s own expanding portfolio of dam projects.

This study analyzes the available evidence on the objectives, governance, and performance of 20 national oil companies from both net importing and net exporting countries, and draws conclusions about the design of policies and measures that are more likely to lead to social value creation.

July 2011. 144 pages. Stock no. C18831 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8831-0). US$25.00.

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June 2011. 158 pages. Stock no. C18216 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8216-5). US$25.00.

Meeting the Balance of Electricity Supply and Demand in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Rigoberto Ariel Yépez-García, Todd M. Johnson, and Luis Alberto Andrés

This book discusses the critical issues for the power sector in Latin America and the Caribbean considering a baseline scenario to 2030. Among these issues are the demand for electricity, the total new supply of electric-generating capacity needed, and the technology and fuel mix of the generating capacity.

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World Development Report 2010 Development and Climate Change In the crowded field of climate change reports, WDR 2010 uniquely: emphasizes development; takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation; highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape; and proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.

World Development Report

November 2009. 424 pages. Stock no. C17987 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-7987-5). US$26.00.

Directions in Development

June 2011. 210 pages. Stock no. C18819 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8819-8). US$25.00.

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International Financial Reporting Standards

The Changing Wealth of Nations

A Practical Guide

Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium

By Hennie van Greuning, Darrel Scott, and Simonet Terblanche This publication gives readers a broad and basic understanding of the key issues for each International Financial Reporting Standard. It summarizes each standard, providing a quick reference for managers and executives in the private and public sectors who may not have a strong background in accounting.

This edition includes material of potential interest to the financial analyst.

This book is the latest report by the World Bank to estimate comprehensive wealth—including produced, natural and human / institutional assets—for over 100 countries.

Environment and Development

December 2010. 240 pages. Stock no. C18488 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8488-6). US$35.00.

March 2011. 448 pages. Stock no. C18428 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8428-2). US$49.95. Private Sector Development.

Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters

Asset Recovery Handbook

The Economics of Effective Prevention This book examines how to ensure that the preventive measures are worthwhile and effective, and how people can make decisions individually and collectively at different levels of government.

November 2010. 276 pages. Stock no. C18050 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8050-5). US$39.95.

A Guide for Practitioners

By Jean-Pierre Brun, Larissa Gray, Clive Scott, and Kevin Stephenson This handbook is designed as a how-to manual that guides practitioners as they grapple with the strategic, organizational, investigative, and legal challenges of recovering assets that have been stolen by corrupt leaders and hidden abroad.

January 2011. 280 pages. Stock no. C18634 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8634-7). US$30.00.

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Global Development Horizons 2011

The Remittance Market in India

Multipolarity - The New Global Economy The first edition of a new World Bank flagship report, Global Development Horizons 2011 addresses the shift in the balance of global growth from developed to emerging economies, the rise of emergingmarket firms as a force in global business, and the evolution of the international monetary system toward a multicurrency regime.

Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Options

By Gabi G. Afram

This book analyzes the remittance market in India and attempts to identify some of the key actions and public policy measures for the improvement and future development of this market.

Global Development Horizons

June 2011. 180 pages. Stock no. C18692 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8692-7). US$35.00.

Directions in Development

December 2011. 120 pages. Stock no. C18972 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8972-0). US$25.95.

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The Qatar-Nepal Remittance Corridor

The World Bank Group Sanctions Process and its Recent Reforms

Enhancing the Impact and Integrity of Remittance Flows by Reducing Inefficiencies in the Migration Process

By Isaku Endo and Gabi G. Afram

This report identifies challenges in the migration process from Nepal to Qatar (related to high migration costs and their financing) and constraints in the remittance transfer process from Qatar to Nepal, which together limit the development and poverty reduction impact of remittance flows to Nepali households.

World Bank Studies

July 2011. 64 pages. Stock no. C17050 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-7050-6). US$20.00.

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By Anne-Marie Leroy and Frank Fariello

This report presents a detailed account of the evolution of the World Bank’s sanctions process since its inception in 1996, with particular focus on the most recent round of reforms, and showing how the model has moved closer to a judicial model while ramaining essentially administrative in nature.

World Bank Studies

November 2011. 48 pages. Stock no. C18969 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8969-0). US$22.00.

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Combating Malnutrition in Ethiopia

Assessing the Use of Social Accountability Approaches in Human Development Sectors

An Evidence-Based Approach for Sustained Results

By Dena Ringold, Alaka Holla, Margaret Koziol, and Santhosh Srinivasan

This report reviews how citizens can influence education, health, and social protection services through access to information and opportunities to hold providers accountable. It takes stock of international evidence and experience from projects supported by the World Bank to identify knowledge gaps, key questions, and areas for further work.

By Andrew Sunil Rajkumar, Christopher Gaukler, and Jessica Tilahun

Despite recent progress, malnutrition remains a severe problem in Ethiopia. This report provides the findings from an in-depth data-based analysis of malnutrition in Ethiopia and its causes.

December 2011. 222 pages. Stock no. C18765 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8765-8). US$25.00.

The Fiscal Dimension of HIV/ AIDS in Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda

Directions in Development

December 2011. 148 pages. Stock no. C18980 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8980-5). US$25.95.

The Political Economy of the Natural Resource Paradox in Africa Governing Extractive Industries for Sustainable Development Edited by Le Tuan Minh

By Elizabeth Lule and Markus Haacker

This volume analyzes the cost of HIV/AIDS from a fiscal perspective in Botswana, South Africa, Uganda, and Swaziland.

November 2011. 308 pages. Stock no. C18807 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8807-5). US$40.00.

This volume synthesizes the most recent policy-related insights about the interaction between the specific political economy contexts and institutional mechanisms in the natural resource sector in five African countries (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Niger, and Nigeria).

Meeting Citizens’ Expectations

June 2012. 425 pages. Stock no. C18477 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8477-0). US$39.95.

This book identifies the major drivers for change in the health sector in the region, assesses the readiness of the health sector in the different countries to meet these new challenges, and proposes policy options for action.

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Accountability through Public Opinion From Inertia to Public Action Edited by Sina Odugbemi and Taeku Lee This books analyzes the role of public opinion for generating genuine citizen demand for accountability, providing case studies from around the world to illustrate how public opinion forces governments to be accountable.

May 2011. 534 pages. Stock no. C18505 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8505-0). US$45.00.

Transforming Health Systems in the Middle East and North Africa

By Akiko Maeda

Directions in Development

July 2012. 80 pages. Stock no. C18466 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8466-4). US$30.00.

The Global HIV Epidemics among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)

By Chris Beyrer, Andrea L. Wirtz, Damian Walker, Benjamin Johns, Frangiscos Sifakis, and Stefan D. Baral

This is the first study to systematically review the available data on MSM in low- and medium-income countries and model the impact of responses to MSM on overall country epidemics, using Peru, Ukraine, Kenya, and Thailand as examples.

Directions in Development

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Private Voluntary Health Insurance Consumer Protection and Prudential Regulation

By Alexander S. Preker, Pablo Gottret, Birgit Hansl, Vijayasekar Kalavakonda, Somil Nagpal, and Nicole Tapay

This book aims to help countries design and implement a legal framework for a viable private health insurance market, with rationale for insurance regulation, institutions involved, and standards and protections used in regulating private health insurance.

February 2012. 96 pages. Stock no. C18756 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8756-6). US$20.00.

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May 2011. 400 pages. Stock no. C18726 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8726-9). US$35.00.

Health Insurance Handbook How to Make It Work

By Hong Wang, Kimberly Switlick, Christine Ortiz, Beatriz Zurita, and Catherine Connor

Many countries that subscribe to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens. Health insurance has been considered and promoted as the major financing mechanism to improve access to health services, as well as to provide financial risk protection.

World Bank Working Papers

December 2011. pages. Stock no. C18982 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8982-9). US$22.00.

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I nt e rnati o nal E c o n o mi c s and T rad e • L aw and D e v e l o pm e nt The Health Workforce in Ethiopia

Barriers to Trade in Services in the CEFTA Region

Addressing the Remaining Challenges

By Borko Handjiski and Lazar Sestovic

Edited by Berhanu Feysia, Christopher Herbst, and Wuleta Lemma

Although Ethiopia has made steady progress in health outcomes over the past 10 years, some health challenges remain, particularly those related to maternal health. In part this may be linked to the insufficient number of health professionals providing maternal care services, particularly in the rural parts of the country.

This title aims to identify the existing barriers to trade in services between Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) countries, with a focus on four sectors: construction, land transport, legal, and information technology (ICT) services.

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World Bank Studies

July 2011. 56 pages. Stock no. C18799 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8799-3). US$15.00.

December 2011. pages. Stock no. C18984 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8984-3). US$22.00.

World Investment and Political Risk 2011

A Decade of Aid to the Health Sector in Somalia 2000–2009

By Daniel Villar

By Emanuele Capobianco and Veni Naidu

This study reviews how donors’money was used in the health sector in Somalia over the decade 20002009. Findings show that funds increased over time.

However, investments were not always strategic and key priorities for the health sector (like fighting malnutrition or immunizing children) were seriously neglected.

World Bank Working Papers

This report examines the overall trends in political risk perceptions, foreign investment intentions, and longer-term demand for political risk guarantees, especially in emerging economies.

January 2012 112 pages. Stock no. C18850 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8850-1). US$28.00.

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Improving Criminal Justice Efforts to Combat Illegal Logging

June 2011. 58 pages. Stock no. C18769 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8769-6). US$15.00.

By Marlyne Goncalves, Malissa Panjer, Theodore Greenberg and William Magrath

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Getting the Most Out of Free Trade Agreements in Central America Edited by J. Humberto Lopez and Rashmi Shankar

Every two seconds, across the world, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers. In some countries, up to 90% of all the logging taking place is illegal. It is estimated that this criminal activity generates approximately US $10-15 bn annually worldwide.

World Bank Studies

December 2011. pages. Stock no. C18978 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8978-2). US$22.00.

Out-of-Court Debt Restructuring

The main message of the study is that Central America’s ability to exploit the opportunities created by ongoing trade liberalization will depend on the ability of the region to implement a complementary policy agenda that creates an enabling policy and institutional environment.

This study provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of the questions of out-of-court debt restructuring from a policy-oriented perspective. The starting point of the analysis is given by the World Bank Principles for Effective Insolvency and Creditor Rights Systems.

Directions in Development

December 2011. pages. Stock no. C18983 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8983-6). US$22.00.

June 2011. 456 pages. Stock no. C18712 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8712-2). US$39.95.

Knowing When You Do Not Know Simulating the Poverty and Distributional Impacts of an Economic Crisis Edited by Ambar Narayan and Carolina Sanchez

Microeconomic shocks are rarely predictable and their employment, poverty, and distributional impacts are difficult to track because realtime data are typically not available. However, measuring these impacts is for designing effective and timely policy response.

World Bank Studies

December 2011. pages. Stock no. C18981 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8981-2). US$22.00.

M A C R OECO N O M I C S A N D ECO N O M I C G R O W T H

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011 Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World Edited by Justin Yifu Lin

ABCDE 2011 presents papers from a global gathering of the world’s leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 – June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the Green Economy, Post-crisis Development Strategy, the Political Economy of Fragile States, Measuring Welfare, and Social Programs and Transfers.

November 2011. 374 pages. Stock no. C18522 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8522-7). US$35.00.

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Development Economics through the Decades

Atlas of Global Development A Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated third edition of the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today.

April 2011. 144 pages. Stock no. C18583 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8583-8). US$29.95.

Sovereign Debt and the Financial Crisis Will This Time Be Different?

Edited by Carlos A. Primo Braga and Gallina A. Vincelette The book presents and discusses policy-relevant research on the current debt challenges that developing, emerging market and developed countries face. Its value added lies in the integrated approach of drawing on theoretical research and evidence from practitioners’ experience in developing and emerging market countries.

A Critical Look at Thirty Years of the World Development Report

By Shahid Yusuf For the past three decades, the World Bank’s annual World Development Report has provided a wide international readership with an extraordinary window on development economics. This essay by Shahid Yusuf—published to commemorate the report’s 30th anniversity—discusses the genesis of the publication and the topics covered by successive reports. Along the way, Yusuf takes the reader on a tour of development economics over a 30-year period, using the reports as a point of departure.

World Development Report

December 2008. 218 pages. Stock no. C17255 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-7255-5). US$26.00.

P OVE R T Y R E D UC T I O N

November 2010. 554 pages. Stock no. C18483 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8483-1). US$49.95.

Resilience of an African Giant

Post-Crisis Growth in Developing Countries A Special Report of the Commission on Growth and Development on the Implications of the 2008 Financial Crisis This special report by the Commission on Growth and Development assesses the 2008 financial crisis’ longer term impact on developing countries, explains how developing countries can make themselves more resilient in the face of such blows, and examines what international institutions and forums can do to help.

January 2010. 96 pages. Stock no. C18165 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8165-6). US$15.00.

Boosting Growth and Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo

By Johannes Herderschee, Kai-Alexander Kaiser, and Daniel Mukoko Samba

This book pulls together an impressive body of research on the exemplary transition of a country from a state of conflict to a post-conflict situation, and from there toward becoming a country with legitimate institutions created by free, democratic, and transparent elections.

Directions in Development

October 2011. 136 pages. Stock no. C18909 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8909-6). US$25.00.

The Great Recession and Developing Countries Economic Impact and Growth Prospects Edited by Mustapha K. Nabli The book provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive reviews of the growth experience of a group of low- and middle-income countries before and during the global crisis. It then explores their growth prospects after the recovery and how they may be shaped by the new global economic environment.

December 2010. 662 pages. Stock no. C18513 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8513-5). US$35.00.

Postcrisis Growth and Development A Development Agenda for the G-20 Edited by Shahrokh Fardoust, Yongbeom Kim, and Claudia Paz Sepúlveda Post-crisis Growth and Development lays the groundwork for setting development priorities and advances the discussion among the G-20, and non-G-20 countries on development policy in infrastructure, trade, food security, financial inclusion, and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as they relate to strong, sustainable, and balanced global growth.

November 2010. 584 pages. Stock no. C18518 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8518-0). US$39.95.

Poverty and the Policy Response to the Economic Crisis in Liberia

By Quentin Wodon

This study provides a diagnostic of poverty and human development in Liberia and an assessment of the targeting performance of government measures taken to help the poor cope with the recent economic crisis.

World Bank Studies

December 2011. pages. Stock no. C18979 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8979-9). US$22.00.

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Fostering Technology Absorption in Southern African Enterprises The book, through a combination of econometric and case studies, analyzes the channels of and constraints to technology absorption. It proposes policy instruments that would foster technology absorption to increase growth and productivity in Southern Africa.

Directions in Development

September 2011. 224 pages. Stock no. C18818 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8818-1). US$30.00.

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