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The Child and Adolescent Health volume discusses childhood chronic illnesses, chronic malnutrition, and cognitive development. It seeks to evolve beyond the acute and severe conditions traditionally addressed under the rubric of child health, and give emphasis to the longer run consequences of chronic conditions.
Reviews the monitoring approaches used in the Millennium Development Goals period, and its chapters highlight the significant gap between "improved" water and sanitation and impacts on health.
Global Findex Database 2017
The agriculture sector can play an important role in poverty reduction and sustained growth in Afghanistan, primarily through productive and inclusive job creation. Using an "agricultural jobs lens" and multidimensional approach, this report explores the sector's direct and indirect roles in explaining the dynamics of rural employment.
This publication offers a clear perspective on how to improve learning in basic education in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on extremely rigorous and exhaustive analysis of a large volume of data. The authors shine a light on the low levels of learning and on the contributory factors. They have not hesitated to raise difficult issues, such as the need to implement a consistent policy on the language of instruction, which is essential to ensuring the foundations of learning for all children. Using the framework of "From Science to Service Delivery" the book urges policy makers to look at the entire chain from policy design, informed by knowledge adapted to the local context, to implementation.
Examines laws affecting women's economic inclusion in 189 economies worldwide, tracking progress that has been made over the past two years whilst identifying opportunities for reform to ensure economic empowerment for all.
Very few studies focus on the growth of labour market opportunities that follow from exports. Entangled is one of the first to systematically examine the localised effects of long-run export growth in South Asia, and evaluates predictions around adjustment costs, worker demand, and wage effects using data from Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka.
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018
This report shows that water security is about much more than just coping with water scarcity. It entails ensuring the delivery of affordable and high quality water to citizens in order to reinforce relationships between service providers and customers and contribute to a renewed social contract.
Getting to Work: Unlocking Women''s Potential in Sri Lanka''s Labor Force
Highlights two missing factors that have held back the MENA region's educational potential; the lack of a 'push' at the outset of educational systems to build solid foundations for children's learning, and the lack of a 'pull' on education systems from the labour market and society to demand the skills that would enable children to succeed. The report lays out a road map to modernise education to meet the hopes and aspirations of the region's people and governments.
Published semiannually, this World Bank Group Flagship Report 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.
This book is the first volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.
Drawing from vast international experiences, this report examines how global cutting-edge technology like electric vehicles could be pursued in Bhutan with different socioeconomic characteristics from advanced economies.
Using new firm-level export data collected in eight MENA countries - Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen - this study provides a finer and deeper diagnostic for the region's lack of export growth and diversification.
"The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. The magnitude of the problem is staggering and persistent. Of the top 50 most violent cities in the world, 42 are in LAC. In 2010 alone, 142,302 people in LAC fell victim to homicide, representing 390 homicides per day and 4.06 homicides every 15 minutes. Crime disproportionately affects young men aged 20 to 24, whose homicide rate of 92 per 100,000 nearly quadruples that of the region. The focus of Crime Prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean is to identify policy interventions that, whether by design or indirect effect, have been shown to affect antisocial behavior early in life and patterns of criminal offending in youth and adults. Particular attention is devoted to recent studies that rigorously establish a causal link between the interventions in question and outcomes. This publication adopts a lifecycle perspective and argues that as individuals progress through different stages of the lifecycle, not only do different sets of risk factors arise and take more prominence, but their interactions and interdependencies shape human behavior. These interactions and the relative importance of different sets of risk factors identify relevant margins that can effectively be targeted by prevention policies, not only early in life, but throughout the lifecycle. Indeed prevention can never start too early, nor start too late, nor be too comprehensive."--Publisher's description
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