Documentos e Relatórios
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Mitigating drought impacts in drylands : quantifying the potential for strengthening crop- and livestock-based livelihoods (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 125014 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 118559 Data do documento: 10 de agosto de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 117828 Data do documento: 31 de julho de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Wang,Huihui,Otoo,Nathaniel,Dsane-Selby,Lydia
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International practices to promote budget literacy : key findings and lessons learned (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 115788 Data do documento: 5 de junho de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Masud,Harika,Pfeil,Helene,Agarwal,Sanjay,Gonzalez Briseno,Alfredo
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Prospects for livestock-based livelihoods in Africa’s drylands (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 109810 Data do documento: 28 de outubro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: De Haan,Cornelis
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Increasing professionalism in public finance management : a case study of the United Kingdom (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 109811 Data do documento: 27 de outubro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Japonês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 91163 Data do documento: 5 de setembro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ikegami,Naoki
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Improved agricultural water management for Africa’s drylands (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 108022 Data do documento: 23 de agosto de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ward, Christopher,Torquebiau,Raphael,Xie, Hua
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Integrated landscape approaches for Africa’s drylands (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 108023 Data do documento: 23 de agosto de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Gray, Erin,Henninger,Norbert Eugen,Reij, Chris,Winterbottom, Robert,Agostini,Paola
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Public asset management companies : a toolkit (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 105984 Data do documento: 24 de maio de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Espanhol)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 98960 Data do documento: 15 de março de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Halland,Havard,Lokanc,Martin,Nair,Arvind,Kannan,Sridar Padmanabhan
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Findings from the 2014 labor force survey in Sierra Leone (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 104269 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Margolis,David,Rosas Raffo,Nina,Turay, Abubakarr,Turay, Samuel
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Somaliland’s private sector at a crossroads : political economy and policy choices for prosperity and job creation (Inglês)
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)...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 103238 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Mousley,Peter J.,Ndiaye,Jade Elena Garza,Wimpey,Joshua Seth,Amin,Mohammad,Votava,Cari,Nicoli,Marco,Eigen-Zucchi,Christian
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Expanding tertiary education for well-paid jobs : competitiveness and shared prosperity in Kenya (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 105613 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Blom,Andreas,Raza,Reehana Rifat,Kiamba,Crispus Makau,Bayusuf,Himdat Iqbal,Nusrat,Mariam
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Fiscal management in resource-rich countries : essentials for economists, public finance professionals, and policy makers (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 106575 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ossowski,Rolando Juan,Halland,Håvard
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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 (Francês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 98960 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Halland,Havard,Lokanc,Martin,Nair,Arvind,Kannan,Sridar Padmanabhan
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Health financing policy : the macroeconomic, fiscal, and public finance context (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 103569 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cashin,Cheryl
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Sub-Saharan African science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research : decade of development (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 101305 Data do documento: 19 de novembro de 2015 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Blom,Andreas,Lan, George,Nusrat,Mariam
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Assessing advances and challenges in technical education in Brazil (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 100059 Data do documento: 7 de outubro de 2015 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaral,Nicole Lucilia,De Felicio,Fabiana
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School infrastructure in Paraguay : needs, investments, and costs (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Publicação No. do relatório: 100062 Data do documento: 7 de outubro de 2015 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Wodon,Quentin T.