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WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2024
The Middle-Income Trap
By the World Bank
Middle-income countries are in a race against time. Since the 1990s, many have done well enough to escape low-income levels and eradicate extreme poverty, and many aspire to reach high-income status within the next two or three decades. However, their prospects of achieving that goal have worsened during the past decade. With rising debt and aging populations at home, growing protectionism in advanced economies, and escalating pressures to speed up the energy transition, today’s middle-income economies are growing into ever-tighter spaces.
World Development Report 2024 identifies pathways for emerging market economies to avoid what has become known and feared as the “middleincome trap.” Using Schumpeterian growth analysis, the report points to the need for not one but two transitions during the middle-income phase. The first is to transition from a “1 i ” strategy for accelerating investment to a “2 i ” strategy focusing on both investment and infusion , in which a country brings technologies from abroad and diffuses them domestically. Once a country has succeeded in doing this, it can switch to a “3 i ” strategy, in which it increases attention to innovation and pushes the frontiers outward.
Success in each transition will depend on how well societies juggle the forces of creation, preservation, and destruction—that is, how well they encourage enterprises by disciplining incumbency, how well they develop talent by rewarding merit, and how well they capitalize on crises to alter policies and institutions that are no longer suited for the purposes they were once designed to serve. In doing so, middle-income economies will need to focus not only on firm size but also on the value added of firms, not only on inequality but also on socioeconomic mobility, and not only on energy sources but also on emissions intensity. While the road ahead is not easy for these economies, with the right policies in place, their prospects for growth are within reach.
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WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2023
Migrants, Refugees, and Societies
July 2023. 344 pages. Stock no. C211941 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1941-4). US$49.50
Business Ready (B-READY) is the World Bank’s new flagship report benchmarking the business environment and investment climate in most economies worldwide. This report assesses the regulatory framework and public services directed at firms and the efficiency with which regulatory frameworks and public services are combined in practice.
B-READY focuses on 10 topics organized following the life cycle of the firm and its participation in the market while opening, operating (or expanding), and closing (or reorganizing) a business. The topics include
• Business entry
• Business location
• Utility services
• Labor
• Financial services
• International trade
• Taxation
• Dispute resolution
• Market competition
• Business insolvency.
With data comparable across economies and over time, B-READY provides actionable evidence to promote reforms for a stronger private sector. The B-READY benchmarking exercise provides a quantitative assessment of the business environment for private sector development.
In September 2021, World Bank Group management decided to improve on and replace Doing Business . However, the Doing Business website continues to be publicly available as an archive of knowledge and data.
POVERTY, PROSPERITY, AND PLANET REPORT 2024
Achieving Interlinked
Goals
By the World Bank
Around 700 million people worldwide live in extreme poverty with less than US$2.15 a day. Progress has plateaued amid lower economic growth and the impacts of COVID-19 and other crises. Extreme poverty today is mostly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and fragile settings. At a higher standard more typical of upper-middle-income countries—US$6.85 per day—almost half of the world is living in poverty. In fact, the number of people living under US$6.85 has barely changed since 1990.
Progress on shared prosperity also has halted. Worldwide, people’s incomes today would need to increase five-fold to reach a minimum prosperity threshold of US$25 a day. High levels of inequality, particularly in Africa and Latin America, are hindering the ability of economic growth to boost the incomes of poor individuals.
Today at least 1 in 3 people around the world are at risk of extreme weather events in their lifetime. About 60 percent of the global population is exposed to extreme floods, droughts, cyclones, and heatwaves. Without action, the catastrophic consequences of climate change for future human and planetary well-being will only increase. While the effects of climate change are already being felt today around the globe, negative impacts will only grow larger in the future.
Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024 is the latest edition of the series formerly known as Poverty and Shared Prosperity. At this critical juncture, the report reveals that a new approach to development policy is essential to eradicate poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. Growth remains key, but it needs to be faster, more inclusive, and greener, which will require massive transformations. Although the world is implementing solutions, they are not coming fast enough, and the process is not simple. Accelerating inclusive and greener growth is complex and involves short-term trade-offs that need to be understood and managed.
The interconnected issues of climate change and poverty call for a united and inclusive effort from the global community. Development cooperation stakeholders—from governments, organizations, and the private sector to communities and citizens acting locally in every corner of the globe—hold pivotal roles in promoting fair and sustainable transitions. By emphasizing strategies that yield multiple benefits and diligently monitoring and addressing trade-offs, we can strive toward a future that is prosperous, equitable, and resilient.
POVERTY, PROSPERITY, AND PLANET REPORT
October 2024. 150 pages. Stock no. C212123 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2123-3). US$43.95
After several years of negative shocks, global growth is expected to hold steady in 2024 and then edge up in the next few years, in part aided by cautious monetary policy easing as inflation gradually declines. However, economic prospects are envisaged to remain tepid, especially in the most vulnerable countries. Risks to the outlook, while more balanced, are still tilted to the downside, including the possibility of escalating geopolitical tensions, further trade fragmentation, and higher-for-longer interest rates. Natural disasters related to climate change could also hinder activity. Subdued growth prospects across many emerging market and developing economies and continued risks underscore the need for decisive policy action at the global and national levels.
Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a focus on emerging market and developing economies, on a semiannual basis (in January and June). Each edition includes analytical pieces on topical policy challenges faced by these economies.
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GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS, JANUARY 2025
January 2025. 194 pages. Stock no. C212147 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2147-9). US$49.50
JOBS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Facts and a Framework for Policy
By the World Bank
Development reaches people through jobs. Economic growth transforms societies. But it is through increases in labor income from jobs that people reap these gains. Yet the limited availability of quality jobs remains the most pressing economic problem in developing countries.
Jobs for Development applies a jobs-focused approach to development, which puts the creation of more productive and better-paying jobs at the center of country growth strategies. To support this approach, this report presents an empirically grounded conceptual and operational framework built on new global, regional, country, and subnational data from over three decades that reveal how patterns of jobs and production vary across different stages of the development process. This work aims to help practitioners prioritize countryspecific policy areas around three pillars: production, people, and places.
The report’s main aim is operational. It makes three contributions to the debate on how jobs can be integrated in development projects and programs by (1) helping focus country diagnostics on the creation of more productive and better-paying jobs with economic growth, (2) providing new knowledge from global and in-country patterns of employment as countries develop, and (3) offering practitioners guidance on how to improve the design and monitoring of programs and projects to maximize their impact on jobs.
and a Framework for Policy
October 2024. 104 pages. Stock no. C212011 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2011-3). US$43.95
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It
March 2023. 186 pages. Stock no. C211901 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1901-8). US$43.95
RECIPE FOR A LIVABLE PLANET
Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System
By William Sutton, Alexander Lotsch, and Ashesh Prasann
Recipe for a Livable Planet addresses a challenge central to the survival of our world: the impact of what we eat and how we produce it. Up until now, the agricultural system that produces our food has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. We do so at our peril. Greenhouse gas emissions from agrifood must be cut to net zero by 2050. This action is needed for the world to achieve its goal of keeping global average temperatures from rising above 1.5 centigrade from pre-industrial levels. Emissions from agrifood alone are so large that they could by themselves make the world miss this target.
With new analysis and data, Recipe for a Livable Planet highlights how the agrifood system can play a central role in overcoming climate change. As the World Bank’s first strategic framework for mitigating the agrifood system’s contributions to climate change, it shows where and how emissions can be reduced while ensuring global food security. The authors emphasize that the agrifood system represents an untapped source of low-cost climate change action. By implementing affordable and readily available measures, we can cut nearly one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. These actions, which are urgently needed, offer three additional benefits: improving food supply reliability, strengthening the food system’s resilience to climate change, and safeguarding vulnerable populations.
Recipe for a Livable Planet serves as a practical guide for action. It identifies specific steps that people in countries at all income levels can take now. In addition, the framework outlines actions at both national and global levels, focusing on six key areas: investments, incentives, information, innovation, institutions, and inclusion. Calling for collaboration among governments, businesses, citizens, and international organizations, this book lays out the pathway to making agrifood a significant contributor to addressing climate change and healing the planet.
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INSECT AND HYDROPONIC FARMING IN AFRICA
The New Circular Food Economy
December 2021. 280 pages. Stock no. C211766 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1766-3). US$53.95
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN AFRICA
By the World Bank
Poverty and Inequality in Africa provides an up-to-date “big picture” on poverty and equity in Africa. This view is all the more necessary as lingering effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic, interacting with subsequent global shocks, have compounded pre-existing challenges faced by the region, even as climate change and conflict continue to pose systemic risks to poverty reduction.
This new report draws on the significant increase in the availability and harmonization of household data in Sub-Sahara Africa over the past decade while also leveraging a wide range of data from other sources (such as geospatial data and phone surveys) to fill gaps. As recent protests across the globe show, people’s perceptions of lack of fairness, and more importantly, their experiences with stagnant economic mobility erode popular support for macroeconomic and fiscal discipline—the very policies African countries need for economic recovery. The study envisages a forward-looking assessment of poverty in light of climate and other trends, which is expected to inform the debate on climate adaptation. The report brings into focus the benefits of considering inequality-reducing approaches as part of the discussion on poverty eradication and economic growth.
November 2024. 120 pages. Stock no. C212160 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2160-8). US$43.95
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BOOSTING PRODUCTIVITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Policies and Institutions to Promote Efficiency
December 2021. 174 pages. Stock no. C211550 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1550-8). US$39.95
POSITIONING AFRICA TO CLAIM THE POST-COVID 21ST CENTURY
In 2000, the World Bank published the landmark report, Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? The report proposed four areas of reform, and the priorities highlighted are even more pertinent today: improve governance and reduce conflict, invest in people, increase competitiveness and diversify economies, and reduce aid dependence and debt.
Now is the time to reexamine, reconsider, and reimagine the pressures on and potential for the continent, as well as to develop an inclusive growth model for this new era. Positioning Africa to Claim the Post-COVID 21st Century fleshes out the policy instruments that can help countries get and remain on a sustainable development path. The work revisits the priorities of the original report, analyzes how they have evolved, and reassesses the development trajectory, taking the current megatrends into account. Finally, this sequel report investigates the challenges and highlights the opportunities for accelerating Africa’s economic transformation, especially to create more and better jobs.
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DIGITAL AFRICA
Technological Transformation for Jobs
April 2023. 246 pages. Stock no. C211737 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1737-3). US$48.50
THE JOURNEY AHEAD
Supporting Successful Migration in Europe and Central Asia
By Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote-Sanchez, and Mattia Makovec
The Journey Ahead seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and to propose policy solutions to better leverage its benefits and reduce its costs for all parties involved. This book examines migration in the region in its diverse forms, including forced and economic migration, low-skilled and high-skilled labor mobility, and temporary and permanent moves across borders. It analyzes these policy issues from the perspective of migrants, countries of origin, and destination countries. The book shows that migration has been an engine of prosperity for all actors involved and has helped address some of the large demographic and socioeconomic disparities in the region. It also argues, however, that there is scope to increase the net gains from migration and to distribute them more equally among all actors involved. To do so, the book utilizes a combination of existing evidence and new analysis.
Based on this evidence, the book proposes a set of policy recommendations tailored to the diversity of migration challenges and experiences in ECA. It argues that policy responses tailored to the specific challenge they aim to address can ensure greater and better-distributed welfare gains from migration among origin countries, destination countries, and migrants. Although some of these policies can be taken unilaterally by either origin or destination countries, others require close coordination between the two, or even at the regional level. Some policies can be implemented rapidly in the short term, while others require more substantial institutional reforms but can yield large returns in the medium to long term. While this book focuses on ECA, the great diversity of migration patterns, experiences, and challenges in the region makes its policy lessons relevant on a global scale.
EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA STUDIES September 2024. 220 pages. Stock no. C212143 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2143-1). US$49.50
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BUILDING RESILIENT MIGRATION SYSTEMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
Lessons from COVID-19
July 2022. 164 pages. Stock no. C211855 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1855-4). US$43.95
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
This book focuses on scaling and integrating early childhood development (ECD) services for all children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. After providing an empirical snapshot of service delivery and children’s well-being and development in the region, along with strategic comparisons among countries within the region and between the region and other regions, the report describes sector-specific challenges to achieving scale, integration, and universal coverage of services for children. The book draws on existing evidence from the region as well as new data analysis by the team.
Early Childhood Development in the Middle East and North Africa addresses regionally relevant issues that cut across all sectors and contexts, such as gender; the role of the private sector; financing; the use of data for decision making; and service coverage for refugees, displaced populations, conflictaffected settings, and migrants. Case studies from the region as well as international evidence highlights potential pathways for progress on scale, integration, and universal coverage. The report brings together regional and international knowledge and experience to make the case for scaling and integrating ECD services and financing and to inform policy making to achieve universal coverage in the MENA region.
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Nurturing Children’s Potential
May 2022. 308 pages. Stock no. C211795 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1795-3). US$48.50
LAND MATTERS (FRENCH EDITION)
Can Better Governance and Management of Scarcity Prevent a Looming Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa?
By Anna Corsi and Harris Selod
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), land is scarce and valuable. Demand for land is projected to dramatically increase to meet the needs of a fast-growing urban population. At the same time, the supply of land is restricted by weak governance and climate factors, causing the quasiexhaustion of cultivable land reserves. As a result, a crisis is looming. Yet land continues to be used inefficiently, inequitably, and unsustainably.
Land Matters identifies and analyzes the economic, environmental, and social challenges associated with land in the MENA region, illuminating policy options and proposing paths to reform. It concludes that MENA countries need to act promptly, think more holistically about land, reassess strategic trade-offs, and minimize land distortions.
This report promotes a culture of open data, transparency, and inclusive dialogue on land while also filling major data gaps. These important steps will contribute to renewing the social contract, transforming the region economically and digitally, improving women’s land rights, and facilitating recovery and reconstruction in a context of dramatic social, political, and climatic transformation.
June 2024. 142 pages. Stock no. C211890 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1890-5). US$43.95
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Can Better Governance and Management of Scarcity Prevent a Looming Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa?
February 2023. 128 pages. Stock no. C211661 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1661-1). US$48.50
LAND MATTERS (ARABIC EDITION)
Can Better Governance and Management of Scarcity Prevent a Looming Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa?
February 2023. 114 pages. Stock no. C211889 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1889-9). US$43.95
RETHINKING RESILIENCE
Empowering People for a Changing
By Forhad Shilpi, Claudia Berg, and Matthew Kahn
Climate
Global warming is accelerating, and harmful weather events caused by climate change— such as extreme storms, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires—are becoming more frequent and severe. The burden of climate disasters is, and will continue to be, borne disproportionately by poor people and poor countries. This report argues that resilience to climate change will ultimately depend on the adaptation decisions of millions of individual households, farms, and firms.
Public policy can coordinate collective adaptation actions, provide incentives, and extend direct support where necessary. However, the evidence suggests that adaptation efforts have fallen short. The drivers of the muted adaptation response by households, farmers, and firms include incomplete information, financial constraints, markets for adaptation tools or services that do not exist or offer limited products, and public policies that are confusing or distorting. Enabling and empowering individuals to take actions and invest in resilience measures appropriate to their own context is the priority for policies. This report offers several broad principles to guide policy and proposes specific actions to build resilience. Resilience challenges are complex, and the report recommends layering instruments to deal with multiple constraints, varied weather events, and the differential financial abilities of households, farms, and firms.
WATER FOR SHARED PROSPERITY
By Fan Zhang and Christian Borja-Vega
Water for Shared Prosperity aims to introduce a novel way of positioning water as an engine for growth and equity by highlighting the deep associations between water and inclusive growth. This report identifies risks and opportunities within the global water sector that affect shared prosperity to promote more active international dialogue on water challenges and solutions. To that end, it synthesizes existing evidence and generates new empirical evidence based on the most recent data available on the intricate interplay between water and shared prosperity.
The report also discusses the policy implications to underscore the need for comprehensive governance frameworks, investment strategies, technology and innovation, and community engagement to achieve shared prosperity through sustainable water management. This is a joint publication of the Government of Indonesia and the World Bank.
STATE OF SOCIAL PROTECTION REPORT 2024
Missing the Course toward Universal Social Protection
Edited by Emil Tesliuc, Claudia Rodriquez Alas, and Jamele Rigolini
Social protection plays a critical role in promoting greater equity, resilience, and opportunities, especially among the poor and vulnerable populations, and it is more important than ever. Following the permacrises, this protection is needed to create solutions for climate change, aging, youth employment, and migration.
State of Social Protection Report 2024 explores the progress in achieving universal social protection among Emerging and Developing Economies (EDEs)—namely, countries’ ability to provide social protection support whenever and however people need it, with a focus on covering the extreme poor population and significantly reducing the income shortfall (poverty gap) of the poorest quintile. Growing headwinds of change demand both increased investment and a fundamental shift in approach— from short-term reactions to proactive, long-term adaptation and from siloed actions to integrated agendas.
THE STATE OF ECONOMIC INCLUSION REPORT 2024
Moving to Scale in Uncertain Times
By Inés Arévalo Sánchez, Janet Heisey, Sarang Chaudhary, Timothy Clay, Victoria Strokova, Puja Vasudeva Dutta, and Colin Andrews
The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2024 reveals a renewed surge in economic inclusion programs, responding to a rapidly changing world where governments must grapple with multiple interconnected and reinforcing crises. Vulnerable people in extreme poverty, especially women and youth, continue to be disproportionately impacted. The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, high inflation, rising food insecurity and climate shocks, and conflict and volatility worldwide imperil hundreds of millions of people and threaten global efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, while the relevance and potential of targeted support for people in extreme poverty remains great, sluggish economic growth and increasing debt are reducing countries’ fiscal space, limiting their ability to respond to these overlapping and lasting crises.
Economic inclusion programs are increasing in number and also scaling up, but they remain small relative to the challenges faced, pushing government and nongovernmental organizations to explore scalable solutions in the contexts of increased uncertainty and limited fiscal space. This report, following on the groundbreaking State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 , presents the new landscape of economic inclusion programming; explores three policy drivers pushing this agenda forward, including efforts to enhance climate resilience for the extreme poor and vulnerable populations; and examines how economic inclusion programs are moving to scale, even in uncertain times.
THE PATH TO 5G IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Planning Ahead for a Smooth Transition
By the World Bank
The global race for implementing 5G mobile technologies has seen countries riding a new wave of wireless technologies. 5G can enable a significantly higher level of performance over 4G mobile communications, providing a new layer of connectivity to support innovative, data-intensive applications. With the estimated impact of 5G on global gross domestic product to be in the trillions of US dollars, 5G’s deployment will drive innovation, job creation, worker productivity, and competitiveness across various sectors.
For some countries, 5G may seem a distant future prospect given the costs of infrastructure deployment and the need for expensive handsets; for other countries, 5G is an on-ramp to Industry 4.0 and has been folded into national strategy planning. 5G trials, pilots, and commercial deployments have been progressing around the world, but most deployments are in higher-income countries. Significant barriers remain for developing countries.
The Path to 5G in the Developing World surveys the technical capabilities of 5G and explores how countries can reach connectivity goals by using 5G as a layer of connectivity along with 4G and other technologies. This report also provides a guide for policy makers to better understand the opportunities, challenges, and risks posed by 5G so that they can plan for a policy and regulatory ecosystem that supports the path to advanced mobile network deployment, access, and adoption.
SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
June 2024. 144 pages.
ADVANCING CLOUD AND DATA INFRASTRUCTURE MARKETS
Strategic Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
By Natalija Gelvanovska-Garcia, Vaiva Mačiulė
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and Carlo Maria Rossotto
The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives underscored today’s unprecedented growth and ubiquity of data and that still much of its value remains untapped. To realize this potential, data must be captured, analyzed, shared, and used. Data and cloud infrastructure present the technological means to enable these processes. Yet, markets offering data and cloud infrastructure services across developing countries are nascent, with most computing capacities and data centers located in high-income countries. Lack of quality access to affordable cloud and data infrastructure services holds back the ability of countries to harness—at scale—advanced digital technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Today, those technologies are fueling digital transformation around the world, and countries lagging will fall behind. Although the objective of harnessing data for better lives is clear, developing a vibrant cloud and data infrastructure market is not a low-hanging fruit. It requires an understanding of the technology, its developmental trends, how investment decisions are made, clear policy, and supportive regulatory environments. Advancing Cloud and Data Infrastructure Markets highlights what matters in each of these areas to support developing countries on their path to develop cloud and data infrastructure markets.
SHRINKING ECONOMIC DISTANCE
Understanding How Markets and Places Can Lower Transport Costs in Developing Countries
By Matías Herrera Dappe, Mathilde Lebrand, and Aiga Stokenberga
Despite the reduction in transport costs over the past few decades, creating a single integrated economy remains elusive. Low- and middle-income countries face higher transport prices than high-income countries for international and domestic shipments, and shipping times are longer and less reliable. Tackling the problem can increase income and general welfare in low- and middle-income countries, improving the lives of the people who live there.
Shrinking Economic Distance makes a unique contribution by assessing the main determinants of shippers’ economic costs of freight transport—economic distance— and identifying the frictions that keep transport prices above an efficient level, shipping times high, and reliability low. Drawing on new analyses and compiling many others, the book provides important evidence to inform policies designed to reduce the economic costs of transport and deepen the economic integration of developing countries.
This book lays out the building blocks for a reform agenda to reduce economic distance, which includes first making markets and then making places efficient. It will be valuable to policy makers, practitioners, and academics interested in freight transport and economic integration.
CYBERSECURITY ECONOMICS FOR EMERGING MARKETS
By Estefania Vergara Cobos
In an increasingly interconnected world driven by the rapid adoption of digital technologies, the significance of cybersecurity cannot be overstated, particularly in developing countries. As these nations strive to harness the power of technology to fuel economic growth, enhance public services, and improve quality of life, they concurrently face heightened risks associated with cyber threats. The exposure of developing countries to cyber incidents is often compounded by factors such as limited resources, political tensions, inadequate infrastructure, an inefficient cybersecurity industry, cybersecurity workforce shortages, and fast-evolving digital landscapes. Cybersecurity Economics for Emerging Markets shows that the ramifications of cyber incidents in developing countries can be severe, ranging from financial losses that threaten the macroeconomic stability of nations to the disruption of essential services and impediments to socioeconomic progress.
This book examines thousands of cyber incidents that have occurred in the past decade in over 190 countries, identifying their nature, key characteristics, and impact, as well as the roles that markets and governments should take to better protect cyberspace. Thus, the book offers actionable, evidence-based policy recommendations for developing nations that include efforts to bolster resilience in the most critical, costly, and interconnected sectors, such as public administration, health care, finance, and communications, to support the national cybersecurity industry, to invest in research and development, and to develop proactive measures to prevent systemic risks.
Estefania Vergara Cobos
UNLEASHING PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH FIRM FINANCING
By Tatiana Didier and Ana Paula Cusolito
Access to finance is critical to ensuring productive investments. Yet myriad financial distortions, frictions, and market failures can prevent the efficient allocation of financial resources toward the most productive firms and uses and can negatively impact aggregate productivity and economic growth. Drawing from a newly constructed dataset of 2.5 million private firms, Unleashing Productivity through Firm Financing presents novel evidence about the productivity gains that low- and middle-income countries can obtain by removing financial distortions and fostering efficient and inclusive financial markets.
THE GREAT REVERSAL
Prospects, Risks, and Policies in International Development Association (IDA) Countries
By Tommy Chrimes, Bram Gootjes, Ayhan Kose, and Collette Wheeler
The 75 economies eligible for low-interest loans and grants from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) had made notable progress against some important development objectives over the first two decades of this century. However, on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, significant development gaps persisted, income convergence with advanced economies was slowing, and some vulnerabilities were rising.
The shock of the pandemic and subsequent overlapping crises has exacerbated the challenges facing these economies and has led to a reversal in development: During 2020–24, per capita incomes in half of IDA countries—the largest share since the start of this century—have been growing more slowly than those of wealthy economies. One out of three IDA countries is poorer than it was on the eve of the pandemic. Poverty remains stubbornly high, hunger has surged and, amid fiscal constraints and rising investment needs, the development outlook could take an even bleaker turn, especially if weak growth prospects persist.
IDA countries have several important demographic and resource advantages that could, if leveraged effectively, help close development gaps. Reaping the benefits of their advantages and meeting investment needs will require them to undertake comprehensive policy measures to bolster fiscal and monetary frameworks, enhance human capital development, and improve the quality of institutions. These policies should be complemented with significant and consistent international financial support as well as strong cooperation on global policy issues.
Tommy Chrimes, Bram Gootjes, M.Ayhan Kose, and Collette Wheeler
Prospects, Risks, and Policies in International Development Association (IDA) Countries
SILVER OPPORTUNITY CASE STUDIES
Experiences with Building Integrated Services for Older Adults around Primary Health Care
Edited by Xiaohui Hou and Jigyasa Jigyasa
June 2024. 154 pages. Stock no. C212014 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2014-4). US$43.95
Health care systems must be prepared to address the expanding and complex needs of an aging population. Rather than a “silver challenge,” this issue should be seen as an opportunity to reevaluate and reorganize the healthcare delivery system holistically.
Silver Opportunity Case Studies presents a comprehensive examination of care for older adults in diverse economic and geographical contexts through a collection of country and regional case studies. It complements the synthesis volume of global evidence by offering practical insights for decision making, sharing knowledge, and encouraging cross-learning. This book provides a deeper understanding of the complexities involved and highlights key issues and current practices at the country level. The overarching goal of the volume is to inform policy makers, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders about effective practices for caring for older adults and to support the development of evidence-based policies that enhance their health and well-being.
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Building Integrated Services for Older Adults around Primary Health Care
March 2023. 212 pages. Stock no. C211958 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1958-2). US$49.95
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES 2024
By the World Bank
The Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities examines the institutionalized challenges encountered by sexual and gender minorities by assessing discrimination in laws, regulations, and policies. The countries in this book are from different geographic areas with varied income levels, legal traditions, and inclusiveness of sexual and gender minorities, ensuring a diverse and holistic representation of the issues.
The book presents indicators to identify differences in the legal treatment of sexual and gender minorities in six areas: criminalization, access to education, access to the labor market, access to public services and social protection, civil and political inclusion, and protection from hate crimes. The indicators are also disaggregated into the three dimensions of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics.
This book aims to promote a dialogue on equality of opportunity and encourage legal reforms that enable sexual and gender minorities to fully participate in the economy and the benefits of development by collecting and sharing data on national legal frameworks. It also aims to promote a deeper understanding of the legal hurdles to inclusive job creation and private sector development and to encourage reforms conducive to poverty reduction and shared prosperity on a livable planet.
DISEASE CONTROL PRIORITIES, FOURTH EDITION (VOLUME 1)
Country-led
Priority Setting for Health
Edited by Ala Alwan, Ole Norheim, Mizan Mirutse, and Pakwanja Twea
Through collaboration and capacity strengthening in a select number of low- and lowermiddle-income countries, Disease Control Priorities, Fourth Edition (DCP4), summarizes, produces, and helps translate economic evidence into better priority setting for efficient and fair health outcomes. DCP4 is relevant for all countries committed to increasing the public financing of universal health coverage and promoting other health-improving policies.
Volume 1: Country-led Priority Setting for Health presents the overall lessons learned in defining and implementing essential health service packages (EHSPs). The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 focuses on the experiences of selected countries in developing their EHSPs, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iran, Malawi, Pakistan, and Somalia. Part 2 presents cross-cutting insights on the development and implementation of EHSPs based on the experiences of six countries, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Zanzibar. Part 3 presents three case studies: cross-national experiences on child health and development during school age and adolescence, lessons learned from recommendations to address noncommunicable diseases, and implementation of the DCP3 essential surgery package.
STRATEGIC
INVESTMENT FOR HEALTH SYSTEM RESILIENCE
A Three-Layer Framework
Edited by Feng Zhao, Rialda Kovacevic, David Bishai, and Jeff Weintraub
As countries consider how they will invest in essential improvements to their defenses against future health threats, Strategic Investment for Health System Resilience proposes a three-layer investment framework approach for the most effective use of their resources: Layer 1: Risk Reduction—Promoting prevention and community preparedness; Layer 2: Detection, containment, and mitigation capabilities; and Layer 3: Advanced case management and surge response. This framework prioritizes interventions that prevent a public health threat from developing in the first place (Layer 1) and limiting its spread should one emerge (Layer 2), while not just managing a widespread crisis that compromises health systems’ ability to sustainably deliver care (Layer 3).
The framework applies equally to short-term communicable disease epidemics as well as to slow-moving noncommunicable disease trends. Health threats vary in the pace of the needed response, but all require a system that is resilient across multiple layers of response. In the form of country cases, the authors share lessons learned across continents. As the efforts for building emergency-ready health systems intensifies around the globe, this book provides a practical investment framework and a diverse set of cases to inform decision making and strategic resource allocations.
Building Bridges to Success for Adolescent Girls in Africa focuses on the economic empowerment of adolescent girls in Africa, recognizing the crucial fact that these girls are not a homogenous group. Adolescent girls vary along multiple dimensions, such as school attendance, engagement in work, transitions to marriage, and childbearing. In addition, they live in diverse contexts marked by varied cultural, social, legal, and economic environments. These differences in their experiences and contexts have significant implications for their levels of economic empowerment, emphasizing the need for tailored program and policy design. Going beyond the examination of common obstacles to economic well-being, this report highlights gender-specific constraints that uniquely impact adolescent girls.
Drawing on rigorous analysis and a review of existing evidence, the report outlines evidence-based approaches to support adolescent girls, their households, and their broader environments, enabling girls to achieve their fullest potential. Furthermore, this report analyzes various segments of adolescent girls to identify strategies for maximizing the impact of programs and policies. Finally, the report offers practical guidance for policy makers to address existing challenges to adolescent girls’ empowerment and to set them on a pathway to economic success.
INEQUALITIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
By Anda David, Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod, and Rawane Yasser
Drawing evidence from recent research, Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa focuses on the political economy of inequality, social mobility, and climate change to provide an important contribution to the research on inequality in Africa. This book aims to understand socioeconomic inequalities, as well as their determinants, evolution, and effects, and to identify public policies that can address them using the framework of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. The book also highlights the importance of the African context in the global inequality discussion, while pinpointing some of the crucial research gaps on inequalities across the continent.
The book is written by the Agence française de développement, in close collaboration with the African Center of Excellence for Inequality Research, to ensure that the discussion of inequalities is informed and driven by African researchers.
DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICAN BUSINESSES
Edited by Marcio Cruz
Adoption of digital technologies is widely acknowledged to boost productivity and employment, stimulate investment, and promote growth and development. Africa has already benefited from a rapid diffusion of information and communications technology, characterized by the widespread adoption of mobile phones. However, access to and use of digital technology among firms is uneven in the region, varying not just among countries but also within them. Consequently, African businesses may not be reaping the full potential benefits offered by ongoing improvements in digital infrastructure.
Using rich datasets, Digital Opportunities in African Businesses offers a new understanding of the region’s incomplete digitalization—namely, shortfalls in the adoption and effective use of digital technology by firms to perform productive tasks. The research presented also highlights the challenges in addressing incomplete digitalization, finding that the cost of machinery, equipment, and software, as well as the cost of connectivity to the internet, is significantly more expensive in Africa than elsewhere.
This book outlines ways in which the private sector, with support from policy makers, international institutions, and regulators, can help bring down these costs, stimulating more widespread digitalization of the region’s firms and thereby boosting productivity and, by extension, economic development. The book will be relevant to anyone with an interest in furthering digitalization across Africa.
LAND POLICIES FOR RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE GROWTH IN AFRICA
By Klaus Deininger and Aparajita Goyal
Land institutions and policies will be critical to help African countries respond to the challenges of climate change, urban expansion, structural transformation, and gender equality. Together, they affect urban dwellers’ ability to access productive jobs, live in decent housing, and breathe clean air; farmers’ and women entrepreneurs’ capacity to insure against shocks, increase productivity, and diversify income sources; and governments’ ability to plan, tax property to provide services, and manage public land in a way that provides sustained local benefits by attracting investment, including via climate finance.
Land Policies for Resilient and Equitable Growth in Africa draws on a wealth of data, examples, and studies from Africa and beyond to show that regulatory and institutional reforms can harness this potential by improving quality, coverage, usefulness, and sustainability of documented land rights. By identifying viable reforms with transformative potential that fully harness digital opportunities, this book provides practical guidance to governments seeking to enhance their land institutions’ performance; to their partners supporting such reform; and to policy makers, land professionals, scholars, and civil society aiming to lay the foundations for Africa to better utilize its economic, human, and ecological potential.
MIGRANTS, MARKETS, AND MAYORS (FRENCH EDITION)
Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa’s Secondary Cities
Edited by Luc Christiaensen and Nancy Lozano-Gracia
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FORUM
June 2024. 260 pages.
Stock no. C212083
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-2083-0). US$49.50
In a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities’ labor markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, Migrants, Markets, and Mayors finds that migrants—being younger, better educated, and complementary to the resident labor force—can strengthen the urban labor force.
Labor market outcomes for migrants generally are at least as good as those for residents. Migrants also contribute increasingly less to urban population growth. Secondary cities and towns appear particularly well placed to leverage migration if they have good urban management that develops land and labor markets, prepares for growth, and benefits everyone, migrants as well as residents. Migrant-specific interventions are warranted when divisions between natives and migrants are deep. Strengthening the financial, technical, and planning capacity of towns and secondary cities to better integrate migrants is part and parcel of the good jobs agenda.
THE LABOR MARKET IMPACT OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT
Jobs in Host Communities in Colombia, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Uganda
By Jan von der Goltz, Kirsten Schuettler, Julie Bousquet, and Tewodros Aragie Kebede
When refugees arrive, host communities often worry what will happen to their jobs. The Labor Market Impact of Forced Displacement examines four economies with different income levels and policies toward refugees: Colombia, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Uganda. Applying data and methods for cross-country comparison, this study complements the existing literature on refugees and host communities.
Using harmonized statistical methods, this book shows that the overall labor market effects of hosting refugees are modest or even positive across the four economies. However, some host country workers can be adversely affected, while others enjoy new opportunities. An assessment of work permit rules shows that policies can shift these patterns of opportunity and competition. For refugees, better access has large positive impacts and does not always mean more competition for hosts, although data show that hosts’ worries about labor market competition can drive the negative views of refugees.
Finally, the study shows how refugees and hosts interact in the labor market. It explains how the limited choices of refugees shape their working lives and roles as customers in local markets, while also creating patterns of competition and business opportunities for hosts. Access to capital is a key issue for refugees and hosts alike in low-income economies, where self-employment is key. Policy makers should address the concerns of host workers who face losses but also help host communities and refugees seize important new opportunities.
SERVICES UNBOUND
Digital Technologies and Policy Reform in East Asia and the Pacific
By Muneeza Mehmood Alam and Lisa Bagnoli
Services will be central to the transition of East Asia and the Pacific to a high-income region. Finance, communication, transport, retail, health, and education already generate more than half the output and employment in the region’s economies. However, a region that has thrived through openness to trade and investment in manufacturing still maintains innovation-inhibiting barriers to entry and competition in key services sectors.
New evidence reveals the transformative impact of the dramatic diffusion of digital technologies and partial reform of policies. The result is higher productivity in services, as well as in the manufacturing sectors that use these services. These new technologies are also creating increased demand for sophisticated skills. At the same time, the improved access to education, health, and finance made possible by reforms and digitalization is equipping people to take advantage of these new opportunities. Services Unbound argues that deeper reforms could unleash a virtuous cycle of increasing economic opportunity and enhanced human capacity that would power development in the region.
August 2024. 150 pages.
TEN THOUSAND STEPS IN HER SHOES
The Role of Public Transport in Women’s Economic Empowerment
By Muneeza Mehmood Alam and Lisa Bagnoli
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, women’s university enrollment surpasses men’s, yet their labor force participation rate remains low and stagnant. What is preventing the women of MENA from translating their educational achievements into economic productivity? Ten Thousand Steps in Her Shoes sheds light on the structural barriers that may be preventing women from participating in the labor force and the public transport system. This report focuses on Amman, Jordan; Beirut, Lebanon; and Cairo, the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Providing flexible work arrangements that support balancing personal, family, and work lives; protecting women from gender-based discrimination; and offering high-quality childcare options near where people work or live are key. In addition, public awareness and endorsement of the benefits of greater gender equality—within households, workplaces, and society at large—are also crucial. The analysis and recommendations in this report can help policy makers design concrete actions, improve women’s mobility through public transport, and create an enabling environment to increase female economic participation.
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA DEVELOPMENT REPORT
June 2024.
PUBLIC SPENDING POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
When Cyclicality Meets Rigidities
By Daniel Riera-Crichton and Guillermo Vuletin
LATIN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FORUM
August
Public Spending Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights structural differences in public spending policies between emerging markets and industrialized nations. Emerging markets commit to long-term (rigid) spending based on short-term (cyclical) economic conditions, causing challenges in addressing fiscal imbalances and prompting changes in public spending composition.
This report analyzes the cyclical behavior of individual components beyond overall primary spending and identifies three prevalent spending policy anomalies in emerging markets. First, public spending in emerging markets is semi-procyclical during economic upswings. Second, high levels of labor market informality in emerging markets render automatic stabilizers like unemployment insurance impractical. Ultimately, the downward rigidity of certain spending components and the need for fiscal sustainability necessitate adjustments, resulting in significant changes in spending composition. This, in turn, leads to biases against pension benefits and public investment, as these categories offer flexibility and discretion.
GOVERNMENT ANALYTICS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Creating an Ecosystem for Evidence-Based Policy Making
By Chiara Casanova, Serena Cocciolo, Galileu Kim, Timothy Lundy, Jorge de León
Governments in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region face significant developmental and institutional challenges, such as slowing growth, fiscal constraints, and inefficiencies in the public sector. At the same time, governments have invested significantly in government technologies (GovTech), making LAC a global pioneer in management information systems (MISs). This reality creates an opportunity for governments to leverage MIS data to strengthen their functioning and achieve development goals—that is, government analytics.
Government Analytics in Latin America and the Caribbean provides a conceptual framework to assess and provide guidance on the regional government analytics agenda and how to harvest the benefits of GovTech investments. First, this report examines how government analytics can inform policy making and improve accountability and efficiency, drawing on survey data and successful applications of government analytics. Next, the report considers the enabling conditions for government analytics—data infrastructure and analytical capabilities—and how to strengthen them. Finally, this book provides practical guidance on how to holistically develop a government analytics agenda.
Miranda, Daniel Rogger, Flavio Sacco, and Juan Francisco Santini
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN FOCUS
The International Development in Focus series comprises original, well-developed studies that highlight current development issues and are intended to influence programs and policy. These books result from research and analysis carried out as part of the World Bank’s operational work around the world.
A TRIPLE WIN
Fiscal and Welfare Benefits of Economic Participation by Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Edited by Johannes Hoogeveen and Chinedu Obi
Economic inclusion improves refugee financial autonomy and reduces the need for humanitarian assistance. Thus, this inclusion can lead to savings that can be invested in Jordan's development. This book studies the case of Syrian refugees in Jordan in detail.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN FOCUS
June 2024. 172 pages. Stock no. C212107 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2107-3).
US$41.95
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FISCAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
By Sang Hoon Shin, Sejeong Ha, Jangsoon Lee, and Eun Jung Sun
This book details the Republic of Korea’s experience in establishing advanced corporate governance and strategic fiscal risk management systems for state-owned enterprises (SOEs). It provides useful information for countries that are engaging in an SOE reform process.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN FOCUS
July 2024. 136 pages. Stock no. C212115 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2115-8).
US$41.95
ESSAYS ON EQUITY, HEALTH, AND EDUCATION IN SIERRA LEONE
Selected Challenges and Benefits
Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente, Elizabeth Foster, and Quentin Wodon
This book examines the evolution of poverty and human development outcomes since the end of the 10-year civil war in 2002 and asks if the foundations for creating shared prosperity and addressing persistent poverty in Sierra Leone have been laid down through key policies in these sectors.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN FOCUS
June 2024. 96 pages. Stock no. C212075 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2075-5).
US$41.95
HUMAN RESOURCES
FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY IN VIET NAM
Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage
By Sang Minh Le, Eric Hahn, Tu Anh Tran, Selin Mavituna, and Tam Minh Thi Ta
This book provides a timely overview of mental health service capacities and delivery in Viet Nam. It describes the current situation of the mental health workforce and examines mental health education and training systems. It recommends strengthening the human resources for mental health service delivery at all levels of the mental care system.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN FOCUS
June 2024. 76 pages. Stock no. C212122 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2122-6).
US$35.00
WHAT MATTERS FOR LEARNING IN MALAWI
Evidence from the Malawi Longitudinal School Survey
By Salman Asim and Ravinder Casley Gera
Using data from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of primary schools, teachers, and students in Malawi, this book presents a comprehensive picture of conditions, practices, and learning outcomes in a low-income country.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN FOCUS
June 2024. 108 pages. Stock no. C212052 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-2052-6).
US$41.95
WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS BESTSELLERS
Discover the best-selling publications from the World Bank over the past year, listed in no particular order.
WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2023
Migrants, Refugees, and Societies
By the World Bank
How can cross-border mobility be managed in a way that is beneficial to all? The World Development Report 2023 shifts from a narrow focus on labor markets for migrants and legal protection for refugees to a more holistic perspective—one that recognizes the humanity of migrants and the complexity of the societies of origin and destination.
WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT
July 2023. 344 pages. Stock no. C211941
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-1941-4). US$49.50
A GUIDE TO ASSESSING NEEDS
Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results
By Ryan Watkins, Maurya West Meiers, and Yusra Visser
Making informed decisions is the essential beginning to any successful development project. Before the project even begins, one can use needs assessment approaches to guide decisions. This book is filled with practical strategies that can help define the desired results and select the most appropriate activities for achieving them.
January 2012. 316 pages. Stock no. C18868 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8868-6). US$49.95
AFRICA’S RESOURCE FUTURE
Harnessing Natural Resources for Economic Transformation during the LowCarbon Transition
Edited By James Cust and Albert Zeufack
This report examines the role for natural resource wealth in driving Africa’s economic transformation and the implications of the low carbon transition for resource-rich economies. It explores these themes and offers policy makers a set of decision points to help them navigate the coming years of uncertainty.
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FORUM
April 2023. 270 pages. Stock no. C211743 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1743-4). US$48.50
FINTECH AND THE FUTURE OF FINANCE
Market and Policy Implications
By Erik Feyen, Harish Natarajan, and Matthew Saal
This report explores the implications of fintech and the digital transformation of financial services for market outcomes, regulation and supervision, and how these interact. It is intended to provide a high-level perspective on these topics for senior policy makers.
April 2023. 168 pages. Stock no. C211914
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-1914-8). US$43.95
GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS, JUNE 2023
By the World Bank
Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report. Published semiannually, the report includes analysis of topical policy challenges faced by developing countries through in-depth research in the January edition and shorter analytical pieces in the June edition.
GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS
June 2023. 182 pages. Stock no. C211951 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1951-3). US$49.50
HANDBOOK ON IMPACT EVALUATION
Quantitative Methods and Practices
By Shahidur R. Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, and Hussain A. Samad
Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are the main themes of this book.
October 2009. 260 pages. Stock no. C18028
(ISBN: 978-0-8213-8028-4). US$49.95
IMPACT EVALUATION IN PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION
By Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch
This handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners.
September 2016. 364 pages. Stock no. C210779
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-0779-4). US$45.00
NATURE’S FRONTIERS
Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital
By Richard Damania, Stephen Polasky, Mary Ruckelshaus, Jason Russ, Markus Amann, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, James Gerber, Peter Hawthorne, Martin Philipp Heger, Saleh Mamun, Giovanni Ruta, Rafael Schmitt, Jeffrey Smith, Adrian Vogl, Fabian Wagner, and Esha Zaverie
This report examines the use of natural capital (natural resources and services) around the world. It finds that most countries are using these resources inefficiently, and closing these efficiency gaps can address many of the world’s pressing economic and environmental problems.
ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
April 2023. 216 pages. Stock no. C211923
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-1923-0). US$49.50
NEW STRUCTURAL ECONOMICS
A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy
By Justin Yifu Lin
This book provides an innovative framework to analyze the process of industrial upgrading and diversification, a key feature of economic development. Based on this framework, it provides concrete advice to development practitioners and policy makers on how to unleash a country’s growth potential.
January 2012. 384 pages. Stock no. C18955 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8955-3). US$39.95
PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING TOOLKIT
By György Bèlal Fritsche, Robert Soeters, and Bruno Meessen
Performance-based financing (PBF) is a comprehensive health systems approach that is expanding in regions around the world. Based on first-hand experience of PBF pioneers, this toolkit provides the state-of-art knowledge, methods, and tools for setting up an effective PBF approach in lower- and middle-income settings.
February 2014. 358 pages. Stock no. C210128
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-0128-0). US$34.95
POVERTY AND SHARED PROSPERITY 2022
Correcting Course
By the World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the most pronounced setback in the fight against global poverty since World War II.This report provides new data on the stark reversal of progress in the fight against global poverty. It explores how to optimize fiscal policy and identifies policies that can help correct course.
POVERTY AND SHARED PROSPERITY
December 2022. 264 pages. Stock no. C211893 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1893-6). US$49.50
THE COMMONS Drivers of Change and Opportunities for Africa
Edited by Stéphanie Leyronas, Benjamin Coriat, and Kako Nubukpo
This study focuses on forms of commons-based entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa that have developed in response to issues ranging from land and natural resources management to public services, employment and training, climate change, and biodiversity.
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FORUM
June 2023. 254 pages. Stock no. C211960
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-1960-5). US$49.50
THE GOVERNMENT ANALYTICS HANDBOOK
Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration
Edited by Daniel Rogger and Christian Schuster
This handbook presents frontier evidence and practitioner insights on how to leverage data to strengthen public administration. Covering a range of microdata sources as well as tools and resources for undertaking the analytics, it allows governments to take a data-informed approach to diagnose and improve how public organizations work.
October 2023. 782 pages. Stock no. C211957
(ISBN: 978-1-4648-1957-5). US$83.00
THRIVING
Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate
Edited by Megha Mukim and Mark Roberts
Globally, 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions emanate from cities. In addition, cities are experiencing an expanding variety and frequency of climate change–related stresses. This report provides policy makers with a compass for designing tailored policies that can help cities take effective action to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
May 2023. 350 pages. Stock no. C211935 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1935-3). US$49.50
WOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW 2023
By the World Bank
Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group project that 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.
WOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW
April 2023. 128 pages. Stock no. C211944 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1944-5). US$43.95
WORKING WITH SMALLHOLDERS
A Handbook for
Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains, Third Edition
By the International Finance Corporation
This handbook shows agribusinesses how to develop more sustainable, resilient, and productive supply chains and the substantial impact of doing so on development. It compiles innovative solutions to address the challenges of sourcing from smallholder farmers to meet the increasing global demand for highquality products.
November 2023. 526 pages. Stock no. C211962 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1962-9). US$54.95
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