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  • Parliaments as peace builders in conflict-affected countries (English)

    The role of parliament in conflict-affected countries becomes even more evident when the correlation between poverty and conflict is considered. This book is pioneering in that it considers what parliaments...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 45088 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: O'Brien, Mitchell, Stapenhurst, Rick, Johnston,

  • Knowledge, technology, and cluster-based growth in Africa (English)

    Although Africa is falling behind in today's global economic race, it holds pockets of vital economic activity -- many in the form of enterprise clusters scattered across the continent's countries and...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 42774 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Zeng, Douglas Zhihua

  • Perspectives on fiscal federalism (English)

    This book addresses a variety of issues relating to intergovernmental finance and the provision and financing of local services including budgeting and financial management, the institutional framework...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 35628 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bird, Richard M. [editor],Vaillancourt, Francois [editor]

  • Cities in a globalizing world - governance, performance, and sustainability (English)

    This book contributes to the empirical and theoretical analysis of the performance of cities in a globalizing world, bringing together a range of perspectives on the policy implications for urban management...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 35028 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Humplick Ep Leautier,Ann Frances,Lemer, Andrew C.,Kaufmann,Daniel,Mastruzzi,Massimo,Mehta,Barjor E.,Dinghem,Severine

  • Cities in a globalizing world - governance, performance, and sustainability (Vietnamese)

    This book contributes to the empirical and theoretical analysis of the performance of cities in a globalizing world, bringing together a range of perspectives on the policy implications for urban management...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 35028 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Humplick Ep Leautier,Ann Frances,Lemer, Andrew C.,Kaufmann,Daniel,Mastruzzi,Massimo,Mehta,Barjor E.,Dinghem,Severine

  • Beyond economic growth : an introduction to sustainable development (English)

    This book is designed primarily to help readers broaden their knowledge of global issues, gain insight into their country's situation in a global context, and understand the problems of sustaianble development--both...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 24894 Document Date: July 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Soubbotina, Tatyana P.

  • Beyond economic growth : an introduction to sustainable development (Vietnamese)

    This book is designed primarily to help readers broaden their knowledge of global issues, gain insight into their country's situation in a global context, and understand the problems of sustaianble development--both...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 24894 Document Date: July 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Soubbotina, Tatyana P.

  • Public health in the Middle East and North Africa : meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century (English)

    This report documents the main highlights and findings from the Middle East Regional Symposium, "Meeting the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century in the Middle East and North Africa/Eastern Mediterranean...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 29163 Document Date: May 10, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Akala, Francisca Ayodeji [editor],Claeson,Mariam,Downing,Andrew,Jenkins,Carol Feldman,Karam, Hadia Samaha [editor],Kickbusch,Ilona,Musgrove,Philip A.,Pierre-Louis, Anne M. [editor],Rawaf, Salman,Robalino,David A.,Sadrizadeh, Bijan,Salhab,Nisrine,Yartey,Juliana

  • Protecting the global environment : initiatives by Japanese business (English)

    this volume is the result of a cooperative effort between the world Bank Institute and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) to encourage policy discussion of the links between global environmental concerns...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 24123 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Author: Cruz, Wilfredo,Fukui,Koichiro,Warford, Jeremy [editors]

  • Russia's transition to a new federalism (English)

    In the preface to this report, it is asserted that, "history hovers... over any discussion of fiscal federalism in Russia." This report not only reviews that history, but also follows it to the present...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 22026 Document Date: February 28, 2001 Disclosure Status: Author: Martinez-Vasquez, Jorge,Boex,Jameson