Offering evidence from both detailed individual country studies and homogenized statistics across the Latin American and Caribbean region, this book examines the impact of the minimum wage on wages, employment, poverty, income distribution and government budgets in the context of a large...

Este ambicioso libro se origino en un simposio llevado a cabo en Paris en marzo de 2006, promovido por el World Bank's Development Economics Department, y su proposito principal es examinar los distintos papeles que juegan las universidades en el contexto general de los sistemas nacionales de...

Since independence, India has struggled to provide its people with universal health coverage. Whether defined in terms of financial protection or access to and effective use of health care, the majority of Indians remain irregularly and incompletely covered. Finally, and most recently, a new...