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  1. Library Resource

    The Kosovo-Ibër River Basin and Ibër Lepenc Water System

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2012
    Kosovo, Europe, Central Asia

    Kosovo is a small and young state that gained an interim United Nations (UN)-administered status in the wake of the Dayton peace accord only in 1999; it declared independence in 2008. Compared to neighboring countries, it is still lacking in its basic infrastructure and its administrative and technical skills. In addition, with the onset of the War in Yugoslavia in 1992 most investment and normal maintenance came to a standstill.

  2. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    China, Global

    In this paper, the authors examine the
    impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the
    consumption of rural households in China. The authors find
    that increased migration from rural villages leads to
    significant increases in consumption per capita, and that
    this effect is stronger for poorer households within
    villages. Household income per capita and non-durable
    consumption per capita both increase with out-migration, and

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Global

    This study assesses the development
    effectiveness of World Bank assistance in addressing
    constraints to agricultural development in Africa over the
    period of fiscal years 1991-2006. This Independent
    Evaluation Group (IEG) review of World Bank assistance to
    agriculture in Africa has a twofold purpose. First, it is a
    pilot for the proposed IEG study on Bank-wide assistance in
    agriculture scheduled for fiscal year 2009. Second, the

  4. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Vietnam, Global

    Trade policies can promote aggregate
    efficiency, but the ensuing structural adjustments generally
    create both winners and losers. From an incomes perspective,
    trade liberalization can raise gross domestic product per
    capita, but rates of emergence from poverty depend on
    individual household characteristics of economic
    participation and asset holding. To fully realize the growth
    potential of trade, while limiting the risk of rising

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Kosovo

    Poverty in Kosovo is widespread and has
    remained persistent in the first half of this decade. The
    evidence suggests that poverty is higher among those who
    live in families that are large, have many unemployed
    members, and have low education levels. The poor are also
    geographically concentrated in rural areas and a few
    regions. The main message of this report is that the slow
    and volatile growth was doubly disadvantageous. The first

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    This paper provides an overview of the
    history of development research at the World Bank and points
    to new future directions in both what we research and how we
    research. Six main messages emerge. First, research and data
    have long been essential elements of the Bank's country
    programs and its contributions to global public goods, and
    this will remain the case. Second, development thinking is
    in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The amount of available water has been
    constant for millennia, but over time the planet has added 6
    billion people. Water is essential to human life and
    enterprise, and the increasing strains on available water
    resources threaten the mission of institutions dedicated to
    economic development. The ultimate goal is to achieve a
    sustainable balance between the resources available and the
    societal requirement for water. In this evaluation the

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global, Moldova

    This report argues that in the future
    Moldova will need to develop a second engine of growth from
    exports of goods and services. We argue that Moldova needs
    to resurrect agro-based exports, to raise their value by
    exporting to higher value markets, and develop service
    exports in order to provide job opportunities for
    underemployed tertiary graduates. To be successful in doing
    so, the government will need to implement deep fiscal and

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Global

    The effects of policy interventions on
    women are of increasing concern to policy makers in all
    fields, and trade is no exception. This note reviews recent
    World Bank projects and studies that 'gender
    inform' trade-related interventions, and it uses the
    Bank's experience to promote gender-equal opportunities
    by highlighting entry points at which trade projects,
    studies, and policies can effectively address gender issues.

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The World Bank Group has a unique
    opportunity to match the increases in financing for
    agriculture with a sharper focus on improving agricultural
    growth and productivity in agriculture-based economies,
    notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greater effort will be needed
    to connect sectoral interventions and achieve synergies from
    public and private sector interventions; to build capacity
    and knowledge exchange; to take stock of experience in

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