The effect of demographics on poverty measurement based on per capita consumption is well known. The size and composition of the household can affect the well-being of everyone in the household, with respect...
Jordanian citizens are no exception - a household survey conducted in Jordan in 2011 found that roughly 20 percent of families had a member experience a legal problem in the previous five years. Legal...
Some analysts believe that the commodity price boom of the new millennium has played itself out. However, natural resource based commodity prices (with the exception of shale gas and its downward pressure...
This note analyzes the trends and evolution of public spending in the agriculture sector in Indonesia, as well as its impact on agriculture growth during the period 1976 to 2006. The authors demonstrate...
During the early 2000s, Argentina's total expenditures on health, as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), placed it among the top-20 countries in the world in per capita health spending. For example...
The Zambia Social Investment Fund (ZAMSIF) is part of a two phase program (over 10 years) intended to support two of the objectives outlined in the Government of Zambia's (GRZ) National Poverty Reduction...
This study analyzes the extent of knowledge and technology absorption for firms in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), as well as the factors that influence absorption, using statistical analyses of various...
In this largely Muslim population, only about a third of women have any schooling, most marry young (nearly 80 percent by the age of 19) and by the age of 18, more than half have had their first child...
In this largely Muslim population, only about a third of women have any schooling, most marry young (nearly 80 percent by the age of 19) and by the age of 18, more than half have had their first child...
When privatization is not feasible or palatable, developing country governments seeking to improve the performance of state enterprises are often negotiating performance contracts with their managers...
This Precis entitled, National agricultural research systems : focus on sustainability, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Operations evaluation study : Agricultural extension...
This Precis entitled, National agricultural research systems : focus on sustainability, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Operations evaluation study : Agricultural extension...
This Precis entitled, National agricultural research systems : focus on sustainability, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Operations evaluation study : Agricultural extension...
On May 8, 1990, International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and fifty. It was resolved that each member shall be allocated the additional membership...
On June 20, 1986, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred fifty. It was resolved that, by accepting membership in the Corporation, Kiribati...
On September 7, 1961, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and fifty. It was resolved that the Dominican Republic shall...
This press release announces an economic and financial mission is being sent to Brazil on October 11, 1949.