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全球营商环境报告(DOING BUSINESS)
《营商环境报告》项目对190个经济体以及所选地方城市的营商法规及其执行情况进行客观评估。该项目启动于2002年，旨在对内资中小企业进行考察，评估在企业生命周期内的适用法规。
《营商环境报告》通过收集并分析全面的定量的数据，对各经济体在不同时期的营商监管环境进行比较，旨在鼓励各国竞相提高监管效率；为改革提供可衡量的基准指标；为学术界、媒体、私营部门研究者及其他关注各国营商环境的人士提供参考。
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《2017年营商环境报告：人人机会平等》
《2017营商环境报告：人人机会平等》发现去年137个经济体的创业者见证了其当地监管框架的改进。自2015年6月至2016年6月，该报告衡量全球范围190个经济体，记录了283项商业改革。在2015/2016年度旨在减少监管过程的复杂性和成本的改革中，最普遍的发生于开办企业领域，与前一年相同。次之的是在纳税，跨境贸易。查阅商业改革 (英文) 。
2015/2016年度在《营商环境报告》跟踪的领域中改善最多的经济体是：文莱达鲁萨兰国，哈萨克斯坦，肯尼亚，白俄罗斯，印度尼西亚，塞尔维亚，格鲁吉亚，巴基斯坦，阿拉伯联合酋长国和巴林。这十大改善最多的经济体总共实施了48项提高营商便利度的监管改革。
所有的地区都在2015/2016推行了的使营商更为容易的法规改革， 但是欧洲和中亚地区有96%的经济体实行了至少一项营商法规改革，使得这个区域继续成为在此项目上占有最多经济体份额的地区。
《营商环境报告》在4个指标中包涵了性别维度。开办企业，财产注册和合同履行在今年第一次呈现了性别维度。劳动市场法规在去年已经包涵了性别维度。
本年度的报告将税后流程加入了纳税指标—即在公司纳税之后会发生什么－例如退税，税务审计和行政税务上诉。
本年度的报告还在附加了政府采购法规这个试验指标的分析。
该报告包含了总共6例案例研究：分别是获得电力，获得贷款：法律权利，获得贷款：信用信息，保护少数投资者，纳税和跨境贸易这些课题。同时还有劳动市场法规和与政府采购这两项附加课题。这些案例和附加项目有些展示了新的指标，另一些用这两年方法论改变后收集到的数据展示了更多的见解。见案例研究 (英文) 。
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《2016营商环境报告：衡量监管质量和有效性》
《2016营商环境报告：衡量监管质量和有效性》发现在去年，有 122个经济体的创业者发现了其各自当地监管系统的提升。自2014年6月至2015年6月，该报告衡量全球范围189个经济体，记录了231项商业改革。在为了减少监管过程的复杂性和花费的2014/2015改革中，最普遍的发生于开办企业领域，与前一年相同。次之的是在纳税，获得电力和财产登记领域。查阅商业改革 (英文) 。
在2014/2015，在《营商环境报告》关注的领域中提升最多的经济体是：哥斯达黎加，乌干达，肯雅，塞浦路斯，毛里塔利亚，乌兹别克斯坦，卡萨克斯坦，牙买加，塞内加尔和贝宁。这10个提高最多的经济体相加推行了39项使营商更容易的改革。
撒哈拉以南非洲在2014/2015所推动的使营商更为容易的法规改革占到了所有法规改革的30%。欧洲和中非紧随其后。促进非洲商业法律统一化组织的成员国突出的活跃：去年一年17个经济体中的14个施行了商业法规改革，总共有29项改革。其中24项 改革降低了监管程序的复杂性和花费，另外5项 加强了法律机构。
本年度的报告在4个指标中新增了质量指标：登记财产，建筑许可证，获得电力供应和执行合同。另外，跨国界贸易指标得到了修正以提高其相关性。相关的案例研究侧重分析各个经济体的首要出口产品，以普遍的制造产品（汽车配件）作为进口产品，并且以各进济体的最大贸易伙伴作为进出口对应方。
该报告包含了总共7例案例研究：5例侧重在今年新引进的或扩展了的法律和监管方面的指数，包含范围有建筑许可证，获得电力供应，登记财产，跨境贸易和执行合同。另两例 分析其它相关方面 的历史数据。见案例研究 (英文) 。
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《2015年全球营商环境报告：监管效率与质量并重》
《2015营商环境报告：监管效率与质量并重》发现，123个经济体的本地企业家认为在过去一年监管环境有所改善。从2013年6月至2014年6月，这份涵盖全世界189个经济体的报告记录了230项营商改革，其中145项旨在降低遵守营商法规的复杂性和成本，85项旨在加强法律制度。撒哈拉以南非洲在改革中占的比重最大。
塔吉克斯坦、贝宁、多哥、科特迪瓦、塞内加尔、特立尼达和多巴哥、刚果共和国、阿塞拜疆、爱尔兰民主共和国和阿拉伯联合酋长国是2013/14年度在《营商环境报告》跟踪的领域内进步最大的经济体。这10个经济体一共实施了40项改良商业监管环境的改革。
2013/14年度营商环境改善最大的10个经济体中，有5个位于撒哈拉以南非洲。撒哈拉以南非洲仔过去一年里营商环境改革比重最大，共实施了75项商业监管改革（全球共计230项改革）。该地区70%的经济体实施了至少一项改革。
今年的《营商环境报告》首次在人口超过一亿的经济体将数据采集范围从单一城市增加到两个城市，这些经济体是孟加拉国、巴西、中国、印度、印度尼西亚、日本、墨西哥、尼日利亚、巴基斯坦、俄罗斯联邦和美国。添加第二个城市使地方政府比较和对其他大城市的基准检测成为可能。报告发现，城市之间的差异在衡量完成本地机构所起作用较大的监管手续所需的步骤、时间和费用的指标更为常见。
案例研究强调了《营商环境报告》所度量的8项指标的最佳做法：（1）开办企业项下企业注册局的办事效率不断提高；（2）在申办施工许可项下的区划和城市规划；（3）登记财产项下的土地管理质量衡量；（4）获得信贷项下的信用局的重要性；（5）保护少数投资者项下的超出关联方交易范畴；（6）纳税项下的金融危机前后的纳税发展趋势；（7）执行合同项下的保障契约自由的司法效率；和（8）办理破产项下的度量破产法的力度。
今年的报告扩充了所涵盖10个指标中的3个指标的数据，并计划明年再扩充5个指标的数据。营商便利度排名现在是基于前沿距离分数。它由189个经济体其中的每一个与营商监管全球最佳实践之间的距离计算得出，分数高表示营商环境效率较高，法律制度较强。
ISBN: 146480351X
世界发展报告（WDR)
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《2016年世界发展报告：数字红利》
ISBN: 1464807280数字技术在全球大部分地区迅速推广，但是使用这些技术应产生的广泛发展效益，即数字红利，却并未同步实现。数字技术促进经济增长、带来更多机会并改善服务供给的实例很多，但总体影响不足，分布也不均。要想让世界所有人受益于数字技术，就需要消除横亘于前的数字鸿沟，尤其是在互联网接入领域。不过仅仅进一步推广数字技术并不足以达到目标。要充分实现数字革命的红利，各国需要努力完善“非数字配套机制”，包括加强监管，确保企业相互竞争；加强劳动者技能培训，适应新经济的需求；以及确保问责的体制。 -
《2015年世界发展报告：思维、社会与行为》
ISBN: 1464803420现实生活中人们很少具有和标准经济模型中所作假设相同的连贯性、前瞻性、战略性或自私性——他们有时并不寻求一己私利，也有可能令人意想不到的大方。这一动态因素应在发展政策中得到审慎考虑。这份新发布的报告认为，基于对人类实际如何思考和决策的深入理解制定发展政策，会有助于降低政府和公民社会应对发展挑战的难度，诸如提高生产率、打破贫困的代际传递和遏制气候变化等发展挑战。
World Bank Group Archives 世界银行档案
World Bank Group Archives 世界银行档案上线
2015年4月，世界银行集团开通了档案资料网站 ，这一行动是其为提升透明度和公开度所作承诺的一部分。这一绝佳平台最大限度地为公众获取该档案库中保存的大量原始资料提供了便利。自2010年《信息获取政策》实施以来，世行档案局史无前例地向公众公开了大量信息。截至目前，多达170万页的档案文件已经解密，超过77.5万页文件已实现数字化，它们现可通过互联网获得。该网站开通后的两周内，在线访问次数超过了1700次，网页浏览次数近8000次。
截至2013年，约450箱档案资料已获准解密并公开。如把这些箱子逐一堆叠起来，则可以形成与纽约帝国大厦等高的“箱塔”。
World Bank eLibrary 世界银行在线图书馆
World Bank e-Library 世界银行在线图书馆(我馆订购）
The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of World Bank documents. The collection consists of World Bank publications and Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. Use the browse books link to go directly to the e-book contents and here for its Data Book contents(参考）, like World Development Indicators and the Little Data Book series.. 世界银行e-library是世界银行出版品的电子入口，收录超过 9,000 种的书籍、研究报告、期刊和其他文件，并且数据量持续扩充中，透过 e-Library 加值的平台功能，确保用户可以快速地找到最正确、最完整版本的研究资料，世界银行e-Library 是在社会及经济发展领域资料含量最丰富的专辑。
Title with World Bank as Any Word in Shufe's Library Catalog. 在馆藏目录中检索我馆世界银行藏书
The library keeps some of the world bank's publications. They are shelved by subject matter using call numbers with the rest of the general collections. Also search by keyword.
Find WB Print Books in the Shufe Library我馆世行近年部分新书展
For more WB Print books (Welcome to the 6th Floor) 我馆目前藏有世行图书8000多册，图书馆六楼，欢迎阅览！
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Jobs or Privileges
ISBN: 1464804052Publication Date: 2014-11-18The report Jobs or Privileges: Unleashing the Employment Potential of the Middle East and North Africa shows that policies that lower competition and create an uneven playing field are common and constrain private sector job creation. -
International Debt Statistics 2015
ISBN: 1464804133Publication Date: 2014-12-15International Debt Statistics (IDS) 2015 (formerly Global Development Finance) provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS). -
Effective Targeting Mechanisms for the Poor and Vulnerable in Africa
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ISBN: 1464804354Publication Date: 2015-02-10The need for safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa is vast. In addition to being the world's poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be seen as a legitimate way to fight poverty and ensure shared prosperity - and all the more so in countries where growth is driven by extractive industries that are not labor-intensive and often employ very few poor people. -
Purchasing Power Parities and the Real Size of World Economies
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ISBN: 1464803293Publication Date: 2014-12-15This publication presents the detailed results of the 2011 International Comparison Programme (ICP). The ICP is a worldwide statistical initiative that aims to estimate Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) to be used as currency converters to compare the size and price levels of economies around the world. The program involved 199 economies from eight geographic regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Western Asia, Pacific Islands, and the countries of the regular PPP programme managed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat). -
Valuing Services in Trade
ISBN: 146480155XPublication Date: 2015-01-15The Service Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic (STDC) Toolkit is part of a larger agenda of trade competitiveness work developed by the World Bank's International Trade Unit in recent years. Services are a key input in countries' trade competitiveness, as well as a new source of trade diversification, making it critical to understand what factors and main constraints matter most for services competitiveness. -
East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape
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ISBN: 1464803633Publication Date: 2015-01-07Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across the East Asia and Pacific region between 2000 and 2010. Illustrated with maps and charts, it presents trends in urban expansion and population growth in more than 850 urban areas -- by country, urban area, income group, and city size categories. -
Financing Transit with Land Values
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ISBN: 1464801495Publication Date: 2015-01-15Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility. As these cities are often under severe fiscal constraints, they face great challenges in financing capital-intensive mass transit systems to reverse the course of these negative trends. -
The Economic Impact of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic
ISBN: 1464804389Publication Date: 2014-11-26Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty. This impact results partly from the health-care costs and forgone productivity associated with being infected, but it is driven principally by the efforts of the uninfected population toavoid exposure ('aversion behavior'). -
Urban China
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ISBN: 1464802068Publication Date: 2014-07-29In the last 30 years, China's record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, pollution threatens people's health, and farmland and water resources are becoming scarce. With China's urban population projected to rise to about one billion - or close to 70 percent of the country's population - by 2030, China's leaders are seeking a more coordinated urbanization process. -
China 2030
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ISBN: 0821395455Publication Date: 2013-03-28China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms, strengthen its private sector, open its markets to greater competition and innovation, and ensure equality of opportunity to help achieve its goal of a new structure for economic growth. -
The World Bank Group A to Z 2016
ISBN: 1464804842The World Bank Group A to Z provides concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group.
This second edition is a follow-up to the first volume released for the 2014 Annual Meetings. The World Bank Group A to Z series builds on previous editions of A Guide to the World Bank to include features not found in its predecessors including: a graphical introduction to the World Bank Group, highlighting the Bank Group’s goals, financials, regions, and results; examples and photos of Bank Group projects and programs; and tools to guide you to the information you are looking for (even if you don’t know exactly what that is). -
Highways to Success or Byways to Waste
ISBN: 1464806543Roads are the arteries through which the world’s economies pulse. Roads connect sellers to markets, workers to jobs, students to education, and the sick to hospitals. Yet in much of the developing world—and particularly in Africa—adequate roads are lacking. Accordingly, investment in transportation remains a key strategy for development agencies. -
Women, Business and the Law 2016 : Getting to Equal
ISBN: 1464806772In a changing world, how can we be sure that women as well as men entrepreneurs and workers obtain the benefit from these changes? Ensuring that women have the same legal opportunities as men is one part of the picture. By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, Women, Business and the Law shines a light on how women's incentives or capacity to work are affected by the legal environment and provides a basis for improving regulation. -
Going Universal
ISBN: 1464806101The quest for universal health coverage (UHC) has gathered real momentum over the past decade, with countries on every continent now taking part. This is welcome news, since a lack of universal coverage means that hundreds of millions of people around the world either do not get the health care services they need, or they have to pay dearly for them, often falling into poverty as a result. -
The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2015/2016
ISBN: 1464805547The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2015/2016 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Development Database, published as part of the work on the Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016: Long-Term Finance. It contains 39 indicators of financial development in 202 economies, including measures of (1) financial depth, (2) access, (3) efficiency, and (4) stability of financial institutions and markets. Additional variables, historical observations, and links to underlying research are available at www.worldbank.org/financialdevelopment. -
Deliberation and Development
ISBN: 1464805016This book marries two fields that rarely converse with one another: deliberative democracy and development studies. The study of deliberation―which explores normative and practical questions around group-based decision making through discussion or debate―has emerged as a critical area of study over the past two decades. Concurrently, the field of development has seen a spurt of interest in community-led development and participation premised on the ability of groups to arrive at decisions and manage resources via a process of discussion and debate. -
State Social Safety Nets 2015
ISBN: 1464805431Over the last decade, a policy revolution has been underway in the developing and emerging world. Country after country is systematically providing non-contributory transfers to poor and vulnerable people, in order to protect them against economic shocks and to enable them to invest in themselves and their children. -
Global Economic Prospects, June 2015
ISBN: 1464804834Global growth is expected to be 2.8 percent in 2015, but is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in 2016-17. Growth in developing countries and some high-income countries is set to disappoint again this year. The prospect of rising borrowing costs will compound the challenges many developing countries are facing as they adapt to an era of low commodity prices. Risks to this outlook remain tilted to the downside. -
Golden Aging : Prospects for Healthy, Active, and Prosperous Aging in Europe and Central Asia
ISBN: 1464803536Societies across Europe and Central Asia are aging, but people are not necessarily living longer. This demographic trend-caused by a decrease in fertility rather than improved longevity-presents both challenges and opportunities for governments, the private sector, and individuals alike. Some of the challenges are well known. Output per capita becomes smaller if it is shared with an increasingly larger group of dependent older people. -
Little Green Data Book 2015
ISBN: 1464805601The Little Green Data Book 2015 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, oceans, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. For the third year, The Little Green Data Book presents a new set of ocean-related indicators, highlighting the role of oceans in economic development. -
Africa's Demographic Transition: Dividend or Disaster?
ISBN: 1464804893Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a 'bulge' generation and a large number of working age people, giving a boost to the economy. In the short run lower fertility leads to lower youth dependency rates and greater female labor force participation outside the home. -
Decarbonizing Development
ISBN: 1464804796The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is compatible with countries' broader development goals. -
Impact Evaluation in Practice
ISBN: 0821385410This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. While the book is geared principally towards development practitioners and policymakers designing prospective impact evaluations, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in using impact evaluation. Prospective impact evaluations should be used selectively to assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results, or to test alternatives for achieving those results. -
Trust, Voice, and Incentives
ISBN: 1464804567This report examines the role of incentives, trust, and engagement as critical determinants of service delivery performance in MENA countries. Focusing on education and health, the report illustrates how the weak external and internal accountability undermines policy implementation and service delivery performance and how such a cycle of poor performance can be counteracted. -
Latin America and the Rising South
ISBN: 1464803552The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing (South) countries. However, the recent rise of developing economies suggests the need to go beyond this North-South dichotomy. This tectonic re-configuration of the global landscape has brought about significant changes to countries in the Latin America and Caribean (LAC) region. -
Opening the Black Box: The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability
ISBN: 1464804818Opening the Black Box: Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability fills an important knowledge gap by providing guidance on how to assess contextual drivers of social accountability effectiveness. This publication aims to more strategically support citizen engagement at the country level and for a specific issue or problem. The report proposes a novel framing of social accountability as the interplay of constitutive elements: citizen action and state action, supported by three enabling levers: civic mobilization, interface and information. -
The Little Data Book 2015
ISBN: 1464805504The Little Data Book 2015 is a pocket edition of World Development Indicators 2015. It is intended as a quick reference for users of the World Development Indicators database, book, and mobile app. The database covers more than 1,200 indicators and spans more than 50 years. The 214 country tables present the latest available data for World Bank member countries and other economies with populations of more than 30,000. The 14 summary tables cover regional and income group aggregates. -
World Development Indicators 2015
ISBN: 1464804400World Development Indicators 2015 World Development Indicators 2015 provides a compilation of relevant, highquality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens find and use data related to all aspects of development, including those that help monitor progress toward the World Bank Group’s two goals of ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity. -
Development as Freedom in a Digital Age: Experiences from the Rural Poor in Bolivia
ISBN: 1464804206Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen s capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people s well-being, rather than technology, at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance people s informational capabilities and improve people s human and social capabilities. -
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015
ISBN: 1464805520The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion Database published in 2015 in “The Global Findex Database 2014: Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World” by Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden (World Bank Policy Research Paper 7255). It provides 41 country-level indicators of financial inclusion summarized for all adults and disaggregated by key demographic characteristics―gender, age, income, and rural residence. -
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities : The Example of Bamako, Mali
ISBN: 1464804338Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes a systemic approach and applies it to Bamako and its surrounding areas. -
The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 6. Improving Delivery in Development : The Role of Voice, Social Contract, and Accountability
ISBN: 1464803781In recent years, better delivery in development has been at the center of development discourse. There is now wide agreement that today's development challenges demand effective solutions that fully integrate the aspirations, voices, needs, and support of citizens. But how can the international community translate that realization into practical accomplishment? -
World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends
ISBN: 1464806713Digital technologies are spreading rapidly, but digital dividends--the broader benefits of faster growth, more jobs, and better services--are not. If more than 40 percent of adults in East Africa pay their utility bills using a mobile phone, why can’t others around the world do the same? If 8 million entrepreneurs in China--one third of them women--can use an e-commerce platform to export goods to 120 countries, why can’t entrepreneurs elsewhere achieve the same global reach? And if India can provide unique digital identification to 1 billion people in five years, and thereby reduce corruption by billions of dollars, why can’t other countries replicate its success? Indeed, what’s holding back countries from realizing the profound and transformational effects that digital technologies are supposed to deliver? -
Live Long and Prosper: Aging in East Asia and Pacific
ISBN: 1464804699Aging is a challenge which countries in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) regions are grappling with or will soon confront. It raises many questions for policymakers ranging from potential macroeconomic impacts, to fiscal challenges of supporting pension, health and long-term care systems, and labor market implications as countries seek to promote productive aging. The urgency of the aging challenge varies across the region, but it will confront all EAP countries in time and early preparation is essential to avoid the missteps of other regions. -
The Welfare of Syrian Refugees: Evidence from Jordan and Lebanon
ISBN: 1464807701The Syrian refugee crisis, which began in 2011, is one of the most pressing disasters
in the world today, with its effects reverberating around the globe. By the end of
2015, more than 7.6 million of the country’s people had been internally displaced
and 4.3 million were registered refugees. The number of internally displaced persons
and refugees amounts to about half of Syria’s precrisis population. -
The Little Data Book on Gender 2016
ISBN: 1464805563Publication Date: 2015-12-28This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in gender statistics. The book presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 economies in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development Goals. The book's summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates -
Global Economic Prospects, January 2016: Spillovers amid Weak Growth
ISBN: 1464806756Global growth disappointed once again in 2015. A further deceleration of activity in key emerging and developing economies overshadowed a modest recovery in major high-income countries, amid weakening commodity prices, global trade, and capital flows. Going forward, global growth should pick up at an appreciably slower pace than previously projected. Risks to the outlook remain markedly tilted to the downside. -
How Shanghai Does It: Insights and Lessons from the Highest-Ranking Education System in the World
ISBN: 1464807906The Shanghai basic education system has garnered significant attention since its extraordinary performance in the 2009 and 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a global assessment of 15-year-olds’ educational abilities. Among the 65 participating economies in 2012, Shanghai-China ranked first on all three major domains of PISA, i.e. mathematics, reading, and science. Shanghai also stands out for having the world’s highest percentage of “resilient students”, students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who emerge as top performers. -
Poverty in a Rising Africa
ISBN: 146480723XPerceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on Africa rising and an African 21st century. Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or not they did, remains unclear given the poor quality of the data, the nature of the growth process (especially the role of natural resources), conflicts that affect part of the region, and high population growth. -
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016: Comparing Regulatory Good Practices
ISBN: 1464807728'Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2016: Comparing Regulatory Good Practices,' building on the progress report published in November 2014, provides a tool for policy makers to identify and analyze legal barriers in the business of agriculture and to quantify transaction costs in dealing with government regulations. It presents the main results for 40 countries, for the first time using indicator scores to showcase good practices among countries in different stages of agricultural development. -
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 4): Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders
ISBN: 1464804265Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing,and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with pitifully small contributions to scaling up cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies. Systematically compiling the substantial existing knowledge to address this inequity is the central goal of this volume. This evidence-base can help policy makers in resource-constrained settings as they prioritize programs and interventions to address these disorders.
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