Bøger af World Bank

Outlines how to integrate water management and climate-change adaptation in the design, construction, and maintenance of roads. The guidelines describe how the negative impact of roads on the surrounding landscape can be turned around, and how roads can become instruments of beneficial water management and increased climate resilience.

The Doha Development Agenda left open many contentious and important questions. This study analyses the most critical multilateral trade issues through the lens of development and suggests policy options more inclusive of developing countries and more conducive to poverty reduction.

A World Bank Group project which measures the laws and regulations restricting women's economic opportunities. WBL informs research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment and emphasizes the work still to be done to ensure economic empowerment for all.

The premise of improving access to financial services for consumption smoothing by the poor has never been a subject of controversy. What has been controversial is whether microfinance can alleviate poverty.

Most jobs in the Kyrgyz Republic require use of reading, writing, numeracy, and ICT skills, and those who are higher skilled earn higher wages. However, skill levels among the workforce are consistently low in absolute terms, across sociodemographic groups, and relative to countries that implemented PIAAC surveys.

Assesses the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal Motor Vehicle Agreement; analyses how freight flows, wages, employment, and income are likely to change in Bangladesh and India once the agreement is adopted; and provides suggestions on enhancing the impact of regional connectivity on rural areas and women.

Identifies the impact of the Syrian conflict on economic and social outcomes in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. The publication combines a large number of data sources, statistical approaches, and a suite of economic models that isolate the specific impact of the Syrian conflict among numerous global and regional factors.

International Debt Statistics (IDS) is a longstanding annual publication of the World Bank featuring external debt statistics and analysis for the 123 low- and middle-income countries that report to the World Bank Debt Reporting System (DRS).

Productivity growth is the foundation of lasting income growth and poverty reduction: Poverty declined in EMDEs with the fastest pace of productivity growth 1981-2015, and rose in EMDEs with the lowest pace.

The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2020 will provide global assessment on the coverage of economic inclusion programs that reach the extreme poor and vulnerable and help identify emerging lessons in how economic inclusion is being framed as part of overall development dialogue.

Provides an update on levels of global poverty and shared prosperity and explores which countries are on track to reduce extreme poverty to three percent by 2030 and beyond. The report explains why this challenge is so complex and what complementary strategies might be needed to make greater progress by 2030.

Food for cities in Africa is changing under the triple effect of growth demography, urbanization and transformations in agricultural production and trade.

Covers national wealth for countries as the sum of produced capital, natural capital, net foreign assets, and human capital overall as well as by gender and type of employment.

This monograph synthesizes multiyear, multidisciplinary studies that assess the vulnerability of of the Sundarbans and the neighboring communities whose livelihoods depend on its natural resources, and it recommends resilient-smart adaptation measures.

How can countries revive inland waterway transportation? A study of how and why China improved its inland waterways for transportation can be informative for other countries, providing relevant insights and valuable lessons.

Fostering Human Capital in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries