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Howling For Justice - New Perspectives On Leslie Marmon Silko'S Almanac Of The Dead

by Rebecca Tillett

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 New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silkos Almanac of the Dead. Fresh perspectives on its transnational vision, on its sociocultural, historical, and political ambitions, and on its continued relevance.
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Skills Development In Sub-Saharan Africa

by Arvil Adams e Richard Johanson

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 The authors set out to update knowledge and explore issues and recent developments in technical and vocational education and training and to distill lessons as a guide to future skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Informality And The Playing Field In Vietnam'S Business Sector

by Amanda Carlier, Omar Chaudry e Trang Phuong Nguyen

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 Private sector growth will be key to maintaining the dynamism of the Vietnamese economy and allowing the country to achieve its development objectives, the study finds. The authors point out that, above all, private enterprises need space to grow.
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Improving The World Bank'S Development Effectiveness - What Does Evaluation Show?

by A. Chhibber

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 Focuses on the questions to assess the development effectiveness of World Bank programs: How have living conditions in the developing world improved over the last 10-15 years, and how does this compare with the previous decade? How effective have World Bank interventions been in helping countries improve their living conditions?
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Evaluation Of World Bank Assistance To Pacific Member Countries, 1992-2002

by Asita Ruan De Silva

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 The nine Pacific Member Countries (PMCs) of the World Bank Group are Fiji Islands, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu. This evaluation covers Bank assistance to the PMCs since 1992.
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Priorities In Health

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 Useful for policy makers, practitioners, and academics, this is a companion volume to "Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition (DCP2)". It talks about DCP2's main messages, and helps gain an understanding of its principal methods of analysis and appreciate the scope of diseases and issues covered.
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World Development Report

by World Bank

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 The World Bank's annual flagship publication, this report seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes, and sets out actions the developing community can take to fight poverty in all its dimensions.
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Assisting Russia'S Transition - An Unprecedented Challenge

by Gianni Zanini

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 This evaluation assesses the developmental effectiveness of the World Bank's lending and non-lending assistance to the Russian Federation between 1991 and 2001, a ten-year period of tumultuous political, economic and social change.
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Ecuador - An Economic And Social Agenda In The New Millennium

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 The chapters in this volume show that the views of the World Bank and the new Gutierrez administration in Ecuador coincide in making poverty reduction the central strategic goal of both the new government's agenda and future Bank assistance in the country.
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World Bank Operations Evaluation Department - The First 30 Years

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 The story of independent evaluation in the World Bank is more than 30 years in the making. The Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding on July 1, 2003. This volume details this history of OED.
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Toward Country-Led Developmentsynthesis Report - A Multi-Partner Evaluation Of The Comprehensive Development Framework

by John R Eriksson

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 The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF)--launched by World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn in early 1999--has become an important influence on the global development agenda. This evaluation, shows that both donors and recipients have made progress in implementing the CDF principles.
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Extractive Industries And Sustainable Development - An Evaluation Of The World Bank Group'S Experience

by Andres Liebenthal

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 Finds that with its global mandate and experience, comprehensive country development focus, and overarching mission to fight poverty, the World Bank Group is well positioned to help countries overcome the policy, institutional, and technical challenges that prevent them from transforming resource endowments into sustainable benefits.
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Building Market Institutions In South Eastern Europe - Comparative Prospects For Investment And Private Sector Development

by Harry G. Broadman, James Anderson, Randi Ryterman, Stefka Slavova e Stijn Claessens

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 Analyses the institutional impediments to investment and growth in eight SEE countries - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, and Serbia and Montenegro - and suggests policy reforms to ease these constraints.
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Jordan - Supporting Stable Development In A Challenging Region - A Joint World Bank-Islamic Development Bank Evaluation

by Fareed M. A. Hassan

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 Prepared in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank, this evaluation looks at the effectiveness of Bank assistance to Jordan during the 1990s, from three perspectives: an analysis of the Bank's services and products, development impact, and the contribution of the Bank and its development partners, to development outcomes.
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Green Miniatlas

by Myriad Editions Limited

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 The second title in the miniAtlas series, the Green miniAtlas is an "at-a-glance" guide to the most pressing environmental problems around the world. It draws on data from the World Bark's Little Green Data Book, providing a wealth of information on key environmental topics for over 200 countries and territories.
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Fiscal Sustainability In Theory And Practice - A Handbook

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 Fiscal sustainability analysis is the use of a simple set of tools to analyze a government's budget and its debt position, and leads to conclusions about the appropriateness of fiscal policy. Many economists are familiar with fiscal sustainability analysis, and this single reference work explains it.
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Protecting The Global Environment - Initiatives By Japanese Business

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 This work discusses the connection between environmental concerns and national development policies. By outlining three specific examples from the steel, power and forestry sectors, in Japan, it shows how environmental improvements can occur while improving production efficiency.
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Gender Dimensions Of Alcohol Consumption And Alcohol-Related Problems In Latin America And The Caribbean

by Maria Correia

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 This work recommends an approach to dealing with the damage done by alcohol consumption and production that goes beyond controlling its availability. It recommends many measures including increasing knowledge through research and developing indicators to measure consumption levels.
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Corporate Governance And Enterprise Reform In China - Building The Institutions Of Modern Markets

by Chunlin Zhang

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 This study evaluates short-and medium-term corporate governance issues impacting companies involved in ownership diversification in China. It examines problems associated with governance such as cost and framework design and makes recommendations concerning the many facets of corporate governance.
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Household Risk Management And Social Protection In Chile

by World Bank

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 This study takes a critical look at Chile's protection "system" - broadly defined to include policy interventions, public institutions, and the regulation of private institutions that lower welfare costs.
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Investment Climate, Growth, And Poverty - Berlin Workshop Series 2005

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 This book highlights key issues on investment climate; covering such topics as property and contractual rights, financial markets, regulation, governance, and corruption.
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Financial Sector Policy And The Poor - Selected Findings And Issues

by Patrick Honohan

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 With global enthusiasm for microfinance, policymakers and NGOs are unaware that mainstream financial sector development is as important for poverty reduction.The author finds that the scale of microfinance is small, contrasts between micro and mainstream finance are exaggerated, and evidence for the pro-poor effectiveness of microfinance is weak.
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China - An Evaluation Of World Bank Assistance

by Gene Tidrick

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 This book evaluates the relevance and effectiveness of World Bank assistance to China since the early 1990s in the areas of economic reform, poverty reduction, infrastructure development, and environmental protection.

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