Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A Comprehensive Assessment of South Asia's Container Ports -- Analytical Framework -- Organization of the Report -- Chapter 1 South Asia's Container Port Sector --...

Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends: the shift in the balance of global growth from...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview Transitioning to a New Urban-Based Model of Economic Growth -- Limited Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction Characterize Nigeria's Urbanization -- Diagnosing Nigeria's Urban Challenges: Institutions,...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Overview -- 1 Banking Regulation and Supervision: Conceptual Framework and Stylized Facts -- 2 Market Discipline -- 3 Bank Capital Regulation -- Statistical Appendixes -- A:...

The mobility of students, professors, knowledge and even values has been part of higher education for centuries, but it has recently grown at an unprecedented pace. This presents many new opportunities among which are increased access to higher education, strategic alliances between countries...