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Africa - Making Development Climate Resilient : A World Bank Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank - 2012
This strategy for making development Climate-Resilient in Sub-Saharan Africa is the World Bank's operational response … to climate variability and change on the continent. Grounded in a climate risk review of the Africa Region's sustainable … development portfolio, it adds the climate change dimension to the Region's development strategy and business plan, the Africa …
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Africa Development Indicators 2010 : Silent and Lethal, How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa's Development
World Bank - 2012
The corruption that often captures newspaper headlines and provokes worldwide public disapproval is dominated by loud 'big-time corruption,' notably administrative and political corruption at the highest government levels. In response to this notoriety, the bulk of anti-corruption measures have...
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Bhutan : development in a Himalayan kingdom
Borthwick, John (contributor) - 1984 - 1. print.
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Panama : structural change and growth prospects
1985 - 1. print.
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Korea : policy-issues for long-term development ; the report of a mission sent to the Republic of Korea by the World Bank
Hasan, Parvez (contributor); Rao, D. C. (contributor) - 1979
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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency
World Bank - 2009
A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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Development as leadership-led change : a report for the Global Leadership Initiative
Andrews, Matt - 2010
Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence. This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global...
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The Great Recession and developing countries : economic impact and growth prospects
Nabli, Mustapha K. (contributor) - 2010
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World Development Report 2012 : Gender Equality and Development
World Bank - 2011
The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace of...
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