World Development Report 2010

World Development Report 2010
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2009-11-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0821379887

In the crowded field of climate change reports, 'WDR 2010' uniquely: emphasizes development; takes an integrated look at adaptation and mitigation; highlights opportunities in the changing competitive landscape; and proposes policy solutions grounded in analytic work and in the context of the political economy of reform.

World Economic Outlook, April 2009

World Economic Outlook, April 2009
Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1589068068

This edition of the World Economic Outlook explores how a dramatic escalation of the financial crisis in September 2008 provoked an unprecedented contraction of activity and trade, despite active policy responses. It presents economic projections for 2009 and 2010, and also looks beyond the current crisis, considering factors that will shape the landscape of the global economy over the medium term, as businesses and households seek to repair the damage. The analysis also outlines the difficult policy challenges presented by the overwhelming imperative to take all steps necessary to restore financial stability and revive the global economy, and the longer-run need for national actions to be mutually supporting. The first of two analytical chapters, "What Kind of Economic Recovery?" explores the shape of the eventual recovery. The second, "The Transmission of Financial Stress from Advanced to Emerging and Developing Economies," focuses on the role of external financial linkages and financial stress in transmitting economic shocks.

Special Economic Zones in Africa

Special Economic Zones in Africa
Author: Thomas Farole
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821386395

"This book, designed for policymakers, academics and researchers, and SEZ program practitioners, provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of SEZ programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the result of detailed surveys and case studies conducted during 2009 in ten developing countries, including six in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book provides quantitative evidence of the performance of SEZs, and of the factors which contribute to that performance, highlighting the critical importance not just of the SEZ itself but of the wider national investment climate in which it functions. It also provides a comprehensive guide to the key policy questions that confront governments establishing SEZ programs, including: if and when to launch an SEZ program, what form of SEZ is most appropriate, and how to go about implementing it. Among the most important findings from the study that is stressed in the book is the shift from traditional enclave models of zones to SEZs that are integrated ? with national trade and industrial strategies, with core trade and social infrastructure, with domestic suppliers, and with local labor markets.Although the book focuses primarily on the experience of Sub-Saharan Africa, its lessons will be applicable to developing countries around the world."

Remote Sensing Handbook - Three Volume Set

Remote Sensing Handbook - Three Volume Set
Author: Prasad Thenkabail
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 2262
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482282674

A volume in the three-volume Remote Sensing Handbook series, Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies documents the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place during the last 50 years. The other two volumes in the series are Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies, and Land Reso

Equality in Politics

Equality in Politics
Author: Julie Ballington
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2008
Genre: Women
ISBN: 9291423793

Fixing Haiti

Fixing Haiti
Author: Jorge Heine
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9280811975

Haiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster in the Americas, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and much of its vibrant capital, Port-au-Prince, was reduced to rubble. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH, in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-plan-like program? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the first black republic, the tasks undertaken by the UN, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.

Future Fragmentation Processes

Future Fragmentation Processes
Author: Jodie Keane
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849291667

Future Fragmentation Processes provides a careful examination of global value chains (GVCs) within which Commonwealth members countries specialise at the sectoral level: manufacturing, services and commodity trade, including within the realm of the oceans economy, and reflects on future fragmentation processes.

Natural Disaster Hotspots

Natural Disaster Hotspots
Author: Maxx Dilley
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005
Genre: Hazardous geographic environments
ISBN: 0821359304

This synthesis summarizes the findings of the Global Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots project. The Hotspots project generated a global disaster risk assessment and a set of more localized or hazard-specific case studies. The synthesis draws primarily from the results of the global assessment. Full details on the data, methods and results of the global analysis can be found in volume one of Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis. The case studies are contained in volume two (forthcoming).