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  • The Relationship between Climate Action and Poverty Reduction (English)

    There is growing awareness that actions by policymakers and international organizations to reduce poverty, and those to mitigate and adapt to climate change, are inextricably linked and interwoven. This...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 187523 Document Date: December 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lankes,Hans Peter,Macquarie, Rob,Soubeyran, Éléonore,Stern,Nicholas H.

  • A Strategy for Development (English)

    There are two pillars that form the basis of a sound strategy of development. They are the pillars of: 1) creating a good climate for investment and productivity growth, and 2) empowering people including...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 56761 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stern,Nicholas H.

  • Nawafid (2) - Reunions du primtemps pour un equilibre planetaire (French)

    Global finance and regulation - the new regulatory models for financial security; by Frederic Gielen. Investment climate assessment; by Nicholas Stern. The International Financial Society in brief. The...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 35485 Document Date: June 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bichara,Dominique,El-Gammal,Yasser Aabdel-Aleem Awny,Gielen,Frederic,Mason, Karon,Stern,Nicholas H.

  • Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004 : accelerating development (English)

    Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 30228 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Attanasio,Orazio Pietro,Bourguignon,Francois Jean,Burgess,Robin Stuart L.,Dasgupta,Partha Sarathi,Duflo,Esther Caroline,Lin, Justin Yifu,Meghir, Costas,Liu,Mingxing,Mohan,Rakesh,Nayyar, Rohini,Ndulu,Benno Joseph,Ofer,Gur,Platteau,Jean-Philippe,Pleskovic, Boris [editors],Polenske, Karen R.,Premji, Azim Hasham,Rao,Govinda,Rao,Vijayendra,Schultz,Theodoro Paul,Srinivasan,Thirukodikaval N.,Stern,Nicholas H.,Szekely Pardo,Esteban Miguel,Venables,Anthony J.,Winter,Sidney G.

  • Transition 14 (4-6) (English)

    Contents: Iraq is a transition economy of the Middle East. The task is to transform the economy-dominated by central planning, price controls, and extensive state ownership-into a genuine market economy...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 28425 Document Date: June 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bartholomew,Ann,Barysch, Katinka,Berglöf, Erik,Fries, Steven,Fuenzalida-Puelma, Hernan Luis,Fulin, Chi,Guriev,Sergei M.,Hayhurst, David,Lister,Stephen,McKee, Martin,Mountfield,Edward,Nguyen,Minh Van,Ofer,Gur,Ovseiko, Pavel,Pajuste, Anete,Polanec,Saso,Shakarishvili,George,Stern,Nicholas H.,Taheri,Amir,Yudaeva,Ksenia

  • A strategy for development : Una estrategia para el desarrollo (Spanish)

    This book is about a collection of speeches delivered since Nicholas Stern became Chief Economist of the World Bank in July 2000. They reflect insights that Mr. Stern has gained over more than three decades...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 26059 Document Date: October 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stern,Nicholas H.

  • A strategy for development (English)

    This book is about a collection of speeches delivered since Nicholas Stern became Chief Economist of the World Bank in July 2000. They reflect insights that Mr. Stern has gained over more than three decades...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 26059 Document Date: March 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stern,Nicholas H.

  • Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2001-2002 (English)

    The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics is a forum for discussion, and debate of important policy issues facing developing countries. This report for 2001-2002 focuses on two main themes...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 25492 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Author: Stern,Nicholas H.,Mccarthy,F. Desmond,Wolfensohn,James D.,O'Rourke, Kevin H.,Cohen,Daniel,Cooper,Richard N.,Venables, AnthonyJ.,Rostrup,Morten,Lanjouw,Jean O.,Case,Anne C.,Philipson,Tomas,Soares,Rodrigo Reis,Pleskovic,Boris

  • Overcoming poverty in China (English)

    This paper has focused on more targeted micro interventions to fight poverty. But the battle against poverty is not a skirmish off to one flank; instead, it must be at the heart of the campaign for development...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 56760 Document Date: June 14, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stern,Nicholas H.

  • Twenty years of reform : achievements, challenges, and the new agenda (English)

    During the last twenty years, China has seen the most remarkable period of economic growth in modern times. There is cause for celebration, but there are also new challenges. China's very success has propelled...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 56762 Document Date: June 1, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stern,Nicholas H.

  • Fifty years of development (English)

    The authors investigate the understanding of the relationships among markets, governance, and institutions. Techniques of empirical analysis and the availability of data have advanced dramatically; one...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 28739 Document Date: May 1, 2000 Disclosure Status: Author: Collier,Paul,Dollar,David R.,Stern,Nicholas H.

  • Transition 5 (5) (English)

    World Bank conference helps develop development economics. Development issues in a changing world - excerpts from Michael Bruno's keynote address. How to stabilize - policy lessons from early reformers...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 16453 Document Date: May 31, 1994 Disclosure Status: Author: Aslund,Anders,Balcerowicz,Leszek,Bruno,Michael P.,Desai, Padma,Gelb,Alan Harold,Kornai,Janos,Sachs, Jeffery D.,Stern,Nicholas H.,Williamson, John

  • Poverty in Palanpur (English)

    The meaning and identification of poverty are examined using three indicators of standard of living in the North Indian village of Palanpur. The first is intended as a measure of "apparent prosperity"...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 14201 Document Date: January 31, 1991 Disclosure Status: Author: Lanjouw,Peter F.,Stern,Nicholas H.

  • The World Bank economic review 5(1) (English)

    Comparing poverty rates internationally: lessons from recent studies in developed countries. Poverty in Palanpur. Measuring changes in poverty: a methodological case study of Indonesia during an adjustment...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17596 Document Date: January 31, 1991 Disclosure Status: Author: Atkinson,Anthony B.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Stern,Nicholas H.,Ravallion,Martin,Huppi,Monika,Hoff,Karla,Skinner, Jonathan,Feder,Gershon,Feeny, David,Migot-Adholla,Shem E.