taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia
This report identifies and provides a detailed assessment of inequality between generations, workers, regions that are fueling perceptions of unfairness and eroding the social contract. It illustrates how current policies and institutions are not equipped to deal with these distributional tensions.
Food insecurity is proving to be an intransigent problem. This book examines how transport and logistics impact food security in Africa. Using a modeling approach, the report identifies weaknesses and opportunities for improvement along the entire food supply chain.
Un Manuel Pour Les Entreprises Qui Construisent Des Chaines D'approvisionnement Durables (troisieme edition)
Ce manuel montre aux entreprises agroalimentaires comment developper des chaines d'approvisionnement plus durables, resilientes et productives et met en exergue l'impact substantiel de cette demarche sur le developpement.
learning from local success stories in service delivery in the Middle East and North Africa
From education to health services, weak overall accountability undermines policies and actual delivery, in a cycle of low performance throughout the region. Yet local successes indicate how formal and informal accountability and local leadership can inspire and institutionalize incentives to improve this situation.
toward efficient, inclusive, and sustainable urbanization
In the last 30 years, China's record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labour, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanisation, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, ......
This study's overall aim is to provide local decision-makers an effective planning approach for minimizing the damage risk of rainfall-induced urban flooding in Dhaka in a changing climate. Specific objectives are to assess the vulnerability of the Greater Dhaka area to urban flooding and waterlogging, estimate probable economic damage due to ......
toward prosperity, creativity, equity, and democracy
The year 2015 marks 70 years since Vietnam's Declaration of Independence, 40 years since reunification, and just short of 30 years from the launch of Doi Moi reforms, which catapulted the nation from the ranks of the world's poorest to one of the great development success stories. Critical ingredients of success have been visionary leaders, a ......
Very few topics in global health have been as controversial as primary health care. In this book the authors explain what it takes to reimagine primary health care in the 21st century, an era of increased rapidly changing health care needs, population expectations, availability of financial and human resources, and digital technology.
