Cover -- Contents -- SPECIAL REPORT : BEYOND THE MDGs -- Setting the Agenda -- A global conversation is laying the groundwork for a new era in development -- The Birth of SDGs: How one woman's big idea energized the new development agenda -- Asia's Unfinished Agenda: MDG report card visualized...

This book addresses three main dimensions of risk management in emerging markets: 1) the effectiveness of risk management practices; 2) current issues and challenges in risk assessment and modelling in emerging market countries; 3) the responses of emerging markets to the recent financial crises...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Transfer Pricing, Corporate Strategy, and the Investment Climate -- What Is Transfer Pricing? -- Regulation of Transfer Pricing for Direct Taxation Purposes -- Costs and Benefits of Regulating...

This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil tohelp decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitangrowth. The report includes policy recommendations and explores the effective useof metropolitan revenue instruments,...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2 The Impact of Inward FDI on Host Countries: Why Such Different Answers? -- Chapter 3 Disentangling FDI Spillover Effects: What Do Firm Perceptions Tell Us? -- Chapter 4 Foreign Direct Investment and Externalities:...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: Exploring Concepts and Applications: Presenter Papers -- 1. Power, Rights, and Poverty Reduction -- 2. Linking Power and Poverty Reduction -- 3. Rights, Power, and Poverty Reduction -- 4. Power Relations and Poverty Reduction -- 5. Empowerment and...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- In Recognition -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE Including People in Development, June 1995-May 2000 -- Working as a Family -- "We're Here for One Reason Only, and That Is To Change the World" -- Women and the Transformation of the 21st Century -- New Directions...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Development Policy Reform -- Policy Reform Is Difficult Business -- Are Developing Countries' Policies Improving? -- Why and How Does the Bank Support Policy Reform? -- 2 Ownership: Linking...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Natural Resources and Conflict: What We Can Do -- 2. The Natural Resource Curse: How Wealth Can -- 3. Who Gets the Money? Reporting Resource Revenues -- 4. Where Did It Come From? Commodity Tracking Systems -- 5....