Intro -- Contents -- Removing obstacles to growth: an overview -- Measuring with impact -- Starting a business -- Hiring and firing workers -- Registering property -- Getting credit -- Protecting investors -- Enforcing contracts -- Closing a business -- References -- Data notes -- Doing Business...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- The Report Team -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Overview and Summary -- Making Finance Effective -- Preventing and Minimizing Crises -- Government Failure in Finance -- Finance without Frontiers? -- References.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Roadmap to World Development Report 2003 -- 1 Achievements and Challenges -- 2 Managing a Broader Portfolio of Assets -- 3 Institutions for Sustainable Development -- 4 Improving Livelihoods on Fragile Lands -- 5 Transforming Institutions on Agricultural Land --...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Responsible Growth for the New Millennium -- Achieving Responsible Growth -- Acting Now to Lay the Foundation for a Sustainable Future -- Achieving Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development --...

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- PART I: OVERVIEW AND POLICY OPTIONS -- A Configuration of "Bandwagon" Reforms Could Make a Difference -- The Big Picture: Past and Present -- Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Understanding Growth in Jamaica --...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Overview -- 1. Shifting to New Sources of Growth -- 2. Missed Opportunities in Global Integration -- 3. Identifying the Barriers: Trade Policy, Investment Climate, and the Political Economy -- 4. Achieving the...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Title -- Abstract -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1. Sector Review and Key Issues -- Chapter 2. Promoting Competitiveness -- Chapter 3. Improving Factor Markets -- Chapter 4. Risk Management Instruments --...

The outlook for remittances for the rest of 2008 and 2009-10 remains as uncertain as the outlook for global growth, oil and non-oil commodity prices, and currency exchange rates. In the past, remittances have been noted to be stable or even counter-cyclical, during an economic downturn in the...