Documents & Reports
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Assessing the Targeting System in Georgia : Proposed Reform Options (English)
This paper investigates reasons of Georgian targeted social assistance (TSA)’s declining performance and presents a new proxy means test (PMT) model estimated on the most recent household income and expenditure...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 151694 Document Date: July 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Honorati,Maddalena,Sormani,Roberto Claudio,Carraro,Ludovico
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How labor market policies can combine workers' protection with job creation : a partial review of some key issues and policy options (English)
To what extent have macro and structural reforms in many developing countries affected the labor market? Are current policy settings in the labor market adequate to cope with the current challenges of...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 41439 Document Date: October 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Le Borgne Pierre,Gaelle,Scarpetta,Stefano
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Tanzania - Tanzania Leasing Project (TANZLEP) Financial Newsletter (English)
This is the second edition of IFC's Tanzania Leasing Project newsletter whose objectives are to update on Tanzania's leasing sector. This issues discusses the following topics: country familiarization...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 40258 Document Date: December 1, 2005
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Mainstreaming biodiversity in production landscapes (English)
This volume contributes to broadening the understanding and application of the concept of mainstreaming biodiversity. It captures the inputs to, and findings of an international workshop held in Cape Town...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 35043 Document Date: November 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Akhtar, Tehmina,Barnett, Mandy,Cadman, Mandy,Castro,Gonzalo,Cowling, Richard M.,Elkan, Paul,Elkan, Sarah,Frazee, Sarah,Gardner,David John,Grant, Carl,Griffin,Jeffrey F.,Huntley, Brian [editor],Kapila, Sachin,Krishnan, Pramod,Maze, Kristal,McCallum, Robert,Mcneely,Jeffrey A.,Petersen, Caroline [editor],Redford,Kent Hubbard,Roledo, Carlos,Sandwith,Trevor
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Lessons and experiences from mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into urban/water (AFTU1 and 2) projects (English)
The rationale for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into projects is twofold: 1) From a national and global perspective, it increases the reach of targeted HIV/AIDS interventions to all sectors, and to more people...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 33806 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schuler,Jamie Nina,Casalis,Alicia B.,Debomy,Sylvie Claudine,Johnnides, Cristianna,Kuper, Kate
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Tanzania - Tanzania Leasing Project (TANZLEP) Financial Newsletter (English)
The objectives of this newsletter are to give an update on the leasing issues affecting Tanzania. This newsletter looks at the leasing study done by TANZALEP, gives a market report snapshot, reports on...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 40257 Document Date: September 1, 2005
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International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) 2005 Annual Report : International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) 2005 annual report (English)
On April 26, 2005, ICSID celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the signing of the ICSID Convention. As a multilateral legal framework for international investment dispute settlement, the ICSID Convention...
Document Type: World Bank Annual Report Report No.: 34647 Document Date: July 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) 2005 Annual Report : Rapport Annuel 2005 du Centre International pour le Règlement des Différends Relatifs aux Investissements (CIRDI) (French)
On April 26, 2005, ICSID celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the signing of the ICSID Convention. As a multilateral legal framework for international investment dispute settlement, the ICSID Convention...
Document Type: World Bank Annual Report Report No.: 34647 Document Date: July 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) 2005 Annual Report : Informe Anual 2005 del Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias Relativas a Inversiones (CIADI) (Spanish)
On April 26, 2005, ICSID celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the signing of the ICSID Convention. As a multilateral legal framework for international investment dispute settlement, the ICSID Convention...
Document Type: World Bank Annual Report Report No.: 34647 Document Date: July 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Environment matters at the World Bank - annual review 2005 (English)
In line with one of the major themes in the Bank's Environment Strategy, this 2005 annual review is devoted to the theme of environmental health. Viewpoint articles in this edition reflect several external...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 34110 Document Date: June 30, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Acharya,Anjali,Ahmed,Kulsum,Awe,Yewande Aramide,Bojo, Ian [editor],Constant,Samantha M.,Kaufmann,Rachel Beth,Leitner, Kerstin Dr.,Penalosa,Enrique,Procee,Paul,Ruta,Giovanni,Sarraf,Maria,Smith,Kirk Robert,Trace,Simon,Tsutsui,Eri,Tynan,Ellen J.
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The agrarian economies of Central-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States - an update on status and progress in 2004 (English)
The agrarian economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) continue to undergo systemic change and transformation. The Bank has been supporting this process...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 33584 Document Date: June 30, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Csaki,Csaba,Kray,Holger A.
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Reforming health social security : proceedings of an international seminar sponsored by the Global Security Institute, Keio University, and the World Bank, June 27-29, 2005, Tokyo, Japan : Reforming health social security : proceedings of an international seminar (English)
About twenty experts from ten countries, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus representatives from the World Bank and the Organisation...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 36394 Document Date: June 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Berman,Peter A.,CAMPBELL, JOHN C.,Edgar, Wendy,Hsiao,William C.,Huber,Manfred,Ikegami,Naoki,Kwon,Soonman,Maynard,Alan,Mohandas, Kottilil,Reich,Michael Robin,Rothgang, Heinz,Tanaka, Kotaro,White, Joseph,Wong, Joseph
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Announcement of New Bank Report Say World Faces Pensions Crunch Major Reforms Unavoidable on May 24, 2005 (English)
This news release, dated May 24, 2005, announces as policymakers in the United States, Europe, and Asia grapple with the long-term affordability of their pensions systems, a new World Bank report says...
Document Type: Announcement Report No.: 167220 Document Date: May 24, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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China - pension liabilities and reform options for old age insurance (English)
This report is the culmination of a three-year long collaboration between the Social Security Department of the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank. The analytical work was done on projections that...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33116 Document Date: May 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sin,Yvonne Yee Mun,Yu,Xiaoqing
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Human rights and social accountability (English)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the common features and linkages between rights based approaches to development and social accountability and suggest how social accountability initiatives can be...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 33011 Document Date: May 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ackerman, John M.
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Output-Based Aid : supporting infrastructure delivery through explicit and performance-based subsidies (English)
Increasing access to basic infrastructure, and social services is critical to reducing poverty, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, this is a challenge because of the gap between what...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 34301 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Development outreach 7 (1) : a better investment climate for everyone (English)
Development outreach has asked the leaders of the WDR 2005 team, Warrick P. Smith and Mary C. Hallward-Driemeier to put together the special report featured in this issue in order to provide comments by...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 33250 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Al Arif,Muhamad,Warrick P. Smith, Mary C. Hallward-Driemeier,et al
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Vietnam - Learning to teach in a knowledge society (English)
Vietnam is making important strides toward upgrading teacher training and quality. It is laying a foundation for a system of measuring current performance and for identifying and making informed decisions...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 38174 Document Date: February 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Huang,Sandra S.
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Doing business in 2005 : removing obstacles to growth (Polish)
2004 was a good year for doing business in most transition economies, the World Bank Group concluded in its Doing Business in 2005 survey, the second in its series tracking regulatory reforms aimed at...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 30059 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Doing business in 2005 : removing obstacles to growth : Doing business em 2005 : removendo obstaculos ao crescimento (Portuguese)
2004 was a good year for doing business in most transition economies, the World Bank Group concluded in its Doing Business in 2005 survey, the second in its series tracking regulatory reforms aimed at...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 30059 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed