Safety Net Programs and Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Cross-Country Experience (Directions in Development)

Minimum Wages and Social Policy: Lessons

📁 Minimum Wages and Social Policy: Lessons from Developing Countries (Directions in Development)

✍ Wendy Cunningham 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

Offering evidence from both detailed individual country studies and homogenized statistics across the Latin American and Caribbean region, this book examines the impact of the minimum wage on wages, employment, poverty, income distribution and government budgets in the context of a large informal se

Strengthening Country Commitment To Huma

📁 Strengthening Country Commitment To Human Development: Lessons From Nutrition (Directions in Development)

✍ Richard Heaver 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 World Bank Publications 🌐 English

"Malnutrition persists in most developing countries. It contributes to the deaths of 3.4 million children annually and reduces the intelligence, health, and productivity of those who survive. Nutrition programs?indeed all human development programs?succeed or fail depending in part on the commitment

Income Generation and Poverty Reduction:

📁 Income Generation and Poverty Reduction: Experiences of Selected Asian Countries (Development Papers)

✍ United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 United Nations 🌐 English

The present volume of Development Papers addresses the subjects of poverty alleviation and income and employment generation in selected Asian Countries. It is based on country assessment studies carried under the project on "Strengthening income and employment generation for vulnerable population gr

Environmental Priorities and Poverty Red

📁 Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction: A Country Environmental Analysis for Colombia (Directions in Development)

✍ Kulsum Ahmed 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction: A Country Environmental Analysis for Colombia proposes cost-effective policy and technical interventions aimed at abating the cost of environmental degradation and supporting more equitable and sustainable economic growth. Environmental degradation i

Environmental Priorities and Poverty Red

📁 Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction: A Country Environmental Analysis for Colombia (Directions in Development)

✍ Kulsum Ahmed 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction: A Country Environmental Analysis for Colombia proposes cost-effective policy and technical interventions aimed at abating the cost of environmental degradation and supporting more equitable and sustainable economic growth. Environmental degradation i

Mainstreaming Building Energy Efficiency

📁 Mainstreaming Building Energy Efficiency Codes in Developing Countries: Global Experiences and Lessons from Early Adopters

✍ Feng Liu; Anke S Meyer; John F Hogan; John F. Hogan 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 World Bank Publications 🌐 English

Urbanization and growing wealth in developing countries portend a large increase of demand for modern energy services in residential, commercial and public-service buildings in the coming decades. Pursuing energy efficiency in buildings is vital to energy security in developing countries and is iden