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Presents empirical evidence on manufacturing firm performance in Africa based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey and on a one-time quantitative survey conducted for the World Bank by Oxford University's Centre for the Study of African Economies. The results of the survey shed light on manufacturing firm performance in Africa in relation to that in Asian countries such as China.

This Early Child Development (ECD) Guide responds to a growing demand from practitioners for advice and tools to facilitate the policy dialogue on the topic of ECD. It will help policy makers implement relevant choices on how to best invest in ECD in the context of their country's economy and national priorities.

Ce livre propose une methode pour une analyse systemique et dynamique des marches fonciers urbains et periurbains en Afrique de l'Ouest et l'applique au cas de Bamako. Partant d'une description des processus d'approvisionnement en terre, il eclaire les defis d'acces au foncier et de securite de la tenure des pauvres.

Drawing on the existing knowledge of African development from previous publications, this takes an in-depth look at 26 economic and social development successes in Sub-Saharan African countries-twenty from individual countries and six that cut across the region. These stories manifest at the project, provincial, sub-national, national, or regional level and across themes, programs, and sectors.

Identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. This book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development. It presents policy recommendations to make globalization more effective.

Offers an understanding of gender issues and a compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs. This book draws on a wide range of experience from World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other donor agencies.

Despite the existence of effective interventions, there are many developing countries which are not on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for health. This toolkit describes that effective contracting for health services can be facilitated by using a systematic approach which addresses key issues.

Providing a basis for effective policy-making, this book is an overview of health financing tools, policies and trends - with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries. It discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics.

The Policy Research Report Localizing Development: Does Participation Work? brings analytical rigor to a field that has been the subject of intense debate and advocacy, and billions of dollars in development aid. It briefly reviews the history of participatory development and argues that its two modalities, community-based development and local decentralization, should be treated under the broader unifying umbrella of local development. It suggests that a distinction between organic participation (endogenous efforts by civic activists to bring about change) and induced participation (large-scale efforts to engineer participation at the local level via projects) is key, and focuses on the challenges of inducing participation.The report provides a conceptual framework for thinking about participatory development and then uses this framework to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature. The framework develops the concept of OC civil society failureOCO and explains its interaction with government and market failures. It argues that participatory development, which is often viewed as a mechanism for bypassing market and government failures by OCOharnessingOCO civic capacity, ought to be seen instead as a mechanism that, if done right, could help to repair important civil society failures. It distills literature from anthropology, economics, sociology, and political science to outline the challenges for effective policy in this area, looking at issues such as the uncertainty of trajectories of change, the importance of context, the role of elite capture and control, the challenge of collective action, and the role of the state. The review of the evidence looks at a variety of issues: the impact of participatory projects on inclusion, civic capacity, and social cohesion; on key development outcomes, such as income, poverty, and inequality; on public service delivery; and on the quality of local public goods. It draws on the evidence to suggest several recommendations for policy, emphasizing the key role of learning-by-doing. It then reviews participatory projects funded by the World Bank and finds the majority lacking in several arenas OCo particularly in paying attention to context and in creating effective monitoring and evaluation systems that allow for learning.

An annual report of the World Bank on the external financing of developing countries. It provides monitoring and analysis of development finance, identifying key trends and policy challenges in international financial flows that are likely to affect the growth prospects of developing countries.

Intended to help policymakers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, make appropriate use of multigrade teaching strategies, and to support these with the necessary policies in teacher training, curriculum, and school management.

Offers an insight into the lives of 12 HIV-positive teachers in sub-Saharan Africa. This title documents their experiences of discovering their HIV positive status and how this has affected them in their families, their communities, and their professional lives.

A set of manuals that helps low- and middle-income countries design and implement performance-based health care provider payment systems.

Examines the challenges facing Africa's youth in their transition from school to working life, and proposes a policy framework for meeting these challenges. This book covers topics that include the effect of education on employment and income, broadening employment opportunities, and enhancing youth capabilities.

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank's annual flagship publication. Each year the WDR seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes, and sets out actions the development community can take to fight poverty in all its dimensions.

With a special focus on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from nongovernmental providers, this title reviews ways to make public spending on health care more efficient and equitable in developing countries.

The rapid growth of private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in developing countries during the 1990s was followed by a subsequent decline in investments and the re-negotiation and cancellation of some projects. This work explains the factors behind the growth and decline of PPI.

'State-Owned Banks in the Transition: Origins, Evolution, and Policy Responses' reviews the experience with state banking over the last decade in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. State ownership of banking systems has undermined economic reform efforts and has distorted emerging markets. This study compares various approaches to reform and calls attention to the significant costs associated with continued state ownership. It concludes with lessons from experience and recommendations for policymakers on approaches to reducing state ownership of banks in the region. The findings indicate that restructuring of state banks has proven time consuming and costly, and governments are better off moving swiftly to privatize or liquidate their remaining state banks rather than attempting to rehabilitate them. This report includes seven case studies of individual state banks that have been reformed or privatized over the past decade. The case studies highlight the challenges of implementing various reform measures and illustrate how such challenges have been addressed in difficult economic and political contexts.

'Urban Air Quality Management' examines the contribution of vehicles to urban air pollution which is a growing problem in many cities in developing countries. It evaluates the priorities for air quality management programs, and reviews national, municipal, and World Bank experience with pollution-reduction efforts. This book draws lessons from this assessment and offers recommendations for priorities in developing coordinated assistance strategies in the environment, urban transport, and energy sectors.

In November 1997 the World Bank and Singapore's Institute of Policy Studies sponsored a conference, 'Financing Health Care and Old Age Security, ' to assess and identify potential solutions to these concerns. It addressed a topic of concern to nearly every country, developing and industrial, that is, how to deal with the implications of financing medical care and income security for rapidly aging populations. The issues identified and the solutions proposed can provide insight and guidance for policymakers, researchers, and others interested in addressing these challenges now. Of special interest are the contributors' analyses of Singapore's unique, integrated approach to managing social risk, which is based on mandatory individual savings accounts

This volume brings together findings and lessons about why and how people move in and out of poverty in conflict-affected contexts. It features cross-country findings on conflict and mobility, as well as in-depth case studies of six countires affected by signigicant violent conflict during the ten-year period covered by the research.

Examines Haiti's conflict-poverty trap from the perspective of demographic and socioeconomic factors, the state's institutional capacity to provide public goods, and the strategies of political actors. This report's three main sections explore the nature of these components, and a closing section considers the linkages among them.

Explores a wide variety of pension reform issues. Topics covered in this book include new approaches to multi-pillar pension reform, the relevance of index funds for pension investment in equities, and managing public pension reserves.