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| The PREM network seeks to expand the knowledge base that leads to a better design of policies promoting shared economic growth. |  Distortions to Agricultural Incentives: A Global Perspective, 1955-2007
by Kym Anderson, October 2009
Purchase book This volume focuses on distortions to agricultural incentives from a global perspective. The Agricultural Incentives series brings together analytical narratives of the evolution over the past half-century of policy-imposed distortions to farmer incentives and food prices in 80 countries, drawing on new, consistent set of estimates spanning 90 percent of the world's agricultural markets. The first two titles in the series focus on Europe's transitional economies and Latin America. Other forthcoming titles in this series will focus on Africa and Asia.
 Debt Relief and Beyond: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
edited by Carlos A. Primo Braga and Doerte Doemeland
October 2009
Heavily indebted low-income countries benefited from significant debt relief -- mainly via the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative -- over the past decade, getting the opportunity for a fresh start. But now, the global economic crisis is putting increasing pressure on their debt-burden indicators. Read more
 Moving Out of Poverty: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India
Volume 3
edited by Deepa Narayan
October 2009
While much is already known about poverty in India, there is still a great deal to be learned about how some people manage to escape poverty while others are unable to do so. This study documents the entrepreneurialism of the poor, arguing that responsive local governments, when combined with access to information, market access, and collective action can do much to facilitate poor people’s movement out of poverty. Read more
Problem-driven Governance and Political Economy Analysis
Verena Fritz, Kai Kaiser, and Brian Levy
September 2009
Governance and political-economy analysis can play a critical part in enhancing development effectiveness. Across the World Bank, there is a widely shared perception that we need to gain a better understanding of the environments in which Bank operations are taking place and seek to promote progressive change, as well as manage potential reputational risks for Bank programs. Read more
 Fateful Allure of Protectionism
by Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman and Olivier Cattaneo
July 2009
Download book The world is facing the most severe global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Efforts have been made to coordinate policy responses, in particular to maintain an open trade regime. The systemic risks of a resort to protectionist policies are generally recognized by world leaders. At their April Summit in London, they committed to refrain from raising new barriers and to minimize any negative impact on trade and investment of domestic policy responses to the crisis.
Negotiating Trade in Services: A Practical Guide for Developing Countries
May 2009
The main aim of this report is to provide a practical checklist to help services negotiators, officials in ministries and regulatory agencies, and the broad stakeholder communities (including those inside
the World Bank and in aid agencies) to gain a better sense of the key “moments” in the life cycle of services negotiations. Read more
 Trade Preference Erosion: Measurement and Policy Response
by Bernard Hoekman, Will Martin, Carlos Alberto Braga
April 2009
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This book reviews the current value of preference programs of major OECD countries for beneficiary countries, assesses the implications of preference erosion under different global liberalization scenarios, and discusses potential policy responses. Different contributions also provide detailed analyses of specific preference programs and undertake cross-country, disaggregated analyses of the impact of preferences at the product level. Read more
 Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up
Volume 2
by Deepa Narayan , Lant Pritchett, Soumya Kapoor
March 2009
Why and how do some people move out of poverty—and stay out—while others remain trapped? Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. In contrast, this book presents the experiences of poor people who have made it out of poverty. Read more
 Breaking Into New Markets: Emerging Lessons for Export Diversification
by William Shaw, Richard Newfarmer, Peter Walkenhorst
March 2009
Download | Purchase book Since the 1950s when countries became concerned that specialization in primary products would lead to steady falls in the purchasing power of primary exports and slow growth, diversifying out of primary products into manufactures has been a major policy objective of developing countries. Since then, developing countries have generally become more diversified, but many remain dependent on a narrow range of primary products. This book explores new thinking and evidence about export diversification, and elaborates on policies to promote diversification. It is a policy primer: what export diversification can and cannot do for growth, and how to make it happen.
 Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa
by Kym Anderson and William A. Masters
March 2009
Download | Purchase the book This book provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the Arab Republic of Egypt plus 20 countries that account for about of 90 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa's population, farm households, agricultural output, and overall GDP. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence based foundation for assessing the successes and failures of the past and for evaluating policy options for the years ahead.
 Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia
by Kym Anderson and Will Martin
February 2009
Download | Purchase the book
Distortions to Agricultural incentives in Asia is the third volume in a series of books that brings together analytical narratives of the evolution over the past half–century of policy–imposed distortions to farmer incentives and food prices in 80 countries. Drawing on new consistent set of estimates spanning 90 percent of the world's agricultural markets. The first two titles in the series focus on Europe's transitional economies and Latin America. Future titles will focus on Africa and the distortions to agricultural incentives from a global perspective.
| Girls’ Education in the 21 st Century: Gender, Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth
edited by Mercy Tembon and Lucia Fort
2008
This book presents compelling evidence of the challenges for educational development and the determining factors for gender inequalities— in education particularly and society more broadly. It also presents examples of country-level experiences that help us understand issues and reaffirm the business case for investing more in female education. Read more | Equality for Women: Where Do We Stand on Millennium Development Goal 3?
edited Mayra Buvinic, Andrew R. Morrison, A. Waafas Ofosu-Amaah and Mirja Sjöblom
September 2008
With only seven years remaining until the end date for the MDGs, it is an opportune time to take stock of where the world stands in terms of progress toward gender equality. This volume documents trends both on the official MDG3 indicators and on an expanded set of indicators that provide a more complete measure of gender equality—especially in the area of women’s economic empowerment. The message that emerges is both hopeful and
sobering: progress toward equality in capabilities (for example, education) has been considerable, but progress toward equality of opportunities for women’s economic livelihoods leaves much to be desired. Read more | Data Against Disasters: Establishing Effective Systems for Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction
Edited by Samia Amin , Markus Goldstein
August 2008
Data Against Natural Disasters seeks to provide the analytical tools needed to enhance national capacity for disaster response. The editors and authors begin with an overview that summarizes key lessons learned form the six country case studies in the volume. Next, they outline the data needs that arise at different stages in the disaster response and explore the humanitarian community’s efforts to discover more effective response mechanisms. The country case studies review the successes and failures of efforts to establish innovative monitoring systems in the aftermath of disasters in Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Mozambique, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Read more
| The Many Faces of Corruption
Edited by J. Edgardo Campos and Sanjay Pradhan
April 2007
How can policymakers better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this social pandemic takes? From the delivery of drugs, roads construction, teacher absenteeism, water and electricity provision, international trade, public revenues management, corruption shows its many faces.
Book |Anti-Corruption Website | Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country Experiences
Edited by Tim Besley and Louise Cord, 2007
The book explores how to accelerate poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. Book |Propoor Growth Website | | Other Titles | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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