2005 Banco Mundial

Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centrepiece of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) currently being negotiated under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts ...

2005 Banco Mundial

Until the 1990s, the main users of safeguards and antidumping laws were Australia, Canada, the European Union and the United States. Since then, many countries have implemented such laws, leading to a proliferation in antidumping ...

2005 Banco Mundial

A key challenge confronting the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to address perceptions that it is not supportive of development. Should the WTO be limited to increasing market access opportunities and negotiating away policies that ...

2005 Banco Mundial

Following very strong growth, the world economy slowed in late 2004 and into 2005 as output began to push against capacity constraints. High oil prices cut into the incomes of oil-importers, but the expansion remained ...

2005 Banco Mundial

"The Berlin Workshop Series 2006" presents selected papers from meetings held in September 6 - 8, 2004, at the 7th Annual Forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank's World ...

2005 Banco Mundial

"Ukraine's Trade Policy" draws attention to the importance of the post-WTO accession agenda. This book identifies the key drivers of Ukraine's recent trade performance, assesses current trade policies, and provides recommendations to strengthen the country's ...

2005 Banco Mundial

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2005 WDI includes more than 800 indicators in 83 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, ...

2005 Banco Mundial

Fiscal sustainability analysis is the use of a simple set of tools to analyze a government's budget and its debt position, and leads to conclusions - given the government's debt level - about the appropriateness ...

2005 Banco Mundial

The analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups, particularly on the poor and vulnerable, has an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty ...

2005 Banco Mundial

Beyond the City evaluates the contribution of rural development and policies to growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental degradation in the rest of the economy, as well as in the rural space. This title brings together ...

2005 Banco Mundial

This book is part of a larger effort undertaken by the World Bank to understand the development experience of the 1990s, an extraordinary eventful decade. Each of the project's three volumes serves a different purpose. ...

2005 Banco Mundial

Conditionality in policy-based lending programs has been the subject of controversial debates. As development lending evolves and shifts its focus from policy and sector based lending towards a greater emphasis on budget support, the role ...

2005 Banco Mundial

Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe summarises social policy reform during the transition and EU accession and analyses the social policy challenges which continue to face both old and new member ...

2005 Banco Mundial

This book is part of a larger effort undertaken by the World Bank to understand the development experience of the 1990s, an extraordinary eventful decade. Each of the project's three volumes serves a different purpose. ...

2005 Banco Mundial

Eslovaquia y Colombia fueron los países más exitosos del mundo en reformar el ambiente para las inversiones en el ultimo año, creando centros de atención electrónica que combinan varios trámites para nuevas empresas en un ...

2005 Banco Mundial

The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world's finest development thinkers to present their perspectives and ideas. In recent years, a parallel, second conference has been held in Europe with ...

2004 Banco Mundial

Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative ...

2004 Banco Mundial

Vol I: Analysis and Statistical Appendix is the World Bank's annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries. Vol II: Summary and Country Tables includes a comprehensive set of ...

2004 Banco Mundial

This annual conference has become a key event in Europe for the discussion of development issues. It is a unique platform for many of the world's finest development thinkers and experienced policymakers to present their ...

2004 Banco Mundial

Drawing on a database of more than one hundred antipoverty interventions in 47 countries, this book provides a general review of experiences with methods used to target interventions in transition and developing countries. Written for ...