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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
تقرير ممارسة أنشطة الأعمال 2005 هو الخامس في سلسلة من التقارير السنوية التي تبحث في نطاق ونوعية الإجراءات الحكومية التي تعزز أنشطة الأعمال وتلك التي تعوقها. ويمكن المقارنة بين المؤشرات الكمية الجديدة الخاصة...