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Development, Trade, and the Wto: A Handbook (World Bank Trade and Development Series)
Development, Trade, and the Wto: A Handbook (World Bank Trade and Development Series)
Today, trade policy is at the forefront of the development agenda, and it is a critical element of any strategy to fight poverty. This renewed interest in trade liberalization does not come from dogma but instead is based on a careful assessment of development experience over the last 50 years.

Developing countries that increased their...
Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation
Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation
A vibrant private sector—with firms making investments, creating jobs, and improving productivity— promotes growth and expands opportunities for poor people. To create one, governments around the world have implemented wide-ranging reforms, including macro-stabilization programs, price liberalization, privatization, and trade-barrier...
Poverty in Guatemala
Poverty in Guatemala
Poverty in Guatemala is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank's work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. This report is part of a collaborative multi-year...
Assessing and Reforming Public Financial Management: A New Approach
Assessing and Reforming Public Financial Management: A New Approach
Over the past 15 years donors seeking to advance development and abate poverty have placed growing emphasis on the need for effective public expenditure management and financial accountability systems. Numerous trends explain this evolution, including the realization that aid resources are fungible, the shift toward policy-based adjustment lending,...
The Effectiveness of Promotion Agencies at Attracting Foreign Investment
The Effectiveness of Promotion Agencies at Attracting Foreign Investment
With many millions of dollars being spent annually by governments on promotion to attract foreign investors to various countries, a perplexing question has become increasingly important: Does investment promotion really work? Jacques Morisset and Kelly Andrews-Johnson have made a major step in providing a convincing answer to this and associated...
Education in Rwanda: Rebalancing Resources to Accelerate Post-Conflict Development and Poverty Reduction (World Bank Country Study)
Education in Rwanda: Rebalancing Resources to Accelerate Post-Conflict Development and Poverty Reduction (World Bank Country Study)
Ten years after the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 10 percent of the country’s population perished, Rwanda’s devastated education system is now back on its feet. Classrooms have been repaired and new ones built; teachers who fled the mayhem have been reintegrated into the teaching force; arrears in teacher pay have been cleared up;...
A Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications
A Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications
The liberalization of the telecommunications markets in Sub-Saharan Africa led to increased competition on the provision and pricing of communication services. But, due to the lack of appropriate regulatory tools, newly established regulators are poorly equipped to arbitrate increasing interconnection disputes between competing operators.
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Water Resources Sector Strategy: Strategic Directions for World Bank Engagement
Water Resources Sector Strategy: Strategic Directions for World Bank Engagement
Many developing countries face daunting water resources challenges as the needs for water supply, irrigation, and hydroelectricity grow; as water becomes more scarce, quality declines, and environmental and social concerns increase; and as the threats posed by goods and droughts are exacerbated by climate change. As a consequence, there is a high...
Access to Financial Services in Brazil
Access to Financial Services in Brazil
There has been a growing awareness worldwide that financial exclusion reduces the potential welfare of individuals and the productivity of enterprises in an economy. This study focuses on the delivery of financial services to one of the world’s most important emerging financial markets, Brazil.

Despite concerns regarding diminishing bank...

Little Green Data Book 2004
Little Green Data Book 2004
In its 3rd annual edition, The Little Green Data Book 2004 is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation.

Profiles of each country include 48 key development...

Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth
Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth
Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across more than 130 countries, and over time. The indicators...
Telecommunications Challenges In Developing Countries: Asymmetric Interconnection Charges For Rural Areas
Telecommunications Challenges In Developing Countries: Asymmetric Interconnection Charges For Rural Areas
Telecommunications Challenges in Developing Countries addresses an important aspect of interconnection—the settings of call termination charges. In rural telecommunications, network costs are known to be high. The traditional consensus has been that many rural areas cannot be connected without subsidies. This paper investigates the...
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