Documents & Reports
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Mitigating drought impacts in drylands : quantifying the potential for strengthening crop- and livestock-based livelihoods (English)
Today, frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, limit the livelihood opportunities available to millions of households and undermine efforts to eradicate poverty in the drylands. These shocks regularly...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 125014 Document Date: April 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Haan,Cornelis,Koo,Jawoo,Morris,Michael-000013367,Place,Frank M.,Syroka,Joanna,Xie,Hua
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Logistics competencies, skills, and training : a global overview (English)
Logistics has been a major growth sector in the world economy in terms of levels of activity and expenditure for many decades. In addition to being an important sector in its own right, logistics strongly...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 118559 Document Date: August 10, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: McKinnon, Alan,Flothmann, Christoph,Hoberg, Kai,Wiederer,Christina Katharina,Arvis,Jean Francois
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Ghana national health insurance scheme : improving financial sustainability based on expenditure review (English)
Since the establishment of Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003, the government of Ghana has made substantial progress toward its goal of universal health care. This study’s goal is to...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 117828 Document Date: July 31, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wang,Huihui,Otoo,Nathaniel,Dsane-Selby,Lydia
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International practices to promote budget literacy : key findings and lessons learned (English)
A budget is a vital document that lays out a government’s economic priorities in terms of policies and programs. The World Bank team’s preliminary scrutiny of practices aimed at promoting budget literacy...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 115788 Document Date: June 5, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Masud,Harika,Pfeil,Helene,Agarwal,Sanjay,Gonzalez Briseno,Alfredo
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Prospects for livestock-based livelihoods in Africa’s drylands (English)
Prospects for Livestock-Based Livelihoods in Africa’s Drylands examines the challenges and opportunities facing the livestock sector and the people who depend on livestock in the dryland regions of Sub-Saharan...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 109810 Document Date: October 28, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Haan,Cornelis
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Increasing professionalism in public finance management : a case study of the United Kingdom (English)
In countries such as the United Kingdom, the need to manage finances in a professional manner has been hampered by the severe fi scal constraints of the 2008 fi nancial crisis. These pressures are likely...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 109811 Document Date: October 27, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Squire,Sarah Jane,Beazley,John Ivor
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Universal health coverage for inclusive and sustainable development : lessons from Japan : 包括的かつ持続可能な開発のための普遍的な健康保険: 日本からの教訓 (Japanese)
In 2011, Japan celebrated the 50th anniversary of its own achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). On this occasion, the government of Japan and the World Bank conceived the idea of undertaking...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 91163 Document Date: September 5, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ikegami,Naoki
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Integrated landscape approaches for Africa’s drylands (English)
This book presents emerging findings on the importance of moving beyond single-sector interventions to embrace integrated landscape management that takes into account the health of the ecosystems that...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 108023 Document Date: August 23, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gray, Erin,Henninger,Norbert Eugen,Reij, Chris,Winterbottom, Robert,Agostini,Paola
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Improved agricultural water management for Africa’s drylands (English)
The book is structured as follows. Chapter two assesses the potential role of agricultural water management in increasing resilience to shocks in the drylands of SSA. Chapter three reviews the current...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 108022 Document Date: August 23, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ward, Christopher,Torquebiau,Raphael,Xie, Hua
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Public asset management companies : a toolkit (English)
This toolkit is designed for policy makers and stakeholders who are considering the establishment of a publicly funded asset management company (AMC). An AMC is a statutory body or corporation, fully or...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 105984 Document Date: May 24, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cerruti Hailey,Caroline Marie Cecile,Neyens,Ruth
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The extractive industries sector : essentials for economists, public finance professionals, and policy makers : El sector de las industrias extractivas : aspectos esenciales para economistas , profesionales de las finanzas públicas , y responsables de políticas (Spanish)
The extractive industries (EI) sector occupies an outsize space in the economies of many developing countries. Economists, public finance professionals, and policy makers working in such countries are...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 98960 Document Date: March 15, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Halland,Havard,Lokanc,Martin,Nair,Arvind,Kannan,Sridar Padmanabhan
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The extractive industries sector : essentials for economists, public finance professionals, and policy makers : Le secteur des industries extractives : essentials pour économistes, professionnels de la finance publique et les décideurs politiques (French)
The extractive industries (EI) sector occupies an outsize space in the economies of many developing countries. Economists, public finance professionals, and policy makers working in such countries are...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 98960 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Halland,Havard,Lokanc,Martin,Nair,Arvind,Kannan,Sridar Padmanabhan
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Fiscal management in resource-rich countries : essentials for economists, public finance professionals, and policy makers (English)
The extractive industries (EI) sector occupies an outsize space in the economies of many developing countries. Economists, public finance professionals, and policy makers working in these countries are...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 106575 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ossowski,Rolando Juan,Halland,Håvard
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Findings from the 2014 labor force survey in Sierra Leone (English)
In Sierra Leone, where more than half of the population is poor and dependent on earnings from labor income, jobs are critical for poverty reduction and inclusive growth. The country’s demographic profile...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 104269 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Margolis,David,Rosas Raffo,Nina,Turay, Abubakarr,Turay, Samuel
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Health financing policy : the macroeconomic, fiscal, and public finance context (English)
Universal health coverage (UHC) requires adequate financial resources to pay for necessary health services. These resources must be able to be both pooled (to provide financial protection) and redistributed...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 103569 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cashin,Cheryl
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Expanding tertiary education for well-paid jobs : competitiveness and shared prosperity in Kenya (English)
In order to realize the ideals of the 2010 Constitution and the government of Kenya’s 2030 Vision, which aims to transform the country into a newly industrializing, middle income, globally competitive...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 105613 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blom,Andreas,Raza,Reehana Rifat,Kiamba,Crispus Makau,Bayusuf,Himdat Iqbal,Nusrat,Mariam
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Somaliland’s private sector at a crossroads : political economy and policy choices for prosperity and job creation (English)
The Somaliland economy is driven by the private sector. Unlike most other economies in the world, the government footprint is limited, amounting to under 10 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP)...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 103238 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mousley,Peter J.,Ndiaye,Jade Elena Garza,Wimpey,Joshua Seth,Amin,Mohammad,Votava,Cari,Nicoli,Marco,Eigen-Zucchi,Christian
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Sub-Saharan African science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research : decade of development (English)
In March 2014, several African governments’ ministers agreed on a Joint Call for Action in Kigali to adopt a strategy that uses strategic investments in science and technology to accelerate Africa toward...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 101305 Document Date: November 19, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blom,Andreas,Lan, George,Nusrat,Mariam
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Assessing advances and challenges in technical education in Brazil (English)
The report is organized as follows. Chapter one presents an overview of the general education system in Brazil and contextualizes Vocational and Technical Education and Training (VET) within the broader...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 100059 Document Date: October 7, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaral,Nicole Lucilia,De Felicio,Fabiana
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School infrastructure in Paraguay : needs, investments, and costs (English)
The study consists of four chapters apart from this introduction. Chapter two provides a basic diagnostic of the state of infrastructure in Paraguay’s public primary and secondary schools. The analysis...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 100062 Document Date: October 7, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wodon,Quentin T.